Airpods and hope he doesnt shove us into an oncoming train. [ laughter ] even with all this tension, trump has not lost his sense of humor. For instance, this morning he tweeted, we will win. [ laughter ] which is funny. We have a reality show host who will not accept reality. How pleased with himself is Vladimir Putin right now . That 2 million rubles or whatever he put into interfering in the election in 2016 . What a payoff. Might be the greatest investment of all time. Its like he hit the destroy america lotto. Republicans are handling the president with kid gloves, because those are the only gloves that fit him. [ laughter ] i have to say, im less disgusted with our toddlerinchief throwing his oatmeal than i am at the Republican Congress going along with this. The baby is right that oatmeal should go on the wall, hes within his rights to throw it on the wall. We need to let the process of oatmealflinging play out. [ laughter ] only a handful of prominent republicans have acknowled
Churning in the east atlantic. Well tell you whats next. Early today starts right now. Good tuesday morning. Im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. One Company Takes a giant leap toward a cure for covid pfizer announcing a potential vaccine thats 90 effective among volunteers our tom costello has the latest. Reporter pfizer executives are calling it one of the biggest medical breakthroughs in the past 100 years 90 effective in the grug of volunteers known to be infected. Now seeking to get fda approval at the end of this month. With thousands dying every day, its great day, not for signs but for humanity. Reporter the science involved more than 44,000 volunteers researchers will continue monitoring the volunteers to make sure the vaccine is safe. Everyone will need to get two shots three weeks apart with protection kicking in. Most people in the community are probably march through june would be my best guest. Reporter melissa was one of the first to receive the injections at nyu. I felt
And tom keene. We welcome all of you across the xm,on, particularly sirius jenna 119. 119. Morning channel good morning on bloomberg television. 40. 59. Oil, one of our themes today has been the hateful language we have seen from some of our talent, and i want to go to alex morales writing on your united kingdom. The Prime Minister facing a northern revolt. That is hate filled. Theres no other way to put it. What is a revolt up north . Jonathan i think it is an accurate description. Manchester is being pushed into tier three, the heaviest set of restrictions. The labour mayor is pushing back. Back against boris johnson. He is being asked for more money. That is the sense of things, that we are not in it together. There is much more Division Within countries, and not just the u. K. You have seen this playing out in spain, and you will see more of it through europe through the winter. Tom the division in america is seen by the debates last night, debates plural. It really comes down to a
Focuses on international, diplomatic and military history of the 20th century. In particular the era of the world wars and the cold war. And in addition to the age of eisenhower, dr. Hitchcock is the author of the bitter road to freedom, a new history of the liberation of europe which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a winner of the george lewis spear prize and was also a Financial Times best seller in the united kingdom. Following dr. Hitchcocks remarks, ann compton who you all know will join dr. Hitchcock for a conversation on this great biography and the 34th president of the United States. Ann is a pioneer of journalism in america. She was the first woman to cover the white house for Network Television and was on the air for 41 years with abc news. Her longevity and her impact are inparalleled. Anns career at abc news span seven president s of the United States, ten president ial campaigns. She anchored from the white house, from capitol hill, and president ial travel that took he
So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in analogies we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find d one thing to be like another all the time. Just in the same way and the kind of person that sees likenesses and family members, and look at a new baby and say, that looks just like great grandma someone so. Have the same time, even as they say i recognize a lot of that is minded perception, my need for familiarity. I think there has been for most of my career as a historian the question to ask historians is what time is this like.