or. joe biden says that his presidency would be a bridge to the future now that future could very well be this woman california senator. biden has selected her to be his vice presidential running mate the 1st woman of color to run for that office on a major party ticket harris is making history and she's making headlines for all the right reasons but us president trump he calls her a nasty woman is this the start of a dirty campaign i'm. this is the day. that everything that she represents. he's going to pass and she lifts up many communities. it's going to show up in the make decisions that are close to me

that i would make i think she's really the best candidate either way not just because she's a woman that was the best in the. earth all the time by the text and. also coming up tonight on this world elephant day will ask why these giant animals are still being poached 3 decades after the president of kenya trying to say. mine be able to on that grid of gives hope to acquire good sacrifices i know the people of the world do join. in by the minute to get in but i voted one. for. viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day this 1st day for the biden harris team. the presumptive presidential candidate for the democrats

joe biden has selected california senator come o'hara's to be his vice presidential running mate their ticket becomes official at the democrats' national convention next week biden hair as are a team of opposites in many ways a white man a black woman a man in his seventy's a woman in her fifty's a candidate who can ease the worries of voters who have seen a lot and a candidate who excites the hopes of those who are just beginning to use their vote . harris is being celebrated as the 1st woman of color to run for vice president that in itself is monumental harris embodies the evolution of america where the concept of we the people is expanding to offer more people a place at the table for us president donald trump has not even mentioned this in flexion point in american history instead he reacted by calling harris a nasty woman vice president my pence he has been noticeably quiet what must he be

thinking there will be one vice presidential debate before the november election it could possibly be the most watched debate of this entire campaign season and that speaks for coming to harris not for mike pence. i was raised to take action my mother knew that she was raising 2 black daughters who would be treated differently because of how they learned growing up whenever i got upset about something my mother would let me in the eye and ask so what are you going to do about it that's why when i saw a broken justice system i became a lawyer to try and fix it. it's why during the foreclosure crisis i took on the big banks as california's attorney general it's why as united states senator i have fought to represent people like their people who politicians often overlook or don't take seriously. our joining me tonight here at the big table is

a veteran of the obama campaign's julie's fund bill are he knows joe biden julies is now a campaign strategy consultant jules's good to have you back here at the big table we've been here many times before to talk politics did you expect biden to select fair. i think there are a lot of great candidates that he got to select from but i think it was the obvious choice not just for political reasons i think they also seem to have some sort of chemistry and so she's not radical she is going to be. being able to excite the base so i think she was the right choice to make is. is coming here is that is she a safe bit. she is safe but i think you know 1st and foremost this is the 1st presidential decision that biden makes in case he gets nominated that she gets elected so i think she checks all the boxes to be a formidable president and to clear that hurdle but i think just from

a pure campaign perspective she is a former prosecutor she can bring the heat she can make sure mendis arguments actually grill somebody like. bill barr and others have experience in the u.s. senate so i think this election today is about campbell harris tomorrow it'll be back on a referendum over trump and his handling on the coronavirus and the economy and so i think she's formidable and actually bring that argument right to chop. his relationship most recently has been defined by what we saw during the debates during the primary season there was that one exchange there was she was talking about being a little girl who was bused to schools during desegregation so take us inside the thinking tonight. how do these 2 put that behind them because now they look like they're best friends i mean joe biden in this initial e-mail when he announced the pick of said that his son joe biden had tremendous respect they had a great relationship and so you know he pointed that out but i think there's

a big question of how to move forward and you're right every t.v. interview is going to start with that exactly if you have debate and so there are 2 choices now on how they move forward even they say well you know this is primary politics we're both pretty hungry common irises young candidate you know and she wanted to make waves that's one way of doing it but i think it will turn voters off i think the better way to do it is to say look we had our differences and you know we stood for we believe in and we were divided that point but also. well the country is divided and joe biden is actually someone who can bring in somebody who doesn't just always have the same pinioned just like the country's right now and he's actually that figure that could potentially unite the country yet you know i was reading today that obama had to forgive. back in 2008 when they were running against each other before biden became vice president and now we've seen your couple harris she's basically you know the roles have been reversed that's for. i

