Council or Foreign Relations since 2003. Today were here convenes to listen to Richard Haass the prolific author and academic who just came out with yet another book entitled not very ambushesly as he said, slightly ambushesly the world, a brief history in 300 pages. He calls it a little bit of a departure from his previous books. I want to start because it was only after you turned in the manuscript that the world was confront by the covid19 pandemic, and in the roughly two months since that happened, this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts you tackle in the book. So i wanted to just ask you outright, what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Well, thank you, juju, thank you for doing this. Thanks always to everybody on the call. Hope everybody is well and safe as we all get through this one day at a time or as ive said, one groundhog day at a time. What i think the pandemic tells us first and for most is that the world matters. Thats perhaps an
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Have day after day after day of this, and thats what weve had. It started on wednesday of last week. It peaked over the weekend when it felt like 110 in philadelphia. 100 degrees is the way it felt today and back up to at least 102 tomorrow with a high of 95 so if anything its going to get a little more hot and human tomorrow. 87 in the parasuburbs and philadelphia 93 degrees. Feels like 100 in vineland and 102 in dover which, of course, is nothing compared to what we saw over the weekend. Ill let you know when we see that significant relief and when storms are going to come in just a few minutes. Okay, glen. To decision 2016 and the push for pennsylvania. Today Hillary Clinton campaigned in scranton, and she brought Vice President joe biden with her. Thats his hometown. Biden said electing clinton as the first female president would change the lives of women and girls. Nbc 10s lauren mayk reports from scranton. On cancer research, Hillary Clinton told the crowd if shes elected she wil
President trump who took questions from the press pool for the First Time Since election day yesterday. The chaotic back and forth ended the longest stretch of time in his presidency that he didnt engage with reporters. 23 days, four hours and three minutes. Here was the most notable part. Just to be clear, if the Electoral College votes for joe biden, will you concede . If they do they, there is a mistake but will you was a fraud. The Electoral College does elect President Joe Biden will you not leave this building . Certainly i will. Certainly i will. You know that. But i think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of january. Well, to the surprise of nobody, the president contradicted his own statement when he tweeted this morning on his way to, hope youre sitting down for this, the golf course that joe biden can only be president if he can prove that his votes quote were not fraudulently or illegally obtained end quote. That is, of course, plainly no
Reports today in the American Press that the Trump Administration took active steps to ease sanctions on russia almost immediately after trump took office. Was this possibility ever discussed between the trump team and your representatives prior to President Trump being inaugurated . Translator thats just absurd what theyre saying. I dont know where these people have come from that distribute this kind of information. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is at the white house. Kelly, let me start with you. Tell us a little more about this nbc news report. Sources saying that the Trump Administration was gearing up to remove sanctions when it entered office. What more do we know . Reporter first of all, arent we jealous of keer and his upclose action . The trump strauss is not comments and theyve deferred anything related to russia to the president s lawyer. Coming into office, there are sources from the state department who were career officials who say that they were getting a sense that an attempt to