Been defying pandemic restrictions to take part in knightly march as a court ruling last week a banned abortions in cases where the fetus has congenital defects. Police in france have arrested a 2nd suspect over the knife attack at the basilica in nice that left 3 people dead security has been increased across france after the 3rd is the most attack in 2 months in term minister is warning about more militant attacks are likely. The news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at state news or visit our website. For. The coronavirus pandemic has the world in its grip and its not letting go Health Systems in some European Countries are reaching the point of overwhelm and there reimposing lockdowns a varying severity from spain state of emergency through the u. K. Steer system to germanys lock down light but are we doomed to a cycle of lockdown and beliefs this case numbers for and then rise again until someone comes up with a vaccine that we trust enough to take im filled in berli
Could you go back into that environment today or what was the formula that allowed you to exist for three decades . Did you have a particular relationship with ted turner or just enlighten us a little bit for the developments. Its helpful that i joined cnn 1980 at the beginning. I was one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was there from the you know, i was present at the creation as they say, and it was a spectacular place to work as we built it because it was something unthought of before ted turner. The global cable newscast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was really truly remarkable. But it changed over time, as these things do. And we founded it in 1980. By 1984 ted was on the forbes most, you know, the wealthiest list and it been basically on the verge of bankruptcy just four years earlier when he founded it. So his position changed, so did ours, suddenly were in the white house pool, were growing, and over time his commitment, teds commi
Has been confirmed to the Supreme Court. And ive thrown and cracked 24 cell phone screens. Not all of them mine. Hey, babe . Have you seen my phone . But you know what . We have decades to worry about that human chastity belt. Right now, i want to talk about rbg. Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death has hit a lot of people hard, especially women. [bleep] and i think its because mommy . I think its because mommy . Buddy, can mommy please just have two minutes to cry in a closet . Again . I think its because, as american women, ruth is a big reason why weve made it this far. Long before she got to spend 27 years in the middle of this combover sandwich, rbg was already changing the world for women. In 1972, she cofounded the aclus womens rights project. There, alongside pioneers like Dorothy Kenyon and pauli murray, she spent years carefully laying the groundwork to force u. S. Law to acknowledge something radical. Women are, like, fullon people. Nobody in our country did more for the advancement o
Lifetime seat on the Supreme Court after the Republicanled Senate approved her confirmation following a rushed process to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We will get the latest. Plus, we will speak to alicia garza, cofounder of black lives matter and supermajority. I think black voters in particular, especially as we turned out and shaped the contest across this country, we really do deserve to hear more about what youre going to do to advance the issues that i think all of us care about, the issues of health care, the issues of Community Safety and security, the issues of Climate Change and what is happening in our environment all around us. The issues of low wages that are keeping families from being able to support themselves. Amy we will speak with alicia garza about the election, new bookg, and her the purpose of power and how she was the target of a white supremacist plot that was foiled last week by the fbi. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org
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