Beijing we crafted to go he is the Vice President of the center for china and globalization carjacking crosstime groups in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok lets go to william 1st in florida. Just a few hours ago unemployment data was just released now were up to over 20000000 people applying for unemployment in the United States who would have thought even 6 weeks ago its extraordinary and being a historian by trade i know the history of the Great Depression and the depression very well not only in the United States but globally so when i see these numbers come out its terrifying to hear how it is you know this pandemic will be resolved its only a matter of question and resources and patients because i understand that because ive been locked down for a month now and its getting very very tiresome. How is this. Pandemic going to impact the recovery if there is a recovery and i never thought in my my time i would ask about is there going to
Citizens have a right to clarify important questions. The judges have no right to interfere with the democratic wishes of the electorate, lets stop wasting time and get on to repealing the European Community act. As always, really keen to hear from you do get in touch throughout the morning. That ruling is in 30 minutes hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11. As youd expect, the programme will be dominated by reaction to that Supreme Court ruling, due in just under half an hours time. As always, do get in touch use victorialive, and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today in half an hours time, the Supreme Court will deliver its ruling on whether the Prime Minister needs parliaments approval before she can start the process of leaving the eu. The long awaited judgment will decide how the eus Article 50 Exit Clause is triggered. The government argues that ministers have the power to do that, but opponents say they need parliaments
That summer was an incredible summer. The summer of 1964. In those days, most senators didnt have a huge internship program. I was the only intern in the office. My boss was deeply involved in that, as was ted. It was an incredible time to be in washington, but i had been there the summer of the year before on the house side. Got to be at the Martin Luther kings i have a dream speech. I did not hear a word of it. There was a mass of humanity all the way down to the lincoln memorial. Then the next summer, breaking the filibuster on the civil rights bill and it passed. Next summer, i didnt have a job but i went back to visit my friends. And i just happened to hit it on the perfect day. I was sitting in the outer office hoping senator cooper would talk to me for a few minutes. He walked out, grabbed my arm and said i will take you to the capital to see something important. It turned out, that was the day that lbj signed the Voting Rights act of 1965. There i was, not exactly up front, bac
Telling her she would be the next target and that they would kill her. The next day she moved to baghdad. Wait a second. Theres a lot more to that story though. First of all johnnys wife is an incredible woman and we go into more detail in the book. She was threatened quite a lot and thought she was going to die several moments. Finally the episode when she got the bullet she decided she just had to go to baghdad because that was where johnny was. To this point johnnys relatives have been protecting his wife and she decided she had to go. She packed the kids up and they went in a van that was kind of the equivalent of a Minibus Service here and lets say it was four hours and we are kind of rounding things out. About two hours into the trip they were stopped by some terrorists and they took them out of the boston they checked them and they were basically threatening to kill them. Fortunately the terrorists were not looking for johnnys family thank god. They were looking for some other p