Watch live at 7 00 eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Join us from his home in washington dc is political reporter dan balz. Good sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. Only october 4. What a year it has been it. Guest its been an unbelievable year. Nobody could have written the script for this year. As though not every week but every other day something dramatic happens that shakes the country. Weve had unrelenting bad news for most of the year. Pandemic, terrible economic collapse, a recovery that is uneven where the people were stuff are having it the worst at this point. Ande had racial protests violence in the streets. Violence from both sides in the street. We had the death of john lewis, ruth bader ginsburg, now we learned just a couple of days ago that the president of the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus. Get aoes the country ever break from any of this . We are 29 days from the election. Its an unbelievabl
Hearing of judge barrett. The senate will be in session for the next two weeks. What are you looking for . Guest i think we can expect the majority to move forward with all deliberate speed. They will conduct hearings remotely as they have been doing with other nominees. The members who have tested leadive wont need to their quarantine. I expect we will see democratic opposition and republican support and the Movement Forward confirmation sometime this month. Host you think it will happen before the election . Happeni think it will before the election, presuming there are enough senators who can physically come to the floor to cast ballots. That would be the one factor that could interfere with that. It does not look like there will be an issue with that. Issuedhis statement was by Chuck Schumer. They are trying to slow down the process. Your reaction . Good theyve got a very spin dr. Who is writing this. The Committee Hearings dont have to be in person. They can be dealt with remotely
On full display. Its also a moment where the resiliency of our institutions will be tested, as one that highlights the critical importance of medical sciencebased guidance and research. 7. 3 million infected americans and those who have lost their lives, i spent some time every morning in contemplation and prayer for all of them. I turned to the entire first family. They are in my thoughts and prayers this morning and i hope you will join me in wishing them a quick and full recovery in the midst of these challenging moments. And now today gathering, as part of our brookings series, this conference is part of a greater effort to empower voters with factbased, datadriven nonpartisan information to better understand the policy matters discussed by candidates running for office in 2020. The importance cannot be overstated, especially considering the theme of todays event. As witnessed in the lead up to the 2016 election when russian agents launched a Misinformation Campaign against america
Ahead on washington journal, your thoughts and reaction to the events of the last few days as President Trump continues his treatment for covid19. We are dividing our phone lines regionally. 202 7488000 if you live in the eastern or central time zones. Those of you out west, 202 7488001. Send us a text message at 202 7488003. You can join us on social media, on twitter, and on facebook. Good sunday morning. Thanks for being with us. A lot to get to in the next couple of hours, including this headline from the New York Times, confusion and concern as the president ails. This headline, trump saying he is doing much better. He is not out of danger. That is from white house chief of staff mark meadows, contrasting a rosy picture painted by the president s dr. On television. Saturday evening, the president said he was starting to feel good. The video meant to reassure the nation posted on his website at realdonaldtrump. Com. [video clip] i want to begin by thanking all the incredible medica
A Campaign Stop in manchester, hampshire. Watch live at 6 p. M. Eastern on cspan, online on cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. The fourday Republican National convention ended last columnist today reviewed President Trumps acceptance speech topics included Fact Checking the president s commitments as well as his use of the white house for the campaign speech. We are going to get right into it. Welcome. Since you probably had the latest night im going to start with you. Give us an overview of your factcheck of last night. We were running out of superlatives during the Republican National convention. One night, we called it a tsunami of untruths. For trump, we a title wave of tall tales, false claims and revisionist history. That is certainly what we saw. We had 25 separate claims of false or misleading statements that the president made that was just scratching the surface. Trumpte a whole book can on trump and what we call his assault on truth and his propensity to