Will do whatever it takes to make him the next commander in chief. Harris is the first black woman in the history of us politics to join a Major Party Ticket and the 3rd woman to serve as a vp candidate for a Major Political party. She also also is of course a bay area native. She grew up in oakland and started her political career after graduating from the u c Hastings Law School back in 1989. In 1990 she was named Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County. Then in 2003 harris was elected San Francisco District Attorney where she served 2 terms. She was an elected as California Attorney general in 2010. Harris began a second term in that post when she announced she was running for us senate where she was elected in 2016. Then in 2019 senator harris launched her president ial bid. And now one year later, she is joe bidens running mate. Theres a long list of San Francisco city leaders who worked with Kamala Harris as she climbed the political ladder. Kron fours michelle kingston shows
They went missing in marylands Chesapeake Bay. Well have the latest. And remembering bill withers, the voice behinds some of the most beloved and soulful songs of the 70s passes away. Well look back with an extremely rare and revealing interview he gave us just a few years back. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. [ sirens ] hundreds of thousands of people are going to die. I want to come way under. The virus continues to spread nationwide. Nowhere is the situation more urgent than in new york city. Highest single increase in the number of deaths. They had a chance to order ventilators over the years. They had a chance to order very big but didnt choose to do it. Stocks closed down for the weeks after a much worse than expected jobs report. The three major indices shed another 1. 5 . We have the greatest economy in the world, probably doing all of you the best ever, everybodys doing the best ever. All of a sudden, yeah, shut down the
But i submit to legalism. What i want to talk about is the world that robert kagan and Bret Stephens once that is undergirded by American Power and i think that is the world we all believe has been vastly beneficial for the United States, for canada but for by and large the whole world. It allowed the transformation i talked about are not in america. The question is what is made that possible . I would argue the image you should think about is Franklin Roosevelt after winning decisively in world war ii. Decides he wants to create the United Nations an institution which all countries would be represented and try to make a systematic and institutionalized effort to produce a new kind of Global Politics in which other countries are respected, their voices heard and that is really what the United States has at its core been trying to do since 1945. Its not really because the United States has gone into lots of third world countries and intervened and beaten up people and killed leaders tha
Camp from michigan. Hes retiring at the end of the this year as you all know and were going to lose a tremendous talent in dave camp. But when he got together to take on the most ambitious reform of the tax code that i have seen in my lifetime, he said lets see if we can get the Corporate Income tax rate down to kind of that oecd country average, kind of that World International average. Lets see if we can get in there with everybody else. Thats striking to me because it is the best effort, again, that i have seen in my lifetime, and it was an effort to see if we can be right there in the middle, if we can be mediocre. I dont know when it became true in america that when we set our goals on doing something, our goal is to be kind of like everybody else. Well, thats the way they do it in europe. How it came to be that in america when we decide that we want to make a difference, we look around at what everybody else is doing and say lets be the same. I dont want to be the same. I want to
That World International average. Lets see if we can get in there with everybody else. Thats striking to me. Because it is the best effort again that i have seen in my lifetime. And it was an effort to see if we can be right there in the middle. If we can be mediocre. I dont know when it became true in america that when we set our goals on doing something, our goal is to be kind of like everybody else. Thats the way they do it in europe. How it came to be that in america when we decide that we want to make a difference, we look at what everybody else is doing and lets be the same. I dont want to be the same. I want to lead. I want to lead. What we do with the Corporate Income tax rate in the fair tax is take it to zero for one reason and one reason only. That is theres not a business on this planet that pays taxes. As you all know, bigs business collect taxes. Consumers pay taxes. Walmart doesnt pay taxes. They collect it from me when i buy and shop at walmart. The case for the fair ta