Record for bringing in diverse and intellectually challenging and informed speakers. Tonights is no exception, and if you havent heard bill brands before, i think youll be delighted. If you have comments, in the past as i know many of you have, youre in for another treat. Please join me in welcoming my colleague, glees whitney, to introduce our speaker. [ applause ] well, thank you very much, elaine, for that warm introduction. We really treasure our partnership with the ford. Its always a treat. We will continue to bring you excellent programs that stimulate the mind and the heart for Public Service and love of our history. Happy washingtons birthday to our cspan audience and also to the audience here at the fort. Its really neat to be here recognizing washingtons birthday. This is one of the reasons we wanted bill to be here on this special day. Its always a pleasure to host bill brands. Weve had him back to west michigan so many times, ive lost count. But its been enough that he sho
Warship going to discuss it all right its time to move i. Q. Sparks are flying on capitol hill today as u. S. Attorney general bill barr is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee bar is being questioned on his handling of various legal issues including the federal response to the nationwide protests and his intervention in the bob muller russia probe. That is covering the hearing and parent things are kind of getting heated yeah manilla heated is kind of an understatement at this point when it comes to this hearing because its still going on and it was called by democrats on the House Judiciary Committee initially to answer questions about the Justice Department sending federal officers to the city specifically that unfolded into democrats asking questions from roger stone Michael Flynn systemic racism george floyd president Donald Trumps twitter even coronavirus now you started with democratic chairman jerry nadler Opening Statement that was a scathing review of time as attor
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Unless we get around our arms around this, well have further suffering and further death. Reporter 29 states are reporting more deaths this week than the previous week. I do believe a lot of the governors should be opening up states that theyre not opening. Senate republicans unveiling their newly proposed 1 trillion covid aid package. Senate republicans have presented us with a halfbaked legislative proposal. This is a starting place. We cant pass a bill in the Senate Without democrats. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day, tuesday, july 28th, 6 00 here in new york. One week, thats how long it took President Trump to abandon his newfound position on maskwearing. He spent part of monday spreading misinformation online that claimed maskwearing was not important. This morning, the death toll is rising in 27 states. Coronavirus has killed almost 150,000 americans. Floridas new case
Effective in coronavirus disease. Do you remember the president s supposed chain to the more sciencebased tone . Well, in just a single day the president wiped out indications hes again following the science, once again questioning mask wearing, attacking dr. Fauci as fauci has warned that tens of thousands more americans will die if the u. S. Does not act now to address this. Were following all these headlines this morning and this as well. A major showdown this morning on capitol hill. The attorney general william barr after refusing a number of times to come to testify will testify before lawmakers for the first time in more than a year. Democrats are preparing to ask hard questions on the deployment of federal agents, legal moves to help the president and more. As for the attorney general, hes digging in. We have a first look at his fiery Opening Statement. Lets go now to the white house. Cnns joe johns is there. Lets begin with dr. Fauci. Hes contradicting the president s latest r