Front of his mother while he was having a Mental Health crisis. The National Guard has been ordered into the streets. We will go to philadelphia to speak with professor Marc Lamont Hill about the Police Killing and President Trumps call to four poll watchers to pennsylvania. Is the president sanctioning voter intimidation . Then we go to chile, where voters have overwhelming approved rewriting chiles pinochet dictatorshipera constitution following a year of mass protests. This is the beginning and the end. We are giving birth to a new constitution and leaving behind the constitution of pinochet and his entourage. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States recorded nearly 75,000 coronavirus cases on tuesday as the confirmed death toll from covid19 neared 227,000. The u. S. Has recorded over a halfmillion new coronavirus cases over just the last week. More than half of states are at or near reco
Russia hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton email scandal. No redactions. And breaking this hour, the director of National Intelligence, john ratcliffe, put out a somewhat confusing statement in which he expresses his support for john durhams investigation into obamagate. Dni ratcliffe said at my direction, the office of the director of National Intelligence has now provided almost a thousand pages of materials to the department of justice in response to mr. Durhams document requests. I will continue to insure the intelligence communitys responsiveness to the doj request. We also look forward to supporting the doj in further declassifications consistent with their investigation. As the president has made clear, we must be appropriately transparent with the American People. And give them the confidence that the extraordinary work of intelligence professionals is never misused or politicized. I w recent obamagate materials declassified, by the way, include susan rices email about the Obam
Support stacking the supreme court, do you support excluding people from judicial roles who have religious convictions . Free health care to people who come here illegally . Do you still intend to raise taxes on 82 of American Families . They have not been forthright with the American People, and the media has given these democrats a free pass. Lou as harris and pence get ready for the evening, the Biden Campaign today signaled its looking for a way out of next weeks scheduled debate against President Trump. Biden says if President Trump still has the china virus, then next weeks debate shouldnt take place. Not a sign of strength from the former Vice President. There are only 27 days until the election, and President Trump appears to have his opponents on the run. Worryingly also for joe biden, President Trumps health is improving by the day. The president s medical team today said he is symptomfree of the china virus and has tested positive for antibodies. The president shared his own
Veteran m. J. Hegar in a debate sponsored by nexstar broadcasting. This is an hour. This is the u. S. Senate debate in texas. Good evening and welcome to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in houston. Youre watching us on one of 14 next Star Media Group stations. Were broadcasting live from el paso out to texarkana and houston to amarillo and beyond. Youll also be able to follow us along with our discussion on twitter now at tx Senate Debate. Tonights debate is between the democratic nominee m. J. Hegar and the republican incumbent senator john cornyn. Were joined tonight by a virtual audience. On one screen we have supporters of senator cornyn tuning in from home and on the other side, we have supporters of m. J. Hegar. Thanks to aufl you for joining us virtually tonight from across the state. Here we have no live audience. We are following coronavirus social distancing guidelines set up by the c. D. C. To keep us all safe here this evening. Each candidate and their staff have
Good afternoon, the meeting will come to order. Without objection, declaring a recess of the committee, i recognize myself for an Opening Statement. This morning, we heard the president in his own words recorded in february slam the coronavirus has, quote, deadly stuff. Yet we also heard remarks, i wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because i dont want to create a panic, end of quote. The Trump Administration did play down the pandemic refusing to level with the American People about the known danger and refusing to develop and implement a National Plan to stop the spread. As a result, 190,000 americans have died, continuing to kill hundreds, tens of thousands every day. Over the last eight weeks, americans will be changing their votes in the midst of this ongoing crisis. A free, fair and safe election under these circumstances is a challenge. Let there be no doubt we do our part, america is up to the challenge. In june the centers for Disease Control and preve