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Status of u. S. , u. K. Relations. This is about a half an hour. Thank you so much for joining us. If you havent already signed up to my weekly newsletter, its free and you can sign up at mrpolitico. Com, global. And its my pleasure to introduce the new British Ambassador to the United States, karen pierce. Welcome, ambassador. Thank you very much. Its such a pleasure to have you here. Weve got about 30 minutes of a chat now and well get to our questions as well during the conversation. If you h...

Celebrate these wonderful awards. In the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around, and probably among the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than they ceremony since zoom is not a great place to exchange awards and the like. So were going to have a series of conversations with our four winners, and then ill when w...

European communist regimes that was decision he took in june and which he announced to the german chancellor helmut kohl at the time and all the events that we remember now the jangling of keys in Wenceslas Square in prague the the torch is the candlelight the songs and so on all that was nothing but operetta it was political operetta it was froth on the tidal wave of history but it was not the cause of the tidal wave of history the cause im afraid was much more basic and much more realistic it ...

Welcome, ambassador. Thank you very much. Host host it is such a pleasure to have you here. We have 30 minutes for the chat and we will get to your questions during the conversation. If you have not sent them already, post them on twitter using politico. We have great ones rolling in. Ambassador, i want us to spend our time talking about policy. Time, in such a strange thought we could ask a couple questions about how your job is actually unfolding before we get into the meaty stuff. Maybe lets ...

Results for its vaccine, phase one trial in humans. Weve got a lot more on this coming up in just a moment. But this is a very positive development. When this was announced the stock rally that had already been in place gained a lot more ground. One more positive indicator for you. Thats the price of oil. We are back to 32 a barrel. We are driving again, we are emerging from a lockdown, demand for gas and oil up and up goes the price. Key indicator. Now, look at this weekend. All across the coun...

Ycontinue the path to recovery. For these reasons mr. President i object. Mr. President is we all know its been an extra ordinary extraordinarily challenging time for our great nation, time that its been painful for so many of our fellow americans but its also been a time where people across the country have given so much to their communities, to their states, to their neighbors and issue no mr. President we are great nation. We are a kind nation. We are a proud nation and we are a resilient nat...

Of ther the nomination ambassador to be the secretary of the navy. And Charles Brown to be chief of staff of the air force. And dr. Anderson to be deputy undersecretary of defense. We thank you all for being here. Appreciate the contributions you have made. All three of you have impressive careers and we appreciate the fact that you are coming back again. Things arese necessary. I have to ask you the required questions. I would like an audible yes or no on each question. Have you adhered to the ...

In the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy all right ...

Debated by leaders as they tried to decide how to deal with destroyed economies, failed empires, and competing political ideologies. Jason i want to extend a welcome to all the viewers joining us. It is a great pleasure to talk to my friend and one time colleague mike neiberg, from the army war college. Mike and i were colleagues. This is going back a ways, so 2006, in the History Department of southern mississippi, we have stayed in touch quite a bit as we both moved on. We have always had shar...

Wit, heumann served in bill Clintons Administration shaping disability policy in the department of education and was appointed by barack obama as the special adviser on disability rights for the state department. She is also a former senior fellow at the Ford Foundation and advisor to world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work, and new book, being human, an unprepen tent enemy interior of a disability rights activist. She will in conversation with tam la edwards. The science your...