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Joining us today from around the country and around the world. For those of you that dont know me i am jen johnson, currently chief of staff at Chicago Teachers Union and also a history teacher, missing my classroom but grateful for the work im doing today and ill be moderating our conversation but before i introduce the amazing eve ewing we have to thank the organizers of this event, haymarket books. Theyre amazing, theyve been doing so many fantastic events and something really exciting going ...

[applause] pres. Trump thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. You definitely have plenty of distancing. I have never seen distancing like this. That is really very impressive. Wecome to the rose garden as take powerful action to Lower Health Care costs for americas seniors. Today i am proud to announce we have reached a breakthrough agreement to dramatically slash the out of pocket cost of insulin. You knowt have what has happened insulin over the years. Through the roof. So many people, so ...

[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone, welcome to Carnegie Endowment for international peace. I think ive known just about everyone in the room one way or another and ill keep the introductions short. I handle the program here and its my opportunity on behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that includes some of the people i admire the most in the field of contemporary china studies. We at carnegie and i think throughout the chinawatching community have had tremendous admir...

Nutrients and this is example is cholesterol. When i graduated law school in early 70s and early 80s, cholesterol was a demon we were told you have eat foods low in colest cholesterol and egg took a big hit and egg are a cheap source of income in protein for lowincome people. And now in the new dietary guidelines for american that is will go 2015 to 2020 cholesterol is not a concern. This is covered in the news media. And it took about 2030 years but the Nutrition Community has changed its mind ...

Trail and headed toward the candidate debate. Three are scheduled. Monday september 26, sunday october 9, and wednesday octob october 1 19. All will start at 9 p. M. Eastern and you can watch them on csp cspan. Tonight on the communicators we visited a Technology Show on capitol hill and spoke with several developers at start up Technology Companies including the top of the policy issues they would like to discuss with members of congress. It is an excellent year and why this committee nation. Y...

The Research Evidence does show us that there is a Clear Association between access to healthy food, particularly fruits and vegetables, and Better Health outcomes such as lower rates of all of the things that dr. Angel laid out earlier today. So i could not come to Georgetown Law Center and not cite professor lawrence gostin. He is cited here, when we were looking at the universe of policies that can address fruit and vegetable consumption its vast. Many things we have talked about today can be...

Enrollment which starts in october. I want to think the manufacturers and the health plans for stepping up to the plate, for coming together to negotiate this great senior savings model. Its going to make such a difference in the lives of many seniors across the country. I am optimistic that this could be a model to lower the costs of many other drugs in the medicare program. Thank you again, President Trump, for bringing lowercost priced insolent. Our seniors are going to be saving an average o...

And im yasmin vossoughian. We do have a lot to cover this morning. In response to the criticism that twitter should hold the president accountable for violating its terms of service, the company for the first time yesterday adding a fact check label to a pair of President Trumps tweets. The tweets which trump rails against mailin voting amid the coronavirus pandemic now include links that we get the facts about mailin ballots. That directs users to a twitter article titled trump makes unsubstant...

So, reparations is really a partnership relationship that may lead to development, but importantly, it leads to the elevation of those who continue to suffer the harm. we dont want necessarily to be locked into a discourse around settlements. we want to speak about the process of reparations, the development consequences. development in all of the areas... so, development money for countries where there were... partnerships. ..enslaved africans descendants, thats what you want? yes! 0k. this is ...

Says we admit responsibility for the crimes we have committed. you dont get that, though, do you? you just get expressions of regret, like david cameron, the british prime minister in 2015, when he went to jamaica. no apology. the european governments prefer to say, "we regret very much what we have done," and thats the end of the conversation. reparations says, "we apologise for what we have done. now let us work together in partnership and work through the consequences of what we have done." s...