Welcome to the daily social distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick it off with the big story. Election day is now just eight days away. So at this point, my friends, you can forget about getting in shape for it because election day bodies are made during the primaries. This year, votes for are not waiting till the first tuesday in november to cast their ballots. The Record Number of americans taking advantage of early voting across the country. An unprecedented 57 million ballots have been cast, more than 40 to have the total votes counted in the 2016 general election. At one of new york citys premier venues snaking around the block in brooklyn while marching bands drum up excitement. Incredible turnout in the lines. Ive never seen this before in my life. Americans dont even have to be earthbound to vote. U. S. Astronaut kate rubens casts her ballot with help
For us on the committee to do something radical, to listen more than we talk. For us to heare from our colleagues on both sides of the aisle about their ideas for the next rules package. Regardless of who controls Congress Next year, i think we can all agree running this house with integrity means listening to all members so that is what we will be doing today. We took a collaborative approach with the rules package for this congress and im proud to say the first bipartisan package in decades. It took time to acknowledge no party has the monopoly on good ideas. Of what weve created together, the consensus calendar to expedite consideration of ideas with bipartisan support, the Diversity Office to get the calls falls of Congress Looking like the real world, and the Modernization Committee to advance good ideas from both sides to get this place functioning better. Although we were hearing these in committee, we required other committees hold them so all members have the chance to be hear
President has been detained by Security Forces a 3 day state of emergency is in effect stratford has more from the capital bishkek and the parliamentary speaker in the last has announced that there will be no discussion of the state of emergency in this session however the state of emergency is active for the next 3 days starting from 9 oclock this evening which is just under an hour away from now and if parliament has not approved that state of emergency decree to extend it within 3 days then the decree becomes no void so as i say just does seem as if certainly lord order does seem to be returning. North korea has displayed what i believe to be previously unseen Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles that were unveiled adjourning a parade in marking the 75th anniversary of the Workers Party the World Health Organization has warned europe to take Decisive Action to curb soling corona virus infection rates its urging countries to limit large gatherings or expect tough lockdowns the top u.
Going forward what lesson should policymakers learn from this recent rise of populism on both the left and the right . Today i were discussing these issues with two great guests, first Casey Mulligan is professor of economics at university of chicago and he served as chief economist for the council of economic advisers in the Trump Administration from september 2015 august 20 because most recent book released last month is your hired, untold successes and failures. Michael strain is a john scholar and director of Economic Policy studies here aei, the author of the American Dream is not dead but populism could kill it, released in february of this year. Heres how the event is going to go. To start up k she will speak for about ten minutes and then mike will offer a ten minute response and after that we will have a Panel Discussion for a while, and towards the end of the discussion about 10 45 we will do a q a so please submit your questions on twitter with the hashtag ask aei econ. With
Steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests Nick Offerman, Stacey Abrams, and musical guest busta rhymes features anderson. Paak, and the legendary roots crew and now, here he is jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause jimmy yes. Oh thats what im talking about. Hi thank you very much. Hey. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show everybody. We are here. [ cheers and applause studio 6a in new york city it feels good. Thank you so much for watching lets get to the news and jokes. Well, guys, i think its fair to say that right now, america is at a crossroads it doesnt get much bigger than this so we begin tonight with our top story. Get excited because mcdonalds is bringing back the mcrib. Jimmy thats right [ laughter ] americans were like finally, a a glimmer of home in the barren wasteland thats been 2020 [ laughter ] when he heard about it, trump dropped out of