The great debate, the fractured republic and a time to build. This is two hours. Host author yuval levin, what is your assessment of the United States . Guest thanks for having me here. That is a wonderfully broad question to open within a challenging one. They are living in a moment of crisis. It is hard to deny. We have been through a spring dominated by a Public Health crisis. We are facing now also a social crisis and the struggle for racial the quality and very much of this moment that forces us to confront challenges that weve had trouble with in recent yea years. In th a time of crisis, you kno, its because it is the time of testing its also the time to think about what americas strengths are, what they are good at as a country and how we can build on that address the enormous problems in front of us. Host how did we get here . This is that an era marked by crises from 9 11 to the financial crisis to a pandemic that forces us to look to the sources of restraint what the politics
This film. This program include scenes of atomic bomb victims which some viewers may find disturbing. It was the 6th of august, the enemy which had been known from the night before, was lifted for the time being. It was a calm and clear morning, a few minutes after 8 00, two super squads information appeared over the city. Then a bomb came hurdling down, from one of the giant bombers. There was a blinding flash, and a deafening explosion. In an instant, hiroshima was a scene of unprecedented chaos. Hiroshima, was instantly transfigured, there is nothing left but ruins. Nothing standing, to hinder the full view of the city. The first days in the first days after the atomic bombing of hiroshima, and then nagasaki two days later, it was 75 years ago now, the leading japanese news real team, sent one or more cameramen, to the two cities. And the shot footage, of the aftermath. Not just the buildings, but the survivors and victims. And this footage, we shift back to tokyo. Where it was soon
We are looking ahead to the fed minutes out on wednesday. Lets change the board and look at the currencies and we will check in on some of the commodities. The u. S. Dollar index currently flat. You have the euro gaining just four basis points. A stronger euro over eight straight weeks. That is beneficial for emergingmarket currencies. The yen, 76. Rsus some gains for the aussie versus the safe haven yen. Gold had its first weekly drop since early june. Gold firmly in focus. Down 3 10 of 1 . 42 for wti. Over in the u. S. , 17 basis points on the 10 year. Lets get to the first word news. Good morning south korea is warning of a new mass Coronavirus Infection after reporting its highest number of cases since early march. The latest infections are being linked to a church in seoul. Tokyo confirmed new cases. Young adults in their 20s the largest group, almost 18,000 people are infected in the capital. New data show the japanese economy continuing to stumble amid falling Global Demand and
Assistant attorney general and the office of Legal Counsel under the bush administration, was a member of the domestic policy staff under president reagan, served in the Central Intelligence agency, and was a law clerk for the u. S. Court of appeals for the d. C. Circuit judge in addition to his he did get public service, he also has ensive Service Plaque to practicing law in the private sector. He received his ma from Kobe University and a jd from George Washington school of law. We welcome the attorney general and we thank him for participating today. If you would please rise, i will begin by swearing you in. If you could raise your right hand, or lefthand. Do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief, so help you god. Let the record show the witness has answered in the affirmative. Thank you and please be seated. Please note the written statement will be entered into the record in its entirety.
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 they followed your lead, published the papers. At least were not alone. I have to tell the audience just a small eye roll here, because the New York Times was the first to publish the papers, but thats drama, after all. I wanted to ask both of you from a legal strategy standpoint, Daniel Ellsberg sending it out to so many papers, how does that change the governments ability to prosecute the case . Well, floyd should be the one to answer that first because he was directly involved. Right. Well, it did make it harder to prosecute the prior restraint case, the case that weve been talking about, against the times and then other papers. They did bring actions against the post, and the Christian Science monitor and other papers, you know, who got the papers from elsberg, to stop them as well. But one judge in the District Of Columbia board of appeals put it very well when lawyers were in front of him on this case. He said, youre asking u