Thanks for joining us today. I am tom called, director of the center for International Security and cooperation at stanford and am also a senior fellow at the institute for International Studies at stanford and we are honored to have William Perry and tom collina to discusstheir brandnew book. You can see the title on the slide at your screen. The button the new Nuclear Arms Race and president ial power which puts readers at the front row and offers policy descriptions for a safer future. As many know doctor perry served as the 19th us secretary of defense in the Clinton Administration and is a worldrenowned expert on national security, defense policy, arms control and has a long history here at stanford. He is a senior fellow at fsi and the Hoover Institution and was codirector of fsis center for International Security and cooperation from 1988 to 93 and completed his bachelors and masters degree at stanford which is impressive to me because i didnt get into stanford as an undergradua
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System and thats policing and people are going to be scared to create a new system ofency response and i think its going to take of conversations. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds mosts pressing probl skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lntes through inn, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff new milestones tonight in the covid19 pandemic. In Public Health, the world has ocpped 700,000 deaths. In politics, dt joe biden has dec
Chief of staff. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Vice president under the previous order, the senate will consider the following nomination. The clerk nomination, general charles q. Brown, jr. , to be chief of staff and general of the United States air force. The Vice President under the previous order, the question occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . It appears there is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the Vice President are there any senators wishing to vote or to change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 98, the nays are zero. And the historic nomination of general charles q. Brown, jr. As the United States air force chief of staff is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Alexander madam president . The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander thank you
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest the media bob in moscow he is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander materials he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the direct com are telling us up close in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate it ok lets 1st go to alexander mackerras in london i suppose its been a long coming the murmurings have been out there but it has taken this pandemic for an all out at least media arms on china. And of course its also played into the election cycle in the United States and i mean literally looking at the latest the media and their view of all of this on one hand im not completely surprised because while somebody said blame for this pandemic which of course is the subject for many other programs however in looking at the criticism and people there with low octane banking in my unit. First and foremost. Mike ok your secretary of