We begin on this sunday with the new numbers on covid19 as the 0 weh toll surpasses 800,00 are dividing. The eastern or pacific 202 7488002, those in the ,ountain region 202 7488001 those in the western regions 202 7488000. Passingh toll is now 800,000. In thethe pandemic began past week nine out of 10 countries with the most deaths per capita have been in south and Central America or the caribbean. In the United States, they have her in your sevenday average of about 1000 per day or two deaths , with more than 175,000 deaths recorded to date. Midwest,ee the south, and out west in california and parts of washington state. The political gridlock over this continues with this from House Speaker nancy pelosi. The house and the senate still not in agreement on the steps moving forward. [video clip] daysmorrow will be 100 since we passed the heroes act. It is even more urgent for us to have the values this is not a discussion about just dollars. It is about values and how we value the healt
All welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me to. Our top story this hour the Prominent Russian opposition activist alexina valley is out of an induced coma but the hospital treating him in berlin says its too soon to say if hes suffered any long term effects meanwhile the Russian Ambassador in london was summoned to the Foreign Office where he said there would be nothing but unfounded accusations against russia piece all of the reports from berlin. Of the statement put out by a shot at a hospital here in berlin says that alexei in the valley has be woken from the induced coma hes been in for just over 2 weeks that hes starting to breathe on his own and hes responding to verbal stimuli the patients artificial coma maintained by medication has been ended the patient is gradually being taken off of mechanical ventilation hes reacting to being spoken to but long term consequences of severe poisoning cannot be ruled out or berlin claims that alexina volunteer was poisoned w
Balance for the former Vice President and the democrats to be ahead in the polls, but not a convention balance. Does that surprise you . Guest not really. I did not think there would be much of a convention balance, and i did nothing there will be much for President Trump, either. Two reasons why. Biden, i think, is maxed out. This is a very polarized era, and you have a candidate ahead by 8, 8. 5, nine points pulling right now suggests that that that particular candidate, that is biden, has maxed out. He is not going to go any higher. We do not have a capacity for a landslide anymore. In a landslide, you have lots of other people from the other side coming over to vote for you. We are to polarize for that. Democrats are not going to vote for trump, and republicans are not going to vote provided, other than an elite handful, which you see a lot. They write letters, and they write petition, and they are wellknown people who appear on sunday shows, but they dont command hundreds of thous
Also, an update on congress a reliefo pass package. Also we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal good morning. As monday, august 10, 2020. Election day and one week until the start of the democratic convention. It is crunch time until joe biden will announce who will join him on the democratic ticket. Will open our phone line to democrats only get your thoughts on who joe biden should pick as his running mate. Democrats in the eastern and central time zones can call in, 2027488000 democrats in the pacific timezone, 2027488001. You can also send us a text. Andse include your name where you are from. Also catch up with us on social media. cspanwj. Democrats only can start calling now. We hear from you about which woman should appear with joe biden on the democratic ticket this fall. Phone lines are on your screen. Cnn editor this from at large his final Vice President rankings, his top five on the most likely picks are. Numbe
Joined once again by Energy Editor of crystal ball at the university of virginia has sundered for politics. Lets start this morning in the battle for control of the senate. Three months out if you had to pick the hand to play right now, would you rather be in the position of democrats or position of rubble goods. Id be rather be with the position of the democrats for joe biden is in a better position than with Senate Results are not correlated but they have more bearing on than they did a generation or two ago. Back in 2016 that was the first election [inaudible] in which every state had a senate race ntalso voted for same party for president. Thats not guaranteed to happen this time but it does show president ial connections to the senate but basically the democrats are probably going to lose alabama where doug jones won that special election in 2017. [inaudible] the good thing for democrats is i do believe it will look good in four senate races, arizona, colorado are outright favored