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I am joined by alley and hope. Hope wright, my dear colleague, began her career at Colonial Williamsburg when she was in the third grade. She was a performer in a play on my own time, and the black music program. She has collaborated with many other departments at the foundation as well as with other museums over the course of her career. She has worked a variety of educational institutions as an actress, story teller, writer, refer, and mentor. Please welcome hope wright. Thank you. Our special guest, ally larson, is a professor of law and director of the bill of rights law. Cynic she joined the william and mary faculty in 2010, she has received many awards including the statewide outstanding faculty award in the rising star category. Professor larson is a scholar of constitutional law and legal institutions with a focus on how information dynamics affect both. Her work has been featured multiple times in various publications and these are just a few of her accomplishments. Please hel
Eurodollar still trading around that 1. 16 level. We will get some analysis on that in just a moment. Crude just coming off its lows. The other thing worth mentioning is that we are seeing the curve flattening down a little bit today. Big moves in the 30 year on both sides of the olympic. Alix moments ago of the atlantic. Alix moments ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his plan for lockdown. Pm johnson we are not going back to the fullscale lockdown of march and april, and there are ways in which these measures are less strict. Alix he also promised a Mass Testing Program to begin in days with rapid tests. Joining us is Bloomberg Government reporter emily ashton. What is going to be the take away over the next four to six weeks . Emily this is the concern of conservative mps. The lawmakers here in parliament. We have this vote wednesday on whether this second lockdown will go ahead. I think we expect that vote to be approved, despite maybe about a dozen of Boris Johnsons own co
Watch the washington journal 7 00 eastern. Join with your phone calls, texts, and tweets. Host we are joined by scott long with the hill newspaper, covering congress for quite some time. You have a lameduck session coming in here shortly in the u. S. But before we get to the next congress, tell us what the next few weeks or month looks like on the u. S. House side in particular. Guest the house of representatives will come back to washington after this historic election to hold their leadership elections. It looks like democrats are moving forward with their leadership elections next week. That favors nancy pelosi. The quicker the election, the less time there is for their to build any momentum in opposition against her. Nowe is some chatter right from moderates who are just crumpled about the number of seats that have been lost by democrats in a very surprising fashion. At least seven vulnerable democrats in the house went down to defeat. That has caused some andternation in the party
The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. The presiding officer madam president , last week the Judiciary Committee held its hearing on judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination and it was easy to see why judge barrett is held in such high regard by her colleagues, students, and peers and why the American Bar Association gave her its highest rating of well qualified. We knew well before the hearing that judge barrett possesses an extraordinary intelligence and comprehensive command of the law. After three days of testimony americans got to see her qualifications for themselves. They saw why she has been described as a jurist, a formidable intellect, a brilliant and conscientious lawyer and staggering academic mind. Even the democratRanking Member on the committee couldnt hide the fact that she was impressed. Judge barrett understands the proper role of a judge in our system of government. As judge barrett made clear, she understands the job of a judge is to interpret the law, not