U. S. President elect joe biden has addressed the nation for the 1st time since claiming victory in tuesdays election biden delivered the speech in his home state of delaware alongside Vice President elect common to horace the running mate submerged victorious soph to taking a clear lead in the swing state of pennsylvania after days of voting. Fireworks light up the docks sky in delaware but will a new dawn soon be upon America Joe Biden has one power promising just that. To a country that has been living through a year of pandemic in unrest the veteran league is promising to bring a new bomb. The bible tells us everything there is a season a time to build a time when to time to sober and a time to hear oh this is the time to heal in america. Alongside biden a woman who says shes determined to heal the countrys rice who divisions Camilla Harris will be the countrys 1st female a minority Vice President she did the key to victory to the Civil Rights Movement and said it will help restore
A fundamental way with american traditions. Because as i discussed in the book trumps isolationism, his unilateralism, his protectionism, his racism, all of those actually buttes have very strong roots in american history. Going back to the founders, going back to the late 17 hundreds. And in some ways, i think trump has demonstrated himself to be a very acute politician because hes been able to tap in to that different narrative that different version of american except exceptionalism, america. And is the city on the hill that stands aloof from the world . Not the country that goes out to change the world. And so right now, i think, as biden prepares to take office, we do see the country going through a searching debate about the nature of its role moving forward. And my own view is its time for the country to find the middle ground between where it was in the pre pearl harbor era, which was doing too little and running away from the world where it has been more recently, which is dra
Director for European Affairs and author of the new book isolationism, a history of americas efforts to shield itself from the world. Professor charles koch joins me now via skype, from chevy chase in maryland. Thanks so much. Charles for coming on before i get to the book. If i may, what do you make of the fears here in britain about joe biden presidency after . , he tweeted that u. K. , violation of the good friday agreement will impact on any trade deal you know, on balance. I think british folks should breathe a sigh of relief with bidens election in the sense that we will have again in the white house, someone who values partnerships abroad, who believes in the transatlantic relationship, who believes in a strong europe has a good partner. Does biden support brecks it know when he was Vice President . Did his boss, barack obama, go to the u. K. And argue against brecks it . Yes, and so there will be some tough conversations between Boris Johnson and joe biden about this issue. But
Sanctions on venezuela were set to expire as president obama during a opens up the possibility of dialogue with a country arguably bent on its destruction. The United States coming on the show as britains 2nd chamber rejects Boris Johnsons attempts to violate International Law and break the buy back. Good friday agreement with ireland for britain said one of president obamas top advisers tells us whether the socalled special relationship is dead in the water. And could this be the man soon running, joe bidens intelligence establishment need to beat the russians . Right. The other thing, i mean, you make them pay the price by killing killing russians, and yes, theres rumors abound that biden may pick hawks like mike morrell for the cia. We ask Rolling Stones about the potential for world war 3, whatever ends up becoming u. S. President in january, all this and more coming up in todays going underground 1st. This week, britains 2nd chamber voted down Boris Johnsons attempt to break Inter
And covid continues to peak across the country, once again shutting new york city Public Schools down. With vaccines on the way but still not quite ready, we speak to 23andme ceo Anne Wojcicki. Could their research on genes and covid give us more clues on how to fight it faster . All of those stories in a moment, but first, u. S. Stocks dropping as fresh resections put in place to limit the spread of covid19 overshadowed positive news about Vaccine Development. Our Abigail Doolittle has more. Abigail, generally the markets were quieter today, but then it fell off late in the day. Abigail yeah, truly a sleeper for much of the day. Very small, fluctuating moves. Cyclical rotation trying to take over. Then new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. Earlier today, you had these two negative headlines. Of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3 , sevenday rolling Positivity Rate here in new york