Eddie was a very nice and very funny guy. He lost a long and difficult battle with cancer. He will be missed by many, and i know we all send our best to his family and friends. What a rotten year this has been. Every day its just another punch in the gut. But this morning our president woke up and tweeted feeling great so thats good news. He is all hopped up on dexamethasone right now. And to prove it he put out another im physically marvelous video today. I just left walter reed medical center, and its really something very special. The doctors, the nurses, the first responders. And i learned so much about coronavirus. And one thing thats for certain, dont let it dominate you. Jimmy right. Just run out there and breathe it all in. Be a man, will you . Typhoid donny made a trumpumphant return to the white house last night with a dramatic balcony scene that only an egomaniac on massive amounts of drugs would ever even think to stage. Which is why people, you know, take great pains to pr
Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We are going to start things off today with day two of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee amy Coney Barrett. This morning shell face tough questions with Democratic Senators who oppose her nomination, especially so close to the election. Meantime, President Trump is back in washington after holding his first rally since being diagnosed with the coronavirus. He talked for about an hour to supporters in florida claiming hes healthy and he even joked about kissing everyone in the crowd. So, laura podesta, you are in washington. Laura, were there any coronavirus safety precautions in this event . There were a few. A rally was held outside. Large crowds are asking for trouble. President trump tossed masks into the crowd at this rally in florida last night though many in the audience werent wearing one. I feel so powerful. Reporter mr. Trump is feeling so powerful. Ill walk in there and kiss everyone in that audience. Ill ki
Today, the covid and convention, but this is a big deal. Im outside in port arthur, texas. That is the biggest u. S. Oil refinery. That is the motiva refinery. It is shut down, flaring some gas. Just a skelton crew. They cant shut it completely down. That is shut. Oil and gas throughout this region shut. But more importantly the people. Take a look at the latest pictures of this morning people getting, the last plane out of saigon almost. The last few buses out of the port arthur dead center in the cone. Were dead set the eye of the storm could come ashore. If it is a cat4 storm that comes ashore, and youre in the wall, you will get quite a ride. You point out unsurvivable water in terms of storm surge. We talked to some folks that stayed in other hurricanes but after their experience, this time they say, im out of here. Trying to stay, when they said it would be category, would end up being a category 4, the possibility we would be in the eye, that is kind of scary. With harvey, we we
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Early 20th century attempted to improve social and Economic Conditions through trust busting, interstate regulation and prohibition. Also Theodore Roosevelt the periods most dominant political figure. Our goal today is to think about what progressivism was, and to think about what i think its core dialectic. Was the tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political spectrums in the progressive area believed were important, and they believe they werent incompatible but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. So again throughout cost day think about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians at the earliest 20th century is what is progressivism . A famous article that he met in 1982 with entitled, in search of progressed subsystem, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around knowing that the progressive area existed but wondering about what it