Host of decoded. We all know why you are here and without further ado, lets welcome mr. Brad meltzer. [applause] story we are here and just so you know you all have your cameras out. Cspan is here and you know what that means, we are being watched by all of our Favorite Book nerds. We are all together in one pla place. The joke doesnt work in sports places. I love coming to virginia. Our home and a beautiful place for us where we had our lives here. I started writing here and it is especially important today. Today i is the day my dad died d we mark the day and i know it seems that something sad i love my father and especially i love being in this barnes and noble because my father used to go to the local barnes and noble and is a claim here for brad meltzers new book, hes my favorite author and they would say we know hes your son. My mom would say what do you mean john grisham is in the front window, not anymore. After co we honor my father here tonight. We have a couple of things use
We are talking about at a given moment but keeping you on track with market averages and how they are doing today and how they have been doing over the very last couple of rough days and how they are your today and certainly from the march 23 lows. We have come back for example s p 500 tech sector came back about 70 from those low so even with the ground a loss we are still up in that sector north of 30 year to date with all that die ration so we will keep giving you all of that perspective as well. Also, looking at whats happening with Political Development that may or may not move the markets we will get into the employment report that looks good on the surface, still looks good, but right now its being ignored for other features such as the technology downdraft. Always going into the Labor Day Weekend you worry about these things were seated people locked themselves in place and thats a traditional argument you here, but regardless, we will keep you uptodate on this as we expect to
With us during the pandemic. Im basically living in a failed tv pilot, and i know about that kind of thing. Honestly though, weve really bonded over the past few months, had a lot of chats about life lessons. Like, i think its important for dads to be open about their failures. Which was easy for me, i told them to go on youtube and search for rob lowe Academy Awards 1989. And of course, we also get to share our triumphs. And we have one tonight. Last night here on the show, i mentioned a great injustice had been done to me by my beloved l. A. Dodgers. They have a Program Going right now where you pay to have a cardboard cutout of yourself put in the seats at dodger stadium, and all the money goes to the Los Angeles Dodgers foundation. So i did it, and they gave me a great spot behind home plate, until i was abruptly removed and replaced with a cardboard cutout of guillermo. I swear, this is not a joke. This actually happened and it was unacceptable on every level. But i received an ou
The food and Drug Administration during the obama presidency. Moss from theliam Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health talks about the global effort to develop a vaccine. Good morning, this is washington journal for september 10. In the first hour we will take your comments about bob woodward about the early assessments of coronavirus. The president saying that initially he wanted to play it down. If you want us to let us know your thoughts on this release of the audiotapes from yesterday and the reaction to it. If you support the president and Vice President call into 2027488000. If you support joe biden and kamala harris, 2027488001. If you are undecided or supporting others, 2027488002. You can text us your thoughts at 2027488003. Wj and postcspan on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. The Washington Post headline from one of the excerpts from the audio releases from yesterday, i always wanted to play it down. This is coming from Bob Woodwards book say book rage. This
Live coverage here on cspan. Let me first off start by saying thank you for your time. How are you doing . This is insanity . This is insanity. You are right. It is surreal. It is very intense. 15 tosly, we are working 17 hours a day on this seven days a week, but it is something we have to do. Is historic in its proportions. We have not seen anything like this since the 1918 pandemic. It is challenging for the entire world, and we, the United States, have gotten hit worse than virtually any other country when you talk about cases and deaths. This is an important challenge for us. There is a lot we have to discuss here and not a lot of time. When we are done, we will be joined by the school of Public Health and the director of the school of Public Affairs to build on your comments, but i want to die right in. We got 100 questions from faculty and students. Im going to do my best to weave those in. I saw a story the other day about boston. The pandemic you just referenced. The headline