I have guy with me a wonderful author writing a fantastic book john, you are a distinguished scholar and historian and have given us a book at exactly the right time we need in the midst of a pandemic. You have said your goal was to do a citizens guide what did you mean by that quick. Great question. I wanted to write a book that will be a first draft of history during the covid and beyond but would speak to an interested reader not just a specialist in the field there are a lot of specialist and my valueadded code be a translate to readers who are just fascinated by the blizzard of the legal issues that have arisen in the last six months that we were not on most peoples agenda until now. And we never thought about past epidemicsut we are now particularly what can weearn from them andhen do we know it will be over. But i want to beg at the end of your book and now i will back to ask you more about this questn. You wh america has two histories one is far more appealing in the mons and y
To feel the Nervous Energy of the finalists and the champagne would be flowing. The kirkus prize isnt what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party with a glamour and energy all on its own. Last year when Entertainment Weekly wrote about the major literary awards they referred to the kirkus prize as golden globes, fun and unpredictable and tonight we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend the ceremony in person. To that end our editor at large, megan, caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as as we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kirkus. Com, but here is a sneak peek. A typical year we would all be gathered at the Austin Public Library for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand, everybody mingling. I wanted to ask whe could we find you as a finalis before the award ce
We have more than i think 760 registered for this meeting and we will do our best to get to as many questions as we can during the period but now a little bit about this event. The independent Task Force Program began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to us Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. Once launched task forces are independent of cfr and are solely responsible for the content of their worth. And the task forceprograms 25th year cfr is launching its 78 Task Force Report and id like to welcome you to this discussion of the report and its called improving pandemic preparedness , lessons from covid19. A brief introduction of our panelists, we have cynthia burwell, cochair and president of American University and also former us secretary of health and Human Services under president obama. Welcome to you. Also joining us is frances townsend, also cochair, assistant to president bush in Homeland Security and counterterrorism and is vice chairman on general counsel of vic
The sessions you want to take a look at whats happening with u. S. Equity futures this morning. Dow futures up 10 points, s p up by three we are still under water for all three major averages even after the gains we saw yesterday the dow down about 3 . The nasdaq is down 5. 6 also bumping up against the end of the quarter. Major averages still in positive territory. Youll see now, it looks like the 10year is sitting at 0. 65 of 1 . Andrew, welcome back thank you, becky House Speaker pelosi said democrats proposed a new 2. 2 trillion relief bill saying it is a compromised measure with in funding for schools and airlines white house chief of staff saying President Trump would be willing to sign a 1. 3 trillion relief package well see, guys where this all heads. Inching along we went from 2. 3 to 2. 2. I dont know where the white house is Vice President mike pence said yesterday americans should expect a rise in covid cases in the days ahead as testing increases in some midwestern states
The u. K. Does a uturn and bans huawei the u. K. Does a uturn and bans huawei from its 5g network. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the Unemployment Rate for the month of june coming in at 4. 3 . Now, this is lower than the estimate of 4. 5 . The Unemployment Rate falling from the previous month. We have seen a little bit of strength in the south korean economy with more positivity coming from that ramp up in government job creation efforts. Still, we have those negative effects from the pandemic with the hardhit hospitality and Retail Sectors continuing to reel. South korea losing jobs. Those removed in june from a year earlier. Still, the Unemployment Rate falling to 4. 3 . Lets get a quick check on how markets are trading at the moment. U. S. Futures rallying. We have after the market closed more positive news when it comes to the vaccine front from motor and a. In the regular session, we saw u. S. Stocks posting their biggest gains in more than a week. 7 . Thi