Focusing on rushing through a nominee to the United States Supreme Court rather than doing everything we can to work across the aisle to craft a solution. To the problems, the crises facing our nation. Tens of millions of americans, unemployed. Hundreds of thousands of businesses permanentlylo closed. Schools all over the country either not yet open or just barely opened, and thousands upon thousands of americans died alone in pain, and comforted by family, uncertain of how they came to be in this place and cared for by their country. Eight. 5million infected 220,000 or more dead. We are in the middle of a tragic pandemic and a recession made worse by our presence bungled mishandling of the pandemic, and instead of coming together to provide the reliefteng that all states d all people are calling for, we are doing this. We are doing this. Instead, my republican colleagues are walking over dangerous precipice doing something according to graham was unthinkable just two years ago , in th
Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and Historic Places and up next we travel to philadelphias Independence National historic park to learn about Congress Hall. The Meeting Place in the u. S. House and senate between 1790 and 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Michael ifill. For we are standing in the house of representatives Call Congress how and was originally most of the history that is when it was but in the years that the city of washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives. The second floor of the building that we will see in a moment if the United States senate. The house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population in our first sense of about three and three quarters million. We had 106 members of the house would sit in this room and then eventually from 16 states. And the story of philadelphia
Detention in the hague where hes been charged with war crimes. And tanzanias president is sworn in for a 2nd term after an election the opposition has dismissed as a sham. And in school rafael nadal has stayed on course to win the paris monsters for the 1st time a day after securing his 1000 career victory that doll is through to the last 8 in france. Would begin in the United States where americans are going through yet another day of uncertainty over who will be the next president counting continues in just a handful of states which hold the key to the white house for either joe biden or donald trump biden appears to have won the popular vote but its all down to the Electoral College the state by state Voting System that determines who wins the white House Democratic candidate joe biden has flipped michigan and wisconsin States Donald trump narey 14 years ago and based on Associated Press results biden has a projected total of 264 Electoral College votes trump is currently projected
Electoral votes donald trump has 213 remember 270 is the magical number the number needed for victory we are expecting donald trump to be speaking from the white house shortly but we can in the meantime while we wait for him speak to a correspondents can we might kind of who i mean whether or not mike hanna is in wilmington delaware where joe biden spoke we will go live to him shortly but 1st to kimberly in washington d. C. Near the white house really well extraordinary how tight this is become the blue wave has never happened we heard from joe biden earlier donald trump the president he responded via tweet but now were going to hear from him live. Thats right weve been anticipating this for several hours we know that the president has a lot on his mind he seems to to kill or allay the happy by the fact that he believes that this is very close to that he may have even have won this but instead it is being called too close to call in so many different states so we are watching very care
I. Welcome to the program tensions are rising in tanzania ahead of wednesdays parliamentary and president ial elections in Major Opposition Party is accusing police of shooting dead at least 9 people in the island region of a head of the poll the u. N. Has called on all political leaders to refrain from violence president is seeking the 2nd 5 year term is spotty a child my child or c. C. M. Has held power for decades his time in office has seen rapid Economic Growth but also down on the opposition and on political dissent. Rallying his supporters before the election incumbent john magaw is running on a condom. That until recently was growing fast but i ask you my fellow tanzania to vote for me on the 28th i want to bring new changes to tanzania you were all witnesses that in my 1st term in power i have brought a lot of changes to this country. Yeah. But economic record has taken a hit from the corona virus pandemic critics say the government has covered up tanzanias outbreak maghrib fu