Because guided not only germany but europe through the headlines and cross currents of the changing world. We welcome and we honor the foreign term chancellor of germany for an excellent city on the lot. A standing ovation and an honorary doctorate for the woman who has led germany for nearly 14 years and appearance that had been announced by Harvard University with a glossy promotional trailer. A video with all the trappings of a hollywood blockbuster yet just a few months earlier the chancellor had announced she would not seek reelection visited yet on this 4th term will be my last as chancellor of the federal republic of germany. The announcement heralded the end of an era even as other World Leaders came and went until america remained a central figure for 13 years she had served as a mediator and crisis manager on the world stage. How could such a seemingly unassuming woman succeed in remaining in office for so many years. Being underestimated can be very useful at times because i
International with me making arrant great to have you with us some news just in for you now russia could soon regain its seat in the Parliamentary Assembly of the council of europe the human rights body has just voted to allow the russian delegation to attend the summer session but its so fun clear what russias role will be the country was stripped of its Voting Rights back in 2014 that was after the reunification of crimea with russia and the outbreak of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine well bring you live analysis on this story later this hour. Irans foreign minister java serif has tweeted that america despises diplomacy and wants war thats off the washington introduced major new sanctions on 2 wrong including against the countrys supremely leader ayatollah come and say the escalation comes in response to irans downing of a u. S. Military surveillance drone which the Islamic Republic claims violated it says space. Todays action follows a series of aggressive busy behaviors by the Iran
Threat is she to joe biden for the democratic nomination lets talk about that with katrina vanden who will she is the editorial director and publisher of the nation and a Washington Post columnist shes in new york city welcome to the program thank you so theres a lot to discuss but 1st your publication the nation endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 are you expecting the nation to endorse him again. So early matthew what were endorsing is what we call the ideas primary and i think Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are winning that primary Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and i mean well thought through connected to her personal experience dealing with the true fundamental problems issues of this country Bernie Sanders ran a transformative campaign in 2016 and you got to give him credit that the issues he elevated medicare for all 15 minimum wage free Higher Education are now front and center in this debate medicare for all has several cosponsors were running in the
A plan every week. Driven her poll numbers up so i think she poses a real challenge both to joe biden and Bernie Sanders but for now the endorsement the nation is given as to the ideas primary and i love that the ideas primary thats a great way of looking at it and it exhausts me when we in the media just cover the horse race aspects so i want to do that however a little bit because of course its fascinating to look at the statistics and and where the polling is showing but lets also talk about some of the key differences what are the differences that you see between sanders and warren. I think did someone else put it quite well and shes a candidate who believes in regulating and taming capitalism shes kind of like Franklin Delano roosevelt 2. 0 in the sense that she wants to tame capitalisms excesses through regulation Bernie Sanders is the candidate of revolution of political change and i think he is known social democrat is a social democrat in a. Western european context but hes a
So early matthew what were endorsing is what we call the ideas primary and i think Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are winning that primary Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and i mean well thought through connected to her personal experience dealing with the true fundamental problems issues of this country Bernie Sanders ran a transformative campaign in 2016 and you got to give him credit that the issues he elevated medicare for all 15 minimum wage free Higher Education are now front and center in this debate medicare for all has several cosponsors were running in the democratic primary including Kirsten Gillibrand kamel harris so i think lets hope for a virtuous competition around the ideas primary Elizabeth Warren no question has through her tenacity through her persistence and through rolling out a plan every week. Driven her poll numbers up so i think she poses a real challenge both to joe biden and Bernie Sanders but for now the endorsement the nation is given as to