See more on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the cspan radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. Joining us this week on the communicators is alan pratt, he is the executive director of the National Rural Education Association and he joins us from chattanooga, tennessee. What is that association and what do you do . Our association is the voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve a rural schools and communities and right now we are looking at a Digital Divide and we are looking at the reopening of schools in a very different way. That is what i a lot of our work has been focused on over the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit and in rural, remote areas or areas outside
Association and what do you do . Then our association is voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve rural schools and communities. We are looking at a digital divide. We are looking at reopening schools in a very different way. Thats what a lot of our work has been focused on the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit in rural, remote areas or areas outside of urban, suburban areas. We have connectivity issues with cell phones and wired access as well. We have a 40 beauty issues affordability issues. We are looking at the lack of access and affordability of the surface. How many students are we talking about . Allen overall, you know, rural represents about 9. 7 million students. But you ar
This morning based on nine separate institutions indicating that we could potentially see another 22 thousand deaths here in the United States by mid june 22 thousand deaths here in the United States by mid june. A reminder that the house is in recess this week. The senate is in session. 2. Ve coverage on cspan as we approach memorial day weekend, we want to hear from you, your top concern as your state begins to reopen. All 50 states reopening this week. If you recently returned to work, here is the number. Anyou are a Business Owner, essential worker, here is the number. , here is thes number. If it seems a little bit different today, we are coming to you from my home and also a satellite location where this program is being directed. We will get your phone calls in just a moment. I reminder that the Senate Government Homeland Affairs committee will be holding a hearing this morning looking into a couple of things, including joe biden and his son hunter and his connection to the Ukra
The spray was from here all the way. What jurors saw before convicting him of killing his fiancee. Saved by a superstar. Tyler perry coming to the rescue of an american couple stuck at a mexican hospital when the Health Emergency interrupted their vacation. God bless tyler perry. The thank yous theyre seing this morning. And dizzy drive. This car going around in circles for an hour. Police stumped over what to do and the real shocker. Who is behind the wheel . And good saturday morning, everybody. Dan has the morning off. But we are happy to have with us tom llamas. Happy to be here, man, and ironic enough i was on a meditation retreat. Got a call and said we need you over here. Dan has to go on his. Fro pressure. Seriously, were all counting on you. Good to have you here. Switching gears, though, the impeachment proceedings dominating the headlines this week and now starting to hear from a voice whos been mostly silent through it all. Yeah, all this and john bolton making some startli
The new pickup truck that could change the Auto Industry and what went wrong during the big reveal. And more than just a win. The postme ancemt th got this Football Team so excited. Good friday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with a possible new time line for the impeachment investigation after two weeks of testimony on capitol hill. As democrats move forward, abc news has learned talks are under way concerning a likely impeachment trial in the senate. The last scheduled hearing in the house featured blunt accounts from two career diplomats who are frustrated by the administrations campaign to pressure ukraine. One of them delivered a stark warning about russia and how its already targeting the 2020 election. Abcs Elizabeth Hur joins us with the new details. Elizabeth, good morning. Reporter kenneth and janai, good morning. After nearly 40 hours of public hearings, democrats say they are preparing to move forward and republicans are conceding a trial cannot be avo