Admiral why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral . [laughter] what a great question. You can choose to hear a particular course you will lose ultimately in a different direction. And then to be in charge of all activity and with the commander of us Pacific Command position for senior admiral. My boss, a wonderful boss, secretary gates called to say forget about the pacific we will send you to nato i bk the first and only admiral to be the supreme allied commander and it was an accidenthe. That the navy was an accident as a career . Soet somewhat. That my father had kernel of marines growing up in that environment and going to Quantico High School thinking it would be them marine corps everybody goes out on a cruise going on a cruise are in san diego. Late in the day on the peer and the sun was setting looking out on all that ocean and i just wanted to be a sailor. I told my dad and mom they were hoping it would be a marine that years later my dad said that came out okay.
the shipping is free. 1 804 160972. that s 1 804 16097 to call now. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. protesters storming the headquarters of louis vi thanh dumpsters up in flames. we are live in paris with the latest rescues underway. a major airport closed and schools closed in parts of south florida , after what experts say is that one in 1000 year event historic downpours are causing catastrophic flash flooding there some areas some more than 20 inches of rain will take you to some of the hard hit areas. former president donald trump, facing a new legal battle. he s back in new york city this morning and being deposed today in a civil case against him and the trump organization. these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. all right. at this moment, hundreds of thousands of protesters are on the streets of paris. we just learned the police have stopped demonstrators as they reach the constitutional council
to this point, what s led to this political crisis the, the straw that broke the camel s back was an incident with a member of a government whose job is the deputy chief. we re not responsible party discipline . essentially, michael, chris pincher. who was very, very drunk in the carlton club during the course of last week and essentially sexually assaulted a male staffer now the boss johnson was questions that i present had been appointed to this job. when given the fact that he had a little bit of a track record for this, he had been the been an incident when he was at the foreign office back in 2019. and boris johnson said he had no knowledge of any prior situation about crispin s your product concerns. in fact, he was pulled out for that. being untrue bonus, johnson had been briefed in person about the situation with chris pincher. i m about the fact that chris pinches conduct had resulted in a formal process and the, the complaints had been upheld. but johnson tried to w
221,000 new cases yesterday. 209,000 is the average, and new daily death record as well, 3,124 covid19 deaths recorded wednesday. The cdc forecast says the american death toll will top 360,000 just into the new year. Economic fallout is getting more painful today. 853,000 unemployment claims last week. Pandemic assistance runs out after christmas for millions. You hear lots of talk, little evidence yet of compromise. The president s schedule reminds us he cares more about his power than your health. Later this hour, a white house lunch with the attorney general of texas, the leading latest republican, leading the latest republican appeal for judges to toss out the 2020 Election Results. 17 Republican Attorneys general signed on to that Supreme Court petition. All the proof you need that what was once the party of federalism and constitutional conservatism is now the party of trump, period. The fda decision could alter the american timeline to recovery. We have yet to see the full post
Help us understand the events of the last 11 years in light of the history that you lay out here. The topic of crisis of leviathan is the growth of the government in the United States from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. That growth has many causes and i start up the book by making clear that im not offering a new favorite cause explanation for that complex development. It can be related and traced back to a great many changes in the nature of social and economic change during that period and changes in ideology and political changes of various sorts and so forth. But, my own development in that book focused on the fact that the growth of government over that century was not slow and steady. It was instead episodically interrupted by big lurches in this size, scope and power of the government. And at that time i began my work on the book in the late 1970s, most of the economists who were working were basically ignoring that profile. They were attempting to explain the l