The food and Drug Administration during the obama presidency. Moss from theliam Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health talks about the global effort to develop a vaccine. Good morning, this is washington journal for september 10. In the first hour we will take your comments about bob woodward about the early assessments of coronavirus. The president saying that initially he wanted to play it down. If you want us to let us know your thoughts on this release of the audiotapes from yesterday and the reaction to it. If you support the president and Vice President call into 2027488000. If you support joe biden and kamala harris, 2027488001. If you are undecided or supporting others, 2027488002. You can text us your thoughts at 2027488003. Wj and postcspan on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. The Washington Post headline from one of the excerpts from the audio releases from yesterday, i always wanted to play it down. This is coming from Bob Woodwards book say book rage. This
Washington journal continues. Next guest is Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University and author of the book on tyranny 20 lessons from the 20th century. Why the focus on this book in this day in age, that when he First Century . Guest it is about the things that we want new. We spent the 20th century convert confronting fascism and confronting communism. The 1989 came along, and we ha, history is over, the future will be good. More enlightenment and more prosperity. Bigourse, that was a mistake, because it opened us up for the things we thought were in the past. 25 years later, we are confronted with authority in rianismim authoritati again. So we have to look at those who opposed it in the 20th century and see what it can teach us about what we might do today. The you wrote about Current System of government we have, democratic, system of checks and balances. You also said we might be tempted to think our democratic heritage might actually protect us, a misguided refl
Life and gender. What constitutes the unholy trinity . Guest this book focuses on the three battles, the three primary battlegrounds. Assault,has waged its a threepronged assault to redefine human life, then marriage, then gender. The unholy trinity. A threepronged approach on culture that in my estimation is what can notice and christians and anyone who is not a far left radical should be focused on. Host why did you write the book . Guest for one thing, to explain these concepts. To battle against the lefts or to redefine these kind of pillars of civilization. I wanted to speak to conservatives and christians and galvanize them and unite them because ise issues think what you find on the left they are very united. They understand why these issues are so important, even if they are wrong about all of them. On the right it seems if you have 100 conservatives in a room and asked them what the most important issues, the most fundamental principles, you would probably get 75 different ans
That with some few polling, some pew polling, and about 1 3 of catholics felt that combating Climate Change was at all central to their catholic identity, so what i would be curious to see is one, how much pope francis discusses this two, going forward, and whether it has any type of Ripple Effect among the faithful worldwide and really among the worldwide. Climate change is not something that tends to register in the u. S. Anyway as a top concern for the public in general. If you ask people sort of open ended what are the biggest problems in the country, Global Warming does not tend to be it is at the bottom of the list. If you ask a direct question do you think we should be imposing limits on emissions from power plants . And the answer will be quite affirmative. Which side of that coin on the polling ultimately wins the day will say about where Climate Change goes in the future. Host the pope taking his message from the south lawn of the white house to the House Chamber to the Unite
50 essential issues that affect our freedom you write that socalled moderate politicians compromise and seek bipartisanship are the most dangerous among the entire crew in washington. Compromise is too often synonymous with selling out by the sounds a lot better. Guest moderation always sounds good and people want it. We all want to feel moderate and fair reasonable people so it does sell in politics but theres a difference between moderation where you sacrifice something you believe and cooperating with somebody else who might have a disagreement where you come together and do a coalition. Coalition. If in the conventional definition of moderation is if i want to be a true free market person, what i have to do is give up a little bit of free market in order to get to incorporate for somebody else so i see giving up on nonaggression and foreignpolicy and also on the protection of Civil Liberties will have a smaller nsa. We will have a little bit of Government Intervention. We will have