You are watching book tv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Tonight, one of the things you been happy to do over the past few months, you talk about things that are going on in our world and things that are happening, turn events, issues that you made in grappling with and weve had an event with a book on corruption in america we didnt want to turn that down and we had an amazing career with all types of different factors from being a reporter with National Public radio and the chairman of the joint chief of staff with all kinds of other achievements and it is one of our leading experts of a concept on corruption and what that means and thats something we are hearing about a lot these days, we will talk about this wonderful new book, what is been going on recently and much, much more, welcome, sarah is joining from West Virginia, hello. Hello and hello everyone, we were speaking before we all came on about how much we
A lesson. His idea of having arabic lessons in schools. All over get even you watching R T International now there are hopes a breakthrough can be reached today in the bitter cold flick that has erupted between armenia and azerbaijan the Foreign Ministers of both countries have sat down for talks in moscow but im of course the rare visit the venue awaiting news of any developments. Well certainly Great Expectations of the eyes of the world are right now on the russian capital where the talks between the Foreign Ministers of armenia and azerbaijan mediated by their russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have already begun there on the way at the moment now journalists were allowed in for about 30 seconds for there to witness their initial encounter then everybody was asked to step outside as its also continued behind closed doors once again theyre ongoing right now as we speak meanwhile earlier Vladimir Putin called for and still it sees in gordon a car bomb and to allow for the exchange of
Yeah theres no theres no question about it ive been covering u. S. Politics for 22 years ive never had to cover anything like this and you know but you know the world hasnt dealt with a pandemic at this scale in those 22 years either so were really in New Territory in terms of trying to figure out what happens next im scratching my head im not exactly sure because the official white house guidance that came out just before the president indicated that his assistant had tested positive still had the president traveling to florida still had him holding rallies there was really no sort of adjustment for the possibility the president would be quarantining for 14 days as he had indicated he would be and this is even before we knew that he had tested positive so the white house needs to update all of that now in terms of how the president contracted that we cope with done team we assume it is from hope picked the question becomes. How did she get it and the president discussed this when he c
Madisons role as the agenda maker for the philadelphia convention, and the particular argument i wanted to make is, as madison prepares himself for the convention in the weeks just before it was due to meet in midmay 1787, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism based upon the voluntary compliance of the states with the recommendations, the resolutions, the requisitions that came from the Continental Congress, was never going to work. When he reasons about this, he does so in a very interesting way. He combines a set of empirical observations about what had taken place in the mid1770s and lessons americans like him had learned since 1776 by watching how the system functions. He takes a step back, and when he takes a step back, what he really does is to think abstractly, and what we can see at least implicitly again theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea that, because states have different interests and different interests wit
Coming up tonight. After the government claims a landslide victory for president. But his challenger says the vote was rigged and the European Union and the United States have. And it is the highest. In hong kong push through a new National Security of all. Viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome today in lebanon the entire government quit almost a week after the fatal blast in beirut the lebanese Prime Minister today announced the resignation of his government. Golf is just 8 months ago many lebanese blame the countrys political elite for years of corruption and negligence which they say made last weeks explosion possible clashes continue between police and protesters in beirut tonight. Now in his address today the Prime Minister said that he is quitting to make possible the changes that lebannon needs. Now that today we are heeding the people and their demands to hold accountable those responsible for a disaster that has been concealed for 7 years. A