I titled it the promise land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes, even if we experienced hardships and disappointments along the way that i at least still have faith we can create a more perfect union, not a perfect unit union but a more perfect union. Good morning and welcome to a very special edition of Washington Post life. Im an opinion columni for the wasngton post and founding director of the race card project. For this very special conversation this mning i am ined by my dear friend elizabeth alexander, poet, schor and president of the Andrew Mellon foundation for good morning, elizabeth. Goo morning. It is wonderful to be together. It is wonderful to be together and together we bh welcome our gue for this conversation. The 44th president of the unitedtates, barack obama and i assume you recognize that guy in the mide. Good morning, sir. Hello, guys Washington Post brought out t big guns for thi one. [laughter] we are so excited to see you. We are. I am ver
2020 meeting of the Police Commission. I think its probably fair to say that we all have our minds a little bit elsewhere tonight given everything thats going on in the world, and this being probably the consequential election of our lifetime. Were glad to be here with you all and we will all take the pledge of allegiance tonight with maybe a little more awareness of whats going on in the world. I will ask everyone to place their hands over their heart so we can say the pledge. [pledge of allegiance]. Thank you, and as always, if i could ask for the commissioners to mute their microphones. If you would like to be heard, just put your name in the chat box. Members of the public who are dialing in, i would ask you to please mute any background noise so that we can hear you and there is no feedback. The dial in number is [indiscernible] 0001, access code 146424 [indiscernible]. You will have two minutes for Public Comment. Please call the roll. [roll call]. You have quorum. [indiscernibl
By police in the mistaken radio. Agree to pay a settlement of 12000000. 00. European leaders visit the migration prices goes from bad to worse germany agrees to take in more than 1500 refugees but absent other European Countries to help. I merely for how much time will come the Israeli Army Says it struck the must targets in the gaza strip early on wednesday the bombings and the apparent retaliate for rocket fire from the hamas controlled territory the previous evening the rockets were launched as israel the United Arab Emirates and both rain signed accords and washington to normalize diplomatic relations u. S. President host of the white house ceremony placing himself in the role of International Peacemaker ahead of us elections in november. Thank you very much please the decision by the United Arab Emirates and bahrain to normalize ties with israel breaks decades of consensus within the arab world a peace deal with the palestinians has long been upheld as a prerequisite for establish
With bahrain and the United Arab Emirates establishing diplomatic relations President Trump says theyre just the 1st of many such deals to come. Our brian todd this could have you with us today japan has a new Prime Minister here shahid asuka has been formally elected after a vote in parliament he replaces the outgoing Prime Minister shinzo abbay who resigned earlier this month for Health Reasons suga is expected to stick closely to the policies championed by his predecessor. So what can japan and the world expect from suger the man now at the helm of the worlds 3rd biggest economy heres a brief look. Yoshida sukar may look like a traditional politician in a suit but theres more to him than meets the eye. For the last 8 years he occupied the powerful position of chief cabinet secretary. As such he was diffracted a number 2 there are they and the key enforcer of government policy. As part of his effort to secure the top job he vowed to stick to those policies presenting himself as a saf
Else, stimulus optimism. Pelosi and mnuchin are set to speak again. Airline stocks are up. Plus the race for a cure and treatment for the coronavirus. Shares of regeneron and eli lilly are rallying, both asking the fda for emergency use approval for their antibody therapies. And speaking of surging, look at shares of ibm this morning, moving up on plans to spin off its it infrastructure unit Arvind Krishna and Ginni Rometty will both join us first to discuss this historic move for the company. Carl we are awash in headlines from the president after this 55minute interview. But buried in there are discussions about the progress of stimulus talks and emergency approval for the likes of lilly and regeneron. Look, i think that there is a narrative that were going to start hearing and it was the president s narrative, he voiced it, i know if youre george ancopolous, you dont want to hear it is a cure. You want to hear it is something that is part of a cocktail of things that you need to be