So today well talk about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works and why most scholars kind of hate the Electoral College and its among the Political Science set which homely youve had so far and you get a fullthroated argument against the Electoral College and it is a useful, instructive book because lays out all of the common arguments for it, as well which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we like the president and few americans fully understand the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency you should walk away understanding how this process we use to select our chief executive officer work, but also because it is really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just how we started our discussion by president ial nominations by discussing the history of the nominations pr
Reporter dan, were on the edge of palo alto as we speak right now. You go see behind us, the flames inching up to about 200 to 300 people in this community. We spoke to several residents of la honda who are now packing and gearing up to evacuate. You cahahi sn s expanding through the ridge. You can see the flames raging in that community with about 60 homes. Lets look at sky 7. You can see the flames aggressively expanding. They are impacting two major communities. Loma mar and dearborn park. It is presumed this fire was caused by lightning sunday morning. Cal fire responded to about 22 lightning fires in this region. Le residents have been documenting the size of the blaze since sunday. Now there is nothing else to wait for. Theyre evacuating. Heres one of the residents. We are evacuating now. We had no instruction by the San Mateo County sheriffs thpartment to do so. E rangers, we have had no one come into our communiy to tell us what to do. So myself and my brotherinlaw rick took it
And the fact officials have been charged with blake with no crimes yet, one of Many Development of the story today. A peaceful night of demonstrations on the streets of kenosha, wisconsin following three nights of unrest under the shooting of jacob like. Identified as the officer who shot the 29yearold father of six seven times in the back too Jesse Jackson says from kenosha thursday there is a reason for the deep anger. On the roof killing in south carolina, police took him to get a hamburger before taking him to jail. The chief announced the arrest of Kyle Rittenhouse now charged with two counts of homicide for the shooting deaths of two protesters. Talking about the arrest, the Kenosha Police chief landed in hot water with comments the American Civil Liberties union says blames the victims of the shooting. This is not a Police Action or the action of those protesting. Its the persons involved, involved in illegal activity in the community. The aclu calling for the resignation of the
The freeman foundation. Um judy and peter ovler foundation; pursuing solutions forne americas neglectes. And by contributions to this station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ros hello. I am ross atkins. Welcome to outside source. The coronavirus death has passed half a million we all want to get on with our lives, but the hd realit is this is not even close to ros report from texas, california, and florida, all seeing a surge inew cases. And in the u. , the Supreme Court has dismissed a law which restricted abortn in louisiana. We will play you a report on how the Islamic State group is seeking to tak advantage of the pandemic. I want to begin with two stark statistics. The global death to from covid19 is now past half a million. Erthe nuf infections is past 10 million. And i am afraid we areold this only the start. Here is more from the world health organization. Ar thereality is this is not even close to being over. Although many countries he made some progress globally, t e pandem
Objection. Ms. Collins madam president , as the snoor senior as the senior republican woman in the senate today, i am pleased to begin a series of speeches, along with my good friend from california, the senior democratic woman senator, senator Dianne Feinstein to commemorate a significant milestone in our nations history, 100 years ago today the Senate Finally passed the 19th amendment which affirmed the right of women to vote in elections. Madam president , all of us recall that in 1775, as the Second Continental Congress was forging a new nation conceived in liberty, be a gale add Abigail Adams admonished her husband john to, quote, remember the ladies, end quote. Despite Abigail Adams advice, it took a century and a half for women to adhief their right achieve their rightful place as full u. S. Citizens. On june 4, 1919, the United States Senate Passed the 19th amendment to our constitution. The courage and determination exhibited by generations of women and men were rewarded in ju