This week on q a, our guest is margaret macmillan, author of nixon and mao the week that chnaged the world. Cspan margaret macmillan, but if you think a book about nixon and mao would so . Guest my father was a good subject and i love the good storiestoriesof history and thou have two extraordinary personality is with great falls and talent and it was an interesting moment that ended the period but in the United States and china and started Something Else so my next book i wanted to do something manageable has a good story. Cspan did he rely on to tell you what that moment was like . Guest that the documents. Theres a record now of all the transcripts of the first memoirs. Bob haldeman did a diary that is helpful, Henry Kissinger wrote them and thereve been lots of interviews, so i gathered whatever i could from those that have been there. Cspan did you learn anything they dont already know . Guest i learned something i didnt know. I think i learned a great deal more about Richard Nixo
Right now the focus is on states and cities that are holding back on reopening and phased reopening plans at this stage here. Looks like it is relatively contained but all of this in an environment where the number of cases has picked and the World Health Organization says the worse could be yet to come. Interesting development as well in england they were reordered to institute lockdown measures. That is follows on heels with other Foreign Countries bedevil ed openings not going necessarily to plan. Im not talk being about what is rapping in russia, india, spikes in cases in japan and the seoul, south korea area. The fear this seems to way on the markets eventually. Something that will slow certainly the reopenings and the economy and recovery that many hoped to see from that. Very tepid. No matter what happens today. Looking like a boffo month for all the major market afterrings, certainly a very strong quarter. The strong first half of the year, well get into all of that, first to c
Happened over the weekend. Tehama, and yuba. The officials there said they have reported just 69 cases total of covid19 and 50 of thousands of people spurred on by sun and warm weather are those have recovered. The counties combined have a flocking to area beaches and total of 500,000 residents. Parks and disregarding existing shelter in place orders. I would not say im tired of so far the governor has refused it, it is frustrating. To lift any stayathome orders but i understand that it is anywhere here in california. Kind of necessary. But as the governor reports progress being made in terms of flattening the coronavirus curve here in our state, these are the latest figures from the last 24 hours. Reporter from the north bay he says 45 people lost their to santa cruz and points in between, it is a new rebellion as traffic chokes roadways and side streets in an attempt to lives to the virus. Last wednesday we saw the get out and get away. States worst day for death at i think that peop
Voices from the road. So to keep our moderator busy so in the interest of time and because we aree on air with cspan we should get moving. I will give some opening remarks and then we will start the discussion. Welcome to the middle east institute. For someone who works on syria over the last nine years i can safely say to combat a more important time any other offense like this one and i was extremely glad it was taking place. The humanitarian crisis that developed recently is unprecedented. Not just of the whole world of modern history. But the world has yet to do then issue more than public statements of concern. And then to say everything that i can but to say from the outset how grateful i am to have such an esteemed panel of experts and practitioners to see this very shortly with this valuable perspective to have the extraordinarily important issue. First on the far left the founder and president of a medical company trying to reduce healthcare disparity by providing healthcare f
And International Studies this is about one hour. [inaudible conversations] welcome back. Cliff, happy birthday. You are welcome. It is all for you. I really am delighted to welcome general joseph votel for our keynote address today. He currently serves as ceo and president of Business Executives for National Security and he joined their in january 2020 following 89 years of distinguished military service and served for three years as commander of u. S. Central command and prior to serving as commander of Central Command he commanded the u. S. Special Operations Command and the joint special Operations Command and in addition to his current role at the visit executive Financial Security hes also a distinguished senior fellow National Security at the middle east institute and unwelcome credit [inaudible] he will talk about a theme that has come up throughout the discussion this morning which we are all aware of but werent exactly sure what to think about and i think in 30 minutes we wil