This week on “Face the Nation”, 100 days from the election, the coronavirus surges in the south and west, with hospitalizations and deaths on the rise. Unemployment claims spike for the first time in nearly four months, and President Trump looks for a reset. Source
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Swastika masks worn at my hometown Walmart
On the first day of Minnesota’s mandatory mask mandate, a man and a woman tried to make a statement about Joe Biden. Here’s what happened. Source
Full transcript of “Face the Nation” on July 26, 2020
On this “Face the Nation” broadcast, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Ted Cruz and Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb Source
Trump trails Biden in latest CBS News Battleground Tracker poll
With 100 days before the 2020 election, President Trump is behind former Vice President Joe Biden by 10 points in a new CBS News Battleground Tracker poll. CBS News White House correspondent Paula Reid joins CBSN’s Laura Podesta to discuss how hyper-partisanship factors into the electorate and Congress’ efforts to pass a new coronavirus relief package. Source
Americans with Disabilities Act turns 30 years old
Exactly 30 years ago, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. Dr. Feranmi Okanlami, an assistant professor of family medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Michigan, joins CBSN’s Laura Podesta to talk about the history of the landmark law and why there is still work to be done. Source
Civil rights icon Representative John Lewis honored at Edmund Pettus bridge
Memorial services were held across Alabama this weekend to honor the late civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis. A horse-drawn carriage took Lewis’ casket for a final crossing of Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday. In 1965 Lewis and others led a peaceful protest across the bridge to support African American voting rights. They were brutally beaten by state troopers in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge and CBS News political contributor Antjuan Seawright join CBSN’s Laura Podesta to discuss Lewis’ life and legacy. Source
Pelosi says Congress can’t go home until there’s a deal
Speaking from the U.S. Capitol, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress will stay in session until the next coronavirus aid bill is passed. “We can’t go home without it,” she said.” Source
“Sunday Morning” Matinee: Celebrating Rodgers & Hart
2020 marks the centenary of the Broadway debut of the first professional collaboration by one of musical theater’s most legendary duos, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. To honor their songwriting legacy, Broadway stars Jelani Alladin (“Frozen,” “Hercules”) and Christiani Pitts (“King Kong,” “A Bronx Tale”), along with dancer Richard Riaz Yoder (“Hello, Dolly!,” “Shuffle Along”), present a modern take on the Rodgers & Hart standard “The Lady Is a Tramp,” recorded especially for the “Sunday Morning” audience. Music direction and arrangements by drummer Bryan Carter, who performs alongside bassist Russell Hall. Source
Honors for John Lewis
This weekend Rep. John Lewis, who died July 17 at the age of 80, will be taken by a horse-drawn carriage one last time across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma, Ala., the same bridge where his peaceful protest for voting rights in 1965 was met with a violence that has become seared in our nation’s collective memory. Later, his body will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. Source
Federal officers on the streets of Portland
In addition to tear gas, there has been more than a whiff of politics in the air as armed men in camouflage have filled the streets of Portland, Oregon, setting off a pandemic of confusion and outrage. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin looks into the Department of Homeland Security’s Border Patrol agents (who usually go after drug smugglers along the southwest border), who have been confronting and detaining protesters. Current and former government officials discuss what some decry as a “rogue police force.” Source