Good morning. Im pam cook and its thursday morning, july 23. Thank you for waking up with us. Lets check with Steve Paulson as we lead into the weekend. Any changes . Just daytoday changes, no screaming message that says a big pattern change. Temperatures have been below average. Thunderstorm activity firing up with a logo going through but it didnt chew up the fog. Everyone says quality including concord and livermore and it does look warmer today after cool readings. 60 degrees and 2987 on the pressure. South at concord, 13 with temperatures on the mild side and 73 on the streets of bakersfield. That is for sale. 73 on the streets of bakersfield. Thunderstorms over the mountains, highs, 60s and 70s and close to average and then slightly below. Speaking of sale, there is a buck owens live in San Francisco recording and he sings that, of course. Perfect. You know, everything is on youtube these days. Lets look at the commute. The bay bridge has traffic moving along well with no major p
Finn, tonight at 9 00 eastern on cspan, our mobile app and online at cspan. Org be sure to scan the qr code to listen to our companion podcast to learn more about the authors of the books featured. Host we are back to talk about the speaker battle. Guest thanks for having me. 202 7488000 there are nine people running. What strikes you about the list . It is large. We have never seen anything like this. Steve scalise the majority leader versus jim jordan, scullys came out on top, jordan had his three strikes to try to get the full speakership and it didnt work. Now we have nine. They will go through rounds on tuesday in which the loser in each round gets pulled but this is a large list. Are you surprised so many people want the job . Guest it is the worst job. One candidate said he didnt like emmer. Host there is a speaker candidate at 6 30. What happens in that . That is a closeddoor hearing. Guest each member will introduce themselves for two minutes and then there will be a q a sessi
Los angeles. The Israeli Military releasing a statement moments ago saying it has killed a senior hamas member involved in planning last saturdays horrific attacks in israel. Murad abu murad was killed in a strike targeting a building in the gaza strip. We also just received some new video showing the damage from the israeli city of ashkelon. Hamas armed wing al qassam saying friday that it launched 150 rockets toward that city. There are now reports whether any israelis. No report, should i say, whether any israelis were injured in that attack. Its been exactly one week now since hamas staged those shocking, brutal and deadly attacks against israel. Israel has been striking back hard all week. Now, the Israeli Military says Commando Units are conducting localized ground raids in gaza. And a short while ago, they also issued a statement that more than 120 civilians are confirmed to be held captive by hamas in gaza. The idf also continuing to pound gaza from the sky. Hundreds of thousan
Cococould rejoice. Host welcome back. The korean war armistice was signed in july 27, 1933 and here to reflect on that event is Gregg Brazinsky. Professor of history of International Affairs at George Washington university. Welcome to the program. Guest thank you for having me. Host lets start with when the korean war began. When did it start and the events that led up to it . Guest to understand the origins of the korea war you have to look at korea during the period between 1910 and 1945 when it was under japanese colonialism. The reason you have to look at that period is because japanese colonialism created very deep social and political divisions between koreans because there were many koreans who suffered in a lot of different ways under japanese colonialism, but there were also some koreans who benefited in different ways. When world war ii inns in 1945, korea ends in 1945, korea is a very Different Society and even if you take out china, u. S. , and the soviet union, it is likel
Host welcome back. The korean war armistice was signed in july 27, 1933 and here to reflect on that event is Gregg Brazinsky. Professor of history of International Affairs at George Washington university. Welcome to the program. Guest thank you for having me. Host lets start with when the korean war began. When did it start and the events that led up to it . Guest to understand the origins of the korea war you have to look at korea during the period between 1910 and 1945 when it was under japanese colonialism. The reason you have to look at that period is because japanese colonialism created very deep social and political divisions between koreans because there were many koreans who suffered in a lot of different ways under japanese colonialism, but there were also some koreans who benefited in different ways. When world war ii inns in 1945, korea ends in 1945, korea is a very Different Society and even if you take out china, u. S. , and the soviet union, it is likely it would have bee