Team on monday. Former president george w. Bush has congratulated biden on his victory but trump is promising to press ahead with legal challenges for several key states on monday the u. S. President hasnt yet spoken publicly and spent much of sunday on the golf course alan fisher has more from washington d. C. Well hes been on the golf course for most of the day is obviously just come off because about 10 minutes ago he tweeted out since when does the lame stream media get to the clear who the president as well the answer to that is the project what the polls are suggesting and theyve done it for many many elections so he is obviously still upset about that but there has been no call between donald trump and joe biden absolutely no contact which would suggest that hes not going to call them anytime soon with a concession instead his intention is to go to the courts whove been backed up by some of his supporters on the sunday chat shows here in the United States Lindsey Graham for inst
He seems to be unmuted. There were problems. Commissioner scott are you unmuted thank you everyone for being patient. Well cap up with our technology. Can you hear me now . Yes. I heard everyone in test mode. Steven, can you hear me . Yes. Thank you very much. As the board is aware we annually engage in a selfevaluation for the board of directors and also an annual evaluation of the executive director. The Governance Committee met a week ago to review both documents as well as a time line for both processes. As you know, we initiate the selfevaluation first and then follow that four weeks later or so with the executive directors evaluation once we received the executive directors selfevaluation. In reviewing both documents, we did not make any changes in the executive director document. We did modify in the board selfevaluation document a couple of questions. We eliminated one question and we modified the wording on another. So those changes are contained in the attachments sent out in
Level as the controversy continues. President biden met with his Economic Team at the white house today, the administration has not yet said much on the controversy only saying talk to the sec and the feds are monitoring the situation. Strong backlash by some lawmakers including alexandria ocasiocortez and republican ted cruz. Republican senator josh hawley talked about this on fox news earlier. What youve seen with this gamestop meltdown that wall street is having now is these folks at home have got more criticism and more scrutiny than the people who singlehandedly crash the entire Financial Market in 2008. And they got bailed out, the government bailed out those people. It shows you that the fix is in. John White House Correspondent Kristin Fisher picks up reporting for us on this friday live on the north lawn. For the third day in a row, the white house is declining to weigh in on this controversy that has consumed both wall street and main street. The White House Press secretary w
Retreat from it. Joe biden is moving quickly to fill all key positions in his administration now, but donald trump has stopped blocking the transition. Im anthony, how its good to have you with us lengthening the lockdown, germany 16 state leaders have reportedly agreed to extend coronavirus lockdown measures into december and possibly into the new year. But exceptions ah, being made for holiday celebrations, restrictions already in place have led to a leveling off of new infections. But germanys case load remains stubbornly high. Just last week, chancellor Angela Merkel had called for even stricter measures, but she was met with resistance. The pressure is on for the German Government to ease restrictions for the most important time of the year. For many christmas celebrations. Right, know beilin stand down and Market Square would usually be packed with people enjoying the christmas market. Its been canceled. People will be allowed to gather at home for christmas, but in smaller group
Will. Hello, everybody, welcome to the National Book festival. One thing we can do and i know you are all loving it as i am is to read a good book. I wrote a book that was published about a certain struggle with one of the central problems of our times, knowing what is true and what isnt. It is my pleasure to have with me today to people that wrote two of the very best books of the summer related to the world on the dangers. First i want to introduce Barton Gellman my colleague at the Washington Post who wrote an extraordinary memoir of the feelings with Edward Snowden that led to the revelations about the nsa, technology and surveillance and the subtitle of the book says the american surveillance state. And i also want to interview another outstanding offer, thomas rid who teaches at hopkins and has a history of what weve come to call disinformation, the ways of which our election systems, our very fabric can be manipulated by foreign governments and a history of that operation going