At cspan. Org coronavirus. Host joining us on the communicators is Andrew Marantz, a writer for the new yorker magazine, also the author of the book antisocial online extremists, technoutopians, and the hijacking of the american conversation. Andrew marantz, thanks for joining us try to thanks for having me. Host if i understand correctly the book grew and reporting you do for the new yorker. Can you explain that work and how it led to the genesis of the book . Guest yes. Around 2014, 2015 i was writing for the new yorker and its magazine that allows people to kind of rome and the generalists and go wherever they find interesting stories. Something else find it interesting time was what the internet was doing to us as a society in terms of our information streams. It wasnt fully political in my mind at that time. It was just sort of what happens when the trusted systems of information breakdown and people no longer know whats true or whats important versus irrelevant or how to spend th
Nascar becomes the first sport to return without fans in the stands. How it could drive the conversation on bringing sports back to america. Gentlemen, start your engines, but first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Theres a very real Health Consequence to these shutdowns that must be balanced against, as we try to reopen this economy and move forward. Many americans out and about for the first time in months as more states ease restrictions. I think were doing pretty well, being precautious. People will have to be fully confident and that may have to await the arrival of a vaccine. This pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what theyre doing. The war of words is escalating between President Trump and former president barack obama. He was an incompetent president. Grossly incompetent. North carolina bracing for the first named storm of 2020. Tropical storm arthur. This is an early start to the hurricane s
Or oil industry up to prices that dip into negative territory for the 1st time in history and why the constitution and tradition are making it difficult to slice of the coronavirus curve in japan. The thank you for joining us the current a virus pandemic could lead to famines in thousands of countries pushing tens of millions more people around the world to the brink of starvation a un report has highlighted the vast number of people around the world who are now acutely food in secure the World Food Program has requested 350000000 dollars to set up a network to keep humanitarian supply chains moving around the world. There are no examples yet but i must warn you that if we dont prepare and act now to secure access avoid fundies shortfalls disruptions to treat we could be facing multiple famines of biblical proportions within a short few months the answer is it we take will determine our success or failure and build a Sustainable Food systems as the basis of stable and peaceful societie
Hes accused of as well as how hes conducting his defense that will bring a sense of dejavu. Sources familiar with the matter say the Impeachment Team tends to accomplish the former president s E S Incitement was intentional, something we heard over and over again. Make no mistake, this election was stolen from you, from me, and from the country. Its going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud. This was not a close election. You know, i say sometimes jokingly but there is no joke about it. It was a rigged election. You look at the different states, the election was totally rigged. There is no way we lost georgia. Ive been in two elections and won them both and the second one i won much bigger than the first. Because the only way were going to lose this election is if the election is rigged. Remember that. Frankly, we did win this election. So, in addition to documenting that, the prosecution is expected to lean heavily on video from the attack itself
Minority leader and a man who says nothing casually, has weighed in on qanon supporter Marjorie Taylor greene. What he said could matter a lot. Well tell you in just a few moments. First, we begin tomorrow morning just in time for Groundhog Day house Impeachment Managers will file papers laying out their case in the second trial of the 45th president of the United States. And in keeping with the spirit of the day, there is a lot what hes accused of as well as how hes conducting his defense that will bring a sense of deja vu. Especially when it comes to how much of the wrong doing played out in plain view. Sources familiar with the matter say the Impeachment Team tends to say the former president s incitement was intentional, something we heard over and over again. Make no mistake, this election was stolen from you, from me, and from the country. Its going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud. This was not a close election. You know, i say sometimes