Want to thank the commentators and everyone for assembling this deeply honor especially to be giving the William Roger lewis in the flesh. We were on the state Department Committee suffering through a lot of bows and arrows back in the decade prior, and i got to know him well and i feel really honored to give a lecture that is in his name. This book came about and so many of you, my friends, have heard this origin story. This came about because lewis liked the review i had done and mentioned the series that helen was doing that would use my biography to teach history that would pick biographical topics or would use a representative biography to get a broader subject of history. They had just published their first volume. It was on pocahontas. And issues regarding native American History, they were looking for somebody to do something on foreign relations, he offered me the opportunity to put together the perspectives. These were supposed to be short and concise books, that was the idea
Then move. On that shows that this is a very generous support package. I want to say i think it is absolutely justified he does if youre absolutely. Retailers and consumers not on the what they are facing in these last couple of weeks of the year it will be an exceptionally quiet Holiday Season but the hope is that that will also be true for hospitals. And Political Correspondent so when young joins me now simon welcome and almost full lockdown has been an announced as expected what are the main takeaways. Well i think the main thing is that the run up to christmas this year in germany will look very different from previous years and its incredibly drastic measure closing down nonessential retail from the 16th of december the time when a lot of people do their Christmas Shopping and that will mean an enormous amount for many businesses as well as individuals but the government is responding with this huge packages the finance minister said theyre costing between 10 and 12000000000. 00
Big headlines. Washington getting ready for the million maga march as counterprotests a are planned. Major networks called georgia and arizona for biden, Computer Software used for voting created major irregularities as resentment grows over this story and more, the do as i say, not as i do politicians. New examples of them breaking their own covid19 shutdown rules. Also tonight, how the election is not a repudiation of republican policies as democrats try to claim. Democrats are left with the slimmest majority in two decades. More democrats support nancy pelosi. Republicans could claim the house in the midterms as the democrat civil war is intensifying. Mud slinging, pushback, name calling, the far left squad is growing in size, also stepping up their fight with moderates. Theyre saying the far left, quote, defund the police is wrong and democrats dont have some, quote, crazy socialist agenda. They dont like it. And more on the hunter biden controversy. Democrat adam schiff now trying
Live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, ondemand on cspan. Org Supreme Court or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the Atlanta History Center virtual talk series but im virginia prescott and im your host for this talk. Tonight and talking with lisa napoli about her new book up all night, ted turner and the birth of 24 hour news for you can purchase the book directly from a cappella books and the link is in the chat on the right of your screen and the link is also at the Atlanta History Center website. As lisa and i talked please submit your questions and use a q a feature at the bottom of your screen and will try to answer as many as we can as time allows. We will be broadcasting excerpts of this interview on Second Thought this friday and you will hear me do what we call a re id to keep consistent sound while we are going. So excited to speak with lisa napoli who got her first journalism job at cnn after interning at cnn new york, and bc bureaus as a teenager and she is a repo
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