Today. Mutual of america financial grp, Retirement Services and investments. Additional support has been provided by er consellular. And by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, a private corporation fundedy the american people. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan good evening, and thank you for joining us. President trump held his first inperson event since returning the white house from Walter Reed National military medical center, even though its unclear if he is still contagious with he revealed his fisitive test less than nine days ago. The president spoke toit a crowd of i guests from a white house balcony overlooking the south lawn. Ell, im feeling great. I dont know about you. Hows everybody doing . cheers and applause sreenivasan much of the speech addressed campaignis es, and it featured multiple attacks on his democratic opponent, former Vice President joe biden. But, white house spokesperson judd deere told report
At the Manhattan Institute where he is also director of legal policy and you have read his work all over national media, youve seen him on television youve heard on radio and, by the way, he holds the jd and mba from yale where he was an owen fellow in law and economics, also a ba in economics from none other than unc chapel hill where he was a morehead scholar. Jim, so glad to have you with us here for our shaft spirit society. Thank you for joining us thank you for having me, donna, always a pleasure to speak to the good folks at the John Locke Foundation. Ive said it before, as someone who has worked many years at a National Think tank, so much policy happens on the state level and John Locke Foundation is really a Gold Standard think tank that has helped to reshape North Carolina and such a positive direction and lot of the strength and resilience right now and sound fiscal ain the midst of a pandemic is really due to the great work of the John Locke Foundation has done. Thank you
So as a forecaster when you have to cover for that cover storms into the 5 00 a. M. Forecast, you have to get up really early. It is really challenging. Sometime some time ago, i read erik ons storm larsons book. It is a remarkable account of the worst National Disaster in history, the galveston hurricane of 1900. The book brings to life america at the turnofthecentury and the destruction of the city, at the time the jewel of the south, the new york city to be of the gulf coast. Author joins us here today and brings to life human drama, survival from a massive hurricane that slammed galveston almost 100 years ago, coming up on september 8. Given that it is the 100th anniversary, this is the great time for us to look back on the tragedy in the nonfiction andunt of erik larson the nonfiction account of erik larson. Before i introduce him, i want to discuss the anatomy of hurricanes, how we go about cutting it forecasting, and i want to step back in time to show footage taken after the da
So sure, you have to address it. Frankly, there are probably more people watching the Weather Channel tonight than watching the convention. David dont say that, rick, thats a little cold. The president ordered the National Guard, more National Guard today, and now the nba is suspending games and some major league suspended, too. Absolutely, and im curious to see how the campaign decides to address this tonight. And of course the Vice President is going to be speaking on law and order, and its going to be interesting to see how they thread this needle. Donald trump has been very critical of people kneeling for the pledge of allegiance. Needle,hey thread this and they want to keep the country safe, which is the argument they are going to make, and they want to be sensitive to people who are dealing with the scourge of Police Violence against africanamericans. And i need to correct myself, i said mr. Blake was dead, and hes not dead. He was paralyzed but he is in the hospital. Our best wi
Focusing whats going on in washington, d. C. , we are after all coast to coast, were going to hear from the president meeting with the National Association of Police Organization, group that is endorsing him for reelection this go around, were also following a number of developments in florida with the hurricane moving in on the florida coast, Governor Desantis says this is going to be an issue for the state well into next week, we are monitoring those developments as it approaches the category two storm and were monitoring as well what is happening in silicon valley, big tech getting bigger, not only in stocks but any time to rain these guys in, google is a big exception to the runup, its stock not doing as well even the revenue is strong and the fact of the matter is, there was a notion that it is not enjoying the ride that the others are. Again, if you look at that the rich and wealth for not only themselves and their own investors, they have been the really only big game in town so