Welcome congressman al green of texas who represents part of the houston area. Joining us to talk about the protests in the wake of the George Floyd Death and whats ahead for policing across the country. Congressman al green, thanks for being with us this morning. It is my honor to be with you this morning. I believe that we will break some ground this morning. I think that we have some legislation that we are proposing that will be for reaching. And im honored to bring this to cspan first. Tell us about that. Well, thank you. As you know, on may 27th, i called for a war on poverty excuse me, a war on racism. I mentioned poverty because quite frankly we declared a war on poverty, on drugs. We have declared wars on various things. We have never declared a war on racism. The question became, how do you do this . When president johnson declared his war on poverty, it was congress that passed the legislation that helped him to get Social Security through, medicare, medicaid, head start. Wh
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Fascinating stories that are full of courage that weve never heard about. This evening he will share from his new book escape from paris, a true story of love and resistance in wartime france which is based on official american french and german documents, history, personal memoir and as well as personal interviews. It is a thrilling wartime adventure story of american aviators rescued by fighters taken to not the and hidden under the noses of gestapo. Please join me welcoming stephen harding. No pressure there. I would like to personally thank you all for coming, i really appreciate it when people show up, and hope not to bore you. I want to give you some quick background on my stuff, people wonder how you military history. I was born and raised in Southern California long time ago and my father and all my uncles fought in world war ii in the pacific. So i grew up hearing their stories of fighting the japanese in sealing the broad ocean and Everything Else. When i was 19 i am listed i
A classic republic of congo to shut down its Main Commercial hub in the capital kinshasa. The. Staying connected in chile we look at some of the creative ways that people are socializing and keeping in shape under lock that. Where we begin here in london with the british Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care inside a London Hospital after his covert 19 symptoms worse and johnson was admitted to hospital on sunday night and had been facing tests after suffering persistent symptoms for more than 10 days earlier on monday the government had said Boris Johnson was in good spirits and still in charge but that way street now says that the foreign secretary dominic robb has been asked that the deputize. Since sunday the Prime Ministers been under the medical care of the team its in thomass hospital after he was admitted with persistent coronavirus symptoms which are in the course of this afternoon the problem is this condition worsened and on the advice of the medical
Solidarity is not only required by the values of the union but its also in the common interest more of whats happening in spain now with months ahead or in madrid. People are blaming the government because they didnt take action before hand because everybody knew what was going on we had the example of china we had eternally and they knew they didnt. They didnt prevent all of all of this coming so regional regional governments are responsible of all those that protective equipment for for Health Care Workers and for poor Family Police officers test kits and everything and theyre being delayed to come to to a country so we dont know we dont really know whats going to happen next people are concerned this last weekend we had many people taking their cars and going out for the cook to the cold storage going to the 2nd homes but these wiccan yesterday there was so on the television the restrictions on the police have reported that there were less people going out or taking the cars so i ge