want to take a listen now to how u.s. president on the trip how he reacted to the news i was a little surprised that he picked i've been watching her for a long time and i was surprised she was extraordinarily nasty to kevin a legit judge kavanaugh then now just as she was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing the way she was doing she treated now just as. i won't forget that so she did very poorly in the primaries and now she's chosen let's see how that will work for her so how do you read that don't trump worried well i mean he says he's surprised but his campaign was with a negative hit ad on camera harris just 30 minutes after the announcement was made by the campaign so i think they're ready and i think a good campaign would be ready they pointed out that she is a you know tool of the radical left that essentially you know all the you know radical left wing policies are going to be stuck and even some snow right she's

a she since already the moderate i mean she couldn't make the argument that she's been a law and order candidate and a prosecutor in california so she's pretty moderate when it comes down to the issues but of course you know there is a campaign tactic and strategy that the charm campaign is trying to friendly that way what about the vice president mike pence should he be worried even more i mean he's the one who has to debate really some of that here that's going to be a tough night and i think it will be watched a lot of people are going to be tuning in. to that to that fight look she has been proving that she can actually bring the heat she's a prosecutor she's a relation knows how to make an argument she knows how to you know sort of lay out the bait and then actually execute on it and so you know they're going to look for it but at the same time people take a hard look at the top of the ticket again today it's commonly hairs and that's the big story yes we're going to be watching the baby but in the end people will make the decision based on the top of the take it which is joe biden and can you think

of 2 politicians he represent such different ideas about america then come over here is mike pence i mean i do remember the vice presidential debate in 2008 when he was sarah palin and joe biden different setting but it was also a female candidate against a old a white man. so i think there is some some similarities in that regard but again it's going to be super nasty i think this is already clear from the set out said the nasty woman this is the same rhetoric that they used 2016 when they tried to define and successfully define hillary clinton so i think harris has got to be ready to actually take that heat and she didn't do particularly well with some of that during the primaries what are you expecting next week the democrats national convention it is going to be completely different than anything we've seen before right i mean usually during this time the presidential candidate and the v.p.

pick would tour around the country have a big rally with a lot of folks now they are pretty much stuck to zoom and the same thing is going to be true for the entire democratic convention so i think it's going to be a lot tighter it's going to be produced for t.v. i think they're going to try to do a lot of biographical ads and i should tell the story of who joe biden and camel hairs actually are what their personal stories are vote though that values are but also draw a very stark contrast to trump you know it'll definitely be different from the conventions we've seen in the past sure julie from the lars always good to have your insights i'm sure but we talking again so close to election day it's always good to see you thanks fred. a couple of pairs of being named a vice presidential candidate is historic for people of color and for women across the u.s. i was thrilled i am and i worry that he would forget about the apple i'm in and his promise and again during i think it means a lot to have her at the top of the ticket and i think it means that we have

a least a campaign that is responsive to black women especially as an african-american woman we're used to being a target it's not going to be anything new for kamel and i'm pretty confident that she can and i think that's really important for america to see that black women are good partners it we will do the work that we will be aggressive and one where late being a black woman with ambition is not a bad thing all right you said that right i'm joined now by journalist matthews in los angeles california t.j. it's good to see you we usually talk about hollywood in the world of entertainment tonight let's talk politics you know the saying is all politics is local that must have special meaning in california where you are coming harris she's a california senator and she's now running for vice president. yeah you know so many of us women of color particularly african-american women have been just on a high since yesterday minute this news came out we were just really really

a late it like you said she's a california native mama california native he's from northern california i'm from southern california los angeles and she's one of the only 2 black women to be elected to the u.s. senate so we thought that she was on the shortlist for biden for a very long time but we weren't sure because there were so many other are black women who were asked on that list but we're very very pleased to see that she was chosen for sure. we've talked about race relations in the u.s. before coming to harris is the 1st woman of color to run for vice president on a major parties ticket she could very well one day be president i mean what does this mean to you and how you view the united states. i will definitely and the bearing interesting time let's look at the fact that we're in a pandemic and we're having a racial reawakening in this country with the explosion of black live matter so our

