We thank you for being with us. Thank you, steve. Good to be with you. What surprised you the most in researching this book . Well, you know, in working on the book over the last its hard to know when i started. But in the intensive interviews that started three years ago with people of former president s and ceos id start the interviews with the same question. If you were interviewing a candidate for the presidency like you were doing a Job Interview what questions would you ask . What would the first question be, and i sort of assumed the traditional answers i would get is id ask about character, Decision Making. And one that i got that kept surprising me and kept coming up again and again is whats their ability to build a team, to manage people . Because everybody i talked to or almost everybody anyway was really focused on the idea of how a president puts together a Management Team because the job is though we talk about in campaigns as a single figure in the presidency its reel an
The nasdaq is up more than 1 . We got the exchequers plan to boost u. K. s economy, boosting sterling. There canada, the dollar is actually weaker and looking like the central bank will have to cut a few more times in order to get that deficit under control. A deficit that is by the way , was 30 of gdp before the pandemic. The mexican president is coming to washington to meet with President Trump to talk about the trade relationship with the u. S. And mexico as they face a deep recession. Joining us is our head of isearch joining us Kathryn Rooney vera, head of research and strategy at bulltick. Tell us about how the coronavirus is ravaging the mexican economy and how bad it will get. Kathryn ravaging is a good word. Mexico is facing the brunt of the epidemic. The authorities have really not come up to the task. They were nonbelievers at the beginning, which has caused tremendous suffering. We know that 50 of the tests taken come out positive in mexico, which is a world leader. That sa
Joining us from new york John Dickerson, his newest book, the hardest job in the world the american presidency. Hes also a correspondent on cbs news. Thank you for being with us. Thank you, steve. What surprised you the most in researching this book . And working on the book over the last, its hard to know when i started pit i either started 30 years ago or ten years ago or three years ago but in the intensive interviews that started three years ago when people including former president s and those who served in the white house ceos of start to question or start all the interviews with the same question. If you were interviewing a candidate for the presidency like you were doing a Job Interview what questions would you ask and what with the first question be and i assumed the traditional answers i would get would be id ask about character or id ask about decisionmaking in the one i got that surprises me that kept coming up again and again was what is their ability to build a team and
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People of all colors. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest john you are in bristol she is the deputy leader of the Workers Party of britain as well as author wrote the drive to war against russia and china her forthcoming book is identity politics and class and in budapest we have George Samuel he is author of bombs for peace natos humanitarian war on yugoslavia right across our girls in the fact that music can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets go to bristol jody what do you look you make of this new secular religion because that its kind of quasi christian you know a little bit of composers a little bit a bit eventually mentalists style. And you know it has on with this ritual walls it has its humes it has its clergy it has its script sure. And its making everybody miserable and it has nothing to do with fighting racism go ahead. Well i think its the last point that i am really interested in its do we want to fight racism and of course the answer fo