A rethink is considered necessary america wants a more unified approach across the nation that call also mean tightening the rules such as limiting the number of people allowed to gather together and finding people who failed to wear a face mask when shopping or on public transport. Well that summit between the chancellor and the 16 state premiers is still going on their press conference was supposed to start roughly 2 hours ago were still waiting for it to happen so there are lots of crunch points in those phones to talk about you know as a Political Correspondent who has been waiting with me for this press conference to start meet every us up to speed whats this all about and why is it taking so long well 1st of all it is the 1st such meeting in 10 weeks this meeting was prepared by the Health Ministers but of course its a different thing when powerful people like that come together and have the opportunity to exchange their views and some of these views on how to handle the current
To get more sick anyway and of course this is a time when makeable says there are too many details where there are similar problems but all the different states have found Different Solutions so that is the idea of this meeting so i know about is very punctual normal normally and weve been waiting for this press conference to start i think we can have a quick look in the chancery where we still only see empty chairs quite a bleak picture you know were probably wondering why does it take so long and of course we have colleagues. At the press conference shes sitting in that room waiting of course shes hearing all the whispers whats going on behind the scenes and i think youve been texting with her didnt want to see you say well its funny would you say that she wrote to text me and said well clearly mrs markland state premiers are getting less good at timing but they are Getting Better at building up the drama to present details rather than breakthroughs. And i think this is something we
Story author of bestselling from slavery to freedom appeared 2006. The first white man that engage me that i remember when i was in high school and it was a man from the afternoon newspaper. The tribune did not employ any young black newsboys. I was employed with another job i wasnt always clear what it was but in the afternoon i helped him tied the newspapers and wrap them or whatever we di did. That i help to deliver the newspapers. But i did not collect. He collected the money and he had all the contacts i had no contact with the newspaper all theyll know they knew i was employed by him. But there were no black people to serve as newsboys. My father was a lawyer. I had contact with white people through him, but most casual and not serious just being introduced. Was born in a village in oklahoma south of tulsa about 60 miles south and my father and mother move there in 1912 because he had experience from Shreveport Louisiana and these experiences were not pleasant so they moved to wh
The anger of women all across america about Senate Republicans and the courts working hand in glove to take down roe v. Wade. I just read about a woman in shreveport who under the louisiana law now before the Supreme Court would have to travel over 300 miles to exercise her constitutional freedoms, and this is happening in states across the country. Republican state legislatures are restricting a womans right to choose so severely as to make it nonexistent, and the courts are now likely to go along because Senate Republicans have confirmed nominees they believe will strip away womens rights and fundamentally change this country. Sen. Schumer going so far as to deny a duly elected president the right to pick a Supreme Court justice. Republicans are afraid here in the senate, to confront this issue directly, so they try to accomplish through the court, what they have never accomplished in the court of Public Opinion. And they leave women out in the cold. So yes, i am angry, the women of
Work on a measure that was approved by the house yesterday providing 8. 3 billion in emergency funds to combat the coronavirus. Senate lawmakers are expect today vote on that measure later this afternoon and work on a bill to reset u. S. Energy and environmental policy. And now to live coverage. U. S. Senate here on cspan 2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of us all, thank you for this moment that unites us in the fellowship of prayer. Make us conscious of your presence and unite us in our efforts to do your will on earth. Inspire the hearts and minds of our lawmakers to strengthen the bonds between us, as they seek to live lives of integrity. May no partisanship mar the unity of spirit they must have to make america stronger, wiser, and better. Deliver them from every unworthy motive, as they labor to honor you. Lift their burdens, lessen their fears, and give them you