I slipped through the fall of the berlin wall. The fall of the berlin wall didnt surprise me i dont know what happened 10 years before. Im no. Longer feel i am sitting in this chair. Dad of youd be no repetition of 56. 00. If you dont learn to make revolutions. I miss that class for me for. Him to the man yeah. I dont know how many people right now would be happy if the iron curtain were dismantled today like it was 30 years ago. That would have been in. The wall was not a purely german affair it was 7000 kilometers long and divided europe from the arctic to the black sea our journey starts on the baltic coast and leads via don scan eastern poland to warsaw berlin and leipsic. Then we had to prague and some villages in bohemia and then on to vote have passed on the Border Crossing said and it was. Our journey ends just short of the black sea in bucharest we begin and the old downs shipyard. The fall of the wall began 500 kilometers from berlin and get done and this hangar built before
Minister resigned well the countrys foreign minister. At the general election hes. Facing a country. Im phil gayle welcome to the program. Britains Prime Minister is on his way to berlin to try to persuade the german chancellor to reopen brags that negotiations Boris Johnson is seeking the removal of the socalled stop this is the policy agreed between mr johnsons ousted predecessor and the e. U. To ensure that therell be no hard border between Northern Ireland which is in the u. K. And the Irish Republic which remains a member of the European Union mr johnson claims the backstop would violate british sovereignty but the existing it just doesnt work for the u. K. And parliament started out 3 times we cant have this backstop so im going to go to see all friends of bottling going off to germany and then to france and then to see the g 7 appear its and im going to make the point that the buck stops going to come out but e. U. Leaders have already rejected mr johnsons demands and germanys a
Done and reform but this is a very sensitive issue as we all know we have taxation thats high on the agenda so we might get some kind of minimum tax form which a National Corporations we have migration on the agenda we have to digitize ation how to educate people how to use digitisation as a source for economic froze so there are many issues that need to be tackled but actually everybody will look at how does Climate Change in trade come out of it so its will be a very critical summit ok climate. Climate politics and trade the 2 areas where we could see progress claudio thanks very much for coming in. Lets break down some of the other stories making the news this hour at least 5 people have been killed in a stampede at a packed raf concert in the old carrion capital of cheers thousands of gathered at a concert by a local rap artist. Video posted online shows medics attending to some of the us. The prominent kremlin critic alexy has been released from prison after serving 30 days a mosc
[applause] if you are not yet on the email list, signup. We just added senator amy so now for tonight, were it was unforgetting. Bobs story about the genius of the political like his subject, caro has no peer. Over the years bob has spoiled us with his portraits of robert moses and Lyndon Johnson and treated us to slight left turns in the narrative, his diversions into fascinating bystanders, they might form the basis of future studies in and of themself. So consider his new book, working, as a companion piece to his great moses and johnson books, and today in 2019 is more resonant than ever about power used for good and power used against the greater good. As the book answers core questions, it raises more, as caro gives us deep background into the ways and whys he does what he does with such graceful shorthand. Asra if his books werent physil and intellectual evidence enough about why he takes so long to crank out the next volume, caro gives us the background on the reasons he goes t
The speechwriters that have inspired us. Overseeing production of all the president s domestic policy forches he has also written the nasa administrator and top executives at ibm, time warner, and the list goes on. He is a graduate of morgan state university. Theh hurwitz served in white house from 2009 to 2017, first as a speechwriter for president barack obama before becoming the head speechwriter for michelle obama. She served as the chief speechwriter for Hillary Clinton during her 2008 campaign. She has an upcoming book coming out about judaism in september. Last but not least, John Mcconnell served more than 10 years under two administrations. He was a senior speechwriter for president george w. Bush and was responsible for the address to the joint session of congress after the september 11, 2001 attacks. He served as Deputy Assistant to the president as well as assistant to the Vice President. He is a graduate of Carleton College and yell law school. Todays conversation will be