as this, the most secure election in the history of this country by chris krebs, lifelong republican charged with securing the vote. the washington post reporting over the weekend only 27 republicans have acknowledged the fact of the election result, indisputed fact. post writes that the results of the survey demonstrate the fear most republicans have of the outgoing president and his grip on the party, despite his new status as just the third elected president to lose re-election in the past 80 years. more than 70% of republican lawmakers did not acknowledge the post questions as of friday evening. that s about 220 republicans in all. the 220 elected officials will have blood on their hands if any harm comes to the local and statewide office holders now receiving death threats from trump supporters who believe donald trump s lies. two of the gop officials under the most brutal assault by trump and his voters, georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and georgia elec
the interview is from the richard nixon presidential library oral history collection and was conducted by timothy naftali in 2008. when i ran in the fifth congressional district mississippi, 8% of the people identified as republican. but if you study the internals, the majority of them were republican. i also knew they were going to vote for richard nixon by overwhelming numbers. i figured well over 80%, which is what happened. i was comfortable with them on an individual basis. i was comfortable with them philosophically. i thought a republican could win in mississippi. a lot of people did not think so. i remember when i called some friends and supporters they basically had said you will not be able to win. but events worked out. i was 31 years old. just turned 32. as time went on, i could sense a change in attitude of the people. you are young, republican, what is this? by the end, they were saying i like what you are saying. you will be part of the nixon team. and i won
i also knew they were going to vote for richard nixon by overwhelming numbers. i figured well over 80%, which is what happened. i was comfortable with them on an individual basis. i was comfortable with them philosophically. i thought a republican could win in mississippi. a lot of people did not think so. i remember when i called some friends and supporters they basically had said you will not be able to win. but events worked out. i was 31 years old. just turned 32. as time went on, i could sense a change in attitude of the people. you are young, republican, what is this? by the end, they were saying i like what you are saying. you will be part of the nixon team. and i won by comfortable margin. then, i came up here and wanted to get on a b committee for fisheries. i wanted to be on appropriations. they said maybe in 10 or 15 years. i think i probably requested what was the commerce committee that subsequently became energy and commerce in the house. they said even though y
reporting s program focusing on the nixon and ministration and media relations. her scholarship focuses on the history of conservatism and the media. dr. hemmer is an active intellectual, appearing on print and on-air. she is an editor to the u.s. news & world report where she writes a weekly column on politics and history. please welcome dr. nicole hemmer. [applause] dr. hemmer: it is great to see so many enthusiastic presidential fans. nearly two years into the trump presidency, you would be hard-pressed to find someone who would describe the relationship between the president and the press as anything other than contentious. [laughter] from the news to the enemy of the people, it is the case that current press president relations are near an all-time low. they are also near an all-time high. fox news post sean hannity has such a close relationship with the president that according to a trump eight, he practically has a desk in the white house. the morning show fox and frie
is economist mariana mazzucato. her faith in the transformational power of the proactive state has made her the go to adviser to a host of governments. does her moonshot economics ignore some earthly realities? mariana mazzucato, welcome to hardtalk. it s great to be here. it s great to have you here. your latest book is called mission economy. you are all about mission economics how we human beings can sort of rethink our economic policies to better meet the challenges that we, as a species, face. well, we have to. we have to. and right now, over the last couple of years, covid has been the number one challenge. how would you assess the ability of our economies to meet the covid challenge? well, i think we were caught completely unprepared, as we have been with the climate crisis. you know, we have all these different interlocking crises. the financial crisis, the climate crisis, now this health pandemic. and in each case, we ve been unprepared. and my view is that if poli