Journalists peter baker and Susan Glasser on the brandnew book on james baker, the life and times of james baker. Iner baker, no relation come Susan Glasser, welcome to washington journal. Let me start with a question about the idea of doing this book on james baker. This obviously predates the 2020 election, but this is earlier than 2016 correct . Visualize thenot rise of donald trump in the transformation of the Republican Party we started this book back in the obama era. We had a sense that baker was a character who would help us to write a big story about washington as well has as well as his own personal story. From watergaten to the end of the cold war and james baker is in the middle of that. Host was an easy prey . Did he easily agreed to be interviewed for the book project . Wast at this point, he willing and ready for some of the l2 write a biography about him. Some ready for amebody else to write biography about him. He was open and cooperative. He didnt put anything off bal
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Boost the recovery. Larry summers says the coordinated Global Response is needed. And airbnb books an ipo in new york, aiming to list shares on the nasdaq. Booking through september a total of 18 billion. Although it admits covid19 continues to affect the business. Lets take a look at the asx. More than normal when it comes to the australian soft market after it had the data disruption out. Yesterday was the longest outage in about a decade. Of course, it meant australian traders missed out on the bulk of the days rally. Only trading for a halfhour. We are seeing a pretty modest start, less than 2 10 of 1 higher at the open. Perhaps some caution there could be more technical difficulties. We are seeing gains when it comes to trading in new zealand. Nikkei future setting off on a bad foot as we are seeing some profittaking. It does look like the vaccine driven optimism and the rather we saw overnight will continue, with s p active futures in the positive. Shery we have breaking news at
We now come to questions for the Prime Minister. And we start with andrew jones. The whole house is talking about the result of the heavily contested election. It is a year ago to the day that you were elected speaker. I wish you a happy anniversary and thanks to you for making this great again. This morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and will have further meetings later today. In liverpool friday the tests cut to get results, cut the spread of the virus by identifying people who were infected but not showing symptoms and the number of people and time involved, the benefits to the nhs, when does the Prime Minister think the results will be available in the benefits extended across the uk . The plans will last approximately two weeks and we will keep the house updated on the results they are evaluating. Leader of the opposition. Will the Prime Minister join me, what votes do or dont count or when to stop counting. The next must be the fair choice of the americ