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A german port town so lets see what the us functions its like a defiant tone. That theyre trying to tell us what to do here its really shameless the way the United States is trying to manipulate german along some european interests so that your interests come out on top. Moscow demands on says from washington amid reports the u. S. Is honoring troops in crimea the russian if he says terrorists. Kevin owen will be here with your full rundown in an hours time but 1st its crosstalk. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on Peter Lavelle over the last 3 president ial election cycles there is clear evidence voters are attracted to the message of not interventionism and are very wary of foreign wars this most certainly helps trump in 2016 but his time in office is spotty at best now joe biden appears to embrace the same foreign policies as bush and obama i guess nothing really will undo mentally change. Cross knocking forever wars im joined by my guest laura fink in
Continue to own the majority stake in tictac something President Trump says he does not like were looking into that from the standpoint of buy dance we dont like that ive been just conceptually i can tell you i dont like that. That has not been told to me yet that has been reported but it hasnt been told to me it could be very accurate reporting for a change so if thats the case im not going to be happy with the only this is china which i think it probably is yeah the Chinese Foreign ministry also responded to the latest reports thursday continued to label the situation as unfair. So we urge the u. S. To respect the principles of market economy and fair competition abide by International Economic and trade rules stop politicising normal economic and trade cooperation we can provide an open fair and nondiscriminatory Business Environment for Foreign Companies in the u. S. And joining us now to discuss our boom bust cohost Christine Benz swan and thank you both for being here as always k
Hello im David Rubenstein at the library of congress in washington, d. C. As part of the National Book festival and we are pleased today to have Washington State bob gates whos written a book called exercise from power which ive read and recommend. We are going to talk about this book and a little bit about bobs career. I should point out we worked together along time ago about four decades ago in the Carter White House when i was the deputy and bob gates was executive assistant. So in those days, did you ever think you would become one of the most famous secretaries and have this career, did you ever think about that when you worked as executive assistant . We are both in situations today that we never dreamt about in the late 1970s. But i joined the cia in 1966 i was recruited out of the institute in indiana university. And to do my bit in the cold war i never dreamed in those days that i would end up being the director of the cia at the very time the soviet union collapsed. So it wa
Important news story today mere months from election day no no no no it was also a vitally important story yesterday back in february march and april and that is why many are now wondering why bob woodward essentially sat on this story for over 5 months in an article and substract journalist david sirota points out that history should never forget that americas most famous journalist had a rare chance to sound an alarm about the pandemic the country was facing and instead chose to stay silent so he could berber preserve his access to the white house and sell a few more books to a nation locked down in quarantine. This begs the question are we being too cynical or too harsh mr woodward or is he just as guilty as donald trump for putting personal gain over the people in the time of the pandemic lets find out as we start watching the hawks. In a city. That is so you. See there is this you always see a. Great city displays systemic dissent says so which. Brings up the old. Welcome everyone