that s it for me. mike will be here at the top of the hour with more news. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. millions of readers all over the world are drawn to fiction that explores our fears. horror sells, and no one does it better or more prolifically than my guest today, stephen king. he s written more than 60 books, sold close to 400 million copies. he is the master manipulator of dark places and the paranormal. if you re not a reader, you may have seen the shining, carrie, stand by me all films based on his stories. he s been writing for half a century. how has our appetite for fear evolved? stephen king in florida, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. it s nice to be here. i wish we could do it in person. me too. but nonetheless, it is a pleasure to see you on my screen. and let me begin by asking you about the threat that we all, all over the world in florida, in the uk, all over the world are livin
now on bbc news, stephen sackur talks to american author, stephen king, on hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. millions of readers all over the world are drawn to fiction that explores our fears. horror sells, and no one does it better or more prolifically than my guest today, stephen king. he s written more than 60 books, sold close to 400 million copies. he is the master manipulator of dark places and the paranormal. if you re not a reader, you may have seen the shining, carrie, stand by me all films based on his stories. he s been writing for half a century. how has our appetite for fear evolved? stephen king in florida, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. it s nice to be here. i wish we could do it in person. me too. but nonetheless, it is a pleasure to see you on my screen. and let me begin by asking you about the threat that we all, all over the world in florida, in the uk, all over the world are living with, and that is covid 19. has that inv
think some of the adversaries potentially, let s say china russia, other nations. how do you think they will view and understand what the president united states? we re saying today what i think firstly, allies will be incredibly grateful because he recommitted america. that s the only remaining superpower. and the leader of the nato alliance to committing to protect that alliance. and europe, this is, this is crucial and it s a incredibly differentiating point between him and the way donald trump talks about nato and the commitment to the alliance so it s very differentiating, of course, allies are incredibly worried about what might happen on november 5th or whenever the election is, they re very concerned about what happens in terms of the survival of the alliance and the, and the survival of europe frankie, when they face right now with a great threat to the survival of europe in putin s invasion of ukraine. so i think that s, that s on that part. and then on the other
awesome, thank you. my pleasure. mark: i look at government. government you look at the constitution. our government is supposed to be limited, constitution of shed up with checks and balances, then we have the bill of rights that protects the individual, and the 9th amendment, in tenth that talks about federal implement ism, thesystem is set up to proe individual, recognizing there is a circle of liberty around the individual that the government cannot pep penetrate. now i look at government today, jason, massive taxing, massive spending. massive controlling. massive redistribution. massive transforming. we warding search citizen rewarding certain citizens, punishing certain citizens, political party in my view, particularly democrat, gaining power, expanding powers. i would be you re curious. what happens to the individual, all this power and energy and resources and focus is on the expansion and of the federal government. mark, you hit on the crisis that we re havi
jason witlock how are you. awesome, thank you. my pleasure. mark: i look at government. government you look at the constitution. our government is supposed to be limited, constitution of shed up with checks and balances, then we have the bill of rights that protects the individual, and the 9th amendment, in tenth that talks about federal implement ism, thesystem is set up to proe individual, recognizing there is a circle of liberty around the individual that the government cannot pep penetrate. now i look at government today, jason, massive taxing, massive spending. massive controlling. massive redistribution. massive transforming. we warding search citizen rewarding certain citizens, punishing certain citizens, political party in my view, particularly democrat, gaining power, expanding powers. i would be you re curious. what happens to the individual, all this power and energy and resources and focus is on the expansion and of the federal government. mark, you hit on