Book about the middle class in the United States. Rudolph discusses foreign interference in campaign 2020 at 9 15 a. M. Host following the Police Killing of a black man, jacob blake, in kenosha, wisconsin, and a week of protest and violence, President Trump went to kenosha yesterday to meet with Law Enforcement and tour the damage. He reiterated his Campaign Theme of law order. Good morning. This is washington journal. We will spend the first hour getting your views on the Campaign Message on law order. Is it working . The lines for those of you supporting former Vice President joe biden is 202 7488000. Supporters of president and mike pence, 202 7488001. Areall others, if you undecided, that line is 202 7488002. 3. Text, 202 748800 on twitter, it is at cspan wj. On facebook, we are facebook. Com cspan. President trump touring that damage as you saw in that video. We will show you his comments during that tour. This is reporting from the kenosha news. Kenosha. Trump in with Law Enforce
Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those programs. First up in 1992 he appeared on cspans book not programmed to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hope to change the view of the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. David mccullough, and your last chapter called citizen Truman Truman had held to the idea of the mythical roman heroes cincinnatus. Whats that
The untold true story of americas middleclass. Guest thank you for having me. Host how do you define the middle class . Guest there are so many ways you can define the middle class and some new ways people have over time. Sete it as an aspirational of Economic Security items that americans want to have to make their lives feel safe and secure , and to pass a better life onto their children. I defined middleclass as someone who is able to buy their own home, their own car, send their kids to school come a safer retirement , save for retirement. Stablel people feel more through tough economic times. If you can build enough wealth up to buy those things, i think in america we would call you middleclass. Are strivingle who for that security are aspirational middleclass. Host how far back in our history does the use of the term middleclass go to refer to economic success . Guest we think of the middle class as quintessentially american, but it is relatively new term in terms of popular news
After a shooting outside. The president returning moments later. Were live with what happened. Class is in, but as some schools reopen today, masks are out. Walking into the school i didnt see a lot of mask wearing. The parents and teachers voicing concern this morning. New hot spots emerging in the u. S. As cases hit 20 million worldwide. And overnight, Vladimir Putin with a bold claim that russia has the vaccine. Sacked . The leaders of College Football holding emergency talks today on whether to cancel the season as star players and coaches say game on. We want to play no matter who it is or where it is, so well see how those chips fall. Just ahead, dan patrick on the sports uncertain future. Those stories, plus in the air. The youtube stars hearing that phil collins classic for the very first time. And it sends the song to the top of the charts four declads later. Oh, lord. Today, tuesday, august 11th, announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live
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