Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Carnegie Endowment or international peace. Im ashley tellis, c senior felw at the endowment and its a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you to this Book Discussion of age of iron which is a marvelous analysis of conservative nationalism. I see i will say couple things but the book in a in a t but before i do i want to extend on your behalf in mine a warm welcome to call in himself and our distance, duty, Danielle Pletka and Richard Fontaine. As you probably know, colin is a professor at the start school publicly and government at George Mason University andco is also a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise institute, neighbor nextdoor, literally. Colin has made his mark thinking deeply about american politics. And this book is trademark direct. It examines the concept of conservative nationalism, a phenomenon that has been brought to public attention conspicuously through the rise of president trump. In terms of both the history o
Lauren simonetti watching the markets, blake burman has latest from the white house and Hillary Vaughn is in washington. Blake we start with you. Reporter 6 00 on the east coast when the president will unveil the latest guidelines Going Forward. Earlier today he spoke with a Bipartisan Group from the house and from the senate. A couple different phone calls there. Right now we believe he is still on that phone call with the nations governors before he unveils the next steps later this afternoon. Were getting themes from the white house what we can expect when the president takes to the microphone. The new guidelines will be layered. No more blanket approaches for the entire country. It will be governor led. The guidelines well soon get will address the nationstate by state, county by county. They will talk about restaurants, bars, other public venues as well, plus sporting events. Here is the president a little while ago before he hopped on the phone call with the governors. Well be ta
This able is no less perilous than previous decades. There is growing evidence communist china is directly responsible for the deaths of 140,000 people around the world. The wuhan virus killing 31,000 in america. It has cost 32 million americans their jobs. A number of government sources say there is a high level of confidence communist china is covering up the origins of the wuhan virus and they are now comfortable in questioning whether the virus came from a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of the virology. Thats a question we raised on this brad cast for the past couple weeks. Sources say the laboratory was working on a virus carried by horseshoe bats in southern china. How or why that occurred if it did occur is still unknown and far from certain. We are learning the Wuhan Laboratory was operating far below its biosafety designation. And the u. S. Embassy in beijing sent cables back to the state Department Warning of those safety issues. President trump with this reaction. Preside
Coming up with the plan that the president will recommend . I think that what we need to do, we need a nuanced approach. I think in pennsylvania weve got too far. The governor shut down construction, even online car sales. That is too much. We need to make sure were not hurting the economy unnecessarily while were still protecting Public Health. So for example, we should let local counties make the decision, even local muse municipalities where population is most dense, most rural, combat this with nuanced, balanced approach rather than painting with a very broad brush stroke. Elizabeth here is what the president is saying. Governors, you will call your own shots. You can start reopening before may 1st. Well give you county by county basis when it comes to outbreak of covid19 on a county by county basis. He will say the onus is on you, the buck stops with you governors to reopen. Half of u. S. Cities are facing lay offs of their own city workers, that means cops and firemen. No federal
This able is no less perilous than previous decades. There is growing evidence communist china is directly responsible for the deaths of 140,000 people around the world. The wuhan virus killing 31,000 in america. It has cost 32 million americans their jobs. A number of government sources say there is a high level of confidence communist china is covering up the origins of the wuhan virus and they are now comfortable in questioning whether the virus came from a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of the virology. Thats a question we raised on this brad cast for the past couple weeks. Sources say the laboratory was working on a virus carried by horseshoe bats in southern china. How or why that occurred if it did occur is still unknown and far from certain. We are learning the Wuhan Laboratory was operating far below its biosafety designation. And the u. S. Embassy in beijing sent cables back to the state Department Warning of those safety issues. President trump with this reaction. Preside