Another effort to reveal the lost cause of the civil war and the lies that laid the groundwork for the revisionist history found in american textbooks for generations. Pushed by the united daughters of the confederacy. In 1920, the ucd historian general mildred rutherford had a way to test reference books for schools. In it, she warned to reject books that don t acknowledge interference with the south s rights as the cause and ones that label confederate soldiers as traders or call it a rebellion. She rejected books about keeping enslavers as cruel or unjust. There was the denial of the domestic terror organization, the ku klux klan. As the kkk lynched black people throughout the south during reconstruction, politicians denied it existed and argued that whites were the true victims. The same deflection and call them what they are, lies, that republicans have pedalled that you have heard time and time again. It was trump supporters who lost their lives that day. Not trump supporters who
In austin a rally with headliners like beto o rourke. Chewing schumer is ready to show you which of his colleagues will stand up for voting rights. And how will this plan get paid for? the red line. Bernie sanders says he will thought cross a red and at the heart of the issue, one members of congress, an accomplice in the days leading up to that event. What impact could new leadership have. And the coronavirus still impacting daily lives here and at home. Plus what the cruise industry is doing right now to keep the business aflow and vacations a reality. Right now, though, texas is ground zero on the ongoing voting rights balance. A rally is scheduled in austin. Josh letterman is in austin, texas, following this story for us. Thank for joining us i understand you spoke to beto o rourke earlier today. What is he hoping to accomplish? he has been crisscrossing the state of texas, culminating. Reporter: just this year alone, 14 states have already enacted laws that make it tougher for peo
it s ready to hold talks with iran and european powers about reviving a deal to stop tehran building nuclear weapons. and, facebook unfriends australia the social networking giant blocks access to news media on its site in a row over paying for content. we start on another planet mars where the nasa perseverance rover has safely touched down. it s already sending back messages from its new home and will now try to find signs of life on the planet. here s our science correspondent rebecca morelle and, a warning, her report contains some flashing images. perseverance is going about one kilometre per second. a nerve racking wait at mission control. perseverance has landed safely, on the surface of mars! cheering. then celebrations as a signal is received from mars. it s touchdown for nasa s perseverance rover. and these are its first images a view of its landing site before it starts to explore. the rover has even started tweeting, too. what an amazing team. to work thro
and european powers about reviving a deal to stop tehran building nuclear weapons. and facebook unfriends australia: the social networking giant blocks access to news media on its site in a row over paying for content. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start on another planet, mars, where the nasa perseverance rover has safely touched down. it s already sending back messages from its new home and will now try to find signs of life on the planet. here s our science correspondent rebecca morelle, and a warning her report contains some flashing images. mission control: perseverance is going about 1km per second. i a nerve racking wait at mission control. perseverance has landed safely on the surface of ..then celebrations as a signal is received from mars. it s touchdown for nasa s perseverance rover. and these are its first images a view of its landing site before it starts to explore. the rover has even started tweeting, too. what an amazing
time and put a pause on answering lawmakers to fill the report question the doj. anything you personally apologize for? we did not do a good enough job dispensing information and i take total responsibility for that. the void we created further the confusion. todd: late last month the state department of health reported there were nearly 9000 covid-19 nursing home deaths in new york, the attorney general s report finds the deaths were nearly double that, close to 15,000, cuomo blaming nursing home staff are bringing covid-19 into the facility. staff walking into the nursing home were asymptomatic because the national experts told us you could only spread covid-19 if you had symptoms. that is covid-19 got into the nursing homes. of you to his comments disturbing a lot of people. interesting has been outspoken about the controversy. he lost both her in-laws to covid-19 while in a new york nursing home. your reaction to the press conference. i m astonished, passing blame