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And lane college. They talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] good morning. The hearing of the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distanc...

Starr hopkins. Followed by commentator Armstrong Williams. And john dicken talked about infections in Nursing Homes. Washington journal is next. Join the discussion. Host one week ago today, africanamerican george floyd died at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. Protests, civil unrest, and violence and reaction to that expanded to some 75 u. S. Cities, building to a crescendo over the weekend. Good morning, and welcome to washington journal for this monday, june 1, 2020. Well start the hour asking you this hour about the president s leadership in response to the unrest, the president largely...

Trump. They also discussed the groups influence on followers of use of the coronavirus. Im Deputy Editor of the atlantic. Thanks for joining us for this weeks edition of the big story. In case you havent joined us before, the big story is digital evinces will go behindthescenes with reporters and editors to talk about some other latest work. This week im really excited. Were going to talk about conspiracy theories. We recently launched an entire project on conspiracy theories called shadowland. You can find it on a website theatlantic. Com shadowland. And on the cover of the june magazine exec...

Theyve enforced the laws. Ru theyve done a fantastic job of it. Ha we have among the best numbers weve ever had in terms of recorded history, certainly. But this has been a very strong year for less crime. Lets put it that way less crime. And theres a reason for less crime, and its because we have great Law Enforcement. Im very proud of them. There wont be defunding. There wont be dismantling of our police. And theres not going to be any disbanding of our police. Our police have been letting us live in peace. We want to make sure we dont have any bad actors in there. And sometimes youll see so...

Text us your thoughts at 2027488003. Wj. On cspan at cspan the discussion about confederate leaders, there was a recent poll on this topic. It asked what should be done with the statues of confederate leaders. Roughly 2 roughly one third of the voters in the poll expenses should be taken down. 44 said the statues should remain standing, down eight point since the survey was taken down two years ago after the riots in charlottesville, virginia. The poll was done with Morning Consult and politico. A history of some of those bases across the u. S. That have come into the conversation and its hist...