Welcome to the amine for our, heres where were headed this week this week, we examined power and all the ways it affects our lives. First, were going to compete with china were determined to do that. Todays big Power Conflict between china and the United States. My conversation with veteran diplomat us ambassador To Beijing Nicholas Burns, then people have always been interested and now theyre sort of worried. And concern about oh, no Luck Power unchecked power. And the fact that it might be coming for america, the writer who examined a man named Robert Moses who had the power to build and trample over new York Pulitzer prize winning Author Robert Kara joins me. Why 50 years on his seminal book is still flying off the shelves now its safe, you know, so people stay in the deadly Power Struggle in El Salvador between a Strongman President and the criminal gangs. And what it all means for the United States and then in our letter from london, he unleashed her as his secret Weapon Kingmaker
How important this process is, to getting confirmation, as we saw what happened in 1986. More importantly, i think he took head on a lot of the critics and criticism of decisions that hes made and votes hes cast. And i thought in particular, with cory booker becoming historic, you saw the first sho for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. Lets just put that on the table. Certainly, thats part of the drama and theater of what he chose to do. But i also found it somewhat ironic that just in january of 2016, in legislation that he cosponsored with mr. Sessions, that celebrated those who walked from walked the selma mile, if you will, that he referred to him as it was a great honor to work with him and that he appreciated his commitment to civil rights. And yet now sees him as he referred to him as a danger
with danger to our country, as hes been quoted to say. The politics is not lost here. I think everyone in this town understands that. And to have this staged the way it was wit