Pbs newshour weekend is made possible by Corporate Funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by i . Ori÷ and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. Tuesday is the deadline for a nuclear deal between iran and the worlds major powers. And in switzerland, negotiations are intensifying to try to wrap up an agreement. The European Unions Foreign Policy chief expressed optimism about the talks we have never been so close to a deal, still we have some critical points that need to be solved. Sreenivasan in israel today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed his criticism of the apparent deal being fashioned by representatives from iran and the United Stat
Little hinky as we try out some new stuff, a, forgive me and please be patient, we will work it out. We are in this for the long haul and so we have to try to innovate. You are in this for the long haul as well. We all are. So lets jump right in. In italy they have crossed a new threshold today. The number of people who died in italy from the coronavirus over the last 24 hours hit an alltime high. 475 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. Thats the highest oneday death toll in any country, including china, since the start of the pandemic. 475 deaths in one day. Italy has reported more than 300 deaths per day in each of the last four days. That itself is a terrible new standard. China, when they were in the worst of it, they only once reported more than 200 deaths in a day. Again, italy is at more than 300 deaths a day for four Straight Days and today 475. The situation in italy remains the worst in the northern part of that country, particularly in the wealthy region of lombardy, which
Confirmation would not just shift the court to the right. It would also make chief Justice Roberts the swing vote, and hes a lot more conservative than justice kennedy. Let me bring in jeff bennett at the white house for us. Jeff, what do we know about how the sides are preparing . A white house official told us Brett Kavanaugh has done at least a half dozen prep sessions including mock sessions with interruptions. Kavanaughs been preparing for this since prep school. He was born in washington. He spent the vast majority of his career here working in the Bush Administration and now as an Appeals Court judge. The gop, the rnc in coordination with the white house, capitol hill, outside gop groups spending millions. Going all in on kavanaugh. As for democrats weve been getting a preview of issues they hope to use to derail his confirmation. Abortion rights, president ial power, Hillary Clinton is adding her voice in a tweet she sent out today. She says this. Happy labor day. Theres no bet
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