And people all over the bay area gearing up for this event today. We have some video from berkeley yesterday with people at the Lawrence Hall of science and Staff Members explain how size and distance have to line up just right with the sun about 440 times the size of the new moon but it is further away and that is why it looks like it is the same size. We knew that it was coming and we just love the chance to see the spectacle in here in berkeley we get a partial eclipse. Reporter it will be at about 10 15 this morning. We lost 40 clubs in north america was in 1979. Nasa is having this viewing event later on today handing out the safety glasses was definitely do not look at the eclipse unless you have that. Also inside they will be having a live feed for people to check out with some nasa jets flying around today they expect to bring back about 29,000 images of the eclipse. Sandra osborne, kpix 5. Eclipse wadis watching is planned so lets check in with roberta about the weather. We ar
We hone youre enjoying the festival and we definitely it invite you to become a friends of the festival today by texting, friend to 520214 book as shown on the sign right over here in the front of the room or visit the friend of the festival booth on the mall your guess makes difference in keeping festival programming tree of chrnlg and supporting critical literacy programs in the community. Out of respect for it the authors and fellow audience members please turn off your cell phone at this moment and now im o going to introduce our authors here with us today so joe, joe is a veteran political journalist hes a founder tore in chief of the memo and editor of large fund of the nation sthiewt. His article have prepared anywhere you host probably ever read them. And hes notably covered every american president ial election since 1980. Hes author of man of the world the future endeavors of bill clinton that is what well be talking about today also father of nineyearold twins who are watchi
Clint is a senior fellow with Foreign Policy research institute. His focus is national security. He has served in the u. S. Army and is a former fb i agent. Lets talk about what we need to know about the history of u. S. russian relations to understand whats going on now. Help us understand that. This really dates back 20 years. After the u. S. Essentially won the cold war, we expanded our influence in europe under the clinton administration. We were involved in conflicts in the balkans and throughout the world. Russia took a back seat. They were seen as being weak in the eyes of some in russia. If you look to the Bush Administration and later obama administration, you saw two times where president s reached out and tried to build better relations with russia but were rebuffed. Thats in large part because Vladimir Putin feels like nato and the European Union are an aggressive actor against russia. They have chosen to rise in recent years by using whats known as active measures or a met
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