country is suffering a really very difficult time right now and she really speaks to the change that we need in this country i think that biden knew for a very long time but he needs to choose the one that was not just a person of color particularly a black person but he needed to choose somebody that had the experience and the wherewithal that could take on the opposite should he not be able to complete the task he has 77 years old he would be the oldest u.s. president to be elected so we needed somebody with that youthful energy and come alive is is 55 years old he's a u.s. senate before that he was at an attorney general she's married to the stepmother she's she's really been away on and she ran for president sent her a gift that she was right president she pulled out very very familiar with the terrain that she will need to walk in these next 3 and a half months as she could very well one day be madam president as you said valerie

jarrett the senior adviser to barack obama she has signed a letter today warning the news media to not rely on sexist troops in their reporting of strong women such as couple of hairs do you think she will be held to a different standard because she is a woman. i think she'll be held to a higher standard and let me tell you why if you go back and you look at the headlines who are elizabeth warren who also went for president and for that she still are clinton so much discussed about abu likable do they come across as angry as you want to have dinner with them and if you look at those headlines no one ever said that about him or the male candidates we ask yourself why not a tailor you that i believe with camo up and ready people are questioning her ethnicity whether or not she can be considered african-american or just a black person whether or not she's had a slave lineage in her back well so i read even hire their help i think having her

that is to a very high standard and we haven't even started the campaign race yet so yes i do believe they will hold her to a high standard to a different standard but it is up to the american society should question media and question people who do that this is very good point 0 leaves good as the questions you pose as in los angeles as always it's good talking to you good getting these insights thank you thank you. well one way a politician can make a name for herself is through her name. has a name that has challenged many a public speaker politicians and even t.v. news anchors i know from personal experience now the correct pronunciation is harris but don't take my word for it tonight we go to the source herself for a video that is the definitive guide on how to pronounce mrs harris's name take a look take a listen it's not. it's not come. not come. comma

care. come of course or it would challenge that comma come how my hair is presenting i'm common to harris and i have this methinks. economic growth figures for the 2nd quarter they have been dismal all across europe but no contraction has been as bad as what we have seen in britain where the economy taint by 20.4 percent in the 2nd quarter in march the country's deepest recession on record and u.k.'s coronavirus forced walk down triggered deep declines in output. well i'm joined here at the big table by my colleague for gibson from the business good to see you kate so let's 1st talk about this the u.k. is suffering by far the worst recession of the industrialized economies why is it

so bad in the u.k. well the government's response to the coronavirus crisis definitely played a major role here so britain compared to many other countries with much slower to acknowledge the severity of the situation and when it did it meant that it's locked and was longer and more severe than that of other countries and because britain relies so heavily on the services sector makes up 80 percent of economic output in britain so the closure for a long time of hotels and restaurants and leisure facilities played a major role and how to disproportionately large impact on the economy. there has been themes that the conservative government under. johnson to be done right there has been some positive c.s.o. once prime minister barak johnson did acknowledge the seriousness of the situation he was quite swift to ramp up testing and hospital bed capacity and the government has also invested a loss in vaccine research with some promising early results from the university of

oxford among others and it also has a scheme for for a lot of workers that has helped about 9000000 workers stay afloat during the crisis so a couple of hours of help there is the scheme yeah it's due to end in october is there any reason to hope that things will improve by then to be honest it really doesn't look like the finance minister richie soon when he was announcing these figures now off the british people to prepare for more hardship and more job losses so that's what the government thinks is going to happen in the autumn so it's not looking too good experts also think that unemployment figures won't return to their pre-crisis levels for another 2 years and even any estimates i thought are very hard to make during a pandemic you know i'm wondering he does this all have to do with the pandemic were the bricks. well your role here there was a time when not a day would pots without us talking about this year just because the coronavirus is overshadowing everything doesn't mean that it's going away so britain at the moment

