Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. [ applause ] well, the best news of the night is paul has left the book up here. And ive got mine. Thank you so much, paul, for sharing roberts compelling and fascinating story with us. Id also just like to take a chance to thank him. He did double duty for us last night. He taught the normandy scholars before they went off to the battlefield of normandy in pursuit of history. If you enjoyed this i very much hope you will join us on wednesday, june 27th for one of the worlds most prominent and recognized scholars of the holocaust, the anatomy of a genocide. Thank you so much for coming. Come back soon. [ applause ] first ladies. Influence and image on American History tv examines the private lives and public roles of the nations first ladies through interviews with top historians. Tonight, we look at Edith Roosevelt and helen taft. Edith roosevelt along with her husband theodore became the first president and first lady to travel abroad w
We still cant hear you. I wonder if we should try having you sign in again or have you call in rather than just a video link and we could hear you by dialing in. I will let my staff interact with you directly and in the meantime we will begin with some questions. My apologies, Mister Morrison, we will get this worked out. Let me look for any of our witnesses that can be heard. The current pandemic began in china. If possible the next pandemic may begin somewhere else. If the pandemic were to begin or begin spreading in africa what level of confidence do you have in our ability to identify that it is taking place, what transparency would we find, given there was not much transparency out of china in some critical early days and weeks, how would you assess the threat of a pandemic coming from the african continent . Can i start . Sure. Im confident that should such a pandemic start in africa we would have tremendous cooperation. I look back on the situation with ebola in west africa wher
Prident trump downplays the pandemic using his fourth of july speeches to focus on the culture wars, saying the enemy is not the virus but americans protesting injustice, calling them part of a new far left fascism as kanye announces hes running for president. Whats behind this latest stunt. A massive outbreak of gun violence over the weekend, 75 people shot in chicago. More than a dozen killed. 55 shot in new york, and in atlanta, an 8yearold killed near the memorial for Rayshard Brooks. Enough is enough. Enough is enough. The call for answers this morning. Waking up behind bars. Ghislaine maxwell, the friend of Jeffrey Epstein, now facing charges, prepares to head back to court as we learn new details about her past and why one alleged victim says Prince Andrew should be panicking. Wild Weather Coast to coast. The fastmoving wildfire forcing evacuations in california and flash floods and high winds wreaking havoc in the east. And major league concerns. Dozens of baseball and basketba
According to me. And also to those of us, our audience at home on the live stream, we welcome you as always. My name is martin lay cano from the institute for the study of war and democracy here at the National World war ii museum. We are the humble group of scholars that bring you programs such as this and it is pleasure to have paul here with us tonight. The institute. What do we do . Apologize to the veterans that hear this every fee weeks but it is the search core and the Higher Education center of the museum and we call ourselves a community of scholars to build bridges to academics and other authors and experts around the world to make them part of the Museum Family and plug them into programs such as this to produce scholarship of our own as our multiple Award Winning Senior Historian rob sateeno, not here because hes celebrating his 60th birthday has done with all ten of his books. We offer a wonderful new Research Project and service which you could find on the website. We cou
Worldwide trade has been slashed. Postnba future, we will hear from lebron james. Feeling more risk as we head into the last trading session of the week for asia. Lasttrading flat after the halfhour of frenzied gains, s p 500 up 20 loss in the previous session. Nikkei futures at the moment looking flat. Dollaryen holding at 107. Gainingg dollar index with the exception of the kiwi and aussie dollar. It feels like we will see modest over in spite of concerns increased virus numbers, particularly in the u. S. And globally we are averaging 150,000 new cases per day. The underscores uncertainty. The senate in the u. S. Approving a bipartisan bill that would limit banks doing business with chinese officials involved in hong kong. Tom mackenzie is in beijing. It still has to be signed into law. Given unanimous consent, how likely is it this will be enacted . Tom very likely at this stage. It has bipartisan support in the house and it has been signed off in the senate. It will end up on trump