Good evening and welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, a nation divided, struggling to stand. Today marks one month since an angry insurrectionist mob stormed the u. S. Capitol. The broken glass and busted doors is been repaired. The political fractures remain. A few republicans voted to revogs the Committee Assignments of georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, a freshman lawmaker who has traffics in the same Conspiracy Theories and racist tropes that drove the january 6th rioters. Greene has shown support for executing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and has behaved so towards her coworkers that one asked to have her office moved away from greene. When given the chance to deal with greene privately ended up giving her a standing ovation. Neck Week Senate Republicans will get their own chance to show they learned something from the events of january 6th when they begin the second Impeachment Trial for former president donald trump. Ill keep my expectations low. President joe biden to h
Quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer well, mr. President , for more than a year and a half, leader mcconnell and Senate Republicans have refused to take action on the housepassed for the people act. At a time when our democracy is under siege in so many ways, the for the people act is a bold proposal that will restore Peoples Trust in our democratic system, a trust that is fading. It is under it is for the people. In order to make a more perfect union. It would shore up our elections from threats from abroad. Thats something we have just recently read more and more about. Why arent we doing more on that . In fact, when senator van hollen a few days ago put on the floor the an act u. C. Of an act that would say russia should have sanctions imposed on it if they interfere with our elections, the other side blocked it. I hope theyre not following Donald Trumps obeisance to russia and his view that putins just okay. It would also dismantle systemat
Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholar, currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books, professor witmer is now on my faculty abwe will be discussing his latest book lincoln on the verge thirteen days to washington. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, not so many, its a substantial book, focuses on 13
Trump and our wonderful first lady melania they are both positive and they are now in quarantine. And weve also heard from the physician to the president this morning he sent out this statement which reads in part that they are both doing well at this time and that they plan to remain at home within the white house during their convalescent so that the latest now from the president s physician now the president and the first ladys positive test results came hours after the white house announced the senior aide hope hicks had come down with the virus and in this video you see the president boarding marine one. The helicopter there on wednesday he was headed to a rally. In minnesota. And then shortly after youll see in a moment, we have hope hicks walking across the grass to join the president on board that helicopter surrounded by other close aides to the president now says that was winds that was wednesday was wednesday, she gets on the chopper inside at the moment that right feeling f
For the Government Accountability office. Guest thank you for having me. Host tell us why the gao did this report. Guest the cares act passed in verch required us to ha oversight of the funding and activities of the federal government, specifically it requires us to provide oversight of the governments efforts to respond to and recover from covid19. And it includes us assessing the impact of covid19 on Public Health, as well as at the economy, as well as track the funding and use of the funding. The act requires us to report everything, starting 90 days after an accident, so the june report was our first report, and we will be issuing additional reports every other month. Host as soon as the legislation assigned, enacted and signed, the gao is monitoring . Guest absolutely, we are providing realtime oversight. We have experience doing this. Going back over a decade ago, for example, under the Lease Program that provided assistance to the Financial Sectors after the global crisis, we we