Franklin foer, the author of the book called the last politician inside Joe Bidens White house and struggle for americas future. it is about the first two years of the biden presidency. Tell us what prompted you to write this book. Guest its is going to sound uninspiring but my publisher asked me to write the book and have never done an insider, political account like this. Im a staff writer at the atlantic so i do political journalism it is my thing but i never invested all the time to understand presidency over an extended period of time from the inside. She presented the idea to me, her argument was the biden people are coming in, the middle of a pandemic, with the prospect of an economic collapse, and they are inheriting the government that has been in disrepair. It would be fascinating to see what happens when will the people come in to try to conquer the problems and whether there was succeed or not. I was not to somebody who thought much of a joe biden. I kind of thought he was
Week, what it means as far as that Campaign Going forward in the Alabama Senate race, and if you think those comments from the president were appropriate. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Alabama residents and voters, if you want to give your specific perception, 2027488003 is the number to call. You can always post on our twitter feed, cspanwj and on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Well take you back to just before the thanksgiving break at the white house. President trump addressing reporters before he took off for florida, was asked about the Roy Moore Campaign and the allegations against roy moore. Heres the president s response. President trump i can tell you i can tell you one thing for sure. We dont need a liberal person in there, a democrat. Jones, ive looked at his record, its terrible on crime. Its terrible on the border. Its terrible in the military. I can tell you for a fact, we do not need somebody thats going to
Congress. More than three decades. Also coming up we will not accept you as a very clear indication there weapons. Divided. Many hopeful results. Without. U. S. Officials. U. S. Senate a contentious one point five trillion dollar tax reform bill the tax cuts and jobs act is passed. This brings President Donald Trump one step closer to his first. Bill is the first major. More than thirty years it will now be sent back to the house of representatives for a final vote on wednesday. After eight straight years of slow growth and underperformance america is ready to take off coupled with a regulatory reforms that have already been implemented by the administration we know comprehensive tax reform major middle class tax relief and making our businesses both large and small more competitive around the world. Well donald trump has tweeted about the bill saying the United States Senate Just Passed the biggest in history tax cut reform bill terrible individual mandate obamacare repealed is to the
Opposition leader and hundreds of prisoners detained during protests are released north and south korea agreed to march together under one flag at the Winter Olympics and field a joint Ice Hockey Team warnings the u. S. Decision to slash its aid for palestinians it risks a regional stability the art of diplomacy a day before a man who in a crowd meets to reason may france says it will lend britain the bell you tapestry. Installed rafael nadal keeps his cool at the Australian Open dropping just born service game against leonardo. White troops around three. If he has freed a leading opposition figure as part of a mass release of prisoners jailed more than a year ago for their part in antigovernment protests. There are good enough as one of one hundred sixteen prisoners freed from a prison in the capital addis ababa he was greeted by thousands of his supporters three hundred sixty one more prisoners were freed in the south of the country hundreds of people were killed in a two thousand an
To be a very exciting two days thank you very much you feel accepted here. Ive. Just come once and whats your message to both mr president peace and prosperity and security. So that was a little bit of a. False rumor i just wanted to correct you run races that are going to do it as you work through your first year in office i want to say that i look forward to the market tremendous pieces of gold and prosperity to believe that when you see where leaders. Are you going to see well i already am going to dig a little bit and go the way that you tell me. Also coming up on the days seeing double after dolly the sheep chinese researchers have now successfully cloned monkeys are we one step closer to replicating ourselves the better we off colin by the species is well over call. In principle any private little human can be called. Oh we begin today waiting for the trump response us President Donald Trump will give the closing address tomorrow at the World Economic forum in davos switzerland t