Very warm welcome youre watching R T International with me nicky aaron. The murder of a french history teacher last week has left many in the profession traumatized with teachers now fearful that the freedom to speak and instruct is at risk english teacher gabriel a ton 0 told is the impact of the gruesome attack has has. Tragedy that happened last week the death of a colleague of mine is many many things its a tale of terror teachers in strong arcs directed to do a lot and it sounds like we will be expected to even more trees and many ills in society and i know my colleagues and i are ready to take on many challenges but if jurors are really under the threats of islamic terrorism then we should not ask ourselves heres how you will teach kids should ask ourselves serious how we will protect the school itself and the surroundings of the school some your party was beheaded by a terrorist last week outside his school in a suburb of paris the suspect an 18 year old refugee of chechen origi
I think we need to start listening to each other and talking to each other more and we will go live now to a discussion with steve scalise, political reporter robert costa will ask about Convention Coverage and president ial politics. Robert good afternoon. I am a national reppo knuckle a National Political reporter. Afternoon iss representative steve scalise, House Minority whip, part of the Republican Leadership, republican from louisiana. Good to be with you. Rep. Scalise good to be with you. Is a lot going on in your state, some tough news with hurricane laura. What is the latest in your district and how is Congress Going to respond . Rep. Scalise we saw two storms last week, what ended up being Tropical Storm arco which was projected to hit the west end of my district, then you had hurricane laura, which was projected to hit the east side of my district. Storms change over the days and laurafizzled out but now is a category three, potentially category for when it hits ground. It i
New outbreaks on College Campuses and race for the vaccine. The new push to rename buildings in washington, d. C. That bear the names of men tied to slavery. Should the names jefferson, franklin and washington be removed . Caught on camera, the massive flood at this busy hospital. Water breaking down the doors, staff describing it like a scene from the titanic. Up, up and away. We take you behind the scenes of David Blaines stunt. The new fight over boneless chicken wings. One mans passionate plea. And a good thursday morning, everyone. Im will reeve in for kenneth. And im mona kosar abdi. We begin with the new move by President Trump to cut off federal funding to cities like new york and seattle. Part of a crack down on riots and looting and what the president described as lawless protesting. The Biden Campaign saying the former Vice President will hold a Community Meeting to discuss the challenges we face, but we begin with that new threat from President Trump. This morning, Presiden
Groups role in campaign 2020. Nextgen americas benjamin insel talks about his role getting the youth to support joe biden. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is the washington journal. You are looking at the Wisconsin Center in milwaukee, one ofseveral sites for this years Democratic National committee convention, which starts this night. Program would take place from there, but it can be held from other areas. Cspan willf that, be covering at 5 00 this evening. We want to hear from you about political conventions and if you think they matter in this day in age, especially in the new environment we are in. You can let us know your thoughts by calling us. For republicans, 202 7488000 free democrats four democrats, and independents 202 7488002. Us, tweet ustext cspanwj, and a post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. The New York Times has a highlight of who you will see tonight, including minnesota senator amy klobuchar, the nevada senator and the first latina to lead a Se
Joining us, joining us, our first guest of the morning. Is joining us from joining us is Holly Otterbein, with politico, a Campaign Reporter, joining us from philadelphia. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host what would be the overall goal for the dnc . At the end of it, what do they hope to accomplish . Guest of course, joe biden right now is ahead in the polls. His main goal is to do no harm and present a message to the American People which the democrats have not really been able to do that well so far. Joe biden has often been overshadowed, sometimes part of his campaign strategy. The democrats have been glad to allow donald trump to sort of stay in the spotlight in his handling of the coronavirus to be just what is talked about most of the time on the news. But now, it is the democrats opportunity to present a vision and present that they are unified. This is something the party has worked hard at over the last few months. They did not want a repeat of the 2016 convention, where