Reaching out to the 70 million americans who voted for President Trump. Lets give each other a chance. We have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are americans. This morning as the president elect looks ahead to 2021, President Trump is still claiming falsely that he won the election. His legal team says it is ready to fight the results even as pressure builds on the president to concede. We will have lie reporve report will talk to chuck todd just ahead. Then, our sunday focus on the historic Vice President election Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants who helped propel her ticket to the white house. Plus in our sunday spotlight, a great conversation between harry smith and historian john meacham about where the country is and where it is headed after this election. At least four years under President Trump. Later we will continue to a new sunday sitdown with one of the most talented artists in all of music. Grammy winner Chris Stapleton
Pbs newshour special. Woodruff good evening and welcome to this pbs newshour special, on the night joe biden has been declared the next president of the United States. Im judy woodruff. In just a moment, president elect biden and Vice President elt Kamala Harris will appear before cameras in their first remarks since the winn was called. Its been four days since the nation gathered at tv sets and smart phones to watch election returns, only to discover the vote count would take longer. Weve been waiting patiently nce then, and late this morning, the Associated Press called the state of pennsylvania for biden, putting biden above to become president. Tes needed his running mate Kamala Harris is breaking three glass ceilings at once becoming the firstwo n, the first black american, and the first Asian American to serve as Vice President. We expect both of them to speak shortly in wiln and to see some of the celebration to follow. Well talk with analysts and with our correspondents, inclu
Makes this collaboration so important to me. My book is a snapshot of a. Ingular moment in history almost exactly 100 years ago. As the world finally began exiting from the devastation of the First World War and was able to begin the dreaming and planning for the peace and the new world that would come afterwards. Mythis moment, i show in book that women from farreaching and incredibly diverse parts of the world began stepping onto the global stage and asserting inserting an agenda of womens rights and gender equality that at the core demanded the rights for women to help shape this new world order and transform it into something that was fundamentally different that then what had given way to world war i. Ibook is a story of women from north america, europe, asia, and the middle east. It is a story of white, wealthy women and also sometimes desperately poor, workingclass women. It is a story of women that were married to tremendously supportive husbands and also women that engaged in
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