Atlantic Council Front page, or ac front page, a Global Platform for global leaders. We have had heads of state, heads of government and former cabinet level officials and International Cabinet level officials, International Organization leaders, and sometimes they also are new authors of this wonderful book that i am going to talk a little bit more about in a minute. We are honored today to host Lieutenant General h. R. Mcmaster, Board Director of the Atlantic Council and a senior fellow at stanfords hoover institution, and the 26th assistant for the president for National Security affairs. General mcmaster joins us for a discussion of u. S. Grand strategy with a particular emphasis on u. S. Foreignpolicy regarding china and the middle east. There are few who bring a more strategic mindset on these issues, as a historian, as a retired officer with 34 years of experience in the u. S. Army, and as one of our nations senior policymakers. In his new book, general mcmaster lays out what he
Woodward in march this was terribly deadly and contagious at the same time he was saying to the rest of us do not worry so much. Jeanne this is not the conversation the president wants to be having. Any top of the pandemic does not work for him politically. This is not what the campaign wants to be talking about. More importantly, we have a president on the record admitting he knows how devastating and deadly this is, and many months later you have 190,000 americans dead, many of whom have been sick and ill as a result of this, and you had the president , months after he told bob woodward how bad this was inviting people to places like tulsa and saying you do not have to worry about safety protocol, you do not have to worry about masking, you do not have to worry about social distancing. This is being drummed up by people who want to get me. When he is on the record with bob woodward he is saying the opposite. The president and his team have to explain why he is saying one thing privat
Romaine live from new york to our viewers worldwide, this is whatd you miss . Alongsidene bostick my cohosts, scarlet fu and joe weisenthal. Scarlet u. S. Stocks closing out the last day of the First Quarter with losses, although with a lot more volatility. This was the dows worst quarter make 87. 0 since fell to as low as 31 basis points, pretty wide berth. Oil, the worst performing commodity in the quarter, losing two thirds of its value. We are keeping an ion what is going on on the policy side. White house and Congressional Democrats are preparing a fourth round of economic stimulus. President trump wants that to include a 2 trillion infrastructure plan. Kevin cirilli joins us now. You can call this a little bit of a wish list from the president , the infrastructure part of this 2 trillion spending plan. What do democrats want and what do republicans want . What is each side pushing for . Kevin the way you described this is spot on, a wish list, opening bid coming from 1600 pennsyl
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