Proposal, calling on the increased role the federal government and the National Election process. Good morning welcome to washington journal. Its a great pleasure to be with you thisfo morning. See him before he gets your proposal and me ask about the election itself. Nahor jumped four weeks hence, record turnout and by the federal governments on statement a secure election, the most secure election in u. S. History. What are some of your observations. Things that you found surprising in this years election . Guest the election was a very secure election b all standards. But, and weeks and months leading up to the election there was a tremendous amount of litigation and dispute over how mail in ballots would be counted and other issues of electioneering. And followinghe election, as everyone is aware a terminus amount ofitigation. A fair amount of uncertainty as to how and when results could be certified. So i think it has certainly been a secure election. But it isn election and which
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Brother of future president teddy roosevelt. But he struggled with addition. And her mother mocked eleanor for her serious demeanor and calling her granny. It was a say of on not just saying, you look old and sour, you look like something that i dont want to be. It was a real excommunication. Reporter what did that the do to eleanor . Well, she herself would say, i wanted to sink in the floor boards. Reporter orphaned at the age of nine, she was engaged to her fifth cousin at 19 what did he see in eleanor . She was the president s niece. That was the moment he could say, by god im marrying that woman and im going to be the president of the United States myself. Reporter the marriage would be one of historys greatest political partnerships. She feels useful . And therefore love. Andthe great disconnect for them was in discovering they could only be useful to eep other but might not make each other happy as intimates. Reporter although they would have six children, franklin would find ro
Veterans day as we thank those who served us in the past and continue to serve us today im becky quick along with joe kernen along with Andrew Ross Sorkin things are in the green once again. Looks like the dow is indicated up by about 181 points and if we were to open at these levels and hold it through the session, you would be looking at the dow closing at a record high it has been up six out of the last seven sessions. Up another 626 points yesterday. Dow futures are up, s p futures up by about 26 and then the nasdaq, which has been the weaker part over the last several sessions, down more 1 , actually indicated higher today as well. Up by about 130. The bond market today the is closed in ob sservance of veters day. Well talk with David Petraeus later this morning andrew thanks. And an important day in the United States of course. But there is also a holiday going on in china, very different kind of holiday, made up of a shopping a made up shopping holiday i should say called single
Context by saying the starting point for the discussion of Global Police state needs to be this severe crisis of global capitalism the pandemic didnt create the crisis it only made it much worse and in talking about Global Police state theres 2 dimensions i want to highlight one is the structural technically we call it over accumulation but its a crisis of chronic stagnation in the Global Economy and the 2nd dimension of that crisis is is political this one of state legitimacy and capitalist henschel money so i need 3 things by Global Police state and the 1st is we see the deepening and the extension worldwide of transnational systems of social control of repression militaries asian and warfare all around the world and we see that in order to contain the real and the potential rebellion of what i call in the book surplus humanity and the mess of the downwardly mobile and destabilized and concrete in the impoverished global working class and you know very quickly. The International Labo