Record of the nation during the andod of Victor Navasky from the current period when katrina vanden heuvel is the editor and leader of the nation. It is a great privilege, to have the records of a journal of opinion. The strength of our democracy believe rests on the survival of opinion, and the opportunity for the expression of those opinions. To be in a position, to protect forever this material is a great privilege. We now have the opportunity to learn some of the back story, magazine, so writing its 150th anniversary. I promised victor that i would start by asking how the heck he ended up coming to the nation. Victor thank you. Edgarscame from funeral. He played a role that is not publicly known. Was thedgar when he editorinchief and then publisher of dial press where he i see in the audience marvin, he would go to he wouldd say put his manuscript on the desk. Edgar was working on what became the book of daniel, a great novel. I knew edgar from those days. We collaborated on a numb
As a month long lockdown begins today in england, well be answering your questions on it. You can tweet me Annita Mcveigh or by posting with the hashtag bbcyourquestions. The bank of england says it will inject an extra £150 billion into the economy to help with the pandemic and Interest Rates remain unchanged. The chancellor, rishi sunak, is expected to give details later of how furlogh will work if more parts of the uk go into a wider lockdown. Sainsburys announces it is cutting 3,500 jobs. The cuts will mainly come at argos with more than 400 stores due to close in the next few years. Warnings from doctors and Fire Services about the dangers posed by fireworks, as many prepare to celebrate bonfire night at home this year. Good morning. The result of the us election remains in the balance, as votes continue to be counted in key Battle Ground states. Joe biden is inching closer to victory after claiming michigan overnight, with reports suggesting he will take more key states today. B
Martha youve got what could potentially be, the president says stop the count, democrats in pennsylvania saying stop the count but the reason the democrats are saying it according to this report is that they do not want the others we saw this morning to have come in and be able to stand 6 feet from where the accounting is happening. That is apparently the debate. Bret the democrats want to the count to continue, they just dont want the republicans in the room. Martha they want to stop the count to remove them from that 6foot distance from it appears. Bret john roberts is standing by the white house, the white house is very engaged. Not only count the votes that have been on election day or before which also affects pennsylvania but now about these filings all over in various different states, the case thats happening right now. In pennsylvania there was a Conference Call this morning from the Trump Campaign in which they saw this as a very big victory, a judge in pennsylvania allow the
Welcome, everyone. Joe biden is, of course, the clear winner of the u. S. President ial election. But thats not stopping President Donald Trump and thousands of his supporters from claiming otherwise. They descended on washington saturday for what were mostly peaceful protests, but after dark, things took a violent turn. Officials say one man was stabbed and is in critical condition. The Mayors Office says two Police Officers have also been injured and at least 20 arrests made. We dont yet have a full picture of who was attacked or who might be responsible for the violence, but that doesnt stop the president , of course, from weighing in, tweeting that his supporters, quote, aggressively fought back after he says antifa attacked them. Sara sidner gave us an update a short time ago. Reporter really what youre seeing are several different things. Youre seeing antifascists who were out, who are antitrump as well. When they see someone from, you know, the trumpsupporting side of things who