Politics come january and joe biden is on the russian team and ill be back in one hours time at 7 am moscow time to bring you that i just updates join us again but. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im purely belle what is the fate of the Progressive Movement can we continue to coexist with the mainstream establishment left is its current trajectory. And 10 progressive part of a greater political realigning. To discuss this and more im joined by my guests jamie right in los angeles she is the founder of the right bob firm and political and also in los angeles we have 3 around let is about she is an independent journalist and cohost of the condo couch and in new york we have john burnett he is cochair of Public Affairs and Public Policy for new York Republican State Committee are across up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate it was going to an los angeles as a put the progressive on the panel here what is the state o
Scientific achievement were not carried away with over optimism or fall into the naive belief that the struggle is over its not weve got to stick to our winter plan u. S. Officials say they hope to have around 40 percent of adults immunized by the end of february vaccines developed by pfizer and her expected to be approved next week thats as the u. S. Hit a new daily record of more than 100000 people being admitted to Hospital Health secretary alexeis are says millions of Vulnerable People could be vaccinated by the end of the year. U. S. President donald trump has released a 46 minute speech on social media outlining why he believes the election was stolen from him he continued to lead forward took place during the election despite the failure of several legal challenges. The Afghan Government and taliban negotiators have agreed on a framework for talks after weeks of stalemate negotiations in doha nato secretary general has welcomed this as a positive 1st step the United Nations has
Been more than 64000000 confirmed cases worldwide and nearly 1500000 deaths the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly to discuss that very crisis the u. N. Secretary general is calling for unity but he also hates how it is that wealthier countries for not doing enough to help developing nations every extended lifesaving assistance to 6 the city of the most Vulnerable Companies small global humanitarian Response Plan from the start we have called for a stimulus package was at least 10 percent of global g. D. P. And for that relief for all countries that needed i welcome the steps that have been taken to help developing countries but they are totally insufficient for the scale of this crisis. Many low and middle income developing countries need immediate support to avert the liquidity crisis they are being forced to choose between providing basic services for their people also receiving bams facebook has announced it will start removing posts that
Pandemic that has already claimed more than 225,000 american lives. We are 00 mere eight days away we are a mere eight days a away from a president ial election. Donald trump announced his nomination of judge barrett even before we could fully mourn the death of the great Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. And Senate Republicans then rushed this nomination to the senate floor. In doing so, they violated the rule that their leader, Mitch Mcconnell, imposed in 2016 which kept Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court after president obama nominated him in february of that year to fill the vacancy that arose with the death of justice antonin scalia. That rule was clear. That rule was concise. That rule was definitive. The senate would not consider a nomination to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court during a president ial election year. Many of my republican colleagues echoed leader mcconnells pledge. In fact, my colleague, senator Lindsey Graham, who chairs the judiciary committee, admonished us to
Dollars to american tara victims and their families so does president abdullah 100 as welcome the decision he will morgan is in hot soon she says agreements a milestone for sudan its something that means a lot of Sudanese Government because the country has been cut off from Foreign Investment largely because of being on the list of states sponsoring terrorism and this has resulted in a shortage of hard currency which makes it very hard for the country to import basic commodities such as fuel and we and that has resulted in shortages in at petrol stations and bakeries its also led to an inflation of more than 200 percent making many from families many of them who live below the poverty line struggle to get 3 meals a day. The u. S. Has charged 6 former Russian Military officers over Cyber Attacks targeting a number of high profile event events including the Winter Olympics and the french president ial election prosecutors say the hack is a part of the same unit that interfered in the 201