Typical San Francisco style. Lets take a look. After being serenaded by a drag queen, local politicos cut the ribbon on the new 257 million metro center all to house the bay areas ever growing transit, air quality and planning bureaucracy. This is a huge step in terms of regional cooperation. Reporter huge is right 8 stories of offices and chat spaces with coffee bars, outdoor patio and hightech Commission Meeting room with a tv control center. But like many projects, the building also went way over budget from 167 million to 257 million. Get started on it start pulling things apart and the next thing you know, theres a little more to do. Reporter in this case about 90 million more. I was concerned but i think its working well. Reporter it certainly is impressive but what do you and i get out of it . Its not like muni is going to be less crowded. And bart is still planning to ask voters for a 3. 5 billion bond to keep the system running. Bridge tolls will likely be going up, as well. P
They also made it clear that we still do not seem to have a National Strategy to combat and contain this virus beyond hoping for a vaccine. As dr. Fauci suggested in testimony today, we never really had one to begin with. Would you agree with me that the critical difference is either the presence or the absence of social cohesion and Political Leadership to actually develop a plan, execute it and stick to it . I think that with such a diverse of response in this country from different states that we really did not have a unified bringing everything down. At the same hearing the nations testing czar said that we still dont have the Testing Capacity we need due to testing delays. Would it be possible for our nation to have results for all covid tests completed and returned within 48 and 72 hours . Is that a possible benchmark that we can achieve . It is not a possible benchmark we can achieve today given the demand and the supply. It is absolutely a bench mark we can achieve moving forwa
Civilization which came out on tuesday. It is getting incredible reviews. We have hosted a series of conversations about the truman era, joe. And it kind of makes us realize we should be talking about truman more and the impact on the world stage. Lets bring in another great panel to continue the timely discussion. Former u. S. Senator now an msnbc news and msnbc political analyst, Claire Mccaskill is here. She knows truman more than anybody. Columnist and associated editor for the washington post, david ignatius. Historian and rogers chair and the american presidency at vanderbilt university, jon meacham, who unofficially advises president elect joe biden. So, jon, let me ask you, you were the first while i was writing the book and sort of developing my thoughts, you were the first to draw parallels between harry truman and joe biden and saying at the time if joe biden ended up being elected, there would be some parallels between the two that were too hard to miss. Yeah, you know, com
Weve hosted a series of conversations about the truman era, joe, and it kind of makes us realize that we should be talking about truman more and its impact on the world stage back then and his presidency and still today. Lets bring in another great panel to continue the timely discussion. Former u. S. Senator and msnbc political analysis claim mccaskill is here. She knows truman more than anybody. And columnist from the Washington Post David Ignatius joins us and haste historian jo meachham who advises president elect joe biden. So john, let me ask you. You were the first while i was developing and i was writing the book and while i was sort of developi developing my thoughts, you were the first to draw parallels between hair y truman and joe biden. Saying if joe biden were elected there would be some parallels between the two that were too hard to miss . Yeah. It is a coming to power at a moment where the infrastructure of the world is either under stress and strain or is fully broken
Weve hosted a series of conversations about the truman era, joe, and it makes us realize we should be talking about truman more and its impact on the world stage back then. His presidency and still today. Lets bring in another great panel to continue the timely discussion. Former u. S. Senator, now an msnbc news and msnbc news political analyst, Claire Mccaskill is here. She knows truman more than anybody. Columnist and associate editor for the washington post, David Ignatius and historian and rogers chair at vanderbilt university, jon meacham who unofficially advises president elect joe biden. Jon, you were the first while i was developing, while i was writing the book and sort of developing my thoughts. You were the first to draw parallels between harry truman and joe biden. And saying at the time if joe biden ended up being elected there would be some parallels between the two that were too hard to miss. Yeah, its, you know, a coming to power at a moment where the infrastructure of