Veteran m. J. Hegar in a debate sponsored by nexstar broadcasting. This is an hour. This is the u. S. Senate debate in texas. Good evening and welcome to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in houston. Youre watching us on one of 14 next Star Media Group stations. Were broadcasting live from el paso out to texarkana and houston to amarillo and beyond. Youll also be able to follow us along with our discussion on twitter now at tx Senate Debate. Tonights debate is between the democratic nominee m. J. Hegar and the republican incumbent senator john cornyn. Were joined tonight by a virtual audience. On one screen we have supporters of senator cornyn tuning in from home and on the other side, we have supporters of m. J. Hegar. Thanks to aufl you for joining us virtually tonight from across the state. Here we have no live audience. We are following coronavirus social distancing guidelines set up by the c. D. C. To keep us all safe here this evening. Each candidate and their staff have
Only. If you are an africanamerican in america and you are under 50, your number is 202 7488000. For the black viewers 50 and. Ver, 202 7488001 keep in mind, you can always and we at 202 7488003 are always reading on social facebooktwitter and on at facebook. Com cspan. Once again we are talking about yesterdays march on washington which have been here in the nations capital. Conversations and revolved around some of the same issues that they talked about 57 years ago. In fact, here is reverend al sharpton who was on the National Mall yesterday talking about why the march needed to happen again. We did not come to start trouble, we came to stop trouble. You act like it is no trouble to shoot us in the back. You act like it is no trouble to put a chokehold on us while we scream i cant breathe 11 times. You act like it is no trouble to hold a man down on the ground until you squeeze the life out of him. It is time for a new conversation. , why did they have the march at lincolns memorial
You are on the cspan radio app. Continues. Host we are back and we are joined by Ohio State University professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries, who is here to give us some Historical Perspective on the march on washington and the rights in the United States. Professor jeffries, good morning. Guest good morning. You. To be with host thank you so much for being with us. First, lets get your impressions of yesterdays march on washington and how it original. O the guest it was very interesting, because there are certainly a lot of parallels. Certainly in terms of what was being asked of the nation as a whole, what was being asked of the government. The march on washington that we saw yesterday was essentially organized around this idea of a justice,t to racial specifically focusing on ending Police Violence. Think abouten we the original march on washington in 1963, we only focus on that portion of dr. Kings speech that focuses on his imagining a different future, a different america, in the second
Regard to this plan its still a little bit unclear if jason greene what is going to be around for the unveiling or not. But what we do know is that in his place when he does eventually depart well be having berkowitz who is an aide to jared cushion or as well as the special envoy to iran brian hook who works for the u. S. State department so a very busy portfolio already in the hands of mr hooke now taking this went on as well but the white house saying in all of this that they do have a vision for middle east peace that this is in capsulated a plan which has now been drafted and thats why the jason green but is leaving because his work essentially is done kimberly how could. You. Still ahead of you on aljazeera more military deaths in afghanistan a u. S. Service member and a romanian soldier killed and harken dorian strengthens again that threatens at the u. S. East coast. How it was still got some showers across southern parts of china we have got to feeling just off the side of our
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