Claims he could have died from his own covid infection. Not yet confirming that he is negative tor the virus. And casing spike in parts of northeast and 11 states in the middle of the country see record rates of infection and. And one of the oldest state fairs is maintaining the tradition while keeping patrons today. But we begin with todays eye opener. Youre world in 90 seconds. It is a Tropical Storm so it continues to elongate and it weakens but still the threat of rain, still the threat of storm surge. Hurricane delta roared ashore friday evening at category 2. Now it is weakened to a Tropical Storm. I think the story becomes how active it has been in the gulf of mexico this year. Despite the arrest of 13 man charged with planning to kidnap her, givenen whitmer said the threats against her havent stopped. I feel very good, i feel strong. President trump stopped taking coronavirus related medications midday on friday. I havent even found out numbers or anything yet but ive been rete
The Global Pandemic toll now more than 101500 more than 1600000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus now as that number of new infections slows down and italy one of the worst hit countries is the leaning toward extending the lock down to early may this is to help ease that spread of the corona virus britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved out of the intensive care but he remains hospitalized for treatment of the coven 19 a spokesman said that he remains in good spirits well the u. K. Is actually considering a strategy to end the lockdown that would allow young adults to be the 1st to resume their normal everyday lives meanwhile in spain the country saw a decrease in its numbers on friday the country reported 605 deaths a 17 day low but in sweden they are refusing to walk down still restaurants and bars remain open sweden is following what were calling the herd immunity theyre letting people contract the virus as a. Chile while only protecting the most vulnerable the nordic count
Good evening, everybody. Im bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife, lissa muscatine, and on behalf of her but here welcome your think you very much for coming. We are very y pleased to have pl richter with us here this evening. Paul and i crossed paths a lot when i was a journalist with the Washington Post covering the pentagon and he was reporting for the Los Angeles Times based in washington. Over several decades paul wrote about National Security and Foreign Policyy on both the pentagon and then the state department beat come and heal other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose of reporting in this city on National Security affairs and in his new book, the ambassadors, he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlighting the valuable roles played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out four in particular, ryan crocker, robe
The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Will get to the subject eventually, but the point of the book entitled transeven and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply of the drivers entitled seven pillars. From yemen to syria iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is too kind. Its been absolute failure. The basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a country success or failure of the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the re
To look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in themiddle east. From yemen to syria to interact, and now with ran , the region more than ever seems in a permanent of turmoil if it cant become a land of endless wars and tragically despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure of billions of dollars, jewish policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is to kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts the basic aim was to fosterstability and a better life for the people of the region. The ones ultimately responsible for a countrys success or failure are the people who live there but the catastrophe of todays middle raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region and if so, how . In this regard, the editor of seven pillars Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis and their cocontributors have given us and get. Identifies seven factors tha