Ill hop of here and let everybody get started. Thank you so. All right. Well, good evening or hello, whatever time of day youre watching this. Ive got a brief power point im going to use to get into this book. Its based on academic study presented in a nonacademic manner. That was my job as a collaborator. I have been studying this science for a little over a decade and written an earlier book on it, as ill mention. So my job was to keep my co lab to keep it for a lay audience. Before i get into the book i discovered a very interesting study done by the democratic fund, their voter study group, that is actually an examination of attitudes in america of authoritarianism, and i will define authoritarianism for us. We could spend i could do a whole book on that subject alone. But i think most people have a pretty good idea what it is. Larry diamond at stanford shared this information with me and its fascinating. Americans are overwhelmingly love their quote democracy, but that overwhelmin
Good friend nick kristof and just one minute. Following that, we will have an interview with the ambassador of china. Missile, nbcdrea is our corporate strategic partner. Be5 30, our last event will beinterview who will interviewed by margaret rendon. A word about my friend nicholas kristof. Thee we can bring him up on screen. Hes a longtime friend and a member of the aspen strategy group. He writes a very important twiceweekly college for the column for the New York Times. When i read your column and read it avidly, you put people first. You dont put government first. He put human rights and dignity first. Because of his extraordinary repair extra ordinary career, hes won two pulitzer prizes, one for reporting on china and one for darfur. Hes just wrote a book with his wife which we will talk about. I think it has deep meaning for him personally. He has had an extra neri journalistic life full top he has lived on for continents. He has traveled to 160 countries and his biography says
T americas broadcast headquarters in washington where cleaners look like theyre mopping up plutonium weve been issued a 17 page manual handsome instruction book for re entering the workplace now is a long time consultant im green with envy i can only imagine how many billable hours went into producing that document but for what other products and services is this pandemic a legitimate gold rush and richard who are the opportunistic profiteers. Well there are so many it kind of fogl to the mind on the one hand you have the hustlers and im trying to are like the people who are using a social media on the internet to sell fake medicines to sell fake cures to sell fake vaccines and to sell all manner of things that are going to protect you from the virus and from getting sick. Much of that is illegal and many of the claims involved are straight out of the regal but its going on its very hard to stop it exists both in the United States and in the larger world so thats one con but even when
Has been warm and sunny were changing that up today you can see some clouds in the distance over berkeley and it is also breezy out there in addition to these cooler temperatures so brisk start to the weekend a few showers to our west. Those lose steam as they work our way our direction can see some coastal drizzle in portions of San Mateo County as well as up into the north bay aside from that it will be a dry but much cooler one so plan on bringing the jacket as youre stepping outside. 50s and 60s for your current temperatures oakland right at 60 degrees conquer double in alameda in the upper 50s right now as of right now not a huge difference from yesterday but look at where were going to be this afternoon highs only in the mid 70s, our warmest compared to yesterdays in the 90s and some of the same places ive got more details in your forecast still to come daria thank you john 5 a won and today restaurants in San Francisco are allowed to start opening in a war and offering Outdoor D
Plunges and a financial panic gripped the world. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island i have but one desire, and that is to see my country again on the road to prosperity. This land was made for you and me let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. By the time Franklin Roosevelt gives his march 1933 inaugural speech, almost a quarter of the nation is unemployed. More than 5,000 banks have failed and drought is persisting in key agricultural areas of the country. Coming up in the next hour, stories from the Great Depression as we take you around the country to places like toledo. And then in 1931, five of the six largest banks in toledo all failed at the same time, which made it the largest banking failure of the Great Depression. Two successful Infrastructure Projects of the time still impacting us today. And to one ending in tragedy. Well take you to saint paul where depression gangsters and the corrup