Formed bidenharris ticket, and the role of women in 2020. Professor jennifer lawless joins us to discuss the evolution of women in electoral politics. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. 14, 2020. Ay, august yesterday, the Labor Department announced thousands of americans filed new jobless claims. It is the first time weekly jobless claims have fallen below one million since march. This morning, we are spending our first hour talking directly to those whose jobs have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn. Give us a call. 202 are unemployed, 7488000. If you have had your work hours reduced, 202 7488001. If you have recently returned to work, 202 7488002. Text,n also send us a 202 7488003. Please include your name and where you are from. A very good friday morning to you. Go ahead and start calling in now as we give you more context to the weekly jobless numbers that were announced yesterday, this courtesy of u. S. Todays front page of their money sec
Studies, Johns Hopkins university, in d. C. Ambassador edelman has served in senior positions at the department of state and defense as well as the white house. Hes served as u. S. Ambassador to finland and turkey and was Vice President dick cheneys Principal Deputy assistant for National Security affairs. Ambassador edelman has received several awards including a department of defense medal for distinguished public service, a distinguished civilian Service Award from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and a president ial distinguished Service Award. Then to my far left, we have general doug lute. General lute has served most recently as the United States permanent representative to the north atlantic council, a position in which he retired in 2017. Previously general lute had a distinguished 35year career in the u. S. Army. He also served for a total of six years in the white house under both president s george w. Bush and barack obama. And in 2007, president bush named him dep
Global news makers and talk about the stories that matter to the edges their own. Life. The campaign. Works 300 spring as a story all right. One. Hour after they. Are. Triggering. Hello im Richard Geres bird and youre at the listening post among the stories were covering this week its an Election Year in america and the battle for the democratic nomination has Bernie Sanders and the Corporate News media at odds with freedom of speech has returned to angola and the satirists have the knives out for the political establishment a tit for tat diplomatic spat between beijing and washington has american and chinese news outlets caught in the middle class astray the wildfires the climate crisis. To some industry and speaking strewth to power were in the early days of u. S. Election season and the battle for the right to take on donald trump has the makings of a 2 horse race on the Progressive Side of the Democratic Party vermont senator Bernie Sanders currently polling at around 30 percent to
From the lakes of minnesota, to the hills of tennessee. From sea to shining sea. From detroit down to houston and where there is. , pride in every american heart, and its time we stand and say that im proud to be an american, where at least i know im free. The men whoforget died who gave that write to me. And out gladly stand up next to you and ill gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. Because there aint no doubt i love this land. Od bless the usa and im proud to be an american. Where at least i know im free. And i wont forget the men who died who gave that right to me. And i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. Because there aint no doubt i love this land. Usa. Less the [applause] trump thank you, thank you. Thank you to Vice President pence, we have done a great job together. Merry christmas, michigan. Thank you, michigan. What a victory we had in michigan, was that the greatest evening . Withm thrilled to be here thousands of hardworking patriots
First clueless. Doris grand moment arrives join the arena taking on her journey. You know were going to return to. The ring in time returns home. In a closely watched decision kenyas central bank has kept its benchmark Interest Rates steady but indicated it might not stay that way ill get some analysis from our correspondent in nairobi. Also on the show the worlds oldest travel company collapses b. N. To all the scope stalls trouble for holiday makers of the world. And here is a concrete proposal to cut back on c o 2 used to solve a deal instead engineers at the university of lagos in nigeria figure out how to turn the Group Product into a less polluting. This is the the way of business im joined on in berlin welcome kenyas central bank has signaled it may start cutting Interest Rates in the coming months but for now the Banks Monetary Policy Committee decided to keep the benchmark rate unchanged at 9 percent its the 7th time in a row that the figure has been kept on who the bag expect