Benefits for legal immigrants. That, immigration policy and how the everify everify system is being used in the u. S. Host good morning. It is thursday, august 15, 2019. We begin the washington journal focusing on the issues facing Rural Americans after spending Yesterdays Program talking to City Residents, it is Rural Americas turn. Give us a call and let us know what your top issue is and how it is being handled by state and local leaders where you are. Eastern and central time zones call in at 2027488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, call in at 2027488001. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good thursday morning to you. Rural residents only, you can start calling in now to give you a sense of the universe of callers, it is about 60 Million People, that is how Many Americans live in Rural Communities. Here is the latest information about them. 64 of that population lives east of the mississippi river. 10 of the total population in the west liv
Next, on american artifacts, we visit a exhibit on world war ii, soviet soldiers. My name is craig hall, basically i consider myself a amateur military historian i do various impressions. This impression here today, is to represent the contribution of the soviet union, as an ally of the americans and british. To helping them win world war ii. We have to give you the people credit to our allies. Some would say, we couldnt have done it by ourselves the point is, people ask me why do i do this impression, i think because the reason is we need to tell the story about the eastern. The Eastern Front if you do not understand what happened there you dont understand world war ii. The soviets made a significant contribution in that war. For example, what i normally do is on my display on the table over here, i have a National Geographic magazine, dated may 1944. The first article and it has to do with the liberation of the ukraine. The point being, the significance of that is of course one month