Welcome to The Beat, im ari melber. But we begin with Breaking News in politics. Former republican Vice President and Defense Secretary Dick cheney is backing Kamala Harris. That marks one of her most high Ranking Republican endorsements in this campaign probably the most iconic. Dick cheney is an Arch Conservative Hawk and a gop icon, a fixture running republican administrations as chief of Staff And War policy as Defense Sect and Vice President and during 9 11 and the wars in afghanistan and iraq. Those were stints that made him a Fire Brand Folk hero on the right and loathed by most prominent washington democrats. And indeed this news right now tonight would have been unheard ever 10 or 15 years ago and cheney is far from a never trumper. He endorsed Donald Trump in 2018. This also completes the Cheney Family unusual evolution and it did not come during the actual four years of trumps presidency, his governing priorities and his mistakes, it came over whether were a democracy or a C
Books team for making this possible and joining us live tonight. I have enormous privilege of introducing her guest. Jeb bush was the 43rd governor of florida and the first in state history to be elected. Anders limited government approached he created 1. 3 million net new jobs improving the States Credit rating. Currently hes headquartered in coral gables florida. Tonights guest of honor author of citizen mack politics, an honorable calling senator connie mack 92 senator mack left a successful banking. To serve in the house of representatives. He upon returning to the private sector mack became chairman of the h. Lee Moffitt Center in tampa, florida. With that i will hand it over to governor jeb bush and keep in mind you can submit your questions to the feature. Thank you very much. Its such a joy to have this conversation with the man id hire so muc and ive read the book connie. A greatook. The news york times tod had an artle about independent bookstores that i thi is worth mentioni
System and thats policing and people are going to be scared to create a new system ofency response and i think its going to take of conversations. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds mosts pressing probl skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lntes through inn, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff new milestones tonight in the covid19 pandemic. In Public Health, the world has ocpped 700,000 deaths. In politics, dt joe biden has dec
you too. thanks to you at home for being here. we have breaking news tonight, in the investigation into trump s handling of top secret classified government records that wound up at the florida beach club. and the special stay of the special master ruling, judge cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retrieved from trump s lome 40 days ago, and in response, the justice department be grudgingly said okay, go ahead and appoint the special master but please exclude the roughly 100 classified documents seized from mar-a-lago because we need to continue the criminal investigation of the classified documents due to special national security interests. also aal second intelligence assessment into the potential risks and harms that may have been caused byat having those t secret classified documents hanging out at trump s club, the justice department argued that thatst assessment could not c
of the bravery of 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson, who spoke truth to power, who spoke the truth, who spoke, despite the fact that many much older, much more experienced men, were too weak and too shrivelled to be able to speak out about what happened behind closed doors in the trump white house leading up to did she say that? is willie here? let me tell you something willie i don t know that she mentioned there s more than one woman who spoke out and was able to do that. right. compared to these pathetic men. it s okay. i don t think she used the word shrivelled. they re in the corner, shrivelled in the corner. it was cold. kind of chilly. i don t know. i get what mika is saying here. you better. it was quite an image, willie, is it not? liz cheney getting rapturous applause at the reagan library, the epicenter of what once was a movement called conservatism, and talking about just how corrupt the republican party has gotten, but how one young