Welcome to the battles of memorial here at historic pearl harbor. It is 9 02 am, the moment 75 years ago when the ceremony began on the ship. My name is michael carr, im the president and chief executive officer of the uss missouri memorial organization. It is an honor to serve in that capacity and to be your mc for todays ceremony as we commemorate a huge milestone, the 75th anniversary of one of the most significant events in history the ending of world war ii. First and foremost, i have the honor of welcoming our special guests, world war ii veterans who are with us here today. I will name them individually and ask that you stand if you are able as your name its called and remain standing. Please hold your applause until the end so that we honor them collectively for their service, their courage, and for their sacrifice. Victor area, omsk are, its all called iran, walter chi, jack detour, paul newman, when bill newman, theodore richardson, author shaq, lumbered wise, and joseph youn
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 71, the nays are 21. The nomination is confirmed. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell on monday, republicans introduced a 1 trillion proposal to give American Families more Coronavirus Relief. Most urgently, the republicans want to continue a federal supplement to state Unemployment Insurance which is set to expire, as we all know, tomorrow. If our democratic dleetions had acted colleagues had acted with the urgency struggling people deserve we could right now be finishing up a major bipartisan package for kids, jobs, and health care. If our democratic colleagues had acted with urgency, unemployed
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on the green agenda. can the congress rein in energy costs. in a moment, we will speak about all of this. sandra: big show coming up. first, america reports with the safety of the supreme court in focus at this hour following a threat on the life of justice brett kavanaugh. hello, welcome everyone. sandra smith on this thursday afternoon in new york. hi, john. john: good to see you, glad you got the pink memo today. john roberts in washington. activists assembling outside of kavanaugh s home to protest demonstrations that are prohibited under federal law. the protest and in your face exercise just hours after police arrested a man accused of planning to assassinate the justice. police have charged nicholas roske with attempted murder. he could be indicted as early as today according to a criminal complaint. roske was planning to kidnap and kill kavanaugh when he was arrested early wednesday morning. sandra: republicans point the fingers at democrats rhetoric on abort
set to make an announcement at the white house. we re waiting for him to walk out and make a statement and talk about a new vaccine push. we re going to watch to see if he response to any questions from the room. he s answered very few and has not had a single formal press back and forth since he became. . this president is in a tough spot when it comes to the border policy. he had a few questions that were shouted at him yesterday. he remains silent. there s an intersection here over the question of what is going on with the massive border crossings and the lack of testing for covid that is happening. where they are testing, the people coming in, there s a 6% positivity rate in that area. that was shut down any school across the country. sheriff mark daniels from arizona covers 83 miles of the border says zero cdc guy lines are being followed where he is. and chad wolf is here. he says the administration is actively importing coronavirus cases into the country. we ll speak t