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Thank you so much, to john king. I am Brianna Keilar and welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world as we watch this special live coverage right now of the nations tribute to congressman and civil rights icon john lewis. This is the third day, the third of six days of Memorial Services for the man known as the conscience of the country and he was of the country, the congressmans cass ketd ket is arrive at Capitol Plaza. You see right now this processional heading toward the capitol, away from the white house. He will be lying in state at the u. S. Capitol following a ceremony which is set to begin shortly. This motorcade has been carrying lewis and his family through the streets of washington, d. C. Where he served our country and congress for more than three decades. The motorcade is pausing at key spots including a short time ago at the memorial to reverend Martin Luther king jr. , who was kronk lewis beloved mentor and friend. It stopped the black lives matte
Capitol hill after the news of Louie Gohmerts covid diagnosis. Today was nuts and unnerving and dizzying. But the main story tonight is this. The president says things will get better, and then they get much worse. Much, much, much worse. And then somehow on top of that he makes them worse still. Just days after donald trump had been bragging about the u. S. s low coronavirus fatalities, today over 1,500 americans died of the coronavirus, the highest total since all the way back on may 14th. More than 150,000 americans have died in total in the u. S. That means more than one in five coronavirus deaths in the world are here in this country. Americans are dying of the virus at the rate of more than one per minute right now. And the president has been insisting we are on the cusp of an economic breakout, but things are getting worse right now. More than 1. 4 million americans filed new unemployment claims this week. That is the second straight week the number has increased. Today the u. S
With President Donald Trump addressing his enablers in the white house rose garden. Keeping with the theme of the previous four days. It was a list of symptoms without causes. According to the president s party, because thats really all it is at this point. The protesters have been tugging at the nations conscience for the last four months, having no grievances worth listening to. Even as unrest continues in wisconsin and elsewhere over the Police Shooting of jacob blake and the president s poor Approval Ratings are the result of unfair treatment by the media and not his abysmal response to a pandemic that has claimed more than 183,000 american lives, so many of them black and brown, and uniquely vulnerable. On friday as president of National Action network, were joined by other civil rights leaders, thousands of us on the National Mall to commemorate the historic march on washington for jobs and freedom of 1963. And there was 2020 in its boldest, starkest contrast. Black people contin
Protestors. The president declared himself a law and order president and threatens military action if the violence does not stop. We are just learning over 20,000 National Guard troops have been activated as tension builds across the country. We have now seen in this country seven straight nights of outrage and protests since the death of george floyd, playing out in cities big and small. Two autopsies have now ruled floyds death a homicide. Youll remember after a Police Officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Moments from now well hear from the Presumptive Democratic president ial nominee, the former Vice President joe biden, on the cris crisis. One day after the president addressed the nation, it required police in riot gear to push back protestors from this, a stunning photo app outside a d. C. Church, the leaders of the church saying his message directly contradicts their own of peace. Lets start with Boris Sanchez in our nations capitol very close to the white house t