Shirley on campaign 2020. At 8 30, new yorker magazine writer jelani cobb discusses his new pbs frontline documentary policing the police 2020. Host good morning. Its tuesday, september 15, 2020. The house returns this morning at 9 a. M. Eastern and at 10 a. M. Today in the white house, representatives from bahrain, the united arab emirates, and israel gathered to sign an agreement to normalize relations. We begin this morning back on the campaign trail yesterday as President Trump met with california officials overseeing the response to raging wildfires in the state as joe biden sought to put the issue of Climate Change front and center in an address from his home state of delaware. This morning we are asking you how important our climate issues when it comes to your election 2020 vote. Give us a call. Phone lines split this way, if you are a supporter of the biden harris ticket, 202 7488000. If you support the trumppence ticket, 202 7488001. A special line for those who have been imp
Give a warm welcome to the stage. [applause]. I hope you are having as much fun as i am at this festival. [applause]. I think of students in college a few of you were in college a few years ago as the best thing to do is to take the teacher not the course and here i think of things to take these incredible authors and be in a room with them. Whatever theyre talking about. The only problem is there is someone in every room. That you want to be with. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. They have also done some the other interesting things. American shots. He is the cn and historian. He has a little bit of basement studio and envy of john meacham. Whos got that at msnbc. Of course the great tester in 1919. Just a transformative book that is so important. Many of us know him from his basement with morning joe. The assignment is to talk about who is your favorite historical figure. I want to make that a free and fun thing. Maybe later we would get into other elements. W
[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome to the stage john meacham. [applause] i hope youre having as much fun as i am. And the best thing to do is a teacher and not the course in here to take these incredible authors to be in a room with them but the only problem with this is that there is somebody in every room. But today there are wonderful people weve all heard from at one point or another written by then most of us have ever heard of but this book is on the space program. American moonshot so be watching for that. And then to have some basement studio and vl john meacham. [laughter] and trying to make the same deal of course the great historian 1919 and john meacham was written so many wonderful biographies and no us from his basement. [laughter] good morning joe but with your favorite historical figure so one or two and why and then other elements. John, start us off with your favorite. The way the question is often phrased is that i used to say j
We are using this time to reach out to our senior phallus, friends and constituents to talk about the important issues and ethics in public life that are at the heart of the councils work. So thank you all for joining us. Todays topic is democracy on the verge, leadership in times of crisis. This title is a play on the title of the new book, lincoln on the verge, 13 days to washington, written by our good friend and carnegie fellow ted widmer. Great to see you ted. Thank you its good to be here. Im going to let ted described the book i will set the outset it is really a thriller. The book is cinematic, its philosophical, it is a great story. And for me it is inspirational. Like all of teds work, lincoln on the verge, uses the path to enlightenment future and suggest a better future. This is not a bad formula for an entrant understanding the intersection of ethics and Public Policy for this and many other reasons im grateful to ted for his own leadership in our field. In addition to his
It turn into a long lasting financial problem started out as a purely medical problem and its not going to go beyond that. Indonesia is one of the Worlds Largest coal exports yes but declining Water Quality is proving a challenge im just to washington in valley where local farmers and harvest is a working out a sustainable approach to revive the industry that story coming out. Into the program the chinese province where the corona Virus Outbreak began is to lift many travel restrictions just as the rest of the world is introducing more drastic measures who pay a region of more than 60000000. 00 people has been under lockdown since late january when the government shut down roads railways and ports people will soon be allowed to leave once they get a tracking code confirming their virus free the one exception is the city of the worst affected area which will see travel restrictions lifted on april the 8th as we talk of spondon katrina you joins me now from beijing so the chinese announc