Welcome to the 2019 mississippi book festival. This morning we celebrate the fifth anniversary of her literary long party. [applause] we are honored to have so many distinguished authors and friends join our celebration from the Mississippi State capital. Today more than 170 authors will visit with thousands of booklovers making connections through the love of books and the written word. Cspan has been with us since the very beginning and we are grateful for the partnership we start today by recognizing the readers to mississippi culturally a landscape. The writers trail is an ever list the places all over the state that mark significant places in the lives of mississippi authors. Ida b wells and richard ford are the very best writers. Two is famous for Investigative Journalism. And ford is famous for his novels. The hardhitting pieces about lynching of the 20th century achieve such notoriety that was known by some as the most famous black woman in america. Her marker will be placed in
a preference for a supreme court justices being nominated by a republican, or by a democrat. and if you are prepared to live with supreme court justices from either party, then you are a very unusual voter. so this is the product of all of those votes, all of those people who went out and voted for joe biden, that is how this has happened tomorrow. a little piece of good news, i m looking forward to your show tonight, lawrence. thank, you ali, thank you. tonight, we have a new reason i knew apparent reason why the january 6th committee rushed into that special session yesterday, to hear the public testimony of cassidy hutchinson. they want the white house counsel. they want him. and that s why they had to have that hearing yesterday. because cassidy hutchinson s testimony fully justified the subpoena to trump white house counsel pat cipollone that the committee issued today. the last time a president was destroyed by a congressional investigation, the white house coun
testimony fully justified the subpoena to trump white house counsel pat cipollone that the committee issued today. the last time a president was destroyed by a congressional investigation, the white house counsel was a key witness. richard nixon s white house counsel, john dean, helped bring down the nixon presidency, with his testimony in the watergate hearings. and now it looks like pat cipollone could be the witness who locks in donald trump s guilt for the january 6th committee. when presidents break the law, the white house counsel knows. the white house counsel s job is to prevent presidents from breaking the law, among other things. that is to say, prevent them from breaking the law intentionally or, as can happen, unintentionally. when someone in the white house has a bright idea, like banning all muslims from entering the country, it is the white house counsel s job to say, we can t do that, that s unconstitutional. the white house counsel is not the president s pers
Of warm weather on the way for your friday. We transition to partly cloudy skies this afternoon but i think we are great for football tonight and the indians game and cedar point if that is on your agenda. Last ride of the mean streak and were in walk the red mode for the indians. If youre debating on what to wear where the red. Warm mi clear waking up to beautiful cool weather. Lots of sunshine after 7 am when it rises but you dont have to go far to find the showers and storms that will impact our weekend. Cold front to the west and the showers and storms along it and this is all tracking east towards us. It will have a good impact on our saturday. Today we keep it call and clear as can be. Start to see more cloud cover. We keep the showers out for this evening and then it will be after midnight we start to see the threat for some rain. As far as the risk tomorrow it is through the entire day. 1 30 we have scattered showers showing up. We have brakes but later on into saturday kansas
More record case numbers, all reported over the weekend. Hospitalizations also surging today. And hours long lines for tests and in some areas not nearly enough. The nation now topping 2. 5 million cases with more than 125,000 deaths. While the global death toll has reached more than 500,000, the u. S. Health secretary warning that the window is closing to get the crisis in this country under control. Now some officials rolling back more reopenings as concerns about july 4th celebrations build up, florida closing some beaches for the holiday weekend. Bars and nightclubs also in focus. Californias governor now closing them in seven counties in that state. And this hour, we are putting a spotlight on the worsening crisis in arizona. Thats where we find msnbcs Vaughn Hillyard to kick things off for us, at a drive through testing site in phoenix, arizona, one of the many areas where the demand for tests is currently outpacing availability. Vaughn, what is the situation right there . Report