Lines. Epublicans, 202 7488001 democrats, 202 7488000. Independent voters, 202 7488002. You can always text us your opinion. We are reading social media on twitter and facebook. Once again, the president is beginning his day at walter reed after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. Im going to read a couple of quick paragraphs from the Washington Post that came out this morning. President trump taped a message for americans before he left for walter reed and put it out on his twitter account. I want to thank everybody for the support. I am going to walter reed hospital. I think i am doing very well. Were going to make sure that things work out. The first lady is doing very well. Thank you very much. Host thank you. We got an update from mark meadows. He met with reporters on friday to talk about the president s condition. We want to make sure that nunnally his health and safety look at we continue to that for all of the American People. He continues to be not only in good spirits but
From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with Trevor Noah Trevor lets kick things off with the Supreme Court. The worlds most exclusive retirement moment in. The meet aftermath of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death, mitch mcconnell, Senate Majority leader and failed attempt at baking bread, has announced that he would allow President Trump to nominate her replacement, even though he had blocked barack obama from appointing Merrick Garland during an election year, but democrats still held a shred of hopet that they could persuade four moderate g. O. P. Senators to show some integrity and stick to their principles, and that hope lasted almost a full day and a half. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell secured zero votes to move ahead with the appointment of the Supreme Court. Mitt romney said trevor yes, my friends, even mitt romney, the dad you ask when your other republican dads say no is going along with Mitch Mcconne
Museum and declared the following. Mostly away the twisted web of lies in our school classroom. And teach our children the magnificent is about our country. We want our sons and daughters to know that they are the citizens of the most exceptional nation. In the history of the world. The most exceptional nation in the history of the world he says greeks mayans chinese incan romans de gyptian all childs play compared to the dynamism the last 250 years the United States of america. But according to donald trump and many others that exceptionalism oh hes under attack and black lives matter and are destroying our streets and our statues because the true patriotic history of the United States is no longer being taught in schools oh my goodness what will we do that is the reason that all hell is broken loose in 2020 yes instead of patriotism and being taught in our schools about it has been replaced by cancel culture Critical Race Theory and the New York Times 1619 project and the dreaded tea
Lasted almost a full day and a half. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell secured zero votes to move ahead with the appointment of the Supreme Court. Mitt romney said trevor yes, my friends, even mitt romney, the dad you ask when your other republican dads say no is going along with Mitch Mcconnells plan. And i know, some people were holding out hope that he would refuse to help the republicans push through before the election, but for some reason people always forget mitt romney is still a conservative senator from one of the most conservative states. People think mitt romney came into the senate with a pussy hat on but, no. Getting a majority on the Supreme Court is what romney and other republicans have been dreaming about for 50 years. On his bedroom wall growing up, he had a poster of superman, a horse and an empty seat on the Supreme Court. Theres nothing democrats can do to stop mcconnell. Now they get revenge. The democratic leadership vowing to fight back even considering in
Books as a historian what is your contemporary view of how our world will be viewed . We have so little perspective on this moment is quite impossible to say but the perceptionptio t many peopln the United States and around the worldha have the extraordinary initial time. In a way that was experiencing. Host thinking about today do compared to any other period of history . Guest know. As a historian i think we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to be thing like anotherre f. And then to say that looks just like my great grandma with the baby but then also with my need for familiarity so as my career as a historian that is a journalistic tick to understand theres a whole crop leftparenthesis president ial beyond the one biographers as a way to contain that chaos as a way to avoid with that moment in time. Host you gave a talk on your book what do we mean in American History . How do we reckon that it is two different as to share a common ancestry as a people and it seems a fair