Walter mondale. Our panelists for tonights debate on defense and Foreign Policy issues are georgie anne geyer, syndicated columnist for universal press syndicate, marvin kalb, chief Diplomatic Correspondent for nbc news, morton kondracke, executive editor of the new republic magazine, and henry trewhitt, Diplomatic Correspondent for the baltimore sun. Edwin newman, formerly of nbc news and now a syndicated columnist for king features, is our moderator. Ed . Edwin dorothy ridings, thank you. A brief word about our procedure tonight. The first question will go to mr. Mondale. Hell have two and a half minutes to reply. Then the panel member who put the question will ask a followup. The answer to that will be limited to one minute. After that, the same question will be put to president reagan. Again, there will be a followup. And then each man will have one minute for rebuttal. The second question will go to president reagan first. After that, the alternating will continue. At the end ther
South koreans will have to wait until next month to celebrate. The u. K. s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has held his 1st weekly Cabinet Meeting since falling ill with the coronavirus he had his top but his does a lot of extra pressure off the new figures put the death toll there to more than 26000. 00 its now the 2nd highest in europe after italy were waiting for the Daily Briefing to begin in london within the next few minutes from mr johnson will be making his 1st appearance there since falling seriously ill with cove at 19 and of course his subsequent recovery out a seriously back up will be analyzing what we hear hes with us now in a rainy downing street leave what can we expect from this press briefing today the 1st with Boris Johnson back at the helm. Yeah it is all. In press conference of the Prime Minister the chief Decision Maker has been out of the picture for some time and we have been hearing of differences of opinion within the british cabinet when it comes to easing the l
Revolution to the civil war. Her masterful biography, southern lady, yankee spy, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy is published by hartford press. Peoples choice award. Today she will speak to us about her new book, armys of deliverance a new history of the civil war published by oxford. Some guy named Harold Holzer called the book, quote, highly original and sweeping new study. I had the good fortune to hear liz speak on this subject a few weeks ago in hampton rhodes, virginia, and im so glad to have her here at the forum to speak to us. Please join me in welcoming elizabeth varon. [ applause ] all right. Can everyone hear me . Yes . Good. All right. In his first wartime message to congress, delivered on july 4th, 1861, Abraham Lincoln casts succession as a duped and cowed the south into submission. After drugging the public mind for 30 years ago lincoln put it, seccessionists had relied on conversion to bring good men to take up arms against the government. Theres much re
So we will allow governments to support banks as well knowing full well that supporting banks is very unpopular right now yeah you know they arent coming back to you and listening to some of those measures that i had was just discussing there you know theres enough when i really was at pains to mention time and again or say time and again you know that we are ready for this the European Union can withstand this and fed you know what has been learned from the last financial crisis what has been put in place how ready is the European Union for this type of crisis economically. In fact harris im not exactly sure he can it looks like hes currently dealing with technology there so im going to ask that question to both of you you know if weve heard that from was a friend of mine and also echoed from the state and about space as well we are ready and we can withstand this i mean how robust is the economy on the european level well at the moment this very very different if you look at germany
But the coronavirus made a surprise visit to what was once the republican partys safe haven the conservative Political Action conference or c. Pac yes now thanks to its cameo in c. Pac the corona virus has forced u. S. Senator ted cruz to self quarantine for 14 days after he briefly shook ands with the sea pack carrier but coded 19 sounds like come on irene isnt the only small little virus leaving bodies in its wake and making headlines these days no blackwater zone former founder erik prince is back in the hot seat after a New York Times investigation uncovered that the war profiteer helped recruit former american and british spies for a secretive intelligence gathering operations that included infiltrating Democratic Congressional campaigns labor organizations and other groups considered hostile to the trump agenda. Or other words just another day at the office for the mercenary mogul and younger brother of secretary of education betsy the boss. Who they are actually brother and sist