you prefer the soviet style prt of the democratic party s internal elections, where votes from merely a formality. all the really big decisions, the meaningful ones, are made thars in advance by donors. oh, of course, everyone sif y on board. that s what they do. but ifou prefe you prefer democy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues thatet actually matter, it s pretty. refreshing to see it . yes, it s a little chaotic, buti this is what it s supposed to be now. we re going to give you a lotth more detail on what s happening in just a minute and throughout the week. but first, t firs a quick overviewe big to frame the big points. kevi kevin mccarthy of californo was going to be speaker. he was g wants to be speaker. in fact, he wants that job, more than anything else in his life. and he was going to get it. ause but then a group ofd that kevin twenty republican members stopped him. now they stopped becausepresent they decided that kevin mccarthy is not conser
and the superintendent has been fired appropriateleny shi and indicted. this is thghe work that comeslih when we shine a bright light. on these these heinous cover ups that we know are going on . and now we see in fairfax county violations of civil liberties where we have students who had achieved a real accolade to be, feel bad.l merit scholar and they weren t told. hav they weren t told because they didn t want to make the other students feel bad.whos and when you have a superintendent in loudoun county who expresses a desirdese that all students will haveionss equal outcomes, no exceptions. prin this is the kind of just crazy it behavior that you get from principals, administrators. d am it s not right. it s not consistent with virginia values. an america. n values. and we re going to goan to work to make sure we fully understand all the facts here.. tucker: and also a violation of fed it s also a violation of federal civil rights law, isn t it, to discriminate on the basis of r
lockdowns. john: so, amy, where is the politics on this heading now? if we look to european nations they are taking off the restrictions off yet in places like new york state and california they are still locked down tight. so, in a perfect world, it would have gone something like this. this is a first pandemic in 100 years. it s a very dynamic virus that mutates. so, we respond in kind and we learn things as we go through a pandemic. and then health officials say we have learned something new. here is our advice and we adjust accordingly. but we don t live in that world. we live in one in which it s incredibly polarized and incredibly political. the idea that when somebody gives you news that no longer comports with your own that you are going to change it behavior that just doesn t happen now. and so would are moving very, very quickly on this. history is going to be very curious, john, i think when this is all said and done 20 years from now there is a lot we will
the editorial board at bloomberg. bobby, good morning. what does secretary pompeo mean by behave like a normal nation. what has the u.s. done to encourage the deescalation? the top administration, the issue with iran is not only it behavior in the nuclear area but its behavior across the middle east and the larger world. this is a country, a regime that sponsors terrorism, that uses proxy militias in yemen and other places to attack and destabilize the entire region. there s been an effort by the trump add hrgs to set the parameters for any discussion. what president trump and pompeo have said before is that they re open to negotiations without pre conditions for the negotiations. that s not the same thing as saying there will be a deal without conditions, obviously. the interesting phrase that
the court of public opinion to the court of law and is there any legal recourse these women have against the execs in power to whom they reported the sexual assaults but those people chose not to speak out about any of these crimes in this, perhaps, they may have committed crimes of omission or did they? yeah, that s a great question. it s exactly what i thought about when he saw this contract being reported. if i were advising these women about their rights, they certainly have a right to come forward and be public and talk about what happened to them. but i think here the fact that the weinstein company put in contract provisions that i would argue as a lawyer encouraged it behavior from its chief executives. if i represent one of these victims, i would go after the company itself and say this contract encouraged him to keep doing what he had been doing. you knew about it you are culpable too, and go after the company and the board and the executives. she should do that i hope they