Its outbreak doctors call for a Strict Lockdown to be reimposed malis opposition dismisses the latest offering from International Mediators calling for demonstrators to return to the streets challenged on his claims on crime and the coronavirus the fox news interview that didnt go as planned for the us president. Start the program in brussels where negotiations over the European Unions long term budget and Coronavirus Recovery Fund are continuing but hopes of an agreement appears to be faltering after 3 full days of talks leaders are at loggerheads over the unprecedented spending proposal which is aimed at Holding Europe out of its the past recession since world war 2 on the table is a budget of 2. 00 trillion dollars to be spread out over the next 7 years it includes an 800. 00. 57000000000 dollar fund to help countries recover from the pandemic but members cannot agree on how the money should be distributed reports. How to share 857000000000. 00 the questions confounded e. U. Leaders
We thank you for being with us. Thank you, steve. Good to be with you. What surprised you the most in researching this book . Well, you know, in working on the book over the last its hard to know when i started. But in the intensive interviews that started three years ago with people of former president s and ceos id start the interviews with the same question. If you were interviewing a candidate for the presidency like you were doing a Job Interview what questions would you ask . What would the first question be, and i sort of assumed the traditional answers i would get is id ask about character, Decision Making. And one that i got that kept surprising me and kept coming up again and again is whats their ability to build a team, to manage people . Because everybody i talked to or almost everybody anyway was really focused on the idea of how a president puts together a Management Team because the job is though we talk about in campaigns as a single figure in the presidency its reel an
Joining us from new york John Dickerson, his newest book, the hardest job in the world the american presidency. Hes also a correspondent on cbs news. Thank you for being with us. Thank you, steve. What surprised you the most in researching this book . And working on the book over the last, its hard to know when i started pit i either started 30 years ago or ten years ago or three years ago but in the intensive interviews that started three years ago when people including former president s and those who served in the white house ceos of start to question or start all the interviews with the same question. If you were interviewing a candidate for the presidency like you were doing a Job Interview what questions would you ask and what with the first question be and i assumed the traditional answers i would get would be id ask about character or id ask about decisionmaking in the one i got that surprises me that kept coming up again and again was what is their ability to build a team and
It is a beautiful morning for many pockets of the bay area out there on wednesday, may 20. This is a live picture out of the golden gate bridge. Driving across the bridge, the city by the bay looked absolutely enormous. It was the first time i saw San Francisco bay since march. It was like being a tourist for the first time. Crossing from one side to the next, think about all of those High School Students right now trying to play college sports. When it comes to college sports, we could see one of the biggest changes all because of this pandemic. College football coaches are usually actively recruiting players for upcoming seasons. High School Football players are having to rely on video from previous games to get coaches attentions. The highly rated recruits will be fine because scouts have had their eyes on them for years. Those players with less exposure might not get the scholarship offers they were hoping for. Welcome, everybody. You know, we have talked about pro sports probably
Recognize my great friend and colleague, the best president of the best World Affairs council in the United States. I know we have a lot of World Affairs Council Members here. Gym falk, very, very grateful to jim for his help in this. As ive said, weve got the players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight, a truly great Public Servant who is the director of the nsc under bush, and i say Public Servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. We respected people who hold these high positions. Were going to look forward to hearing from him tonight. And i think without even leaving the stage, im going to get the first panel under way so we can start this. As a college professor, i would say get your notepads out. There are going to be questions, discussion, so were going to start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sayle from the university of toronto is going to chair the panel and lead the discussion. H