To submityours at the q a button located at the top of your screen. Todays briefing is from general hr mcmaster, senior fellow at the hoover institution. It was the 26th National Security advisor to the president of the United States and served as Commission Officer in the army for 34 years before retiring as Lieutenant General in june 2018. His latest book is entitled battle grounds. And it will be released in september and its available for preorder now on amazon. Thanks for your serviceand thanks for joining us today. Its great closure to be with you and to be with everyone. I know youve been watching these briefings regularly and the coverage of the aspects involved with covid19. A lot of our discussions have been focused on the pandemic and our economy and today with you i like to discuss the rest of the world, particularly the geopolitical threats that have been accelerated by covid19. Im going to ask you to take a tour around the world which should be a lot of fun. Lets start wi
Book tv continues now in cspan2, television for serious readers. Welcome tour virtual briefing series i am tom gilligan director of the Hoover Institution. For more than essential the Hoover Institution at Stanford Universitys generating policy ideas that promote democratic governance. We are excited to be able to connect virtually with you with informed were coming out of our institution. These policy briefings provide an opportunity for you to hear directly from one of our top scholars on the pressing issues facing the world in this difficult time. Hope you enjoy and find value in our discussion. We will be taking audience questions today and encourage adjustment yours at the q a button located the bottom of your screen. Todays briefing is from general hr mcmaster senior fellow at the Hoover Institution he was a 26 not untrue National Security adviser to the president of the United States. He also served for 34 years as he retired as Lieutenant General as june of 2018. His latest boo
Says will give hope to other parts of the world class. The georgia braces for a rise in infections after bowing to religious pressure and allowing churches to open orthodox easter. The British Government has denied reports that it wasted time and botched its response to the coronavirus pandemic with Prime Minister Boris Johnson directly to blame a damning report in the sunday Times Newspaper says johnston ignored scientists warnings and skipped 5 emergency meetings in the run up to the crisis this is the u. K. Recorded 596 more deaths pushing the total past 16000 elsewhere in europe italy and spain of recorded their lowest daily death tolls in about a month with 433 and 410 deaths respectively but numbers keep rising across the atlantic with more than 40000 people now dead in the u. S. The worlds worst affected country meanwhile south korea which once had the worst outbreak outside china has recorded just 8 new infections well have more on that shortly but 1st this report from paul bre
Health Care Community in new york eats the ball to help front line workers in a crisis and im sorry how much now have all the support including you have the president dana white says hes close to securing a private island to make sure he can keep staging events during the current of us spent. We begin this news all in the u. K. Where Prime Minister johnson already one of the most high profile coronavirus patients yet is in intensive care and on that he was transferred to his symptoms got worse on monday night johnson was admitted to hospital on sunday and was moved as a precaution in case he needs a ventilator with a Prime Minister out of action foreign secretary dominic robb stepping in to lead the government. Rory talents is our correspondent and london at this hour so rory weve had quite a few leaders come out trying to calm the public since this announcement do actually know any more about our stance and condition. Or michael gove who is the cabinet secretary and incidentally it se
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