Trumps administrations final weeks and as we head into this new political era. Great group. Jeh johnson, the former secretary of Homeland Security and serves as general counsel of the department of defense. He also represents new jersey in a seven state counsel that coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nations secondhighest intelligence post. She served in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in senior positions. Carrie cordero is the robert gates senior fellow and general counsel. She served at the department of justice and in the office of the director of it is a great group. We are going to start with a conversation among us, then move to some audience questions, which you can enter in the q a box on your screen, and we will also have a couple of polling questions we will weave in throughout so we can get a sense of what the audience thinks about some of the topics. Lets start with Homeland
Freedom Fighters Group were demonstrating near a school said to have held an all White Dance Party in october. South africas president has called for an investigation, just scribing the clashes as deeply regrettable the german president has taken part in commemorations marking 75 years since the start of the nuremberg trials. 24 high ranking representatives of germanys nazi regime were brought to justice for war crimes, paving the way for the creation of the International Criminal court in the hague. This is d. W. News from berlin. Follow us on twitter and instagram it d w news or visit t w dot com the world is marking and remembering nuremberg, 75 years ago, the trials began in that city of prominent members of the political, military and Economic Leadership of nazi germany. And so the 1st prosecutions under International Jurisdiction and the 1st prosecutions for crimes against humanity. And also led to the establishment of the International Criminal court. I am phil graham, in berlin
Away. Most laws in our society rely on us to do the right thing and do our part on a daily basis. Thats true of every law that we have out there. Reporter as tough as this may be, there are signs of encouragement. This week the county submitted its covid19 vaccination plan to the state detailing its plans for Community Engagement and Vaccine Distribution and management. Facility haves been constructed throughout the county to properly store the vaccines upon arrival that will be made available to Health Care Workers on the front lines with a high risk of contracting the disease. The decision doesnt begin and end with the first decision, we will continue to review the data on the effectiveness and safety of all vaccines coming through. Reporter dr. Grace lee from Stanford School of medicine serves on the Cdc Advisory Committee responsible for making vaccine recrecommendations. Well continue to reevaluate the vaccines in the population to ensure were protecting everybody. Reporter steps
Shannon from Wisconsin Public radio. Thank you so much for being here as well and moderating this conversation today. As always i want to thank the library and the Public Library foundation for the ongoing support of free cultural events through the wisconsin book festival. It is one of the great pleasures of this year for me that we are able to do these events virtually and ring is altogether even if we cant be all together. But we also have been expanded. There are many people from madison, many people from wisconsin with people from across the nation and across the globe so that is one small wonderful thing that has occurred because of the pandemic. We are grateful for it with with you today. Most notable are grateful Jennifer Palmieri is here to talk about her book, and i will turn the proceedings over to jennifer and shannon and and il sue at the end. Thank you so much. Thanks, tremor. This is so much fun. Thanks jennifer for joining us today. It is fun to be able to be in these d
Delayed qualifies it here in cats on the hard work continues as it has to host the world cup in 2 years time and unprecedented attempt by donald trump. To undo the election, results appears to be slipping away with members of his own party delivering a new blow. Republican leaders from michigan was summoned to the white house on friday, but following talks with trump, the Senate Majority leader and House Speaker issued a statement saying, there was no new information that would change joe bidens victory in the state. They said the results of suffocation process should be free from threats and intimidation. Biden won michigan by more than 154000 votes. Alan fisher is live for us from the white house. Is there. He seems to be grabbing at straws, trying desperately to appeal to people. Well not only is he running a road is running out of days, there are 3 states that will meet to certify the results. On monday, were talking michigan, pennsylvania and they are 3 states that donald trump re