Critically wounded six weeks ago when a gunman opened fire on republicans practicing for a congressional baseball game. The hospital says scalise, who is 51, is in good spirits and looks forward to returning to work when his rehab is complete. We look forward to it too. A bill that would slap new economic sanctions on russia for meddling in the u. S. Elections has reached the senate after the house overwhelmingly approved it. Understandably, the russians dont like it. Charlie dagata found some of americas european allies are also opposed. Reporter senior russian Officials Say the new sanctions make no sense and move already tense u. S. Relations into uncharted territory. Andre kortinov, director of the Prominent Russian think tank, told us russians arent happy being thrown into the same basket as iran and north korea. Basically the signal is that you three bad guys, you will get the same treatment from the United States congress. And with all due respect, russia is not north korea. Rep
Reporter the crowd, including Truck Driving democratturned republican voter gino defabio gino defabio reporter loved it. Thank you, sir, for keeping the promises that you made. To these 12,000 people and to the country. Reporter mr. Trump accepted the compliment. With few exceptions, no president has done anywhere near what weve done in his first six months. Not even close. Reporter today i asked defabio about the president s accomplishments. You cant do everything at once. Health care reform. Working on it. Tax reform. Its coming. It has to come. Reporter but the revival the president brags about is a long way off for the more than 700 workers who have lost their jobs at the big g. M. Facility nearby or the 100 Union Workers at a g. M. Supplier in austintown, or the 115 workers laid off at magna seating systems or the 15 who lost their jobs at jamestown industries, much of it since mr. Trump took office. Are the jobs coming back . No, theyre not. Bertram de souza. Hes playing on the f
He is the author of the 2016 book the lives of Frederick Douglass, halloween todays presentation will be signing copies of the book. Please welcome Professor Robert levine. [applause] thank you for the introduction tom, and my thanks to tom for organizing the event. It is a real honor to be here. My guess is you would rather hear an actor over an academic, so i will be relatively brief, five minutes. As a lot of you know, frederick born into slavery in 1818 on the Eastern Shore of maryland. For the first 20 years of his life, he was a slave moving back and forth between the Eastern Shore and baltimore. He escaped from slavery in 1838 taking a train him baltimore while dressed as a sailor and eventually made his way to new bedford, massachusetts. He worked in the shipyards there and as a minister staying relatively quiet about his antislavery views. In part because he was a fugitive slave and was afraid of being remanded back into slavery, but in 1841 he spoke out against slavery at in
100th night of unrest in portland. It was another night of chaos and violence. Police made 27 arrests. Police say a crowd of people marched toward a Police Precinct wearing gas masks, armor and shields. They threw rocks and battles for 90 minutes. They warned protesters to stand by as they do night after night. State police helped which is a notable distinction. Protesters arrested by state police as u. S. Marshals have deputized state police. The pictures appear to show the man believed to be the shooter, now decreased. 48yearold antifa supporter michael riya reinoehl as he appd to shoot Aaron Danielson. The mayor said she was asked whether to talk about bad acto actors and now here is the portland mayor on the ban guys, i cant hear anything. And here in vancouver, washington, outside of portland, theres a memorial later today for Aaron Danielson, the man who was shot and killed a week ago in portland. Leland. Leland also wait and see if the policies in terms of releasing people who h
Campaign that kicks off this labor day weekend. And the messaging is becoming more intense as these two candidates try to frame the key issues and arguments against each other. Today biden traveled to kenosha, wisconsin, one of the cities at the center of a renewed push for Racial Justice and Police Reforms and where there was also violence and unrest in the immediate wake of the shooting of jacob blake. Bidens trip came two days after the president s visit. The former Vice President met with jacob blakes family. He described a conversation he had with blake himself. I had an opportunity to spend some time with jacob on the phone. Hes out of icu. He talked about how nothing was going to defeat him, how whether he walked again or not, he was not going to give up. My wife asked to say a prayer, and his mom said a prayer. She said, im praying for jacob, but im praying for the policemen as well. Biden also met with kenosha residents and Community Leaders and called for an end to violence d