Overseas french territories in france itself curfews will affect 70 percent of the countrys population on thursday france became the 2nd the United Nation to have more than a 1000000 confirmed cases Spains Health minister is warning of more drastic measures it reached a 1000000 infection market self on wednesday the government is accused of mishandling the crisis but it did survive a no confidence vote in parliament and germany is seeing a rise in infections the daily count there is up above 10000 for the 1st time well above the numbers seen during the 1st wave in march but testing has increased significantly and italy to more than 16000. 00 new cases reported there thats a new daily record in the Italian Region of lombardy which was the worst hit at the beginning of the year a nighttime curfew is in place. In other news a vote on the confirmation of u. S. Supreme Court Nominee amy county barrett will be held on monday fast tracked nomination has been one of the topics in the lead up t
Reduce their water levels after almost a decade of negotiations the 3 countries have failed to reach an agreement so the Transitional Government has agreed to start the process of normalizing ties with israel its part of a broader deal that allows the lifting of u. S. Sanctions the palestinians are calling it another stab in the back. So dans foreign minister says the deal still has to be approved by a yet to be formed parliament. Development on the pull bit its a long process that requires a lot of work so this is an agreement to normalize that took place between sudan and israel and we are now waiting for the completion of the Democratic Institutions through the formation of the Legislative Council so that it can decide to ratify this agreement and if that happens then we will begin the steps towards normalization. Guineas Election Commission says president alpha conde won sundays controversial poll with almost 60 percent of the vote counted supporters cheered as the announcement was
They gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. Watch the debate live on cspan good evening. Every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of hard twisted on binge watching. Tonight teacherg author is historian David Mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including bestselling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of mans spacefligh for some ofe Northwest Territory in the creation of the brooklyn bridge. Hes a two time winner about Pulitzer Prize and the National Book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. And coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs. S. First up in 1992, they appear on cspans program to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won thepr pulitzer prie biography would have changed the view on the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. You start out by saying im a as far back as nearly as he co
I dug into and im excited to tell my daughter about it. For those who have not been following as closely, through the Artemis Program, the United States government will work with industry and International Partners to send astronauts to the surface of the moon, another man and another woman to the moon, which is exciting, conduct new and exciting science, and demonstrate americas values. To date only 12 humans have walked on the moon. That was half a century ago. The Artemis Program provides exactly the opportunity to add numbers to that, of course. Lunar exploration has broad and bicameral support in congress, most recently detailed in the fy201 Omnibus Spending Bill and we support this effort. Can you update us on the president s thinking on the issue of forgiving Student Loan Debt . There are some groups that are pushing anew for the president to forgive all Student Loan Debt. Where does he stand on that . Sure. The president has and continues to support canceling 10,000 of federal
Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca