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Listening in washington and around the country and around the world. I am mike ohanlon at the Brookings Institution. We are honored to host mark esper who, after being introduced by my boss, retired general john allen, he will offer remarks on how the covid19 is affecting the armed forces and anything else. I will ask questions and then i will hear from you. If you have not already submitted your welcome to do so. Apologies that we may not get to all questions. Ado, let me hand the body the bato...

I think the main thing to focus on at this point we will bring in the leader on this point is Congress Needs to come back, in your view, to do this last him in this package. You believe, frankly, it has become untenable for you and for the house generally to have lawmakers on the sidelines as you craft these kind of trillion dollars spending packages every couple of weeks. Explained in your view what kind of changes need to be made here to Bring Congress back and to get the plays back working ag...

defamation lawsuit against fox news brought by dominion voting systems. today judge eric davis asked the pool of prospects a number of questions, things like whether they watched fox news, for instance, or whether they have ever volunteered as poll watchers now once selected, the final group of jurors will be tasked with deciding whether or not fox news acted with actual malice in the aftermath of the 2020 election when fox news aired false statements about election interference thanks...

Hard to kind of get mad at everybody. You know you cant really punish a whole team for Something Like that parents say they too or disappointed. Sadly these incidents no longer shocking to them. Its a constant battle with kids ask technology. We will not tolerate or condone this type of behavior. Because this investigation really is just getting under way police didnt want to speculate on the types of charges these students could face. But they did talk several times about idea of diversion prog...

Students we spoke with were disappointed with the decision scombanthing entire football team. It stinks, its hard to kind of get mad at everybody, you know you cant really punish the a whole team for Something Like that. Parents say they too are disappointed. Sadly these incidents no longer shocking to them. Its constant battle with kids and technology. I think you just got to be careful pretty much what u do no matter where it is. Im calling it a case of bullying or hazing but saying considerin...

Its about a patient who is having a stroke or a heart attack or is in a Motor Vehicle accident. We need to be able to have enough room in our hospitals and enough nurses and doctors in our hospitals to care for all of these patients. I know people are in a frenzy about their rights being challenged. But you also have to think about the rights of those that want to wear a mask and do wear a mask because its everyones right to live a safe and healthy life. Once again, we begin the show with sound ...

Months into the pandemic. And breaking news from the white house, an historic break through agreement between the United Arab Emirates and israel, made possible by israel for now giving up its plan to annex large areas of the palestinian west bank. Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations. They will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation on a broad range of areas. This is a truly historic moment. Not since the israeljordan peace treaty...

He says and well bring you any relevant developments throughout the hour. Then theres this. When we were in chicago, we were driving through a predominantly black neighborhood. His comment to me was only the blacks could live this way. Trumps former lawyer has a to say. We have more on that coming up in a moment, but first, donald trump is doing everything in his power to stop the bleeding after an explosive report in the atlantic that redisparaged u. S. Soldiers. When ever a narrative threatens...

Nationalists just fired up with president ial backing. But tonight i can happily report to you some good news. News that despite all of that, democracy is winning. With less than three weeks until the day we start counting the votes, americans are out in force. Theyre angry and determined and voting in record numbers. They are literally saving our democracy one vote at a time. Just look at these long lines across the country, including in georgia and texas and tennessee. And people are voting li...

Flipped for joe biden. Arizona also called for biden last night. So joe biden is now projected to win this election with the exact same number of electoral votes that donald trump won in 2016. 306 in all. You might remember Kellyanne Conway four years ago called a landslide a blowout, she said, historic. No doubt donald trump will also face questions today about why he continues to make claims about widespread voter fraud when his own administration, his own administration, the dhs, department o...