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First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall tha...

You may have noticed lately that the gop is working overtime to make the lives of trans people more difficult than their lives already are. The gop wants to kick trans people out of bathrooms, sports. 31 states introduced legislation. The military. Doctors offices. Antitransgender health care. And trans women especially are under threat at all times. Was shot and killed on an east dallas street saturday morning. Then those of you who know all thats awful call trans people brave for putting up wi...

The whole world has to be merged donor to the world crisis for good afternoon. Youre watching our International Start this hour in france, where 4 teenagers have been reportedly charged in connection with the beheading of a teacher that rocked the country back in october. For to be among them. The daughter of a man behind an Online Campaign against samuel passing. He was killed after showing his students controversial cartoons of the prophet mohammed in a lesson on free speech. Lets get more det...

To president elect biden Energy Continues a monster move higher the oil and gas etf up 13 in the last two days. Despite the steady increase in covid cases vaccine developments are continuing to help the likes of the airlines, cruise stocks, retail all surging higher today as we cross that 30,000 level once again, to check it we are still above it will we say that 59 minutes left to trade. 29 points above it. On todays show, two voices to help explain the dows record rise in just a few minutes Je...

What can it be . Well take you inside why. Heres our main story. The enemy is within. Nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, saying democrats are threatened by a cult of chaos rising within the ranks of the gop, listen. We will probably need a supplemental for more security for members. When the enemy is within the house of representatives. It is a party at war with itself. And the leaders now seem to have no control. The proof, you have the main republican in the house, kevin mccarthy. He told his...

Dangerous and she was going to be keeping him in jail as he awaits trial, anderson. Have there been any updates from the fbi . One of the things theyre most concerned about talking to sources is for lawmakers, as they start to leave d. C. , as they start going home, weekends, things like that, theres a lot of concern over their safety. So theyre trying to work with them to see how Law Enforcement can step up security for some of these lawmakers. Shimon prokupecz, thank you. News continues lets h...

What we were going through then as comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter ...

Senior news editor of publishers weekly, editor of pws online coverage of comics and graphic, and im also a cohost on more to come, pws weekly podcast, and aim also placed to welcome you to the 2020 brooklyn book festival online, a little different platform this year but still exciting and still doing what he brooklyn book fair does so well, to bring artists together to talk about their work. Were here today with a great trio of artists and start with dave chisolm, and emei butell and joe sacco....

As comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen br...

David savage, it is the 20th andversary of bush v gore here we are in the midst of sorting through another close election. We asked you because youve been covering this Supreme Court since 1986 to come back and look back in time with us at that 2000 election. What we were going through then as comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appoin...