Sponsored by wells fargo. Tv critic for National Public radio, and im here with a couple of very esteemed authors, Christopher Caldwell, an american journalist, former Senior Editor for the Weekly Standard and author of the age of entitlement, america since the 60s. Hes joining from washington, d. C. We have historian, journalist, wall street journal columnist and author of the people no of the war on populism and democracy joining us from kansas city. I am in st. Petersburg florida. We are going to make this happen through the magic of video chat. So thank you for coming. I appreciate it. It seems your books in different ways are describing how we have landed in this crazy political time that we are in right now where we are understanding how the movements and politics. What i would like each of you to do is give a thumbnail synopsis of durable and what it might say about whether or how america sort of landed on the road to populism. What do you think . Its more like the railroad for
It was just a year and a half ago that the president of the United States put in his state of the Union Address that we are going to launch american astronauts on american rockets from american soil. He looked at me and said you are going to make that happen. Here we are a year and a half later. And the help of elon musk the spacex team, we have delivered. But of course, the president s agenda is just beginning, there is so much more. He turned around and recreated a moon program. He said we are going to go to the moon for a purpose, because we as a nation are going to get to mars. Agency we call nasa is excited about it. I want to tell you a quick story. Im here to introduce the president , but i have to take a moment. It was about nine years ago. The Space Shuttle atlantis landed right here for the last Space Shuttle mission in the history of the u. S. The next day, 2000 pink slips went out. Over the course of the next two years, this area went from 15,000 jobs down to 7500 jobs. Dev
That is not a good thing. So right now, we are waiting for tminus seven minutes. That will start the engine chill. Shortly after that, we will also get the fuel shut down. Listening to the spacex launch director in the background. As i mentioned, tminus seven minutes, as we start to chill, we will get into the final topping off of stage one fuel, and then the fuel load will complete. Stage one and stage two, engine chill has started. We have heard the callout. Stage one engine chill has started. Soy have got up to the crew, they have situational awareness. We mentioned the prevalves are open, now we are topping off, getting ready to finish the fuel load. Liquid load will continue until the last three minutes to two minutes of the countdown. We should hear about callout, complete coming up in about six minutes. Rp1 is that densify kerosene or rocket fuel at falcon 9 that will be used to power bob and doug today. Stage i fuel is closed up. Right on time. That callout indicates that the f
Miller center here at the university of virginia, who president says is broad, long term in perspective, balanced, and of course expressed in words, the written word. The other culture is represented in this room in one sense by the presence of pat oliphant. So please breeds path oliphant. I applause even more so by the work of them path oliphant, which you see displayed on the screen. The culture he represents is not broad, it had a specific daily perspective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist, producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week. In the denver post for several years. Washington star for several years. Along the way, pat oliphant became the first 21st cartoonist to be featured in newspapers all across the country, he was indicated in newspapers for the country. Far from being balanced, they were opinionated. That was part of their virtue. Obviously, not so much inwards, though there are words, especially in pictures, and the work of pot o
Joe biden is still short of the total delegates he needs 20 nomination outright. And now, he has 670 compared to bernies 574. But that when in michigan, that big one could signal he has strong support in a critical november battleground. One that President Trump won by aharon is she detention in 2016. Matt finn is live in detroit with more on the race. Our primary night panel has an analysis look at them, its a sexy night here. First up lets go to foxbusiness answer breaking down his numbers with his magic fingers pray to make thats right kennedy i will tell you it is interesting that joe biden has been able to do what he is doing in the fox news decision desk comfortable enough to project that Vice President does beat sanders in michigan. We call it with the polls closing you know it is a comfortable victory. Sanders pulled off a big surprise in the state four years ago. Obviously unable to do that again in the first date with the industrial midwest to come in. So that joe mentioned t