We also want to thank all of you for your support and for our community of booklovers and friends we wouldnt be here today. Tonight we are excited to have with us tara burton who is celebrating the recent release of her new book strange rights, new religions for a godless world. Is contributing editor at the american interest, at columnist at Religion News service and the former staff and religion reporter. She has written on religion and Secular National geographics, Washington Post , New York Times and more and holds a doctorate in theology from oxford. Shes also author of the novel social creature. Joining tara to discuss her new book is ross douthat, columnist for the New York Times oped page and offer up to change the church, bad religion and privileged and coauthor of brandnew party. Before joining New York Times was a Senior Editor for the atlantic. These film critic for National Review and he cohosts the New York Times weekly oped paul podcast. He lives in new haven with his wi
Playbook. The Campaign Senior digital advisor also discusses the decision to film and share the moment where mr. Biden called senator harris to be his running mate. From earlier today, this is about 40 minutes. Morning and welcome. Im anna palmer, coauthor of the politico playbook. Thank you for tuning in to politicos virtual programming during the reimagined political conventions as we come down to election day. This week has been all about the Democratic National convention and joe bidens campaign for president. You can follow the conversation all week on social media. In a moment, we will be talking to the Senior Advisor for the Biden Campaign, but todays playbook will include a new segment on swing state maps. Todays edition is about wisconsin and why it is one of the states that is likely to shape the electoral outcomes in just 75 days. All right, without further ado, lets get started. Welcome, simone sanders. Thank you. Great to be here. Great to see you all. You are coming off a
I think we need to start listening to each other and talking to each other more and we will go live now to a discussion with steve scalise, political reporter robert costa will ask about Convention Coverage and president ial politics. Robert good afternoon. I am a national reppo knuckle a National Political reporter. Afternoon iss representative steve scalise, House Minority whip, part of the Republican Leadership, republican from louisiana. Good to be with you. Rep. Scalise good to be with you. Is a lot going on in your state, some tough news with hurricane laura. What is the latest in your district and how is Congress Going to respond . Rep. Scalise we saw two storms last week, what ended up being Tropical Storm arco which was projected to hit the west end of my district, then you had hurricane laura, which was projected to hit the east side of my district. Storms change over the days and laurafizzled out but now is a category three, potentially category for when it hits ground. It i
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Interesting enough. We have the gdp numbers, the contraction in that economy, which is awful, obviously, but relatively good to compared to some other parts. Getting the test and trace progress going very efficiently. Fester e talk of an of Investor Outlook for another year. Tom the dialogue on furlough and income substitution over there versus what we see in america. With a briefing, our first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and speakers at the Republican National convention put a positive spin on trumps handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The president thanked frontline responders and said the virus is going to be fading. Others warned what would happen if joe biden was elected. There is more work to do, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Jobs gains are outpacing what the socalled experts expected. But biden set by radical leftwing policies would stop our economic recovery cold. Hes already talking about shutting the country down again. Its madness.