Fellow for International Studies here at stanford. Going to discuss the brandnew booking see the title on their slide on your screen, the button the Nuclear Arms Race for president ial power which puts readers on the frontline of Nuclear History and offers policy prescription for a safer future. As many of you know he served as a 19th u. S. Secretary of defense nick Clinton Administration defense policy armscontrol and along undistinguished history at stanford he is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution as well part he was the codirector of the center for International Securities in 1998 to 1993 and completed both his bachelors and masters degree in mathematics here at stanford which is particular impressive to me because i did not get into stanford either as an undergraduate or graduate. Hes now the michael and barbara emerita at stanford. Its great we can see you today, we also are thrilled to have his coauthor here. So tom is a director is 30 years of washington d. C. Experienci
Host professor will come. I am looking forward to what the listening audience to get through the pages to follow the story line. But you start in the preface to talk about leadership. Were you thinking about a book of leadership when you started . Guest leadership is one of my preoccupations. That is what i was going to do but i was struck that not only with the facts and figures with the sad state of infrastructure but i was also of a tripping on potholes and stories of innercity people who could not get to the jobs or wed take two or three buses and subway to get to school so but first raise subway connections we went to another city in 20 minutes so all of those things together made me feel this is an important issue. You were a help with the whole project talk about the need for a new america at the end of the Clinton Administration we have defense spending and preoccupation we havent made those investments were i am part of the u. S. Competitiveness project that we care about amer
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Along with temperatures in the 50s. Prepare to dress warm thanks britley. Cedar Rapids Police are looking for the person who shot a man in a car on first avenue yesterday. Police say theyre looking for a blue or purple 4door sedan. Officers were called to 3108 1st avenue northeast, and a gas station three blocks away from there, at 35th streett northeast and first avenue. This happened just before 2 pm saturday. Investigators say the sedan the suspect vehicle was following another vehicle east on 1st avenue, when someone in the sedan fired a shot into e other vehicle. A bullet hit a male passenger in the shoulder. Firstresponders took him to a cedar rapids hospital and he is expected to be okay. Police arrested a West Des Moines man after they say he lit a woman on fire during an argument at their home. 58 yearold john moore faces a charge of willful injury causing bodily harm. Police say they went to the home friday morning, but that a 54 around 10 pm the night before. Shes now recove
Supply and protective medical gear and other urgently needed equipment. The pentagon now says hospital ships with several thousand beds will be deployed to new york and the west coast so that medical centers can focus their efforts on coronavirus patients. Lets begin our coverage this hour with cnns nick watt, joining us from los angeles with latebreaking developments out there. Nick . Reporter well, wolf, here in los angeles county, schools are closed but there is no shelter in place order. The official word from the county is, stay home as much as possible but feel free to go out and run and walk, just try to do it alone. People are doing that. Now, i am not saying this is connected, but within the past two days the number of confirmed cases here in l. A. County has about doubled. And we are told to expect that number to keep ticking up for between the next four and 12 weeks. The posture, the metaphors, are now military. I view it as a in a sense, a wartime president. Reporter so is