zero. today we received news of our economy 0% inflation in the month of july. 0%. brian: we will have more on that later, there s never bent a better day for permit watching the time that inauguration day, january 20th, a moment the voters have been waiting for for four years, none of it had to do with joe biden and possibilities the presidency could bring to them. the best part of him taking office wasn t donald trump was leaving office. all of it was made possible because somehow voters during a pandemic had accomplished what four years of witch hunts and the full force of surveillance state could not remove a donald trump from the white house despite giving 74 million votes. almost immediately joe biden and his installed attorney general at the department of justice began targeting hundreds of trump voters who protested the election results on january 6th. the biden administration jailed people like a 69-year-old grandmother with cancer, walked into the capital. even pe
primary defeat, saying she s thinking about running for president. the congresswoman is one of donald trump s fiercest critics, and lost to a candidate hand picked by mr trump. she says she ll make a decision in the coming months. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital. this city buzzes with creativity. now artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you r
to the evolving challenges of the pandemic. bill: the details of that review will be released next week. among the recommendations, share information faster, do a better job of translating it and prioritize public communications. the federal government we re talking about here, right? griff jenkins live from the white house with more on this. nice to see you. good morning. good morning. you put it correctly. it was a stunning admission and surprise that after years of contradictory and confusing information by their own account, over masks, vaccines, boosters, over social distancing in school, closures, they said they got it wrong and she wants to earn back the public trust saying this. for 75 years cdc and public health have been preparing for covid-19 and in our big moment our performance did not meet expectations. my goal is new public health action oriented culture at cdc that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication and timeliness. a far cry what she w
so what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you right back, because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you had a tough childhood in some ways. you were a war child. yeah. you spent years away from home and family, in environments where there wasn t actually much to play with. it was sometimes quite lonely, and you had to use your imagination. do you think that was important in your development? it probably was, and i ve never really thought about that. it probably was, but at the time it wasn t part of my plan. i mean, i had no intention or thought about being an artist. and the period yo
marilyn monroe, blonde bombshell. get out the fire hose. hollywood super star. the late marilyn monroe. tragic victim. the story of marilyn monroe is an authentic tragedy. when we talk about marilyn poor marilyn, this vulnerable passive woman who is being destroyed by hollywood. that s the way the story frames her. after a reckoning in hollywood, it s time to reframe her story. now it can hit pause and roll it back a bit and ask ourselves, okay, what is it that we think we know? she was quite ahead of her time. and she was very much an architect of her own fame. you must think i was born yesterday. her performances are layered. they re funny. they re tender. they re human. they feel modern. bingo. she had a deep inner life. she was an artist. she was a poet. she was a businesswoman. what a power broker she was, renegotiating her contract, creating her own production company, getting films made. it s actually rather frustrating that people can t