And we were on the air on saturday when joe biden crossed the vote threshold to become the president elect and to willies point about the pandemic, bidens first order of Business Today will be announcing the team that will help him get the virus under control and that team will have its work cut out for it as u. S. Cases continue to surge at record levels. Now surpassing the 10 million mark and deaths again on the rise. Well, willie, if you looked at the celebrations on over this weekend, there were some in times square that were fine. You had people wearing mask, there was some distanced and spacing and there were other places that people were crowded in. It was dangerous and you can expect the spread of infections. Like we said from the beginning of the year, the virus doesnt care about trumps politics, or bidens politics, you dont crowd in like that. And i stayed up past midnight to watch an incredible football game. Notre dame and clemson. What an incredible game. Went into overtim
To be used. The Department Still does have other tools. It has section 2 which remains in force as the Supreme Court clearly said in shelby county, and it prevents interference with voting practices and proc procedures, you know, that interfere with minorities ability to vote, and it is something that the department has always looked to as an important tool. There are plenty of other tools to increase the ability of americans to vote, which i would support. Thank you. I know senator lee has already raised there, but please know that senator lee and i will both be talking to you about privacy matters. This is not a privacy issue, its an issue of concern and well do that. Let me ask you another question about an issue concerned to be in the bush administration, the last bush administration, they put a moratorium on death sentences in certain cases. They gave a reason for that. That death moratorium lasted from 2003 during the bush administration, and then suddenly in the last six months,
Legislation, and inflation. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Tonight we will have a one hour debate featuring the top two contenders for maryland governor. This is a joint production. We would like to acknowledge those of you washing watching in washington and listening on the radio in baltimore. I will try to keep things on track as we explore the issues. I would like to introduce you to our panel of journalists. Pamela wood from the baltimore banner. Tracy wilkins in nbc washington. Alexis taylor represents the afroamerican newspapers. Jeff falcon of maryland public television. The debate will feature questions from student journalists for morgan state and salisbury university. Dan cox is the republican nominee for governor. Wes moore is the democratic elected nominee. Each candidate has the opportunity to use two make an opening statement. We randomly used marylands pick three from yesterday to determine who goes first. Good evening. This could be marylands moment. We have
Here are the ground rules for today. He flipped the page on me. Thank you to the chamber for holding todays debate. We have elaine luria and her challenger. Elaine luria represents the second Congressional District. Welcome. [applause] Jennifer Kiggins is a state senator. Welcome. [applause] here are the ground rules. The candidates speaking water was determined by a coin toss done before the start of the event. The debate will follow traditional format with a two minute timed response. I will address a question to the candidate and the candidate has two minutes to respond. Each candidate has 30 seconds for rebuttal. The candidates will not interrupt one another during the debate. A closing statement of two minutes will be allowed to some positions, tie up loose ends and address any issues that come up during the form. The closing statements will be in reverse order of opening statements. Jen kiggans. I am running from congress to restore american strength. In 2019, i got tired of yell
The peninsula on the black sea ukrain ukrainian basis cont. The but interim government in kiev insists that those troops are part of a Russian Force that is invaded crimea. Moscow denies that, insisting the troops are local self defense you wants opposed to last weeks jousting of ukraines popularly elected president. Diplomats from europe, the United States and russia have met separately in paris today to try to defuse the worst crisis on the continent since the cold war. The key Sticking Point is russias refusal to recognize the new interim government in ukraine which seized power after months of sometimes violent protests in kiev and other cities. In the meantime the west has firmly thrown its support behind the new ukrainian government. The European Union announced an aid package of 15 billion to ukraine. That is designed to make up for a russian package of about the same amount that had been forthcoming until the events of last week. Now that announcement comes a day after secretar