Welcome to the National Press club. I am lisa matthews. Vice president of the club and Associated Press u. S. Video assignment manager. The killing of george floyd by police in minneapolis on may 25 convulsed the nation in black lives matter protests and renewed an urgent outcry for Police Reform. At the same time, our nation has struggled to contain the coronavirus, which has struck communities of color disproportionately. Today, we welcome Congressional Black Caucus chair, representative karen bass, a democrat from california. She has devoted her decade in congress to issues of crimin al justice and disparities in health care. Representative bass chairs the Judiciary Committee subcommittee on crime and was passed by House Speaker nancy pelosi and judiciary chair jerry nadler, shepherding the George Floyd Justice in policing act, through the legislative process. The act, which passe d the house in late june, bans chokeholds and no knock warrants, as well as lowering the legal barriers
Briefed reporters on the states response to the coronavirus pandemic amid increasing numbers of coronavirus cases. Governor ducey announced the new executive order, extending the evictions. On gov. Ducey good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. On myoined by a doctor right and nick mcguire on my left, the leaders of department and Health Services and the national guard. I want to give you the latest update on where we are in arizona. I want to begin by saying thank careo all our health workers, all our nurses and doctors. This monthed about as our maximum challenge to date. We know how hard they are working. I want them to know how grateful we are, how we appreciate what they do for our citizens. To the citizens i want to say thank you, as well. We will share some things in terms of the direction arizona is going. Only be making improvements with your participation, partnership and commitment to your fellow brothers and sisters and neighbors and friends. Thank youbegin
Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, september 8th, and i am yasmin vossoughian. Weve got less than two months to go until the 2020 election, and the president spent labor day using the white house as a backdrop to launch an attack against joe biden and kamela harris. Biden cheers china as a great power because they add to nonproliferation and human rights. Well, that didnt. They took advantage of stupid people, stupid people. And bidens a stupid person. You know that. Youre not going to write it, but you know that. Youre not going to write it. Biden and his very liberal running mate, the most liberal person in congress, by the way, not a competent person, in my opinion, would destroy this country, would destroy this economy. All right. So later during that same appearance the president also demanded that Reuters White House correspondent jeff mason take off his mask. The issue of what happened when you were in france continues to be youre going to have to take that off, please. You
He had learned to the lawyers. Here he is discussing that later interaction. Lets see it. You went immediately and you reported it, didnt you . I did. Why . Because that was my duty. Vindman said he reported this conduct again because that was his duty. He acted as he did out of a sense of duty. And as a purple heart veteran with confidence in america, he would be protected for doing this right thing. Even if it angered the president of the United States. His father, who fled the soviet union to come to this country worried about his son fulfilling that duty. Here was colonel vindmans message to his father. Lets listen. Dad, my sitting here today in the u. S. Capitol talking to our elected officials is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the soviet union and come here to the United States of america in search of a better life for our family. Do not worry. Ill be fine for telling the truth. You realize when you came forward out of sense of duty, that you were pu
Welcome back, im ari melber. The senate has updated their dinner break to say the senators will reconvene momentarily. One senator was supposed to join us in an additional interview and they had to go back to the floor. Any minute this trial could reconvene and we will bring it to you. Our panel of experts is here and we are joined by my colleague, Lawrence Odonnell, host of the last word with Lawrence Odonnell and as noted, Senate Veteran on the staff side. I want to show you something we have not had time to bring up. We counted up how the time was used. In day one when it was all that rules fighting, potential witnesses, they used most of their time, 56 . You might say not all of it, but quite a lot. Compare that, lawrence, to the Trump Defense team using a paltry 12 . What does that tell you about the strategy . I think that tells us what is going to happen when they take over for the defense. The volume is going to be much higher. There will be yelling. There will be passionate gu