Susan i wanted to put the cover of your new book, dignity, on the screen. And have you explain its essence to me. Chris it is a book about my five years driving around the United States, spending time in what i would call back road america, the part of america that is everywhere. It is not a red state or blue state thing, it is the towns and communities that have been ignored or left behind or forgotten. Places like selma, alabama, like the north side of milwaukee, places like the bronx in new york city. Places that are kind of stigmatized and defined in various ways as being places where there is high crime or poverty, but places that make up a large part of the United States. Susan that is the back row, the front row is chris the front row is me. Me and my colleagues. I used to work on wall street. I was there for 20 years before did this. I have a phd in physics. Those are what i call front row professions. People who have harvard degrees, yale degrees, people who make up a large pa
The spotlight. And later, from brad pitt as dr. Anthony fauci to American Idol like w before to the highway alligator stopping traffic. All the trending video to jump start your monday morning. Good m good monday morning, and we should report theres a new term in the headlines this morning. Its quarantine fatigue. A new study finds more americans have started to leave the house, eager to get outside, as protestors across the Country Demand stayathome orders be lifted. In georgia today a major milestone. Restaurants are reopening for Dinein Service but there will be restrictions for social distancing. In chicago video claiming to show a crowded house party over the weekend has prompted a new warning from illinoiss governor. He says people who violate social distancing are putting everyone around them in danger. Overseas british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is back at work today three weeks after he was admitted to the hospital with coronavirus. Meanwhile in washington, President Trump i
Already on the brink but this pandemic has quite literally pushed it off the cliff all right so just how contentious is this today as china is threatening the United States warships are presently staring at each other on the South China Sea the us president insists on punishing china with more and more trade tariffs and now china is being accused of being responsible for the pandemic maybe even that they did it on purpose so say some of the accusations thats why china today is pushing back more on that in a minute but lets continue this narrative in other words the scene is set for another new enemy another cold war and what is a cold war by definition its a state of political hostility between 2 countries characterized by threats propaganda just short of open warfare. By the way the history of our country is replete with these types of relationships imo go to the wall to show you some of the things that were talking about it begins 998 even before becoming a world power the United Sta
The host of watch what happens live tells us about his successful battle against the coronavirus. Why he says the government is keeping him from helping others fight the disease. Hes got lots to say. First, heres todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. All that progress we made by flattening that curve, we could lose that in a matter of days if were not careful. Despite growing numbers, several states prepare to start easing stayathome restrictions. We cant do this again. We cant afford to shut down, stop commerce again. Thats why were following those guidances, following the experts. Doing what we can to social distance. We have hundreds of calls coming in asking if it was right to ingest clorox. President trump did not hold a press briefing, but the president s comments about injecting disinfectants are still proving controversial. Doesnt that bother you that you have to spend any time discussing this . I think it bothers me this is still in the news cycle. The nba is opening Te
A live update from beirut. Libyan war logs Khalifa Haftar announces a ceasefire during ramadan soon after launching another attack on. The with the sports man is set to be crowned champions in france as the Domestic League season is cancelled. With numbers just released out of the us that show the continuing trend of widespread job losses more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits over the past week well that takes the total number of jobless from 26000000. 00 last week to more than 30000000. 00 now the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3. 5 percent between december and february but in march it jumped to a 2. And a half year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly more than 7000000. 00 people a state governments now begin to restart their economies their easing lockdown measures more than half of the 50 states including florida or partially reopen by the end of the week as the john hopkins dashboard shows at least 1000000 people in the u. S. Have contracted the virus nearly 61000 have di