Past 24 hours. Its a sacred number. More than 1,800 more lives in just the last day. Never been broken that number. A death reported every minute in this country. Nobody thought they would see it. 14 Straight Days of record hospitalizations. We have broken records during the Trump Administration. More than 85,000 patients in hospitals across this country. Which is the highest in history. Millions waiting for hours for tests, some waiting five hours or more today. Thank you very much, everybody. President trump focused on the numbers, just the wrong numbers in a really weird, short news conference. Good morning. You know he didnt answer questions. I dont know what you call it. It was strange. If you want to see what happens after the president leaves the office amazing. Sign of the times. Some george w. Bush type expressions in there. What the heck. That was weird. You know, i was talking to somebody last night. We were going over the election. You know, earlier right after the Election
Weve hosted a series of conversations about the truman era, joe, and it kind of makes us realize that we should be talking about truman more and its impact on the world stage back then and his presidency and still today. Lets bring in another great panel to continue the timely discussion. Former u. S. Senator and msnbc political analysis claim mccaskill is here. She knows truman more than anybody. And columnist from the Washington Post David Ignatius joins us and haste historian jo meachham who advises president elect joe biden. So john, let me ask you. You were the first while i was developing and i was writing the book and while i was sort of developi developing my thoughts, you were the first to draw parallels between hair y truman and joe biden. Saying if joe biden were elected there would be some parallels between the two that were too hard to miss . Yeah. It is a coming to power at a moment where the infrastructure of the world is either under stress and strain or is fully broken
Weve hosted a series of conversations about the truman era, joe, and it makes us realize we should be talking about truman more and its impact on the world stage back then. His presidency and still today. Lets bring in another great panel to continue the timely discussion. Former u. S. Senator, now an msnbc news and msnbc news political analyst, Claire Mccaskill is here. She knows truman more than anybody. Columnist and associate editor for the washington post, David Ignatius and historian and rogers chair at vanderbilt university, jon meacham who unofficially advises president elect joe biden. Jon, you were the first while i was developing, while i was writing the book and sort of developing my thoughts. You were the first to draw parallels between harry truman and joe biden. And saying at the time if joe biden ended up being elected there would be some parallels between the two that were too hard to miss. Yeah, its, you know, a coming to power at a moment where the infrastructure of
Backwards and forwards. After the first everyone join in. Okay, everybody. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] [applause] we would like to hear from you. Tweet us your feedback. Twitter. Com booktv. Up next on book tv, Erick Stackelbeck talks about the history of the Muslim Brotherhood and the influence it deals in egypt and across the middle east today. He argues that even though morsi , a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood was recently ousted to my brother is still a dangerous group not to be taken lightly. About an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] i think really the best thing about my life is that i have wonderful friends and many of them are here. One of them is this brilliant, brilliant individual, and i dont mean that in the british sense, but the american sense. Erick stackelbeck has written a groundbreaking book on the Muslim Brotherhood. Its called the brotherhood americas next great enemy. I am a slow reader, but i went through read in one
It has to deal with some internal behind the scenes deliberations about how to get long fire. It was a very old political ally of fdr and played a huge role in the nomination in 1932. She has developed relationships with what we would, you know, five years later call zionists. And she is appearing in sin synagogues especially in communities where there have been violence. What shes doing is this dance. You know, this dance between using, you know, not assailing of the governments tamarty in refugee policy. In my day, but shes making it very painfully clear on the ground where she stands. [applause] [inaudible conversations] that concludes our coverage of the 2013 roosevelt reading festival. You can watch the airing of our live coverage tonight at midnight. Next on book tv, susan allen, the wife of the former Virginia Governor and u. S. Senator george allen present a Childrens Book on the life of president Ronald Reagan. Thank you, all, for your interest in a great story about a remarka