newshour has been provided by: grandparents. we want to put money aside for them, so, change in plans. all right, let s see what we can adjust. we d be closer to the twins. change in plans. okay. mom, are you painting again? you could sell these. let me guess, change in plans? at fidelity, changing plans is always part of the plan. the william and flora hewlett foundation. for more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world. at www.hewlett.org. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and individuals. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: president biden has had a full day, lifting a ban aimed at transgender troops; imposing a ban aimed at covid- 19, and expanding a mandate to buy goods made by americans. white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports on the day s events.
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announcer: now, the director of the group right on time discuss the decline on the use of the death penalty and the potential for the supreme court to in the practice. this is from the aspen ideas festival in colorado. it is about an hour. thank you for being here. one of the greatest decisions a society makes outside of going to war is to whom apply the death penalty to. we are here to talk about the death penalty, where it is going. i can t imagine a better group of panelists. steve is the president for the center for human rights. in my mind, the leading death penalty litigant in the country and has been for a number of years. traveling throughout the country to bring these cases to fight. he had a big win in the supreme court a few weeks ago. he has been teaching at yell law school since 1993. mark does really interesting work and is making the case for a conservative case for limits on things like mandatory minimums or the over criminalization not on a defendant pe
hospitalizations which almost always sadly then sends the death count up still more. the president cheering this morning what might be a glimmer of hope in this dark coronavirus summer. moderna s vaccine candidate produced immune responses in all who volunteered to take it according to those published in the new england journal of medicine, a fully vetted and readily available vaccine is still a good ways off. the coronavirus task force meets today in private and with the soaring summer case count come new warnings about whether it s safe to reopen schools and new debates about the only way to stop the spread now is to roll back some of the economic reopening. the moment is urgent. the issue is quite complicated and very consequential and from the president another simplistic and not to mention, a ridiculous attempt to explain it all away. frankly, if we didn t test you wouldn t have all of the headlines. think of this, if we didn t do testing instead of testing over 40 mil
along with joe, willie and me, we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan la mere. co-founder and ceo of axios jim vandehei and conservative lawyer, co-founder of the lincoln project and contributing columnist to the washington post, george conway joins us this morning. well, a lot to get to, joe. i think the first we should start with is that donald trump is expected to become the first u.s. president to be impeached twice after vice president mike pence informed at this point the house speaker nancy pelosi that he would not go forward with the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. in a letter to speaker pelosi just hours before the house passed a resolution urging pence to invoke the 25th, the vice president wrote that such action is not in the best interest of our nation and would set a, quote, terrible precedent. i question his oath of office at this point, but that is what he did. the house convenes at 9:00 a.m. debate on the impeachment reso