[cheering and applause] greg: very good. I can see for review that would be perfect in my van. Happy tuesday everyone. According to a new report the harris campaign is asking reporters who they think kamala should talk to. And already they have suggested this hardhitting journalist. [laughter] greg: meta ceo amidst government pressure facebook to suppress covid19 content. If only they had suppressed this instead. [laughter] greg: the parents of the dead trump shooter have hired a top pittsburgh law firm apparently they answered an ad asking have you ever been injured on a slanted roof, does not sound like that? since returning to to many schools are facing bans on scent cell phone use during the day making it even harder to arrange a time with teachers for. [laughter] the concern comes after a study found that the average teenager it receives 273 cell phone notifications per day. And those are all just from this guy. [laughter] greg: james carville says a more humane country where of i
Welcome to hardtalk from rome. Im stephen sackur. Across europe, Political Parties once regarded as too far right to get a sniff of political power are now winning elections, or getting mighty close. But what happens when they do achieve National Office . Well, the best case study in Western Europe right now is here in italy, where Prime Minister Giorgia Melonis far right coalition has been in power for almost two years. My guest today is nicola procaccini, a meloni confidante who is a member of the European Parliament. How is far right rule changing italy . Nicola procaccini, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for your invitation. Its great to have you on the programme. Now, your party, Brothers Of Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni, has been in power here in italy for almost two years now. Would you say that power and responsibility have moderated the ambitions of your party . Have they tamed your party . No, i dont think so. I think that when you are in charge, obviously you have to. To chang
Dealing with the Chinese Energy company, that communist china considered its quote, bridge to russia. For energy deals. Working with vladmir putin. The senators say the new details deepened their existing concerns about quote, counterintelligence risk and much more. Weve also got the growing backlash against the media and democrats, for trying to politicize and attack operation warp speed. It is bringing effective vaccines to the market. The debate putting politics over your health. We have more on new york state Governor Andrew Cuomo attacking a reporter for asking about school closures. The governor is saying you know what . Youre wrong. But the announcement came out moments later that new York City Schools were in fact closing due to covid19. Now parents and taxpayers are not he hadfied. Theyre increasingly worried that the elected officials dont know what theyre doing. Anger mounting at california lawmakers for straight up breaking their own covid19, the states own covid19 rules bu
Political institutions and a commitment to the traditions of democracy. But on the other hand, it saddled us with some obsolete 18thCentury Institutions. Foremost among them is the Electoral College. Back when they set up the Electoral College, the gap populous andeast most populous state, you had a 51 ratio. Today it is well over 601. The Electoral College is biased against the most populous states and biased in favor of the smaller states because no state, no matter what its population, gets less than three Electoral College votes because votes are determined by the number of congressional representatives plus the two senators. So the small states have just one member of congress, but they also have two senators. That is three Electoral College votes. It distorts our political system. Now, why the Electoral College . Why did the framers set this up . Like anything else, there are multiple reasons. The framers loved the common people, but they did not love them all that much. They bel
Indigenous people who backed the movement for socialism won the election by 20 . Look at the amazon. Corporate interests expanding into the amazon at the expense of indigenous nations. This problem has not ended. The doctrine of discovery set in something, the pope talked about a 500 years ago, is something we have not reconciled. That is something we need to understand and redress. Host we would like to thank howie hawkins, green Party President ial candidate for coming on this morning and telling us about his platform in the president ial election. Thank you for your time. Guest thank you. Cspan, live with the news of the day. Coming up sunday morning. House editor David Wasserman will join us to talk about campaign 2020. Ceo ofrthur evans, the the American Psychological association. Washington journal live at 7 a. M. Eastern sunday morning. We will take your calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. Sunday night, the University Lu talksos cap lingzi nt 5. 0. E proud boys and the