But is promising to keep up the fight and has more from washington. All eyes are going to be on the Republican Party leadership in the coming days, because really were seeing increased pressure on them to buck the president. On this we saw the big wigs of National Security officials from former republican administrations. Theyve all come out and said this is bad for democracy. Its many of them, not all of them. Obviously, its bad for democracy. Its bad for National Security and probably more important. Were seeing dozens upon dozens of other countries. C. E. O. s, the most influential republican donors come out and a lot are saying this has to and Republican Leadership needs to let the president know that its over. Joe biden has chosen several obama era officials to serve in his new administration. And so they blinken will be no one wanted to be secretary of state, and john kerry will take the lead on combating climate change. British drug company, astra zeneca, an Oxford University sa
This we saw the big wigs of National Security officials from former republican administrations. Theyve all come out and said this is bad for democracy. Its many of them, not all of them. Obviously, its bad for democracy. Its bad for National Security and probably more important. Were seeing dozens, upon dozens of the country c. E. O. s, the most influential republican donors come out in a letter saying this has to. And Republican Leadership needs to let the president know that its over and has unveiled his National Security team and expected cabinet nominees. They are diverse in race and gender, includes americas 1st female heads of intelligence and treasury, as well as the 1st latino chief of Homeland Security about headlines, a former militia leader in the democratic republic of congo has been sentenced to life in prison for war crimes. In 2021 to bury was charged with murder, rape, sexual slavery, and enlisting children under the age of 15. This was in north kivu. Province. Question
Cope with 19 disease is possible to make and its possible that we will have a number of different vaccine candidates that can be used in the fight against this disease. And has been discussed in the act accelerated today. I think this is very relevant because people like to provide access to as many efficacious and safe vaccines as possible. So we can cover the population around the what u. S. President elect, joe biden has named the 1st members of his governing team. Anthony blinken will be appointed secretary of state a former number 2 in the Department Also served as a National Security adviser for president obama, former president ial nominee john kerry has been named as a climate and void with admiral haynes the 1st woman to be director of National Intelligence biden is still waiting for donald trump to concede, to concede, while the president s team, still doubting the election results. The Saudi Foreign minister has denied reports of a secret meeting between the kingdoms crown p
Well take you live now to charlotte, north carolina, where joe biden is holding a Campaign Stop today. Its being called a biden for president black economic summit. Its just getting underway. Live coverage is here, cspan3. Mr. President , i was kidding. Hardest thing, only thing harder than being president of a union is being a mayor of a beautiful city. Folks, thanks for taking the time to be here today. I really appreciate i. And we even have an astronaut in the house and thats pretty cool. Look, first of all, i want thank chris and the mayor for being here and all of you for being here. And you know, these are tough times. Over 200,000 americans have passed away. 200,000. And the numbers still rising and impact on communities is bad across the board, particularly bad for africanamerican communities. Almost four times as likely to, three times as likely to catch the disease, covid. And when its caught, twice as likely to die as White Americans. Its the sort of emblemmatic of the ineq
Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you, those of you in this room know who i am but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of college students. A lot of college students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Moveme