G20 meeting early this morning and the biggest subject was covid. Yeah, no kidding. Saying covid is the biggest topic at the g20 is like saying, i was at the oscars, and the big subject was movies. And then, he skipped the session devoted to Pandemic Response to play golf again. Theres the caravan of carts. And there he is, aintdoin, jack nicklaus. As graceful as a dumptruck. He golfed on saturday and sunday this weekend. Ive never seen a guy try so hard to keep a job he doesnt even do. This is his schedule today. No Public Events again. Just some eating and private screaming into a mypillow. On friday, he did do something. He attempted to personally interfere in the election. He invited the Senate Majority leader and speaker of the house for the state of michigan to the white house. For some bigly buttering up. That didnt work, because today, the michigan board of canvassers certified the results, officially declaring joe biden the winner. Trump had another big loss in pennsylvania to
Santa rosa in 38. Its 39 in livermore right now. 43 concord. 46 oakland. The afternoon is just like yesterday. That means sunny, warm and beautiful. Mid to upper 60s. How is the drive looking . Its getting busy this morning as you work into the pass. Its the usual stuff for the super commuters going westbound into 580. Thats where we are seeing most of the delays. Expect a few brake lights. The good news, no accidents or incident for that portion of the freeway. Travel time 30 minutes 205 toward 680. Right now looking good across the east shore. No delays along highway 4 and that ride out of the south bay so far so good. A few brake lights starting to form for that morgan hill commute. Bay bridge toll plaza quiet, no metering lights and its a very easy ride as you work out of the east bay into the city. Live news desk. We will watch this morning on the investigation into that huge fire that started in a berkeley seven story apartment building. It caused the evacuation of a nearby three
Postpone that event indefinitely to talk on one of his other books. But im sure most of our viewers here today know many of johns books. Hell from the heavens, for crew and country, and tin can titans, which won the Elliott Morrison naval literacy award. It was awarded regarded naval history. So congratulations on that. Many years belated. As i mentioned, john was supposed to come in april, and thankfully we were able to work with our colleagues in the Distance Learning team to bring these programs to you all. This one, specifically, has to do with our theme of the end of the war, specifically the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. We will get right to it so we can try to get as many of the audience questions, asked and answered by john. But im going to start with a handful of my own questions first. John, lets give the audience a brief summary for those of you that have not read the book. Give us a brief summary of dogfight over tokyo, please. John well, dogfight over tokyo expla
Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on
President ial election an embarrassment, but biden says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january. Thats despite the trump administration, reportedly refusing to assist bidens Transition Team and blocking them from accessing vital resources. Are the official reports from washington d. C. . Well, donald trump is keeping a low profile job by putting himself front and center. This was an event to discuss the Affordable Care act, but the president elect questions on other topics and he had a message to the man he will replace at his refusal to accept the result. I just think its an embarrassment when frankly, the only thing how can we save this tax and i think it will help the president s legacy. I think that i know from my discussions with foreign leaders of us for that they are hopeful that the United States Democratic Institutions are viewed once again as being strong and endure. And, but i think at the end of the day, you know, its all going to come to fruition in january 20th