Position. From the gerald. Are. Ford president ial library, this is an hour. Good evening again. The timing for tonights program is prescient as is always the case at the ford library as we are on the verge of seeing who the current nominees for the presidency will select as their running mates. Some of you picked up copies of an article from the wall street journal recently as you entered the auditorium. Its on the impact of the Vice President ial nominee on election results. For those of you who didnt pick up copies, were having extras run right now and well have them for you after the program. Tonight were going to be discussing not just the electoral process but the evolving role of the vice presidency. And we have the honor of hosting professor joel goldstein, who is the author of a newly released book the white house vice presidency, the path to significance from mondale to biden. Dr. Goldstein is a highly respected scholar of the vice presidency, the presidency and constitutiona
For the mass level government large. For me resilience also involves personal resilience and many of the steps that you mentioned are also steps on a personal level. There is another presentation that will be made tomorrow by a woman by the name of Rebecca Alexander who plays Peter Alexander of nbc, isnt msnbcs sister who is very accomplished because she has a retinal good journey of disease where shes losing her vision and her hearing and the book is not fade away. She talks about whats necessary for personal resilience which is not to look back. Can i ask you . Im sorry. Can you comment about personal resilience . There are important narrators about resilience. My answer is really to create and all of us more resilient people so that we dont have to build it only after we face adversity and there were numerous personal examples in this book that do reflect heroic individuals preparing and responding effectively but thank you. Thank you for this lecture. My name is alex and im an inno
Conversation has moved so far to the right of with an attitude to foreign working people that the Democratic People move to the right as well from the democratic governor there he is republican into the core. The not really taking the moral stand to say this arbitrary is in the wrong. Is a moral conviction. That they won the election to take a stand for justice. Host so what does that mean . What about the militarizing of that urban context . Many say the same thing it was under barack obama exemplified of the Police Department that now makes ferguson and look like baghdad but the politicians need to be rendered accountable as well of course, we have too many black folks to look kid in the mainstream. Host you have 25 books now . Twentyone llord 22 . We invited him to talk earlier today black prophetic fire. From germany. I have critical words about obama telling the truth but coming from such shared great people we talk america as something about justice through our struggles and how
Good morning. Its wednesday, the 30th of december. Our top story. Millions more people in england are expected to be moved into the highest level of coronavirus restrictions, after a record rise in infections. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, will make the announcement in the house of commons this afternoon. Anisa kadri has more. The centre of southampton empty, after the toughest coronavirus restrictions came in on boxing day. Today, the government is expected to announce more areas of england will enter tier 4. And theres also talk of whether four tiers is enough. Yesterday, the uk announced another 53,135 covid cases, a record daily figure. Its partly down to a christmas lag in reporting, but also reflects the fast spreading new variant of the virus. And nhs staff say theyre at risk of becoming overwhelmed. The peak is not going to come for maybe two weeks from now, three weeks from now . And the big thing for us will be weve had the christmas social mixing. People will do the sa
But said he will ask his partys mps to back the deal to avoid a no deal. This morning, the European Commission president ursula von der leyen and European Council president Charles Michel signed the International Treaty ratifying the post brexit trade deal, due to come into force on january 1st. The agreement is on its way to london, where the Prime Minister borisjohnson will add his signature. Lets speak to our Political Correspondent nick eardley. He is at westminster for us. Just talk us through what is going to happen in the commons this morning. Good morning, it is going to be a busy day here at westminster because suchis busy day here at westminster because such is the length of time left, one day until this trade agreement comes into force, things are going to have to be rushed through the commons and the lords, it is all going to happen in there today. It could be another 20 minutes or so before we hearfrom the Prime Minister, just because parliament has been recalled, they nee