Judy and its friday, mark shields and david brooks analyze the president s refusal to concede. And what a Joe Biden Administration could look like. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Announcer major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by [music] moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf. The engine that connects us. Consumer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Johnson johnson. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. Announcer and with the ongoing support of these institutions. Announcer and friends of the newshour. Announcer this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy covid19 set all kinds of recordin the u. S. This week and none was good. Just days after passing 100,000 new cases a day, the u. S. Reported 153,000 yesterday, more than 67,000 people are hospitalized. A record for a third raight day. The country has averaged near
Mnuchin again today and we will hear from the treasury secretary in a few minutes at delivering alpha. Plus palantirs public debut, backed by peter thiel, it will be a direct listing at the New York Stock Exchange, lots to discuss there. And covid optimism, regeneron saying its treatment cocktail helps in the early stages of the virus and we will talk with the companys cofounder and chief science officer polarity on this hour jim, of course, you have to get the debate out of the way, everybody is talking about that and were going to hear the argument that if you look at futures and even some of the Prediction Markets today, theres an argument that the debate really didnt change the broad contours of the race. Before we got pmi, before we got this little squib from speaker pelosi, the futures were down very big. I was watching dom this morning, it looked like the market would be very ugly and i think that was because of arecognition that there was no way you could possibly have any sort
Mr. Jeffrey is accompanied by Deputy Assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs, matthew palmar. President trump announced the u. S. Would lift sanctions on turkey. Since they agreed to cease combat operations in Northern Syria. This is 3 hours 15 minutes. Committee will come to order. Without objection, will have five days to submit statements, extraneous material. We meet today to examine President Trumps decision to withdrawal from Northern Syria. Clearing the way for turkey to attack americas Syrian Kurdish partners. Its a decision i view as zab disastrous. To our witnesses, welcome to the Foreign Affairs committee. Welcome to members of the public and press and thank you to our friends from cspan who are broadcasting this important proceeding. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. This committee has a long tradition of bipartisanship. We work on that every day. I think were the most Bipartisan Committee in congress. The main reason is that members on
When things turned violent theyve been protesting against the reelection of the president meeting with a record in may 5th eightys president is calling for calm after days of protests paralyze the caribbean nation demonstrators in the capital Port Au Prince demanding the resignation of. Is accused of corruption and failing to solve worsening fuel and Food Shortages. Time for a short break here aljazeera when we come back down but not quite out israels Prime Minister gets another shot at staying in power despite failing to win outright and last weeks election. And taking to the skies in china but with a new airport in beijing make things any easier to travel more in that state. Weve seen some rather wet weather across southwestern parts of the u. S. Recently whats a weather making its way across the plains and easing up towards central parts of canada as well as been some flooding just around arizona down towards the southwest of cool things down here as it goes through the next couple
Know that the dialogue itself has started there was a brief speech by kerry lamb before she started to entertain questions from these 250 Home Congress who are inside and speaking with her the very 1st question was about internal independence i should say independent investigation of the Police Actions over the 16 plus weeks of protests at one of those 5 demands that you hear the protesters chanting quite a lot that they want to happen that was the very 1st question that shes addressing to be addressing a lot of questions she has about 2 hours to go with those 150 people inside and many more outside here chanting in protest and give your thank you very much scott heidi and hong kong for us. And still ahead tonight there are. 0. Under pressure to resign britains Prime Minister challenges the opposition to get reforms. And the community under fire in south africa why soldiers will be fighting Gang Violence for months to come. Hello if youre living or going to accuse you might think will