Scholarship about the causes for the fall of the wall but the proximate causes, the short term events are not wellknown in the nongerman speaking world and so i decided for the anniversary to try to put together that story as best i could and then of course as always happens when you start researching something it becomes more complicated than you expected. It ended up being a fascinating rg 31 so let me just gallop through some of the ideas in my book and then if we have questions we can talk more about them. I want to talk a little bit about the precursor to the night of november 9, 1989, when the wall opens. And then a tiny bit about how we think about these events, memory and legacy, themes that my colleagues will emphasize as well. So its important to say that the first unexpected event actually happened not in berlin but in moscow which is to say there were a rapid series of deaths. In 2 1 2 years there were four leaders of the soviet union, of course, after brezhnev died. Then a
Together. Im still optimistic about that. I think it takes president ial leadership. That is a lesson of the Clean Air Act of 1990, someone who can talk to both sides and find some common ground. And we have not really seen that since 1990. But i am optimistic that at some point, the situation will be repeated. Host a discussion about the Clean Air Act. Guests. D from our two thank you. Coming up in the last half hour, open phones. Here are the numbers if you want to call in and make your comments we will take those soon first an update from cspan radio. An update on ebola the officials from the World Health Organization are visiting two hospitals in liberia in an area authorities have sealed off to help prevent the spread of the ebola virus. Has returned to west point after clashes between protesters and security forces, nighttime curfew has also been put in place. Authorities say ebola spreading fast in liberia. Meanwhile, both American Health care workers infected with the virus in
Jurisdiction spirit is that include, are you comparing the little hamlet in indiana with los angeles or new york . I dont know the answer to the 21 question of the particular city. They can do that by keeping their own record. You have conceded they can require the information as a matter of law. Thats my point is this. My point is because they can do it here, they can do it anywhere pair the government can require any business to keep track of all of its transactions and customers and if the government can then just say, all right give us that information, they reduced the Fourth Amendment appeared to amendment. The amount of government regulation here is massive. The reason the general is here on behalf of the United States is that there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of regulatory schemes the federal government ministers where it is now required to use a subpoena. A subpoena is worthless when what is sought is something that could be easily destroyed hidden, or falsified. Tr
We are going to be talking about Media Coverage of the evil outbreak. Ebola outbreak. [video clip] unless a medical professional has contacted you personally, fear not. Do not listen to the hysterical voices on the radio and television. The people who say and write these things are being very irresponsible. Can see on our facebook page, a lot of comments. The media has been hysterical. Usual. Yed, like some of the comments coming in on facebook. Is some recent figures. 4493 deaths so far in west africa. One in the u. S. 2458 in liberia. Article, bbcnying reports how many people have died from ebola in west africa. It sounds like an easy question, but the answer is certainly not. The most recent official figure from the World Health Organization posts 4493. 12,000 could be a better estimate. Theres a bit of uncertainty about how new people have it. Thats how many people have it. Confirmed,e up of suspected and probable cases. Liberia, sierra leone have some of the worst funded Health Ca
Take office as secretary proud that the senate is in my blood. But equally proud that so, too, is the foreign service. This comes less than 24 hours after Hillary Clinton spent five and a half hours testifying before the senate in the morning and the house in the afternoon. Wow. From the start, shortly after 9 00 in the morning, to the end at 5 00 in the afternoon, the benghazi testimony rain the gamut from the emotional for me its not just a policy matter but personal. I stood next to president obama as the marines took those flagdraped caskets at andrews. I put my arms around the fathers and mothers, sisters and daughters and the wives left alone to raise their children. To the confrontational. We were misled that there was supposedly protests and then something sprang out of that. And that was easily ascertained that was not the fact and the American People could have known that within days. With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead americans. Was it because of a protest or