We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
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A new round of tweaks he says hes the real election winner and is vowing legal action against the election process. That will see who came out on top. Welcome to the program u. S. President ial president elect joe biden has picked 2 prominent physicians to lead his Coronavirus Task force he has made tackling the pandemic his top priority when he takes office on january 20th and hes already putting together a team to work on his covert strategy. Biden started the day fresh from his election victory speech by going to mass at the Catholic Church in his hometown wellington delaware biden also says tackling Climate Change and bridging the u. S. Political divide are key goals of his administration. President on ultra meanwhile has refused to concede defeat insisting instead sending out a new series of tweets alleging Election Fraud so far he has produced no substantial evidence to support the allegations. Greeted by chance of losing. The us president ial motorcade weaves its way to Trump Na
Economy has been growing, it needs to boost its exports more. This will help with the, so thats a very important factor for, for china, but also more broadly for the region, it means that people will be able to look at exports again and that there will be free trade. And so the big winner is china, but i think the whole region will probably benefit the u. S. Was not involved just how much do they stand to lose by a excluded from all of this . Well, this is just a sign of the kind of the chaos thats been going on in terms of global trade. Over the last 4 years, intensified of course, by the coronavirus epidemic. The u. S. Will stand to lose quite a lot because it had hoped just out of previous trade agreements which, which dont trump withdrew from i think now with the new president elect in the, in the united states, we may see a move back towards more global trade but its going to take time because the u. S. Still needs to recover from the pandemic. So its going to be a while, i think
A controversial peace deal on a good to have you with us in ethiopia, fears are growing about the escalating conflict in the northern region. The Central Government is accusing Regional Forces of firing rockets into the neighboring on horror of region. Fighting between ethiopian troops and the Peoples Liberation front began last week after ad. As abba claimed, the Regional Forces have attacked. National military bases. Thousands of civilians have fled. The fighting many with harrowing stories, sprawling camp in sudan as another refugee crisis unfolds. Thousands of europeans have been streaming across the border, fleeing the fear and chaos of the latest fighting in the north. Many who arrive here bring stories of escalating violence and atrocities. Forces entered and burned our homes and killed people. They left us with nothing. So we fled here to sudan. I left with my parents and my child with only what we wore. Now we have nothing. We fled from death and murder. The exodus comes as Em