Front of us. At mutual of america, we believe taking care of tomorrow can help you make the most of today. Mutual of america financial group, Retirement Services and investments. Additional support has been provided by consumer cellular. And by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the american people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan good evening, and thank you for joining us. Ruth bader ginsburg, the second woman to serve as a u. S. Supreme court justice, who became the leader of the courts liberal wing, died yesterd at the age of 87. Ginsburg was at home with her family. Her death was due to complications from metastatic pareatic cancer. Outside the Supreme Court, where she served for 27 years, mourners continued to add to an informal memorial that began last night with candles, flowers and notes to the justice. President trump heard the news of ginsburgs death fr reporters as he left a C
Unshakeable. Woodruff and to denounce President Trump. Today we are a country divided and we have a president doing everything in his power to make it that way. At the time like this the oval office should be a command center. Woodruff tonight former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former president barack obama and this years Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris. Day three of the Democratic National convention. Woodruff again, im Judy Woodruff and welcome to our special pbs newshour live coverage of the Democratic National convention. Were now on night three of this virtual event. Tonight, we will hear from Hillary Clinton, the partys nominee four years ago. Well hear from former president barack obama and then we will hear from Kamala Harris, a historymaking Vice President ial nominee. Im here in our studio with political analyst amy walter and right around the corner our senior correspondence amna nawaz. Both socially distanced. And we have reported and guests across the coun
For the past year at the library of congress, you may sit down, because i have a few more namesv for the past year at the library of congress we have been celebrating changemakers and i can think of a few people who more than aptly fit that discretion then the United States up in Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [cheering and applause] okay, im going to hurry up. [laughter] she is a hero and an inspiration to so many of us. In fact, at 4 00 a. M. This morning students from American University who are right over there champion camped out in front of this facility and they are here. She says and i [inaudible] i will talk about your graduation from Columbia Law School and taught at rutgers and spent most of your career advocating on womens rights and all these things and you have been called recently the beyonce of jurisprudence. [laughter] and the justice, could i say dhat and she said i would rather you say that j lo. [laughter] [cheering and applause] without further ado, she is join
Kindness and empathy arc watchers but tragically sometimes it seems that we also have an almost primal instinct towards selfdestruction or at the very least we can be pretty cavalier with our own safety both personally and mouse from the kid on the escalator acting the fool to our National Leaders and their strange pingers on the bottom of the bottom. Today we are going to start this party my friends with a bang a nuclear bang in the form of a New Princeton based video simulation currently making the rounds on social media but proves there was no such thing as a limited small Tactical Nuclear war called plan aids researchers at Princeton University science and Global Security lab created the form of the animation to show the potentially catastrophic consequences of current u. S. And Russian Nuclear war plans according to the researchers the simulation is based on an actual independent assessments of current u. S. And Russian Force postures and Nuclear Weapon targets in total after all
People in russia the United States and nato allied countries might be killed or injured within 3 hours following a single Nuclear Warning shot 91000000 people and that doesnt even take into account the deaths from Nuclear Fallout and all the other Long Term Health and environmental effects from a full on nucular exchange its sobering videos and statistics like these that remind us that it isnt duck and cover that will keep us safe. Its watching the hawks. Wonder what. It looks like. Its like. At the bottom. Of the day like you that i got. With. The. Welcome were going to watching the hawks i am tired robot and im up with a lot less. Dramatic video after about a pretty girl well then we will forget just how big these like air strikes like its nice to sit in say in your in your comfy house or your comfy apartment and say well you know i just think we should bomb iran i mean whats the big deal anguished totally new i mean weve heard people weve had people say that this doesnt say yes that