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The nomination of the white house budget director. A vote on that is exacted at 5 30 p. M. Eastern today. This week Senate Lawmakers are expected to continue work on the Defense Authorization for 2021. This is live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O lord, as our lips are open in prayer, so may our hearts be open to receive your holy spirit. Help us to bow to your will and live lives devoted to your providential leading. Lord, we thank you for your providence that brought us the gift of representative john lewis. Were grateful he was a drum major for justice, truth, and righteousness. May his exemplary life and legacy remind us of the Transformative Impact one dedicated person can make on our nation and world. Today, please our senators in their work. Let faith, hope, and love abound in their lives. May they seek to heal the hurt in our world
In washington dc. Host i would like to welcome you to politics and prose. And i would like to welcome wil haygood that we see him several times a week. Is a customer in front of the store. In the author of the book that we are celebrating tonight. One of the things that i like about this book, a sign that it is a biography of one of the great men of the last century. His title. King of the cats. Because it so adequate describes Adam Clayton Powell jr. It was smooth and he was cool and goodlooking. He was smart. And he always was a complete package. And he spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this, we have student come in was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell jr. There wasnt one. All of the books about him were outofprint. So is a privilege really to have king of the cats back in front read and also privilege for us to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Walk on. [applause]. Adam welcome. Thank you. It i
Weather as highs rise into the low 70s. James all right john thank you very much we do want to begin this morning with the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic and what were seeing right now you can see the map that we have here illustrates for you. The fact that the u. S. Has now recorded more than 3 million infections and a 132,000 deaths now the map is color coded its the areas in orange that you can see here california included among them that have cases jumping 10 to 50 compared to last week the states in red have new cases, 50 or more compared to the week prior but you can see the vast majority of the country, including california daryn not in good shape california hitting that grim milestone where the highest singleday deaths. From coronavirus kron fours reyna harvey is live in alameda with the details rana. Dorian james yesterday, a very deadly day here in california. We saw a 149 deaths all leita coronavirus now youre nalaniya county. Have the most cases where over 6,000 no
Prizewinning on the 14th and 15th amendments, this Virtual Event is sponsored. Host welcome to a new program. My name is jim and i am president at the institute. Well be presenting important books and in American History. And behind me, our current important books by some of the major people in our country. [inaudible]. Most recently in the education programs. Will present each of these historians and then guide a question answer session tarzana. If you think you might be interested in this, go to our website. Please enjoy. The afternoon. And welcome everyone to this inaugural addition to this no institute of American History program. It brings you some of americans latest historians were the their most recent books. And today were going to be joined by eri eric foner as he discusses his of the second founding. But before i formally introduce him but i want to go over a couple of housekeeping rules. First and foremost today is mothers day rated so want to wish a very happy mothers day