is in a transition period it has officially left the european union but not much has changed on an economic front yet because it's still in a customs union and in the single market that's going to end though in december that's when the transition period comes to a close and that means that britain is under siege pressure to come up with new trade agreements with other countries on top of that list is the european union itself now the last set of talks between the 2 sides and it early on without any sign of an agreement and the other big one of course is the united states and i as you know more than anyone else they're quite distracted at the moment with a looming election campaigns that they've not really prioritizing trade ties and this is what does this mean for the do the u.k. negotiating leverage right now in these birds talks with the e.u. is the u.k. weaker now well it certainly doesn't have much economic leverage at the moment and another thing that's worth bearing in mind is that because travel restrictions are still in place a lot of these negotiations are due to take place virtually so for

a character like boris johnson who's used to relying a lot on his charisma and charm he might find a little bit more difficult to transmit those qualities of resume you there's a good point he's not exactly the person you would think would make so in the virtual world that's for sure ferguson with business to appreciate the analysis tonight thank you. singapore has started destroying 9 tons of ivory to mark world elephant dicked in what's the largest such action in recent years the tusks from 300 elephants are being put through a walk crusher on the ivory was seized between 20142019 will take up to 5 days to crush completely authorities hope to disrupt the global supply chain of illegally traded ivory conservationist say that the trade has pushed elephant poaching to crisis levels in asia and in africa.

all my next guest keith somerville is an expert on the ivory trade he's the author of the book ivory tower and poaching in africa. that's good to have you on the day this is a very dramatic action is there any evidence to suggest that it will change things on the ground for elephants none whatsoever there have been burning crushing and there is some. media events to destroy ivory very publicly it hasn't also the level of poaching it doesn't seem in any meaningful way to the hoops it did moaned the ivory particularly in china and it's really just a pos them if a nice thing is counterproductive because it tells those involved in the legal

trade we have just destroyed the ivory for 300 elephants. that ivory no longer exists the tool will never come on to the market and if anything it's an impetus to more poaching and possibly even an impetus to rise in the price of illegal ivory therefore making it more attractive in the future which you know we we've seen similar events in the past there's this event most famously the president of kenya who set fire to a he but elephant tusks back in 1809 and that did make a difference or did it not what do you say it did it didn't it to $989.00 it coincided with the decision to sightsee as the international organization that governs trade in endangered species 989 so he sees particularly under pressure from western countries big kenya joined in with it and tanzania

decided to institute a ban on the legal trade in ivory now since 1989. the numbers of elephants who dropped from somewhere in the region of 62700000 down 24150028 possible maximum of 550000 so the very least they dropped about 100000 in that time and coaching continued it hasn't had an effect yeah i mean these numbers have been gone down in a time when international ivory trade has been banned in d. because that the trade now is totally the monopoly approaches there is demand that cannot be met legally they're for. there is

a space for poaching and for smuggling so you get to the lowest level in africa relatively poor people in rural areas or sometimes semi employed use for the outskirts of cities who are drawn into poaching they get paid what for them is a lot of money and maybe a $100.00 for a task that task might then sell for several $1000.00 possibly more when it gets to the final market so because there is demand and because of the situation in many african countries where people who live alongside albums actually lose by living alongside their crops or eat their water pumps are destroyed and unless incentives are found and a ways found to empower local people where the elephants are is going to be very hard to stop thank you to our local community 8 i've got 30 seconds here on this

world elephant day is there any reason to be optimistic about the future of belt it's. there are some slight reasons countries like namibia elephant formulation from 6000 to nearly 24000 over the last 2030 years a large part because of the empowerment of local communities tanzania has begun to stop. there are some hopeful signs and the key as i've said put the communities in charge let them decide about their own. kids summerville expert on the ivory trade author of the book ivory power and purging in africa keith we appreciate your insights tonight thank you thank you. the day is almost on the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either of the news you can follow me at brant gough's t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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