Tom yesterday was extraordinary. We are still regrouping in new york from the news flow yesterday of transactions and of course of the president of the United States. The number one breaking story here in the zeitgeist of the east coast is that the president appears to be healthy, and the real decision for him today is, does he do a rally tomorrow in one of these key battleground states . That seems to be the topic is topiceck the topic the du jour. Francine lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika the white house is once again shifting its position on a stimulus package. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin told House Speaker nancy pelosi the administration now once an agreement on a largescale relief bill. Earlier this week, they president pulled negotiators from talks on comprehensive legislation. Officials are keeping up the pressure on washington to renew fiscal support for the economy. Dallas fed president Robert Kaplan sees a Slower Economy without mor
Agents there. A few months before in dallas he tried to murder general edwin walker because walker had given speeches attacking communism. So oswald never hid his politics. Not for a moment. He talked incessantly about communism to anyone who would listen. But Many Americans never really understood what Lee Harvey Oswald believed and they didnt understand it because the news outlets didnt tell them. Almost immediately, the media began spinning a different story. President kennedy, they suggested, had been murdered by conservatives, possibly by conservatism itself, by hate, as they often put it. The explanation was never precise but the idea was the same. Right wingers killed kennedy. The soviet union naturally a suspect in this crime happy to agree with the assessment. As a Soev Yacht Spokesman Soviet Spokeman put it the moral responsibility lay with Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right. In the end, coordinated lying paid off. A year later goldwater lost to the incumbent d
Look at the world in 2020. Here at our table is Daniel Franklin, executive and diplomatic editor at the economist. Here is the cover, the world in 2020. You say this year will not be short of drama. What do you think . Politically, the big drama is going to be the election in the u. S. , running through november. Elsewhere, as we have seen in recent days, it is a risky world, and the pace of change seems to be so fast. Host you break it down into many different facets, which i think viewers will find interesting. You begin saying it is judgment time. It is doubly true for President Trump, first in congress as the democrats try to remove him from office, and then with this election in november. Tell me about judgment time. Guest i think the world will be watching. This is something that clearly concerns the u. S. , but given the importance of this country to everything that happens around the world, this is an international, global drama. I think particularly starting with the actual im
Why are we not finding better ways of treating cancer . Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Next author petra goedde , talked about her book, the politics of peace a global cold war history. She explored the emerging politics of peace during the early years of the cold war. The Woodrow Wilson center the National History Center Hosted this event. Thank you. I am delighted to see so many of series to welcome to our fromsor petra goedde temple university. She is a professor in the history of globalization. She is a coeditor of one of the most important journals in the field, dip the medic history. Diplomatic history. Her publications include gis and germans, culture, gender and foreign relations, 19451949. And now, the politics of peace a global cold war history. She had it published by oxford this year. It is based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has also coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012. And the oxford handbook of the cold war,
Because of the hong kong elections. Record turnouts sunday, big loss for scombrabeijing. I think its heartening to see the people stand firm. For xi jinping, its a setback. What will he do now . Investors round the world cheered. Its part of our rally on wall street today. No cheering for uber. The authorities in london will not renew ubers license to do business there. Ouch. London was its best European Market. Uber takes the hit because of passenger safety concerns . Gee, i wonder if londons famous black cabs had a hand in this. Ubers stock is down 4 premarket. Seconds from now, frozen 2 big box office, tesla, dare i say a smashing success, and a little blue box, tiffany, now worth 16 billion. Varney company is about to begin. Has elsa seemed weird to you . She seems like elsa. Theres voice. Voice, what does that mean . Head for the cliffs ive got you. Stuart there you have it. Frozen 2 debuted this weekend. 350 Million Worldwide. That was the opening Worldwide Box Office globally, t