and i wonder if we are seeing that. i don t know. but i think that as everybody who starts to respond to everyone on what is television and everything. you know, think about it. you know, the immensity of the decisions and the complexities of them. you know, i don t know if it s the right one. i didn t get 81 million votes to make the decision. so, let s pray that we are on the right path. pray for those 49 souls a day that were lost at the, during that point in the war while pointing out we are losing a thousand a day to a pandemic and it has now killed ten times the number of names on the vietnam memorial in washington in this country. john, what times we are living through, john meachem has been our guest on tonight s broadcast. thank you very much for coming. coming up for us, this was the week the debate over
so let s pray that we are on the right path. we pray for those 49 souls a day that were lost at the during that point in the war while pointing out we are losing 1000 a day to a pandemic and it has now killed ten times the number of names on the vietnam memorial in washington in this country. john, what s times we are living through. jon meacham has been our guest tonight. thank you so much for coming. on coming up for, us this was the week the debate over children wearing masks in schools in our country, turned vicious. that story when we come back. story when we come back hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor? sure, he s the 76-year-old guy who still runs marathons, right? sadly, not anymore.
house and pitch mcconnell in the senate to deliver. molly: that can be a difficult challenge working with congress. if he does manage to get something done, if there is healthcare reform, tax reform, one person s success or view of the success is another person s view that something has gone horribly wrong in washington. in that essence, would the media be any friendlier to him? there will be people railing against whatever it is, is accomplished on capitol hill. i don t think their tone is going to change. much of the press has decided he is a great threat to democracy, and they adopted an adversarial posture. go back to last year, new york times in the news sections running a piece saying basically it s time to throw out the normal rules of objective journalism that we have used to cover other candidates. this guy is different. that s not going to change. but if he gets tax reform done, if he can get obamacare rewritten, he s already seated a good supreme court justice, he has
weekend a somber ceremony there today to honor those who lost their lives in the vietnam war. the names of more than 58,000 service members are etched into the wall. and now some are working to bring the memorial into the 21st century and put a face to every single name on that wall. garrett tenney is live at the vietnam memorial in washington. molly, this is about making sure that we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice. not just today put for years to come. there s a lot of concern among veterans groups that many in the rising generation either don t understand or can t connect with the sacrifices that our veterans made and what they went through. that s why the vietnam veterans memorial fund which helped found the wall is working to ensure the more than 5,000 veterans memorialized here are more than just a list of names of the over the last eight years, the group has been collecting pictures for every soldier on the wall. in order to create a virtual wall of faces online wh
process a little relief for businesses going in various rule changes. i think he has something to sell next year. the tax cut is the big one. he has to show people the economy is growing at a faster rate. molly: a break for the overseas trip, now back to washington. right. molly: thanks for joining us, appreciate it. thanks, molly. leland: on this memorial day we can t forget the americans still fighting across the globe. u.s. advisors along with their local counterparts say they are closer than ever to kicking isis out of iraq. troops already reaching the syrian border after securing a string of small villages west of the city. connor powell is live from the jerusalem bureau with the fight. after nine months of heavy fighting, iraqi forces are close to controlling almost most if not at all of mosul. but there s still a few rockets of isis resistance in the city. this is the big fight in the next few days, next few weeks