We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
Conversation on race in america. Barack obama was asked about this in a 60 minutes interview yesterday. We will show you that, come back, get your thoughts on it. Here he is. Is that we have a criminal Justice System in which ,e ask often times very young often times not very well to go intoicers communities and just keep a lid on things. And we dont try to get at some of the underlying causes for chronic poverty. So if we are going to actually solve this problem, there are some specific things we can do to make sure that our contracts with Police Officers to completely insulate them when they do something wrong, putting money into budgets for training. More Police Officers effectively q. Week teaching Police Officers not to escalate, but to deescalate. But it is important for us not to let ourselves off the hook and think this is just a Police Problem because those shootings, that devaluation of life is part and parcel with a legacy of discrimination and jim crow and segregation that
Bide 253 Electoral College votes, trump 214 biden needs 1 out of those gray states that you see there, which still have not reported their results yet. Were expecting new numbers from nevada any minute now. Were going to watch for that. Look at the state of play in arizona as we move around the country. You see its biden in the lead 50. 5 to 48. 1, a difference of just over 68,000 votes ive talked to some trump people they are optimistic that the tail end of the count is going to be protrump because they are votes dropped off in person. You see the margin in nevada 49. 3, trump 48. 7 86 of the vote in there thats where were expecting some new numbers today the biden margin there is narrow but we dont know exactly what vote is coming in and from where in the state and which counties its coming in were going to have to watch for that one pennsylvania, theres been counting in fits and starts and who is allowed to be in which polling play counting house to see the actual results being coun
Good evening everyone and welcome to the special election coverage. All eyes are on the president ial race, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden made one final push for votes today wrapping up what has been an incredibly contentious battle for the white house. Polls are just closing moments ago in iowa, montana, nevada, and utah. Here is a look at that map. This is from fox and it is updating at all times. Estates in blue have gone to joe biden, biden has one colorado, illinois, virginia, maryland, the district of columbia, delaware, new jersey, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, new york, vermont, and a portion of maine, for a total of 129 electoral votes. President trump has one wyoming, north and south dakota, part of nebraska, kansas, missouri, oklahoma, louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, alabama, tennessee, kentucky, indiana, and west virginia, and also just lay there, South Carolina for a total of 109 Electoral College votes. 270 is the magic number needed to win f
At sacred heart, the need is painfully obvious. Every day there is a winding down out winding line out front who need help with housing and food. Its hard. You have to pray a lot. They failed to meet the goals, especially when it comes to low income housing. The region only issued permits for 9 . It was required to create. At 71 of the way toward hitting that goal. May be the state says hey, here is a big housing minimum goal come you have to hit this minimum. And cities treated like a ceiling instead of a floor. They also come with teeth. This time we seem to mean it which is very exciting. The state has said okay, we are serious this time. If cities dont hit the goals, they are just intervening. You get to choose how you meet the goals, not whether you meet the state housing goals. Of the goals represents a real opportunity to execute, and that if this goes well, we could see some scandal impacts. We can adjust that if we all just do our part and all sacrifice little for the greater