Up to 90 percent effective. And that its cheap to make time easy to store china launches an unmanned spacecraft to the moon, the mission to bring the rockets back to earth. We asked 8 Rocket Scientists what success would mean for chinas im speechless space . Im probably a phony. Yes. Welcome to the program. We start in the United States where a key federal agency has told joe biden the president ial transition can begin. After donald trump directed his administration to cooperate in the handover process. In a tweet, president , trump said he no longer opposed government aid for bidens transition team. Its the closest yet hes come to conceding defeat. Earlier us president elect joe biden announced his nominations for 6 top positions in this administration. A long time advisor Anthony Blinken for the position of secretary of state, former secretary of state john kerry as Climate Change on voice. And john together as treasury secretary, when it comes to well for more on this son joined by
And Andrea Mitchell from msnbc and nbc news is my pleasure to welcome you just might anniversary of the National Book festival presented by the library of congress we are thrilled to have our authors David Rubenstein has authored a new book how to read and it is an extra ordinary conversation the leadership that makes people believers very special people David Rubenstein domestic policy advisor private equity firm and history buff and the philanthropist you saved the great panda and brought the magna carta to the archives is willing having a very Popular Television interview show. I didnt feel i was good as a leader so in the book i really went out to the most famous people that i could those in the business or culture or the arts or sports that is a summary of what they told me of what it takes to be a leader. And to get more specific tell me where you found and that connective thread among them . Persistence is number one. Nobody has ideas that are so brilliant they say yes that is g
To discuss them with a great group with us, jeh johon is the former secretary of Homeland Security answers as general counsel of the department of defense among other positions. He also represes new jersey in th seven state council the coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nation secondhighest intelligence post and sheerved in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in a variety of senior positions. Carrie corderode is the robert gates senior fellow at cns and organizations general counsel. When she was in, she served at the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence. Its a great group. We i have got to discuss today. Well start our conversation among us and then moved to some audience questions which, can enter in the q a box on your screen and we will also have a few questions as we done in our past couple sessions that we will we then throughout so we can get
You cant have to leave genes, you can have closes but not to genes. So this means that the efficacy is either 60 percent or 90 percent depending which does it take, but whatever the build they will choose, need to be fine tuned and we tested before to fall into the market. Now obviously weve heard this is the 3rd promising vaccine that has been announced in the fight against a covert. 90 weve heard of course from the vaccine from biotech and pfizer mcgurn, are russias sputnik obviously, also supposedly very effective on so many vaccines in the pipeline. You know, is there a rivalry there . Is there a competition, there . Is this good bad . Is there room for all of them . Well, this is really important question and to be honest, if this is a business for pharmaceutical being very clear, and this is certainly a market, for example, if you remember deferred wiser c. E. O. , it clearly stated that they are not going to subsidize any vaccine, just because thats not in favor of the company,
Delhi doctors are warning pollution in that city could complicate the recovery of patients infected with. The new berlin brandenburg airport is due to open today 9 years behind schedule and way over budget. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today french president the manual says his country will stand firm against extremists that after more deaths from whats being called islamist terror a man armed with a knife killed 3 people inside the notre dame basilica in the Southern City of nice the suspect is a young tunisian this is the 3rd is a list attack in france in 2 months. A place of worship and this. Scene of terror candles laid outside the not church a nice tribute for the victims killed within its walls. What happened inside is now being pieced together by forensics teams frances top counterterrorism prosecutor said this had all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack and they have detained a suspect there are people who. When he was arrested he was carrying a document in the form