We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
Conversation on race in america. Barack obama was asked about this in a 60 minutes interview yesterday. We will show you that, come back, get your thoughts on it. Here he is. Is that we have a criminal Justice System in which ,e ask often times very young often times not very well to go intoicers communities and just keep a lid on things. And we dont try to get at some of the underlying causes for chronic poverty. So if we are going to actually solve this problem, there are some specific things we can do to make sure that our contracts with Police Officers to completely insulate them when they do something wrong, putting money into budgets for training. More Police Officers effectively q. Week teaching Police Officers not to escalate, but to deescalate. But it is important for us not to let ourselves off the hook and think this is just a Police Problem because those shootings, that devaluation of life is part and parcel with a legacy of discrimination and jim crow and segregation that
Under the spotlight state governors act against the use of chokehold and types of restraints plus. Forces loyal to libyas un recognized government celebrate the collapse of Khalifa Haftar as 14 month offensive to take tripoli. Hello here the u. S. President donald trump has been criticized for invoking George Floyds name while taking a victory lap over lower than expected jobless numbers his likely election rival joe biden called his remarks despicable floyd was killed in Police Custody after a Police Officer knelt on his neck for almost 9 minutes the death has led to 10 days of protests right across the u. S. Hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing thats happening for a country theres a great day for him its a great day for everybody this is a great day for everybody this is a great great day in terms of equality so the new figures for may suggest the American Economy is already starting to recover from the pandemic but its not great news for everyo
Under the spotlight state governors act against the use of chokeholds plus. Forces loyal to libyan libyas un recognized government celebrate the collapse of Khalifa Haftar out as 14 month offensive to take tripoli. Hello the us President Donald Trump has been criticized for invoking George Floyds name while taking a victory lap over lower than expected jobless numbers is likely election rival joe biden called his remarks despicable floyd was killed in Police Custody after a Police Officer knelt on his neck for almost 9 minutes the death has led to 10 days of protests across the u. S. Hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing thats happening for a country theres a great day for him its a great day for everybody its a great day for everybody this is a great great day. In terms of equality new figures for may suggest the American Economy is already starting to recover from the pandemic but its not great news for everyone in march 1 point 3000000 people lo
5 major cities the 1st lets take a look at whats happening across the country the mayors of los angeles that land denver and portland have announced nighttime curfew is in an effort to stop more violent demonstrations minneapolis announced the measure on friday off the shots were looted and cars and buildings set on fire. But no protests have broken out in los angeles where a Police Cruiser was set on fire all the demonstrations have been held in miami and chicago and in minnesota where george floyd died the governor says hes fully mobilizing the National Guard for the 1st time in the States History but warns he still doesnt have enough troops. President trump says the oath already is then need to get tougher on his offer to send in the national military. Police officer derek sjodin has been charged with george. But there are other officers who were present to be charged over his death lets go 1st to new york and talk to Gabriel Elizondo youve been following these protests all day this