Prizewinning and distinguish Foreign Correspondent and columnist for the Washington Post and friend, jim hoberman. Good to be here. And then to be the luckiest man i can say truthfully the gemini is fascinated i really didnt expect to read every word that was so vast and once i started i couldnt put it down. So in 2005 i know you did seven books. I did character and character assassination. That is it. It is a pleasure to work with the senatornd that they would do more. I find this strange to be talking about him i was really surprised to discover about the mccain family that he had western roots im a carpetbagger in arizona i grew up as a carpetbagger but i didnt realize that about john mccain was a carpetbagger when he ran for office. Talking smalltown mississippi and then to get the reaction. And john mccain seven forebears. And with the own personality so no doubt is derived from the personality of his father and grandfather in the position of mississippi mccain with that enthusias
Shortly. Increase security in vienna after 4 people were killed in a shooting the government is calling a terrorist attack ugandan politician bobby wine is arrested and then released after being nominated for next years president ial election. And in sports the argentine football legend Diego Maradona has been admitted to hospital although his doctor says its not related to covert 19. Voting is underway across the United States in whats expected to be a record turnout in the elections its already the most controversial and highly anticipated poll in recent years and it comes in the midst of a deadly pandemic which continues to get worse donald trump and joe biden have campaigned for months now its up to the American Public that hasnt stopped the men battling for every. Vote with biden out in pennsylvania and trump expected soon in virginia well lets begin our coverage by speaking to alan fischer in washington d. C. So were getting ever closer to that deadline and the message is still b
Much more on all those stories coming up in just a bit. But now its time to get a check of the Weather Forecast for the first time this saturday morning was the high today of spark a good morning robin good morning, good morning everybody in a live shot coming in from the golden gate fog checking in again this morning looks like an. Fairly think is what we got going on not much the way of wind circulation here we keep it to the Single Digits to calm dont expect that to improve outside of just local winds to some degree and im pretty re here. We have of the fog going on which will mix out to only give us kind of hazy sky conditions into the afternoon comes back again in greece has to tomorrow with promises of not being quite as intense although we saw this yesterday like this. But it looks like it may not be as intense. According to the forecasts projections here looking forward into tomorrow morning. But we do have a heat wave coming our way though beyond that right now we have lower 6
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