Mislead and misinformed italy is now more than a month into its National Quarantine we speak with journalists there about the hits and misses in their coverage of covert 19 the latest social media platform taking steps to stop the spread of coronavirus misinformation is whats at its laying down some new rules plus our new call of duty can you hear me yes the Conference Call and its no video game. Covert 19 is a news story driven by the numbers how many countries have been infected how many people have it how many have succumbed to the virus what is the recovery rate and is the curve flattening and how quickly the data helps journalists quantify the scale of this pandemic and allows news consumers to assess the risk the numbers also inform governments on what measures they should take but the next time youre looking at the numbers consider this statisticians say that the way. In which coronavirus data is collected interpreted and reported is inherently flawed were not talking about misi
Sanitizer and also how Global Financial shock is threatening to under half a century of Economic Growth and stability in latin america. Everyone accusing it of failing its basic duty u. S. President on trampas halted his countrys financial contributions to the World Health Organization he says the w. H. O. Not only mishandled the outbreak but even covered up how it was spreading out of china the un though says it is the worst possible moment for money to be withheld and drums critics insist he is attempting to shift blame away from himself well start with this from mike hanna in washington. In what has become a pattern President Trump used his podium to break reporters if you keep talking ill leave and you can have it out with the rest of these people if you keep talking im going to leave and you could have it out with that. Just allowed me to introduce a number of prominent members of big business the Construction Labor Workforce International union of operating engineers Jim Callagha
Revolution to the civil war. Her masterful biography, southern lady, yankee spy, a union agent in the heart of the confederacy is published by hartford press. Peoples choice award. Today she will speak to us about her new book, armys of deliverance a new history of the civil war published by oxford. Some guy named Harold Holzer called the book, quote, highly original and sweeping new study. I had the good fortune to hear liz speak on this subject a few weeks ago in hampton rhodes, virginia, and im so glad to have her here at the forum to speak to us. Please join me in welcoming elizabeth varon. [ applause ] all right. Can everyone hear me . Yes . Good. All right. In his first wartime message to congress, delivered on july 4th, 1861, Abraham Lincoln casts succession as a duped and cowed the south into submission. After drugging the public mind for 30 years ago lincoln put it, seccessionists had relied on conversion to bring good men to take up arms against the government. Theres much re
Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. My name is nick burns, executive director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the aspen security forum. Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You all again cspan so be on your best behavior. And we are here to launch a a y important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle forth powe. I agree friend could not be here with us but hes very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and good friend of mine, secretary bill and mister janet , secretary , janet, welcome. In i also want to pay tribute to i think one of the people for me and bodies bipartisanship. Hes involved in every effort to bring peopletogether across partisan lines and thats steve hadley, our former National Security advisor here as well. Our director is jan and 90 well, we you will be seeing anja as one of the people doing the interviews. The subject is china. I think all of us agree our relationship wi
These will begin to undo decades of damage from the misinformation and liberalof mythmaking. Lets begin on that point. Can you elaborate . Guest i realize that for decades thereve been policies that have just not worked it be areas of information, contemporary political debate about Climate Change policies have been put in placplace but have not actually helped in researching this book i felt scores of data and theyve asked American Voters for decades now. The answers have been overwhelming. Se American People simply dont trust the media by a margin of 70 to tell them the truth about some of the ills the political policies have created and another 60 of American People dont trust politicians to tell the truth about those issues as well. So researching and detailing the problems ive also beat out some solutions but having the solutions for people to see in many areas there are some glaring issues ha as the nature testament to the research in this book. Host is it just the media or are t