One of the things that is here in American Life and letters is the use of reason. In many ways however incomplete or unfinished it was about putting reason at the center of our national experience. If you think about what is unfolding. Heading into philadelphia in 1776. It had been a story of a reorienting the world from being seen as vertical. With an incident of election were given authority over all of us. You have the european enlightenment. You have the protestant reformations. In entire reorientation of the world not complete at the beginning of that shift. When they sat down in the last of june in 1776 to write the declaration of independence he was seeking to create the fullest lyrical manifestation of that cultural shift. It was incomplete, it is unfinished it was in the history of a fallen people in a sinful world. It was a step forward. Maybe not as far forward as we would like but a step forward nonetheless. I think with the American Experience it hinges on the capacity to
Funding expires. Bills on energy and clean air and forced labor. Announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in statuary hall at u. S. Capitol friday. The ceremony will only be open [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by conroy. Plain, father chaplain conroy let us pray. Ord, merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. E give you thanks for the life and work of justice ruth ginsburg. Americans be inspired to be their best selves because of her example. She rest in peace. Bless those throughout our ation who are suffering from the pandemic, fires, hurricanes, and flooding. Needs continue. Our political leaders to tend to those needs with sp
Streets have filled with demonstrators, and police once again have used less lethal weapons against them. Weve heard a lot about socalled rubber bullets lately, but for all of the wrong reasons. People are going to be injured. It is inevitable. Increasingly, those getting injured arent just violent agitators. I dont see a way to use these weapons in a safe way that protects human life and rights. Ahead on sunday. Our sunday profile this morning, singer and actress Olivia Newtonjohn, who has much to share with our gayle king. And my heart is set on you she lit up the screen in grease, and had hits after hits as a singer. But for Olivia Newtonjohn, this isnt about her trip down memory lane. It is about her battle with cancer. How do you not let this worry you . Denial is usually good, usually healthy. Olivia newtonjohn, later on sunday. We chip reid, well dip beneath the waves to meet the creatures who pretty much define the expression animal attraction. Theyre graceful, smart, and very
James wrote to the believers, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. But perseverance finishes its work so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. It is a great honor to be back at Ebenezer Baptist church in the pulpit of its greatest pastor, doctor Martin Luther king jr. To pay my respects of perhaps his finest disciple. An american, whose faith was tested again and again, to produce a man of pure joy and unbreakable perseverance. John robert lewis and to those who have spoken, president bush and president clinton, madam speaker and the reverend, johns family, friends, his beloved staff and i have come here today to because i like so Many Americans, owe a great debt to john lewis and his forceful vision of freedom. Now, this country is a constant work in progress and we are born with instructions to form a more perfect union, explicit in those words is th
Made history. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening. And thank you for joining us. We want to begin tonight with a huge leap forward in the development of a vaccine against coronavirus. Volunteers all across the country including a member of our own cbs news family began getting shots today as part of the final phase of testing for an experimental vaccine being developed by the nih and the drug company moderna. Tens of thousands of americans are needed for the trial and test sites are spread out across the south and west which tonight florida now has morehvi total infections than new york, which was once the epicenter of the crisis. Among those cases, 14 members of the Miami Marlins who have now tested positive forcing two Major League Baseball games to be postponed and calling into question the season. We also learned today that the virus has once again spread into the west wing. The white house says robert obrien,