Lawsuit over the death of a crew member. Kris van cleave has the story. Reporter the wrongful death lawsuit was filed on behalf of 27yearold pgioka a House Keeping employee from indonesia. They claim he contracted covid19 on Royal Caribbean symphony of the seas after they left the ship. Its clear the entire cruise industry dramatically mishandled the entirety of this outbreak not only as it relates to passengers but crew members. Reporter he represents the mans family. If they had taken the steps that every Single Person around the world has taken, i dont think he would be dead today. Had they implemented proper social distancing, quarantines, given proper masks to everybody, i think that he would still be alive today. Reporter the roughly 53 billion cruise instrind has been in dry dock since midmarch. After a number of highly publicized coronavirus outbreaks, polls show more than one in five americans say it will be a year or longer before theyd set foot on a cruise ship. But carnival
Others to be typical americans, somehow, but they are not a majority of the population. They need more in order to win. The Democratic Party has always been a coalition of out groups, people who are supposed sometimes not to be typical americans but who together when they hold together can be a majority. Of course they dont always hold together, and we get fights within the Democratic Party. And that dynamic has continued even as the composition of the republicans core constituency and of the groups in the Democratic Coalition have chang changed. These were very old Political Parties, Democratic Party formed in 1832 to reelect Andrew Jackson. They succeeded in doing hah. The Republican Party formed in 1854 to oppose the kansas nebraska act of slavery and the territories, they succeeded on that, within a decade or so. But they have continued ever since. And you beginning in your introduction basically going back to election day 2016, you write, quote, panic is a poor guy to reality. The
Morning and thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me on. Host let me begin on chapter two of your book because you say quote, let me start by describing what i believed to be the enduring character, the political dna of our two Major Political parties. What is there dna . Guest they change their positions on issues over the years. These are very old parties. The republicans started off as the protectionist party and became the freetrade party around the 1970s. With President Trump they are now the trade party. The enduring character is that the Republican Party has always been founded around a core constituency of people who are considered by themselves and others to be typical americans, but they are not a majority of the population. The Democratic Party has always been a coalition of people who were supposed some time to be typical americans but who together can be a majority. They dont always hold together and we get schisms and fights within the Democratic Party.
If you are an independent, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text message and we will read that at 202 7480003. Or send us a tweet cspanwj and as always we are on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. A number of developments over the weekend, including this front page story from the new york times, Boris Johnson forced to seek a brexit extension. We will have that story with Jason Douglas of the wall street journal. And a tweet overnight about the g7 summit, originally scheduled to take place at the doral in miami, florida, the president with this tweet last night host that from the president. Joining us live on the phone, senior White House Reporter for reuters. , following the firestorm that he received over the last 48 hours, was this a surprise . Caller yes. Guest yes i was certainly surprised that came out last night. Primarily because they had been signaling for some time that this was the place the president wanted to go. That it was his decision and basically he didnt really care a
Sunday at 9 00 pm eastern on after words, in his latest book the case against socialism. Kentucky republican senator rand paul talks about the history of socialism and argues there is a new threat of socialist thinking on the rise in america. He is interviewed by republican congressman matt gates of florida. You are making the argument that a country that is more socialist becomes more selfish. I think that is true. It is an irony in a way. They would profess it is for the other man. Everything is for someone else but in the end it is driven by selfishness. Watch after words sunday night at 9 00 eastern on booktv on cspan2. Michael barone has a new book, how americas Political Parties change and how they dont. Guest thanks for having me on. Host let me begin with chapter 2 of your book, you say, quote, let me start by describing what i believe to be the political dna of our two major Political Parties. What is their dna . Guest they change their positions on issues over the years, repu