My childrens godfather is a former special forces group and he had a line he got from a commander somewhere in his career that said there are some peoplpeople just need killing. Some you will not be able to reason with or negotiate with and there is just evil in the world and that is kind of the approach he takes. He doesnt necessarily like it when he knows it needs to be done he went out and he does it. He runs through the bucs as a combination of multiple people that ive known in the world of government, diplomacy, part of government. Hhes actually named after somebody right here in dc who processes fisa warrants for the prophetic justice. So there is one over at doj, real life, and i hope it is a great name for a character. He is a collection of these people and then what i tell folks is that hes my alter ego. He gets to go and do the things my wife wont let me do. She let me go to afghanistan but she drew the line of chasing female operatives. So there is a line i cant cross. Host
To do here. I have always been reluctant to say this truly could be one of the most important things we as members of this committee do. The world is experiencing today and what the american and as is americas face is one of the most significant challenges that a lot of us will face in our lifetime. The bad news, the really bad news is that its entirely possible that it will happen again. I say this of course because the experts tell us that this virus that made the leap from one species to another can very easily happen again and if there are 2000 of these viruses out there you have no idea what they can do when they get into a human being. Thats what experts and scientists tell us have identified within their branch about 2000 different viruses. Having said that we need to look forward and i want to stress what im trying to do with this and what about all of us are trying to do, to look forward. There are a lot of hearings going on and a lot of hyperbowl going on and a lot of blame a
Its political. Everything is political nowadays, right . It is so easy to say, thats just political. That was the fear. If new yorkers did that, governmentally, they had no ability to enforce 19 billion homes. Staying in their that is why the communication was so important. Give them the facts, give them the facts, give them the facts so they understand why. That worked. The second nightmare was what if the central workers dont show ssentiale e workers dont show up . Someone has to pick up the garbage, the hospitals halfs to run have to run. What if the e central workers said im not going to show up . You communicated so effectively, the fear of the virus, that would be and then the essential workers say if everyone is staying home, im staying home too. It could have happened. I went through the hiv virus, when hiv started. People were petrified. Nobody knew what it was. Nobody knew how it lived, how it was transferred, how long it lived. People were petrified. Nobody wanted to go near
Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. So welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Look into that subject eventually, but the point of the book, entitled seven pillars, and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq, and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is, its been absolute failure, if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a countries success or failure of the people who live there, but the catastrophe in todays middle east raises questions
Ross knocking joe biden and the democrats im joined by my guest Richard Goodstein an old bridge he is a democratic strategist and a former adviser to bill and Hillary Clinton and in new york im joined by how when she was in city she is in american journalist with r. T. Her writings are collected at how one of destroy dot com or across Something Else in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let me go to you 1st. You have to tell me youre really super excited about joe biden is your nominee right coming really ok because your party got. Peter i am super excited when i look at the polls and i see that the American People have come to their senses i guess you know im not Donald Trumps biggest fan and when i see. Notwithstanding the fact that there is this usual rally around the flag it gracing a president during a time of crisis and thats happening in every other country on the planet and virtually every state in the United States dollar tax rates we