President ial nominee joe biden spoke with teachers and education officials about reopening schools in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Plan totalked about his boost federal support for Public Schools. Hosted by the National Education association, this is about 40 minutes. [applause] joe biden thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Im jill bidens husband, joe biden. And lily thanks for bringing us together and for the energy and leadership you brought to this indispensable organization. You know, you all head up a union, an organization that is holds the future of the country in know, you all head up a union, an organization that is holds the future of the country in your hands. And what determines to our children determines what happens to this nation. Theyre our children. They lift our National Ambition aa lot of. And you have them in your hands. And your members are lucky to have you. And im absolutely certain of that because i happen to be as i said neither one of you members.
Advance. Everyone needs a chance to prosper. And broadband, the internet, modern communications is to us what pencil and tablet was to my greatgrandparents 100 years ago. Peter lets bring our guest reporter, gopal ratnam, from cq roll call into our conversation. Gopal thank you for having me, peter. And congressman lucas, thank you for taking this time to speak. I want to ask you about the proposal you have, that you put out in january, asking for an increase in spending on federal r d. Among the things that you called for is a boost in spending on Artificial Intelligence, biotech and quantum computing. But given the pandemic we are amidst now, 120,000 plus americans have died, is there anything that you would change in terms of areas of focus, areas of research where such federal spending to be applied . Could be applied . Rep. Lucas i think what we have seen in recent weeks demonstrates not just the need, but the magnitude of the resources that are necessary. When legislation was bei
The ministries for you with power to veto has it changed me or it has to change what i want is to govern brazil. A lot of american at a tennessean human has more. In that recording he speaks and length about his reasons for wanting to sack the chief of police and also the a top ranking policeman in Rio De Janeiro and he says something to the effect of if i can sack the Rio De Janeiro policeman i tried to i couldnt i cant sack the the the federal he doesnt mention the word the federal police chief but he says his boss who it was the point will believe chief. And if i can sack him his boss the minister the minister himself because i wont allow anybody and then he uses a 4 letter word that i wont repeat to mess around with my family and he is clearly or seems to be alluding to his 2 sons who are under investigation in the state of Rio De Janeiro for all kinds of of illegal actions and looting in the case of his eldest son flavio of being involved in the criminal militia groups so if the p
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Thing back. In the new york, new jersey, area, some promise that the worsthit states are at least pondering openings as soon as tomorrow. The very latest read on all of this from jackie deangelis. Hey, jackie. Reporter neil, as reopenings continue in slow phases across the country, reminder this mornings weekly jobless claims added three million more people to the list of unemployed. The number was higher than expectations but it was lower than it was last week. So that was positive. Remember the total number of jobs lost in eight weeks, more than 36 million. That is a backdrop here. That is why reopening is so important. The sooner the country can do it, the more people can get back to work. Now in florida universal orlando is partially reopening today. The citywalk portion is going to be on reduced hours but masks are a must. There will be temperature checks. On may 20th, the plan is to open disney springs. That is where the shopping and dining complex is. The rest of the park is clo