The 75th anniversary of the cold war. With me today is dr. William hitchcock, the professor of history at the university of virginia. Dr. Hitchcock is the author of several books on the cold war, most recently the age of Eisenhower America and the world in the 1950s. Published in 2018 by simon and schuster. Will, welcome and ask for joining us. William thank you, good to be with you. Looking forward to a conversation. Sean lets get to it. In surveying the 45 years of the cold war and its impact, one could argue that it fundamentally changed the constitutional framework of the American Government, that it was this period that saw the greater concentration of power in the president at the expense of the congress, that more than ever in our history because of the challenges of the cold war our National Course is now set by the personality of the president. Would you agree with that . William well, yes, i would agree with that. And i think its been characteristic of the presidency over the
Dont know about you, but this election is starting to feel like that friend who you let crash on your couch for a weekend but then you quickly realize that youve officially got a new roommate. Lets see whats happening with our situationship in our ongoing segment votegasm 2020. Lets get to the big news first president donald just a minute trump is in more trouble than the guy who kidnapped liam neesons daughter because all day joe biden has slowly been chipping away at trumps lead in georgia while cleaning up as mailin ballots are counted in pennsylvania. Basically by the time youre watching this, it could all be over, so by tonight youre popping champagne or your stress pimples. Even though things look bad, donald trump is not a quitter, if you dont count his casinos and marriages, and he still has several strategies to win. Lets so through the strategies today. Strategy number one is trumps First Response to anything whether its trying to get out of paying a bill or silence ago porn
If youre watching this, consider yourself served what a difference between 2016 and 2020. When hillary lost, she disappeared into the woods. But trump starts losing, hes dragging voters one by one on to the witness stand, though hes probably just hustling for a big settlement. Im suing because i should be president , thats why im here. But for 500grand we can forget this whole thing ever happened. 300,000. 250 my final offer. 50,000. Ill pay you, but only 20, art of the deal. But what case exactly are they bringing to the courts . Well, Rudy Giuliani, the president s lawyer and man who drank from the wrong holy jail explained his objects tan outing the vote. Not a single republican has been able to look at any one of these mailin ballots. They could be from mars as far as were concerned or from the Democratic National committee. Joe biden would have voted 50 times or 5,000 times. You have a reputation for dead people voting and well look at how many dead people voted here. Do you think
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