We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
Supreme Court Nominee told the Senate Judiciary committee on tuesday settings a longstanding practice of nominees from both the right and left she declined to hit how she would rule on any case involving abortion, healthcare, president ial pardons or elections. Pr she also rebuffed democrats denounced to recuse yourself from obamacare and election cases saying she would confront those decisions once on the court and would consult with other justices for advice. But she bristled at suggestions mr. Trump chose her as a nominee to determine outcomes quote i sought help on members of the committee had more confidence in my integrity than to think i would allow myself to be used as upon to decide this election for the American People. On f this picture her holding up the pad, supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett impress actress senator holding up a plank had come notepad but as what she was writing down blank patrick heres is what te chairman said come Lindsey Graham gives the First Tran
As long as we are smart. When you are outside and with a mixed group of people, not the cohort within your family. You i think it will be a minute before he starts. First lets focus on what is start to bring folks over and happening in the bay area. Early and loud rallies calling to defend the Oakland Police department. Cousins and folks who have not seen for a while cannot be smart about being distant. There were three valleys including this one in the fruit wear a face numbering. Tail district in front of positives are up, not down. You think that wont impact you district noel iao. But you dont know that and it may not only impact you, you may be asymptomatic but it may impact someone who gets the disease because you did not know you had it and you are not physically distanced or wearing a Face Covering when youre the Police Budget is the picking upcoffee and you largest line item. We want to see that cut in half. We dont need armored were in a very constrained environment. Its one t
Up next its booktv is monthly in Depth Program with author and Princeton University professor imani perry. Our books on race and africanamerican history include prophets of the hood, may we forever stand, and the recently published breathe a letter to my sons. Its a letter. Its a series of letters to my son, but of course, its also a letter to the larger world, both about, you know, the reality of the terror and anxiety and worries that comes along with being a parent of black children, and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment, but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and selfregard. Much of which, i think, one finds a lessons for in an extraordinary tradition that we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Well, so, i actually have written them letters privately for years, but my editor, at beacon press said, is this something youd be interested in doing . In large pa
Professor imani perry, what is the structure of your newest book, brief . Guest well, there are three sections. Fear, fly and fortune. It is a letter, a series of letters to my son but its also a letter to the larger world. Both about the reality of the terror and anxiety and the worry that comes along with being the parent about black children in particular at this moment but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and self regard, much of which i think one finds the lesson for an extraordinary tradition which we have to draw from. Host where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Guest i have written some letters privately for years and my editor at beacon press said is this something youd be interested in doing in large part because ado talk about my children all the time and i write posts about them on social media and initially, you know, i think what we both had in mind with something that was probably bit more