[laughter] that is not a recipe for progress. To watch the rest of this Program Visit our website booktv. Org and click on the after words tab to find deborah stones interview along with all previous episodes. High everybody. Welcome to the National Book festival and this had difficult time of the pandemic. One thing we can do, i know you are loving it as i am is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which was about a cia officer who was struggling with one of the central problems of our time. Which is knowing what is true and what isnt. And it is my great pleasure to have with me today, toeople who wrote two of the very best books of this summer. About issues related to our new technological associated world. First i want to introduce mark galvin my former colleague at the Washington Post wrote an extraordinary memoir of his dealings with Andrew Snowden that led to t revelations out nsa technology and surveillance. The subtitle of his book says the american
Governor today. Liz . Reporter hi, larry and kristen. Yes, there was a lot of news at this briefing today. We did get an apology from the governor for attending that dinner party at french laundry. The only one that didnt is sonoma county. Thats because its already in the most restrictive one. With just over a week until thanksgiving, not great news from governor nufz. Covid19 cases in california have doubled in just the last ten days and on sunday the state reported over 10,000 cases for the First Time Since august. This is simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Reporter because of that newsom says the state is pulling the emergency brake. Today he announced 40 counties are moving backwards into a more restrictive tier. In the bay area, all counties are now in either red or purple. The most restrictive. Every age group, every demographic, racial, ethnic, in every part of the state we are seeing case rates increase and Positivity Rates inc
Louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to control it until we can get vaccines and youve heard this so many times before but physical distancing is important, wearing the mask when you cannot physically distant is really essential, the American People have done a good job, we do rank among the top in the world and mask wearing that weve got to get better as well as doing the good hand hygiene and with all of this we have to have a program of smart testing and im sure we will talk a
To know why the why dont you go down with the white house. So i dont know how i dont think its the fault of the clothes. Of the. Top that wanted to develop. A new number 1000001 it. May. 6 6 2 well. To so think of visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze in times of uncertainty empathy our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how to make sure that our good intentions are not pave the road to hell i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the last of the at Oxford University and the cofounder of the center of for effective altruism its really great to have you with us today welcome to our show was. Great to be here thank you for inviting me on so all right so the movement here associated with this called sect of altruism i mean the very notion of this active altruism makes me wonder can altruism be in the affective or even harmful and in what cases yes i think suddenly isnt very often as ine
Razor thin margins in places like georgia. Tom i do want to note, very importantly, the japanese out to new strength moments ago. Joe biden out to new strengths, and theres no question the key gone bidenrgia has ever so slightly. Ahead for mr. Es biden in georgia. Jonathan everyone doing the math and saying the passed for the president just gets narrower and narrower. The president overnight continuing to push back in a uniform manner from the whole campaign. Tom really extraordinary to see that. I know we will have some images of that press conference last night. , wethose of you worldwide will have our experts on that. What is so important to me is the idea that this is just not the president. He has galvanized trump nation to send a message out that this is fraud. Georgia, pennsylvania, nevada, arizona, the counting continues. That is the focus through this morning. Toa we are waiting to hear see whether we can pencil in joe biden as the next president. That does seem to be what is