previous administration, trump pushed back very hard economically and we give him credit for some of that, we have issues there to be sure and it s only his defense budget in the right direction and he revised the quad alliance but we should have hammered china for crushing hong kong s democracy like that. china should happen hammered also not only for deceiving us about covid but for spreading covid. at the previous president north this president has really taken china on for spreading covid worldwide, march the i think because president xi jinping felt his economy would suffer in western democracies in the u.s. to suffer. there s been a general lack of accountability for crushing hong kong s democracy and also for covid. paul: all right, we will see if the biden administration it s by
the white house has had tension with one of our oldest allies france, over the submarine deal. aides said that president biden will be speaking with president macron in the coming days to try to smooth over that and literally unspoken, because he never used the word china in a speech today is that s the other part of it, in as much as he s rallying alliances, he s doing in opposition to china, but in a sense that these are competitors. he made clear he didn t want to see a new cold war with china, but he recognizes that is now defining a relationship of this age that he hopes, hopes, that he can get along not as rivals, but as simply competitors in the same sphere. jonathan lemire and ambassador michael mcfaul, thank you for spending time with this. the president pushing a plan to combat covid worldwide, the
i think it s not an unreasonable request from a congressional leader to say, please don t target fellow elected officials in any way, shape, or form with your words. they ve not listened to him on that point. look, it s bonkers that you even have to ask, but you know, carol leonnig, here we are. this is from the l.a. times reporting, threats against members of congress. four years of trump s divisive and racist rhetoric played a role, experts say, emboldening people to say things publicly they might have grumbled about privately in the past. it s also a sign of growing partisanship and declining civility. this is happening in people s real lives. i have friends that won t fly with little kids because they don t want them to be scared by an altercation on an airplane, let alone catch covid. this is manifesting itself in the threats against our election workers. 31% of all election officials from 2020 feel unsafe when they
engineer will tell you. it s a learning curve before you can scale it up to the billions and there doesn t seem to be that situational awareness that i ve heard yet from any of the g7 leaders. dr. hotez, how do you feel about our country s efforts to fight covid as we head into in a lot of parts of this country as the first full month of having kids back to school. we have icus in many states across the country packed. we have kids on ventilators. how are you feeling about our efforts to defeat covid here? you know, it s we re still lagging behind. yes, the cases are going down in the southern u.s., but now you see they re going up north of there. they re going up into west virginia, kentucky, tennessee is looking awful right now, and now post sturgis up in the mountain west so what s happening is we re still, you know, going at 2,000 deaths per day, 2,000 american deaths per day. by the way, none of those individuals have to lose their lives. these are individuals who are