Scene what do evangelical christians believe it and what do they want my guest today is spent his life researching and writing about American Christian fundamentalism and its Global Network he is jeff sharlet the executive producer of the family a document that was released on netflix last year based on his own book the family the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American Power miss charlotte thank you so much for joining us today in your show and youre writing i mean im amazed by. The degree to which you have had had a foot in the evangelical camp and a foot out if you will and youve been able to tell this story and yet i think you still describe yourself as part of that world how youve been able to navigate these currents. I am deeply interested in that world have been reporting on it for many years but i am not an evangelical christian i was so Netflix Series in the books about nor going to zation called the family the oldest and most influential Christian Conservative Politica
President s financial responsibilities. Like so welcome now robert associate to professor in the department of sociology at Lancaster University and the editor of the book a Trump Presidency journalism and democracy good of you to join us this is obviously undeniably a scoop for the new yorker at times but just how damaging really is it for President Trump especially the image that he tries to project that of a very successful businessman do you think he can reset the narrative and turn this around in his favor. Well it certainly is going to be a talking point from the democrats that hes going to have to deal with so its going to be more than a mile annoyance for him but for the true Trump Supporters it makes you wonder how much its going to take for them to jump ship i mean these are these are folks who already dont like to pay taxes and theres a joke that you think you can know are going to happen here taxes and death so you know for them if donald trump can get away without paying t
Mondays drier conditions and gusty winds meant no respite as nearly 100 fires continue to burn across 12 states get these otherworldly scenes are New California has now experiencing several summers of severe wildfires realizing predictions of a climate report released by the white house in 2018 but President Trump who flew to california for fire briefings continues to deny manmade Climate Change exists it will start getting cooler i will just you just watch i wish science and everybody else but. I dont think science knows actually trump has repeatedly blamed the wildfires on democrats accusing them of mismanaging forest lands in western states as the election nears hes dug into the pro fossil fuel policies of his Administration Former Vice President joe biden who seeking to replace trump in the white house challenge his record in a speech from delaware we have 4 more years of trumps climate denial how many suburbs will be burned in wildfires how many suburban neighborhoods will have be
Protesters in mens consensus this update. This bike hundreds of detentions at the start of this rally thousands of people have managed to still gather despite the roadblocks by police and military theyre now heading to a location where possibly the residence of look at shanghai is thats what they announced in the 1st place but so many roads are blocked so theyre basically circling the city right now showing their their their presence again like they have been doing in the last couple of sundays this is the 5th sunday of a mass rally and previous sunday so were modern 100000 people on the streets but this week it was particularly difficult repressive many people have been detained brands are driving around the city with masked man snatching people from the street just like that carrying people carrying a flag or just walking on the streets so its a lot of different a different atmosphere that it was a couple of weeks ago but people are still going strong and they still want to shout out
Hit by flooding in sudan. One of the worlds most advanced vaccine trials has been put on hold off to a participant fell ill astra zeneca says a patient has a potentially unexplained illness which will need further investigation the pharmaceutical giant is working with Oxford University to develop the vaccine late stage testing got underway last week thousands of taking part in the u. K. U. S. Brazil and south africa its hoped 3000000000 doses can be distributed globally but julie fisher is from Georgetown Medical university she explained why these steps have been taken. At this point a group of external experts will be consulted and its a normal part of the process theyll be called in to see if any adverse events that were reported and were serious are likely to be due to the vaccine or to be unrelated and their advice will help decide whether or not the vaccine trial continues we are all familiar with my old verse of events that can happen after vaccination like fever or pain at the s