Seat on the court, just about 50 days before election day. Nbcs tracie potts has a look at Justice Ginsburgs life. Reporter Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg spent more than a quarter century on the u. S. Supreme court and spent much of her career fighting for equality. How wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like. Reporter born in brooklyn, new york, she tied for first in her class at columbia law. But with no job offers from law firms, this was the late 50s, she taught at columbia, then worked on the womens rights project in the 70s. As their lawyer she won five of six cases before the us Supreme Court. Her ultimately goal was to get sex discrimination treated by the Supreme Court the same way race discrimination was treated. Reporter president clinton made her the second female on the nations highest court where she continued to even the playing field, supporting reproductive rights and the lgbtq community. While her rulings leaned liberal, off the bench she was Clo
His biggest Daily Advance in three months. Lets bring you the bloomberg first word news and the u. K. Government is telling the to work from home if possible telling the public to work from home with possible full to the Prime Ministers holding an emergency cobra meeting this morning for briefing parliament, thewill make a broadcast to public at 8 00 p. M. Local time. The billiondollar initiative to the polio vaccine around the world is moving to the next phase. Over 150 countries and regions including 64 higher income nations are taking part. Solutionis to find a to covid a little sooner than we were expecting. Pressure onto put Alexander Lukashenko are on pause. Ministers on monday failed to agree. On how to handle turkeys energy claims in them eastern eastern mediterranean. That is global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake. We will have plenty more on the markets and we will go over some of the other news we are watching. Tom, good morning. Tom francine, good morn
Brian amity shlaes, why do we spend so much time in this country, and on our network, and in your life, talking about president s . Ms. Shlaes thank you, brian. Im glad to be with you and with harold. We talk about president s because people understand People Better than ideas. And we eventually want to get to ideas, but we get at those ideas through people, our president s. Brian dr. Holzer, im often i often want to call you even though youre not a doctor. Mr. Holzer thank you for that mixed introduction. Thank you for having me on the show, and welcome to Franklin Roosevelts home, from which we are broadcasting tonight. Why . I think amity has it right. I also think that we were blessed to have a first president who was a National Hero before he became president , and was a touchstone and an icon and created a presidency that was centered on both personality and ideas, but in large measure, personality. Everyone since has been measured against George Washington. And we look for extra
Confirmed with 19 is reporting its overcrowded refugee camp in bangladesh. And restrictions ease in the philippines capital some are hoping to tackle the traffic problem by getting more people on their bikes. Theres been a week since a black man named joy george floyd died in Police Custody in minnesota and theres no sign of an end to the protests that followed against racism and Police Brutality in the United States President Trump has threatened to deploy the army if state governors do not end the violence in washington the Police Forcibly cleared Peaceful Protesters near the white house so that he could walk to a church nearby mike hanna begins our coverage. A peaceful protest outside the white house is dispersed forcibly. Tear gas rubber coated steel bullets are used to force the demonstrators further away. A few minutes later the reason becomes clear in a display of pure political theater the president and former reality star walks out of the white house across pennsylvania avenue
Florida, orlando, a lot of people in spain, infact florida, orlando, a lot of people in spain, in fact the majority of people in spain. Police in hong kong clash with pro democracy demonstrators, on the 16th weekend of protests. There is a bit of a showdown between these riot police with their less lethal guns and up above there are protesters throwing projectiles down. Theyre picking up targets. And coming up at half past 12, click investigates whether Technology Companies bear responsibility for the opiod crisis in the us. Jeremy corbyn has said he will serve a full term as Prime Minister if his party wins the next general election. Amid rumours that he is considering standing down, mr corbyn told the bbc he would lead labour into the next poll. The labour leader also sought to play down divisions within his top team after one of his closest aides said he would quit and criticised the partys leadership. It comes after a failed bid to oust the deputy leader tom watson, as the labour c