Hello. Welcome. Thank you for joining us and thank you for being here and cspan thank you for letting me interview about this great book. Its great to be with you the last time we did the show it was a bestseller that changed a lot of peoples lives including mine. You asked a lot of hard questions and i plan to repay the favor. [laughter] youre only in the mid fifties people have already heard your introduction i will not read you that you are freakishly productive for already having 34 work lives you are accomplished globally renowned musician and then became an academic and behavioral social scientist and lots of people cite your work in the academic context like me site your happiness studies all the time to of your books are National Bestsellers and he went on to a third career running a think tank aei that is very important in washington dc and beyond and took it tonight new heights raised resources and hired for interesting people that you are about to transition to a fourth care
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Coronavirus as both president s face more accusations of downplaying the crisis. The Afghan Government switches to an offensive strategy after attacks on a Maternity Hospital and a funeral the taliban calls it a declaration of war. And im somehow must not have all the sporting puting top level sport continues its return in north america with the ultimate fighting championship for the 2nd of 3 events in just 8 days. The European Union wants people to start planning their Summer Holidays and get economies moving again and the e. U. The reopening of borders closed by the coronavirus pandemic france austria and switzerland have already said theyre going to start relaxing control. As early as this weekend germany and some other e. U. Members and to completely end border restrictions by june the 15th others arent convinced spain or the worlds 4th highest number of infections is set to keep borders shut until at least july a 160000000000. 00 question for the e. U. Is how to reopen safely tour
Coronavirus concerns. Controversial magadan project in ethiopia it hits a wall sudan says no to an agreement to fill about with water. The European Union is urging leaders to reopen borders closed because of the coronavirus pandemic tourism makes up 10 percent of the blocks economy and the e. U. Says industry is now at risk of collapse unless urgent measures taken the tasha buffet reports from paris. A glimpse of war going on holiday in some parts of europe will look like this summer barriers separating sun loungers on the greek island of santorini not the beach experience that most holiday makers a used to but one that complies with new social distancing rules we hope these barriers wont be the future for beaches we dont want this but if this is necessary and if People Safety depends on this sort of device then so be it we just want to work we want to get going in march borders in the European Union were shot and nearly all travel stopped because the coronavirus pandemic a huge blow t
They reached the deal if everything is meant that Safety Measures are in place that theres no spike in Health Indicators like coronavirus cases then they can resume full operations as early as next week. This all started when Ceo Tesla Elon musk he was very frustrated with shelter in place hes been politicking for a while now to get his tesla factory up and running again and that did not happen which is why last saturday actually filed a lawsuit in federal court saying shelter in place was unconstitutional and then on monday he openly told the world through a tweet that he planned to defy shelter in place and get the employees back to work and sure enough we were here yesterday when we saw so many people coming and going from the tesla facility. He even said if arrests were made he would be on the Assembly Line and do not arrest as employees. But arrest him ultimately no one was arrested they all work things out. And again Alameda County says if they meet everything that theyre looking