The modern world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. Its easy to say, as i do in my book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ourselves as natural adventurers, risktakers, entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. . I am a believer in american exceptionalism. But as marines like to say, it has to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and . And how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when timeed wholly in that making things when we were extracting them from the earth. We invented almost everything about america. We have constantly reinvented almost everything as we deemed it necessary, including our institutions, our customs, our laws. Above all, our definition of who is american and
As best we can. Im going to talk to you a little bit tonight about america the ingenious. This book i wrote. The best thing about writing books is hopefully you learned something. I learned a great deal writing this. Americansof how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many of the things exploit the world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. , as i do in myy book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ass natural adventurers, risktakers and entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. I am a believer in american exceptionalism. It hasnes like to say, to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when making things when we were extracting them
From the president for being inaccurate or misleading. While twitter makes it impossible to retweet the flagged post, trump posts on facebook are being spread. We will get to that and more this hour. Meantime, in the last halfhour, we got word that michigan has gone to former Vice President joe biden according to cnn and nbc and at this point, if he wins nevada and holds arizona, where some boats are still being counted, he will win the president ial election, but there are legal challenges a foot. President Trumps Campaign threatening to sue over vote counts. Michigan says it is declaring victory in pennsylvania where votes are still being counted, but first, i want to talk about the market which kicked off one of the biggest postelection rallies in history. Its best day since june. The nasdaq had its best day in months. With so much uncertainty, why are the markets outperforming . Abigail it is pretty incredible because it does not make sense on an intuitive level initially. Investor
Independence day weekend along the water, our reporter dave clark, nice to see bridge. We dont see a big backup at tells us that they are raising you. Concerns about trash collection you are here a little bit later, the toll plaza. If you are driving to San Francisco it should be good. Because youre in for mike around the east bay we have a today. To fire danger, and of course, nice looking drive on highway the spread of the coronavirus. Yes, i am in for mike today. Four. Theres not a lot of slow traffic. There you go. You can see the spots where we have slow traffic are light at the moment. Lets go back to the headlines. Health experts see kyla grogan is and for skyrocketing coronavirus cases in San Francisco, city leaders steve. We have colleagues enjoying time off. It seems like they will have a are now warning travelers, do not visit the city this fourth like every fourth of july with the bay areas weekend, every Holiday Weekend, nice weekend. The moon this morning was of july week
Backed government we take a key town and will often leave for half this push to capture the capital. We the National Football league in it we were wrong for. An apology from the National Football league in the United States it admits to making mistakes but ignoring players concerns about Racial Injustice and Police Brutality. So then a growing number of u. S. Police departments are enforcing changes to their tactics in the wake of George Floyds death the city of minneapolis where he was killed is Banning Police chokeholds and will require officers who see colleagues using improper force to step in and stop them as well as banning chokeholds new york state plans to classify false race based calls to Emergency Services as a hate crime and california will start training its officers to use the type of restraint that killed george floyd. Across this country we train techniques on strangleholds that put peoples lives a risk now we can argue that these are used as exceptions but at the end o