Im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining the three amazing authors today. You can see them on the screen. They are George Packer whose latest book the man who ran washington Richard Holbrooke and the man who ran washington and the life and times of james a. Baker, iii. Two brilliant books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930 and holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer, holbrooke a democrat Foreign Service officers student of Foreign Policy. Their lives are very different and they are project trees but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that this is a man with great ambition and i was there even before he came to washington. Yeah it was. He was a family of aristocracy. His family built modern houston and he was expected to do great things. A very dominating father who is in part done him the legacy of his family. One thing they were
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And so american citizens living in germany and for them of course there was a sense of relief and also the whole controversy about demanding ballasts have a very very happy so happy some of them even went to the american in front of the American Embassy again to celebrate others was set up writing online and of course the reaction of im going to america where you just talked about its also cheerful tweeting to h. E. Congratulates Vice President Vice President common our. President elect joe biden 4 days success in diesel action she highlighted. Translated to the need for the transatlantic ties to to remain it was a very difficult 4 years for i get america for the German Government president s you know donald trump theres been a lot of disputes between the 2 countries so of course germany is looking forward to a new start do you see this also the words used by foreign minister hi called so said he was congratulating the president elect and the Vice President and also looking forward to
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Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show democratic candidate joe biden has won the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania with 99 percent of the vote counted in pennsylvania biden it garnered a 49. 7 percent and trump received 49. 2 percent while the 20 electoral votes biden won in this state allows him to surpass the 270 that magic number needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press was also picked up 6 and nevada giving him a total of 290 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. And democratic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect biden success from philadelphia to black lives matters plaza in washington to new yorks times square people showed signs of relief and excitement here some of those reactions to me me everything my mother is a disabled woman who knows the caribbean medicaid and medicare and to know. How to and you can no longer