And answer portion, in the interest of video and audio reporting, if you could just come to our microphone by the white pillar so we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion, and lastly, once everything is done if you could please fold up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight im pleased to introduce jared cohen, to politics and prose the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet inc. As well as an adjuncrt senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. He is the New York Times best selling author with eric schmidt of the new digital age and has written the children of jihad. One of the great lessons of american politics that ive learned is the tale of two brothers. One went off to sea and one became Vice President. Neither was heard from ever again. However in rare cases, the Vice President is not relegated to obscurity. Namely when the president the previous president dies. And his newest, best New Y
Airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima and showed its usefulness to the army. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. The japanese began the war from the air, they have been repaid many fold and the end is not yet. When this bomb that we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces. In their president firm, these are now in production and even more powerful bombs are in development. It is atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been let loose by those who brought war to the far. East we are now preparing to destroy more completely every preventive enterprise the japanese have in any city. We shall destroy their docks, factories and their communications. Let there be no mistake we shall completely destroy japans power to make war. It will spare the japanese people from utter destruction that the ultimatum of july 26th was issued. Th
Were finally here in the last few days before tuesday, november 3, election day. Voy rs have submitted earl ballots in Record Numbers with roughly 80 million votes already cast. In the nearly 4 years since President Trump took office, regulationhave been rolled back, immigration has been curtailed, and the american jubecial system has come significantly more conservative. This week, Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as the new a supreme urjustice and a monday night ceremony on the whithouse lawn. But according to polls him her confirmation has not yet proven to be a game changer for mocratic rival joe biden is leading in several critical states and has raised more money. Joining me now by skype from San Francisco, our turn on politics and government senior politics and government kqed correspondent marisa lagos, thank you for joining us. Scott, we just recorded our the nation, the california has silver avoided a spik we expected the pandemic was going to increase early ngmail vobut the nu
Captioning performed by vitac captioning performed by vitac. So i think for the native americans it was a feeling that first of all theyve got some practical skills that are useful, and second that it is an affirmation that that is pan american war. Salvatore in annapolis, maryland. Welcome. Caller hello. My dad fought in world war ii in the pacific. He had Four Brothers who also fought in world war ii. Couple in the pacific, couple in europe, and another uncle who fought in the pacific in the navy. Couple of questions, my dad was a Second Generation italian american. It appears that the prejudice against italian americans was much less than against japanese americans and im wondering if that was true and im wondering why. And the second question, dropping of the atomic bomb probably is the reason im talking to you today. And wondering how that impact had on the outcome of the war and the ability of more american soldiers to survive. Okay, thank you. Well, thanks for the call and the q
But that has not stopped president from from coming out to address his supporters at the white house this has been one of the most divisive and unpredictable u. S. Elections in memory and even though trump initially trailed biden he quickly picked up Electoral College votes theres no clear winner yet we have just learned that arizona is going to joe biden lets cross over to rob reynolds in los angeles in california hes following the returns on the west coast and rob we were speaking 56 minutes ago about the importance of arizona and then moments later the flip happened tell us more. Yes and the important part is one of the important aspects is that this is a flip this is joe biden taking away a state that was won by President Trump in 2016 and its all the more remarkable because arizona has always been one of the most rock ribbed republican states in the union it is the home state of Barry Goldwater who considered the founder of the modern conservative movement although some of the dev