To the smuggler has enough of them for one transport and then the dangerous and sometimes deadly journey begins well go to niger where despite tightened borders migrants continue to brisk their lives in the desert plus the earth rebuild. One last. Time to say good bye to the star wars of rise of skywalker trilogy as the final movie in the series makes its world premiere. Im carl kasell and welcome to the Program Later today u. S. Lawmakers will take an historic vote on whether to impeach President Donald Trump the democratic controlled house of representatives is expected to back the move which would make him just the. 3rd president in American History to be impeached within trick or a trial in the senate on whether or not to remove trump from office our washington correspondent alexander phenomena has been following that saga from the start and in this report she traces the path to impeachment it all started with a phone call a phone call in which President Trump asked president zelin
When you bring something in to a president and i see many, many things. Im sure i dont see things that they dont think rose to the occasion. This didnt rise to the occasion. From what i hear, and i hear it pretty good, the intelligence people didnt even many of them didnt believe it happened at all. I think its a hoax. I think its a hoax by the newspapers and the democrats. Julie but House Speaker House Speaker nancy pelosi accusing the president of failing to act. That they would be this idea that they would be a bounty on our troops, paid by the russians to the taliban, is something that was so necessary to be pursued. Why would they have not told the president . Because he doesnt lead to get bad news on russia. And why havent they taken action these months later . Julie chad pergrams lab on capitol hill with holiness. Hi, chad. Good afternoon, julie. This is the Biggest Issue done my briefing on this issue on whether there was a price tag put on the heads of american troops serving
Rocks at Police Officers there. Meanwhile, a chaotic scene in austin, texas. An armed man shot and killed after approaching a car that drove into a crowd of demonstrators. And more violence in chicago where at least 51 people were shot just over the weekend. Lets bring in byron york. Teresa . Trace s chief Political Correspondent for the washington examiner. Always good to see you, thanks for joining us this morning. You saw the pictures and images, wwe had violence over the weeked in at least a dozen cities. They say byron that there a lot of them are really in solidarity with the protesters in portland, but then you have Congress Members like Louie Gohmert saying, the real goal he believes in this situation is for these protests keep on going and eventually tried to push the president out of office. What are your thoughts on that . While the situation certainly escalated over the weekend and you had seen before that a number of democrats, commentators in the press, say that these wer
While two senators threatened to filibuster that if there is no vote on the covid relief payouts, senator Bernie Sanders on the floor just last hour. Watch. Working families need help now. Not next year, but right now. The house did the right thing. I congratulate them. Now it is time for the senate to step up to the plate and do what the working families of this country overwhelmingly want us to do. Julie some republicans worry about the cost of boosting those checks, but others like Georges David perdue are backing the president. It helps get our lives back to normal. With the president tries to do is make sure we get this done. He doesnt trust there might be another step in another couple months. He wants to get this done now. Julie rich edsons lives in west palm beach, florida, with the latest on this one. Hey, rich. Good afternoon, julie. From here in florida and the president is pressuring Congressional Republicans more than triple those covid payment checks, 2,000, and also to m
They come as the White House Coronavirus task force holds a public briefing next hour for the first time in two months, and it comes at a new pandemic eyesies point, the crisis the white house has been ignoring at the president s demand but can ignore no more. 37,000 new coronavirus case infections in the United States on thursday. Thats yesterday. A new single day high. Texas, alabama, missouri, nevada, all reporting record single day case totals. Texas reopened early and is now one of eight states to press pause on unwinding coronavirus restrictions. The governor there today says bars have to close their doors again to patrons, takeout and delivery cant stay open. Restaurants can stay open, too, but they cannot go above 50 capacity. Listen to the mayor of the States Capital city. He says a pause is just not good enough. Pausing things and the trajectory were on right now has hospitals overwhelmed by midjuly. The status quo and the path were on right now that has us in danger. The nat