Agreed on a frame work, and were going to be heading to the white house tomorrow. The white house confirmed tomorrows meeting taking place just before senators leave town for their twoweek recess. Theres more on this glimmer of partisan process just ahead. Biden also putting his weight behind fighting a surge in violent crimes. Homicides up 24 . Gun assaults, 22 . Over the same period last year. Late today the president and Attorney General outline a new anticrime strategy focused on getting more money to Police Departments and violence intervention programs while cracking down on socalled rogue gun dealers. Zero tolerance for gun dealers who willfully violate existing laws. If you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with the request or inspections, well find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns. Well make sure you cant sell death and mayhem on our streets. Biden also noted crime traditionally rises
Today President Trumps request was answered by none other than senator ted cruz. Cruz announcing that if the u. S. Supreme Court Decides to take up the pennsylvania mailin ballot case, he stands ready to make the oral arguments on behalf of the petitioners, congressman mike kelly and republican congressional candidate sean parnell. And by extension, the president himself. Senator cruz is considered to be not only one of the smartest people to ever graduate from harvard law school, but also a brilliant debater and litigator. His offer to champion the president s fight for a free and Fair Election in court couldnt come at a more propitious moment. It comes as several key deadlines are rapidly approaching in the certification of the president ial race. Every state the is expected to certify the Election Results by tomorrow, and next monday the Electoral College is scheduled to meet to cast their votes for either President Trump or joe biden. President trump says he expects big things to c
Wells. 2 00 p. M. Eastern, virginia democratic senator, mark warner, and democratic representative Lauren Underwood. And republican congressman will hurd of texas will talk about the progress that capitol hill has made investigating Cyber Security threats. Watch live coverage on cspan3. Jamie raskin is with us, the congressman sitting on the committee. Congressman, welcome to journal this morning. Good morning. We started the program asking viewers about the president s remarks last night on facebook. I dont know if youve had a chance to see any of that. Any reaction to that . Youre talking about the 45minute diatribe rant about the election . Yes. Well, look, the president has painted himself into a corner here. Theres been a complete divorce from reality. Every election official involved in administration of this election, infer counting the ballots, has rejected the president s outlandish claims about there being some kind of systemic or massive fraud. Even attorney general barr yes
At the Community College in new york. Derek has recently earned fame for his brand new book as part of the emerging civil war series. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome derek maxfield. Thank you very much. Im very pleased to be here and talk about my latest project. You know, elmira is, and prisoner war camps in general, have been a surprise me. Ive studied the civil war since, umm, since i was quite young, and, umm, you know, knew the lengths of the tragedy during the civil war, umm, but it was eyeopening to me the extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. Umm, over 56,000, umm, died, umm, in prisoner of war camps over that time. Just over 500,000 incarcerated in total. And all though we understand, you know, the that this is just a small number of casualties considered the total number of casualties during the civil war, over 750,000 now, we believe, umm when you consider we could have done better both north and south. You consider
Conditions at the prison and some of the officers in charge. This talk was part of a symposium on the war in the east hosted by the civil war blog. Hello, and welcome to the emerging civil war virtual symposium. Im editor in chief of emerging civil war. Delighted to have you with us. Our first speaker today is derek maxfield. Fr it earned fame at the courthouse. Derek has recently earned fame for his brandnew book as part of the emerging civil war series. Its called hellmira, prisoner of war camp. Please welcome derek maxfield. Thank you very much. Im very pleased to be here to talk about my latest project. You know, prisoner of war camps have been a surprise to me. Ive studied the civil war since i was quite young and, you know, knew the lengths of the tragedy during the civil war. But it was eyeopening to me the extent of the humanitarian crisis that unfolded over the course of those four bloody years. Over 56,000 died in prisoner of war camps over that time. Just over 500,000 incarc