And we are fortunate to be with the next hour with us, north korea operates, who kim jong un is and what is going on, they both are former intelligence analysts who represent the very best of their previous profession. In addition to be informed, kind, deadly smart, they are also a ton of fun. Before i turn it over to jung and sui do want to know that the numbers of the audience and send more but send an email to events at brookings. Edu or via twitter at becoming kim. With that, we will turn it over to sue and jong. I want to speak about what it is like to cover a country like north korea and person like analyst and analyzing job as analyst of the cia, making the hard call and as you know,i started the cia 2 days before the 911 and your cia career began and your cia covered kim jong un and between us two decades of covering north korea, but we would both agree that north korea is the hardest of hard target country. Talk to us about your job and north korea analyst in the intelligence
Spread of covid19. He warns against large gatherings and urges Older Americans to stay home. This as his administration faces acting criticism for its handling of the outbreak. Airlines are facing bankruptcies as bookings plummet. Many unless governments intervenene now. Takes more steps to slow theeAngela Merkel annoue closure of the countrys borders to five of its neighbors and all nonessential shops are to stay closed. Officials are advising germans to just stay home. I am brent goff, welcome. We begin with emmanuel macron. He has announced lockdown measures, telling all residents of fants france to remain indoors. This will remain in effect for at least 15 days. In a televised address, macron said people should stay home and not go out except for essentials. He s sai anyone breaking g these rules will l be punished. For more, we are joined by lisa louis. She is in paris. We just heard about president macron saying we are at war. Tell us more about what he said tonight. He announced
How that has not changed. How voters feel about the president which is, pretty much the same way they felt before the impeachment inquiries began. Also tonight are democrats making the same mistake they did in 2016 that could lead to the president s reelection, destroying each other . This all on the eve of the iowa caucus. A new oped from a Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate ripping into biden as corrupt and weak. Hillary clinton blasting bernie as a career politician nobody likes. He didnt get anything done in the senate. Also tonight author Peter Schweizer gives more details on democrats cashing in on that i elected offices. Cronyism in both bidens and bernies political machine. Those two big stories. Father fight of the day, President Trump versus climate active individuals in davos as republicans moving forward on their own Climate Change plan, being criticized falling short. We break it down. A caravan of up to 4,000 illegals now clashing with mexicos Security Forces. Theyre throw
Its monday, january 6th early today st and a good morning to you. Im cori coffin. And im frances rivera. We begin with breaking news from iran where mourners have packed the streets gathering in tehran for the main funeral for the top Iranian Military commander, qasem soleimani. He was killed at an american airstrike ordered by President Trump. The ceremony comes as iran fully ends its commitment to the limits created by the 2015 nuclear deal for the latest on this, we are joined by chris in beirut. I hope you can hear me among those bells tolling. Whats the latest fallout and response from iran reporter yes, frances. Life goes on as usual in the middle east. You can hear the church bells behind me. Nevertheless, everybody is on edge waiting to see what happens next following the assassination of soleimani starting in iran they wasted little time in electing a successor to soleimani, a man by the name of esmail ghaani. He wasted no time in announcing he would avenge th predecessor. And
To call this what it is. This is terrorism. Whether its a synagogue in pittsburgh, the home of an orthodox rabbi, we all need to stand up and say it is wrong to attack people based on their faith. Face. We are in a crisis right now, a crisis of antisemitism not only in this region, but this whole country. A lot of people think its necessary to hate instead of just disagree. I think all Public Officials can try to do a better job of setting an example. Sandra jacqui heinrichs live in new york with more and what we are learning this morning. Good morning. We are hearing from the rabbi who survived the attack at his home and despite his sudden being among the injured, he is saying that he is grateful the casualties could have been much worse and in front of the synagogue this morning are armed guards after what happened here. There is a hanukkah celebration, hacking five people with a machete in the synagogue next door. 1 person is still in Critical Condition. 1 person chase them outside