Politics. Comments from 2020 democratic president ial candidate tom steyer. Questions. Wered from this past weekend, it is about two hours. Good evening. Welcome. My name is nate gruber, and i am vice chair of the county democrats. [applause] many great to see so people out here tonight. I do want to acknowledge a few of the dignitaries i saw come in tonight. Jeff, a member of the school board. [applause] pat harper, former state senator and state representative. [applause] of course, we have jerry, who is the Black Hawk County current democratic secretary. [applause] are there any elected officials or former that i missed . I am a councilmember of the Cedar Falls Community school board. [applause] tonight, i have the honor of introducing tom steyer. Tom left his investing business seven years ago to give his own money and all of his time and energy to fight for progressive causes. He soon became one of the countrys leading forces in registering young voters, registering voters of colo
New year new protests for hong kong offer a massive turnout for 20 twentieths 1st the rally plans violence with the riot police the boys dispersed protests. Live from moscow thanks for joining us in the weekly rundown of top headlines here on r. T. International hawkins welcome to the program. This week and the new year got off to a troubling start with tension is skyrocketing in the middle east following the United States assassination of irans most senior commander. Body has now arrived in iran in the southwestern city of. Throngs of mourners on saturday thousands turned out in the iraqi capital for the generals funeral for. Session rallies have been ongoing since fridays deadly u. S. Air strike on Baghdad Airport iran swiftly valid to avenge his death as well ations of the United States plunged to new lows trump has also threatened to retaliate without hesitation if iran attacks american bases. The attacked us and we had back if the its again which i strongly advise them not to do w
For russia president putin. With me in russia tens of thousands of tickets being sold for the passenger service. From moscow to the world places or to international my names you know youre welcome to the program the. Following site slumped on russias nord stream to european gas pipeline by the United States foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has spoken out saying there is no doubt the project will be completed. States so it will be finished despite all these threats i am convinced that 1st of all the europeans understand their commercial interests in terms of ensuring Long Term Energy security secondly of course they were humiliated and the words we heard from the german side show that our European Partners still have their self respect north stream 2 is the gas pipeline being built from russia to germany through the baltic sea at over a 1000 kilometers long it will be capable of transferring 55000000000 cubic meters of gas per year which translates supplying almost 30000000. 00 high souls
Booktv continues on cspan2, television for serious readers. Next on booktvs afterwords, republican senator rand paul argues theres a new threat socialist thinking on the rise in america. He is interviewed by republican congressman matt gaetz of florida. Afterwords is a weekly Relevant Program with hosts interviewing nonfiction authors about their latest work. Senator rand paul, youre one of the most interesting people in american politics of the Republican Party. I was a fan of yours long before i got the chance to meet you and work with you in congress, eager to chat about your book the case against socialism but maybe first reflect a little bit about the role that you have within the congress, within our party is an independent voice and someone willing to strike out on issues that other republicans are not willing to strike out on . Sometimes i think im a lonely voice, keeping balanced budgets or believe we should spend less or have limited Constitutional Government really controver
Life expectancy continues to fall. What is this distinctly american phenomenon that you found . Well, mortality rates are not supposed to be going up for the past century and most wealthy countries, the u. S. Included, weve seen our Life Expectancy in the u. S. , the mortality is supposed to be going down, but it is backwards. What we have seen is the death rates in the working age population increasing, and reversing years of progress that we have made in improving the health. What is behind the study . Why did you do it . Well, our center of society and health at vcu studies the Population Health trends as have other experts in the field. And we have been aware of something awry for many years, and recently many years of Life Expectancy decline for three years in a row, but the analysis is showing decades of the making and the u. S. Started to fall since the 1980s. How does it stack up against other countries in the same time span, and other economicallydeveloped countries. That is t