To icus. Some of americas biggest cities in the throes of mayhem tell the fed get out. Weeks of chaos and destruction in portland and now the left is accusing federal authorities of kidnapping protesters. We will separate fact from fiction. The president sounding off about what is happening in those cities in his coronavirus response. We have a preview, the very latest on the president s law and order strategy with White House Correspondent kevin cork. In a wideranging interview sets to broadcast in the morning Chris Wallace challenged the president about this claim it is productive opponent in november, joe biden wants to defund the police. In new york, in chicago, shootings. How do you explain it and what are you going to do about it . The democrat run cities, liberal iran, stupidly one. Liberal democrats been running cities in this country for decades. Why is it so bad right now . They have run them poorly. It was always bad, now it has gone totally out of control it is because they
The today is basil next beso is the next monopoly. Cspan is recording todays discussion for later broadcast. We will be monitoring the livestream from our site, the common section on open youtube page and comments on facebook. At the end of the discussion, open policy director, one of the americas most insightful journalist will provide Closing Remarks. So, lets get started. Ellen, dan, what is top of mind to open the conversation . Dan it is going to be here. I would like to start off by explaining one thing, the essential context to the story. It is really hard to publish news online in a viable form. That may sound strange given how easy it is to set up a one person and center for a small website. When i first started writing this, i sent on to get events of the challenges and competition. I was one of those people who was hand building the Washington Post website. It took me away from the journalism that i really wanted to do. The whole issue turned out to be a whole complex set of
Check out the cars too lined up on both sides of the bridge trying to get on the span last night. It was bumper to bumper on grand avenue in the city and of course approaching the toll plaza on the oakland side. No one was complaining though about all of the traffic. People were honking and just exciting to finally drive on this bridge that has been 24 years in the making. For the cost of all of this weve been talking about it for a very long time, this is the final tally. It took 23 years, 10 months and 16 days. Almost 24 years to get the bridge open as a cost of 6. 4 billion. Now, california has picked up nearly the entire tab for this. 70 of that money came from tolls. Nearly 5 billion. Another 25 came from state funds. Only about 5 came from the feds. Now, this morning we have mobile 5 driving across the bridge this morning. It is beautiful. I actually drove across it this morning as well. The span features these custommade towers with led lights designed to be glarefree for the dr
Some 30,000 cases in queens alone. 10,000 people in queens have been hospitalized. We are right now standing here in front of a popup basically a popup Food Distribution center thats been set up here. I want to give you a view this is a view on the ground. I want to give you a view from the sky. You can really see the size and scope of the line that started to form at 5 30 this morning. Folks have been in line for foot here 5 1 2 hours. Last week they had enough food for 750 families. This week they brought more food, enough for 1,000 families. Were told they will likely run out of food once again. This is one of, if not the hardest hit communities right now dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Well have a little more on exactly what theyre doing here in just a moment, but before we get to all of that, we want to get you caught up on the facts. Right now more than 670,000 known coronavirus cases here in the united states. Thats 30,000 more than this exact hour yesterday. More than 34
Then our country. The United States. Never as a country used its country and resources for the advancement of the human convention. Not only our citizens but around the globe. We are not perfect muted beings and not perfect, but what makes this country so special so unique, it starts with our founding documents. Our constitution, bill of rights, the human rights, they are not government given. But endowed by our creator and inalienable rights for every american, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. Ronald reagan reminded us and pointed out many decades ago that freedom is never more than one generation from extinction. From world war ii, to the rise of communism to the fight of radical islamic terrorism right here on americas soil and abroad, the American People, we are a good people. We fought to protect these freedoms against those who would destroy our way of life. Many in and out of uniform have fought bravely giving the ultimate sacrifice against offending threats abroad. That we