Ater, Susan Ferrechio takes look at how the next senate is shaping up. We also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host the shape of president elect Joe Bidens Administration will begin to take shape today as he names a covid advisory panel. While cabinet choices may be a week or more away, he could name his chief of staff this week. Good morning, it is monday, november 9. Welcome to washington journal. Our first hour of questioning asking you what is your top priority for the Biden Administration . Here is how you take part. One line for democrats, one line for republicans, one for independence and others. Independents and others. We welcome your texts. Please include your name and where you are texting from. And on facebook as well. We will also keep you updated on some of the legal challenges that are continuing in several states to the election by the Trump Campaign. We will tell you more about those as we look for
On the welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden has won the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania of the 99 percent of votes counted and Sylvania Biden won 49. 7 percent and trump won 49. 2 the 20 electoral votes biden takes home in the state allowed him to surpass the 270 needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press he also picked up 6 and nevada giving him a total of 290. 00 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. 00. Democratic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect by success from philadelphia to black lives matter plaza in washington to New York Times square people didnt want to hide their relief and excitement lets take a look at those reactions. To me me every time my mother is a disabled woman who goes directly to medicaid and medicare and said no a day. Out and you can no longer mess with those programs is the thing we w
U. S. Supreme Court Justice donald trump prepares to name his replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Schools in injury time penalty to down rights and. When. The man chosen to be lebanons next Prime Minister has resigned without ever forming a government most of all says he simply hasnt been able to get a cabinet of technocrats approved in a country where power is shared between different sects it sends the country back to square one and its search for stable governance in a quarter reports from beirut. Its been almost a month since most of a db was designated Prime Minister his job was to form a government independent of Party Loyalists after the previous cabinet resigned following the devastating explosion at the port of beirut last month its not easy in lebanon where the same political elite accused of pushing the country to near bankruptcy have been in power for decades i realise that the agreement on the basis i accepted this National Mission during this difficult time of lebanons h
Missing students new arrest warrants are issued for members of the military and comic is head to the beijing auto show as the industry struggles to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Thank you for joining us 8 days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg u. S. President donald trump has officially nominated Amy Connie Barrett to replace a barretts appointment would add another conservative voice to the bench further shifting the courts balance of power to the rights for decades to come president tom says barretts count confirmation will be very quick and straightforward but democratic president ial nominee joe biden has a shit senate to wait until after the election. As described as someone who will issue a ruling spaced on a fair reading off the law. We must preserve our priceless heritage of a nation of laws and there is no one better to do than that amy coney barrett. Law and order is the foundation of the american system of justice no matter the issue no ma
Referred to as a liberal consensus of the 19 forties and 19 fifties. And try to work through it actually is happening in terms of the kind of main fear of american politics. The possibilities, the political actions and in the way people are thinking about politics and the american forties and fifties. Yet three readings, all of which, in different ways, deal with the kind of idea of political ideology, and all of which share a set of assumptions about the way that ideas matter to politics. So, we will sort of be thinking, today, about how the kind of from those ideas, and this is a kind of transition classes were removed from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war, and the red scare, into discussing sort of, what else is happening in america in the 1940s, and 19 fifties. So, should we start with daniel bell . Everybodys favorite reading from today. I assume there are very few questions about this one . Yeah . So, is he, essentially, saying that, like, the political ideologies you c