Next on booktv, Tom Angelique and the American Revolution from assorted 18th Century Newspapers. Mr. Anderlecht contains newspapers from 1763 to 1783 examines reports ranging from the sugar of 18,642,000 concorde and bunker hill. Its an hour and 15. Its an honor to be speaking at the old state house. Thank you for coming. Thank you to the tv and cspan for joining us here. About three weeks into the design of reporting the revolutionary war, we realized we were on pace to producing 800 page from a twoinch thick volume and so we quickly cut corners and retrace our steps and decided to scale back and produce what is now a 400 page fullcolor book for you. Similarly, i prepare to fight our presentation for this evening and decided to scale back back to him are manageable 45 minutes. So ill start by saying that without these papers, there would have been no American Revolution. Newspapers are what fan the flames of rebellion, sustained loyalty to the cause, provide critical correspondence du
State an and the state capital. Hea battle for her replacement rages on, President Trump announced he reveal his nominee on saturday evening. We expect that around 5 00 p. M. Listen to this statement. This was written by 11 u. S. Senators. Not since 1932 has a Senate Confirmed president ial Election Year a Supreme Court nominee to a vacancy arising that year. It is necessary to go back even further to 1888 in order to find an electionyear nominee who was nominated and confirmed under divided government as we have now. That letter was not written by todays Senate Democrats but these republican senators in 2016 when president obama nominated George Merrick garland. The key phrase is under divided government. Meaning a democrat was in the white house, president obama, and the Republican Senate at that time. Senator merkley is one of the senators who signed that letter and we will hear from him on his thoughts on the current state and just a moment. Brit hume will join us. Messaging from s
Choosing not to wear masks while he down plays the virus, soon the president leaves for another rally in pittsburgh where hell likely celebrate Senate Republicans securing the votes needed to move forward on his Supreme Court nominee in the final six weeks of the election. Though their caucus has yet to agree on a new Coronavirus Relief bill, believe it or not, as new polling out of iowa, where trump won by ten points finds him tied with joe biden at 47 . The same in georgia. A state trump won by five points back in 2016, now trump and biden both tied apartment 47 there. Lets turn now to two of the top reporters in washington covering this, Senior Writer at politico, jake sherman on capitol hill. Pbs newshour correspondent yamiche alcindor. The president tweeting out that hell announce his Supreme Court pick on saturday. Retweeted an article about Rush Limbaugh saying they skip confirmation. Hes expecting a woman to be nominated by the president , what do your source say the next few w
Airport tarmac, the president sounded like he really didnt want to be there. Dont forget, theyve been here for eight years before me. If they did a good job, i would have never run. I didnt need this. I didnt need this. Although, were having a good time and were doing a good job. No, but its true. If they did a good job, i wouldnt have run. Once again the mostly unmasked crowd was tightly packed as the pandemic continues its accelerated and uncontrolled churn across our country. Just yesterday, our country saw nearly 65,000 more positive cases. Thats now fueling a spike in hospitalizations. Numerous reports out tonight say the rise in cases could soon push some Hospital Systems to the breaking point. Tonight the president described his version of this crisis. Were rounding the turn on the pandemic. 56 and its a record. Epic job growth. Safe vaccines. That quickly end the pandemic. Its ending. Normal life, thats all we want. You know what we want . Normal life. Normal life. Will finally
Were crushing the virus. Of course neither is true. As the virus continues to crush large portions of of our country. Tonights rally was in erie, pa. The first lady was supposed to be on the trip but canceled because she is suffering from lingering symptoms from the coronavirus. From the start of tonights event in the cold and on an airport tarmac the president sounded like he really didnt want to be there. Dont forget, theyve been here for 8 years before me. If they did a good job i would have never run. I didnt need this. I didnt need this. Although were having a good time, and were doing a good job. No, but its true. If they did a good job i wouldnt have run. Once again the mostly unmasked crowd was tightly packed as the pandemic continues. Its accelerated an uncontrolled church across our country. Just yesterday our country saw nearly 65,000 more positive cases. Thats now fueling a spike in hospitalizations. Numerous reports out tonight say the rise in cases could soon push some Ho