General suspends those controversial cutbacks until after the election and Congress Calls him to capitol hill demanding answers College Crisis notre dame, the latest university to suspend inperson classes just one week into the semester the spike in cases is very serious and we must take serious steps to address it. An entire Sorority House in oklahoma now quarantining. Just ahead what schools are trying to do to keep covid off campus state of emergency the National Guard mobilized in california with dozens of wildfires raging across the state. Evacuations underway overnight and a searing heat wave making everything worse all that plus just desserts. The Surprising New girl scout cookie thats already the toast of the town. Today, wednesday, august 19th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody welcome to today. Nice to have you with us couldnt you go for a french toast cookie got to wait
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, director of policy studies and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring timothy carneys new book and discussion about the findings and claims and i think you will find the remarks in the panel of interest particularly timely given the moment we find ourselves in historically right now so i look forward to the discussion. Hes going to come out and offer a few words and then he will be followed with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray known to everybody here and then Megan Mcardie known as Washington Post columnist with a lot to say on this issue as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei an and is also the commentay editor at the Washington Examiner where hes been a columnist for a while. His previous books are what many of you probably know him for. The big ripoff and that is where he carved out a name for himse himself. Its a deep dive and its
For the john and Mabel Ringling museum of art in sarasota and the Sir John Museum in london. The lost world of James Smithson was her first book, and she resides in new york. So please welcome heather ewing. [applause] heather thanks for having me. Can you all hear me . Wonderful. It is really a pleasure to be here. And i very much look forward to speaking and meeting with you all afterwards. I just wanted to let you know that i will be bowing to you i am not shaking hands, per our current instruction. I encourage you all to do the same. Anyway, i wanted to thank you all very much for having me. It is a pleasure to be here to talk about this topic that i care about so much. And so, here we go. You all know the smithsonian well as the keeper of many of the most iconic objects of american culture. And, i thought i would run through a bunch of them. Dorothys ruby slippers, of course. Charles lindberghs spirit of st. Louis. Soon after i to the smithsonian. Abraham lincolns top hat. And, si
Than unilateral action. And the. Calls for an easing of sanctions on iran to help it find buyers. And install some nice australian formula down to the coronavirus mclaren has pulled out of the race after its a member tested positive for. Comprehensive travel bans countries under lockdown economys in trouble a coronavirus pandemic as it is now is increasing the turmoil worldwide more drastic measures are being imposed to fight the spread of the illness lets take you through that spread now spain 1st of all where the death toll is jumped by 84. 00 its almost double yesterdays total nearly 3000. 00 cases all. When a government minister is contracted the disease Video Conferences are being used instead of face to face governmental meetings and britain scientists arent recommending any sort of travel ban yet but of course donald trump u. S. President has announced a ban on all flights to the u. S. From europe except the u. K. Were going to more on that shortly. As well the decisions going o
World has already arrived. Cross talking of multipolar world im joined by my guest james detritus in washington hes a former u. S. Diplomat and former advisor to the u. S. Senate Republican Leadership also in washington brian becker he is director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear daily new show on radio or a gentleman cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate james let me go to you 1st im the reason i want to do this program at the end of the year is because we tend to look at events in a micro fashion you know whats going on in this country that country Trump Administration brags that you know which of course we do in the news media but i sometimes think that we love we miss the very big very big pictures of whats going on and the major changes that are happening around the globe and and the International System. And this whole idea of a multipolar world which is kind of foreboding to talk about in western m