Also, an update on congress a reliefo pass package. Also we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal good morning. As monday, august 10, 2020. Election day and one week until the start of the democratic convention. It is crunch time until joe biden will announce who will join him on the democratic ticket. Will open our phone line to democrats only get your thoughts on who joe biden should pick as his running mate. Democrats in the eastern and central time zones can call in, 2027488000 democrats in the pacific timezone, 2027488001. You can also send us a text. Andse include your name where you are from. Also catch up with us on social media. cspanwj. Democrats only can start calling now. We hear from you about which woman should appear with joe biden on the democratic ticket this fall. Phone lines are on your screen. Cnn editor this from at large his final Vice President rankings, his top five on the most likely picks are. Numbe
The moon right now. We will do that in a moment. But it is allencompassing, this political battle in washington. I am just going to go to the round number. How do you explain to 30 million americans that there is not a check in the mail . Jonathan you cant, and that is the problem. Insurance. Employment payrolls friday, the unpredictable print, and i think the most unpredictable in quite a while. Lisa politically, it makes no sense not to extend the enhanced lemon benefits, and yet they are still negotiating. They have already expire. What i am watching is how big the deficit is going to get area the u. S. Treasury department is going to be laying out there barring plan deficit is going to get. U. S. Treasury department is going to be laying out there borrowing plan. Watchingso going to be President Trump. Sorry, i am going to talk about tiktok. Hes going to give guidance on u. S. Ate of tiktoks operations. It is not enough to offload the u. S. Operations. President trump is also the c
Three months out. If you had to pick a hand to play right now, would you rather be in the position of democrats or republicans . I think i would rather be in the position of democrats. At the moment, i think joe biden is in a better position in the president ial race. Results are not perfectly correlated but they dont have the same bearing on each other that they did a couple generations oago. Every state that had a senate race also voted for the same party for president. That is not carried guaranteed to happen this time but the democrats are probably. Oing to lose alabama they need to win currently republican current republican held seats. The good thing for democrats is in athink they look good least four senate races. Arizona and colorado. And i think they are probably better than 5050 in North Carolina and maine. The tricky thing for democrats is that once you get beyond those states, there are several other targets but none of them are as good as those first four. Thosenate Playi
Fact checks donald trump signs an executive order aiming to remove their Legal Protection over content. Almost ready for kick off the English Premier League plans to resume its season after a 3 month shutdown due to coronavirus. 3 days of protests over the killing of unarmed black man in the us city of minneapolis has exploded into a new night of violence an entire Police Precinct has now been set ablaze a large crowd of people targeted the building in minneapolis in the 3rd straight day of violent demonstrations there demanding justice over the death of black man george floyd who died in the city while in Police Custody on monday video showed him gasping for air while being pinned to the ground by Police Officers need. This was the scene earlier on not far from the Police Station several buildings were on file including a large stall the National Guard is now being called into the city of the matter is declared a local emergency for 72 hours on wednesday night stores were looted and b
Nationalize private health care and big pharma when the lockdown finally ends or will coded to make it easier to democratize parasites of capitalism on wall street as we celebrate post pandemic evidence of a global slowdown thats the perspective of Oxford University is professor Danny Dorling champions deceleration in his brand new multi dimensional analysis of the world we live in all the small going on with todays going undercover 1st with the u. S. And u. K. Among the worst cove in 1000. 00 affected countries in the world the race is on to find a vaccine u. S. President donald trump claims it could be available by the end of the year critics accuse him of the trumpet ministration and u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson the government of being lent to enforce a lockdown but professor carol sykora chief medical officer of private Cancer Therapy provider rather than health thinks they were right to be late to the game he joins me now via skype from london thanks so much for coming on yo