Powering smarter savings. Powering possibilities. Hi, everyone, its 4 00 in new york. Ten tuesdays, 70 days to a Flashing Red Crossroads in our shared North American future. Both president ial campaigns this afternoon on pace with whats going to be a dead sprint to election day. Vice president Kamala Harris and her running mate tim walz at this hour preparing for what will be their tickets First Campaign stop since they formally accepted their partys nomination. A Bus Tour Of Georgia starting tomorrow. Meanwhile with Donald Trumps running mate jd vance campaigning in michigan and indiana, that campaign is adding new voices. An interesting voice. Nbc news adviser confirming that both robert f. Kennedy jr. And gabby is moving with trump. Lets go to North Carolina voters in ten days. Four days after that, the first president ial debate between trump and harris, which now appears to be all systems go. At least right now, according to donald trump. Disgraced expresident a little more than a
Im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining the three amazing authors today. You can see them on the screen. They are George Packer whose latest book the man who ran washington Richard Holbrooke and the man who ran washington and the life and times of james a. Baker, iii. Two brilliant books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930 and holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer, holbrooke a democrat Foreign Service officers student of Foreign Policy. Their lives are very different and they are project trees but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that this is a man with great ambition and i was there even before he came to washington. Yeah it was. He was a family of aristocracy. His family built modern houston and he was expected to do great things. A very dominating father who is in part done him the legacy of his family. One thing they were
In a position to govern from day one on january 20th 2021 additionally what i would say is that i think what youre going to see is while i think the reporting was right i dont think were going to see a President Trump tent down the anger of his supporters i think what you will see is that the government will do what it has done for decades which is ensure a peaceful transition whether donald trump is a vocal advocate for america we have reporters in many of the American Cities where there is crowds out celebrating joe bidens victory many of the people in those crowds accusing President Trump of being a racist of being a fascist the various words like that hes always been a key is that that of having effectively almost given the green light to go to certain language that wasnt then shouldnt be allowed how easy do you think it will be to put the genie back in the bottle when it comes to to that some some of the language that was suddenly made permissible. You know look i think its fair t
Blastoff. China launches an unmanned spacecraft to the moon. Aiming to bring back rocks from the lunar surface must not have, although he continues on tuesday, captain has been left out of the cattle, get ready to face at camp we start this news. I have us where president elect joe biden. After weeks of delay and uncertainty is formally beginning, his transition to the white house, the head of the General Services administration has designated biden as the apparent winner of this months president ial election that clears the way for the transition to get underway. Donald trump has refused to concede defeat, or the rawest his administration to start the process, but hes promised to keep up the legal fight, insisting without evidence that the election was quote, corrupt bidens team has welcomed the move, which frees up millions of dollars for his new administration, it can now work with federal officials on a coronavirus response, as well as a National Security strategy. Now, serious par
Deploy troops taiwans president says shes willing to hold talks with china if theyre held on an equal basis speaking at National Day Celebrations when says shes open to meeting full dialogue with beijing and hopes recent tensions can be resolved peacefully as speech comes at a time of increased tensions with china which of. Activity near the island in the past few weeks has been angered by growing u. S. Support for the selfgoverned island. So you know if you dont. Watch as long as the beijing authorities are willing to solve and tackle isms and improve relations parity and dignity are maintained we are willing to Work Together to facilitate meaningful dialogue we are committed to upholding regional stability but this is not something taiwan can show to alone it is the joint responsibility of both sides. The 2nd u. S. President ial debate between donald trump and a democratic rival joe biden has been cancelled to take place next week organizers wanted to hold it virtually but the presid