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Then, another look at democrat president ial candidate joe biden on the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the upcoming confirmation process. Is ourharold holzers second hour about your new book the president s versus press. While i invite people to find the first hour, for those who havent seen it, whats that the sis of your new book . Is we may the thesis believe we are living through the most chaotic and unpleasant confrontational era ever between a president and the media. But in fact, its a long tradition in American Government thatmerican media history the president and press do not share the same interests and have been out war, and a sense, ever since george washington. Startedrom the time you this project, was it always it versus the press . Mr. Holzer im glad you asked. No. Originally it was the president s and the press. In my research about president kennedy, i found that he gave a very defensive speech in 1961 for the American Publishers Association in new york city. Said, i
Well take you live now to charlotte, north carolina, where joe biden is holding a Campaign Stop today. Its being called a biden for president black economic summit. Its just getting underway. Live coverage is here, cspan3. Mr. President , i was kidding. Hardest thing, only thing harder than being president of a union is being a mayor of a beautiful city. Folks, thanks for taking the time to be here today. I really appreciate i. And we even have an astronaut in the house and thats pretty cool. Look, first of all, i want thank chris and the mayor for being here and all of you for being here. And you know, these are tough times. Over 200,000 americans have passed away. 200,000. And the numbers still rising and impact on communities is bad across the board, particularly bad for africanamerican communities. Almost four times as likely to, three times as likely to catch the disease, covid. And when its caught, twice as likely to die as White Americans. Its the sort of emblemmatic of the ineq
Reporter good afternoon to you, melissa. Lets look at the market as theyre settling out. The dow looks like it is finishing down by 524 points. You mentioned the s p 500, that is important too, down 8 1 2 from the record high on september 2nd. 3580. You see the s p closed to 3236. You mention what dragged us down, it was selloff in tech late in the day. Well get to that in a moment. There was optimism early on in the session with respect to coronavirus vaccines, Johnson Johnson entering the latestage three trial that was a little bit positive for investors to get their heads around but again look at these dow losers here. Sales force. Chevron. Apple was one of the big ones, amex and boeing. On nasdaq, losers, fedex, amazon, netflix, align and liberty global. It was a rough day when it came to some of these stocks. It was sort of stock specific and then dragging all the indices down together. Remember this has been choppy for the last couple weeks right now as were heading in and gettin
For a bill combining several Clean Energy Initiatives followed by five measures dealing with veterans issues. Live now to the floor of the u. S. House here on cspan. Orde the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The advance of Coronavirus Infections continues to rise in a number of states around our nation, send your spirit of healing and wellbeing among those who suffer and your angels to protect the Many Health Care workers who place their own wellbeing in danger every day. Comfort those today in the Supreme Court who begin the blic mourning of a beloved colleague, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and console those who worked with over so many years. Bless the members of this peoples house who labor today to pass bills to advance the common wheel of our nation. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4a of House Resolut