Hi, there, im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining these three amazing authors today. You see them on the screen, they are George Packer whose latest book our man, richard holebooke and the end of the century, and peter baker, this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of James A Baker iii, two good books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930, holebooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer. Holebooke, a democrat, Foreign Service officer. Student of Foreign Policy. Their lives took very different trajectories, but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that, this was 0 m a man with great ambiti and that was even before he came to washington. It was. He was part of a houston aristocracy. His family basically built modern houston. He was expected of great things. He had a father who impressed on him the legacy. One thing they were n
Michael. Hi there. I am thrilled to join these three amazing authors today. You see them on the screen. Latest book our man, richard and the end of the American Century and susan lasser and peter baker who spoke just out this fall, the man who ran washington, the times of james and baker the third period two brilliant books about to complicate and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart, baker in houston in 1930, holbrook in manhattan in 1941. Baker, republican trained as a lawyer. Holder of Foreign Service officer, democrat. Student of Foreign Policy, there lives to very good trajectories but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Picking up on that, this is a man with great ambition and even before he came to washington. Part of the family of aristocracy, he would expect to do great things. Very dominating father who departed on him the legacy of the family, youre meant to do big things. The one thing they were not meant to do was politics. Its
Protests against george death has broken out across the country, including here in the bay area. Hundreds of people posttesting in oakland and san jose tonight. The demonstrations, at times, pretty violent. That outreach spreading across the country tonight. Thank you for joining us. And tonight, in oakland, protesters were out on the streets. Protesters were blocking the highway at 880. You can see in the video this is from the broadway exit. You can see here that people were on the freeway. At one point traffic had to come to a screeching halt because the protesters ran onto the freeway. Here is a live look from sky fox at the protest happening right now in oakland. We saw a short time ago someone set fire to something. It appears that other people who are a part of the demonstration put out that fire as well. You can see fire trucks on the scene. We are not clear what that was about. But we have learned multiple officers were hurt earlier tonight at seventh and broadway. Always say
We are the third oldest of the nasa centers. We broke ground on 1941. We predate nasa by a little under 18 years. For the National Advisory committee for aeronautics founded in 1915 in the infancy of aviation in this country to study this new technology and figure out how we can harness it for economic military use. Prior to this they only focused on general aeronautics. They had not done anything with that have beens seeing what they were doing in europe and found that they were way ahead of us when it came to Aircraft Engine Research especially the germans. In the late 1930s that made them nervous. The establishment of a Third Laboratory that would focus on aircraft engines. You can do all the Aerodynamic Research that was our single role, to improve aircraft engines, 75 years later we are still working on Aircraft Engine Research and proving that technology. We have had five names over the course of our history. We started off as the Aircraft Engine Research lab and later we were na
The issue of mail in voting. Now the coronavirus outbreak to have amplify that order clash kron fours dan thor is hearing from both sides tonight, hes live in San Francisco with more and dan were hearing this debate played out all levels of government but a governor newson just up the ante here in california. Thats right grant will this executive order has bay area republicans worried about voter fraud and voting errors only increasing in the state and those are ideas that President Trump has also expressed but bay area democrats say that mail in voting will only maintain voter turnout here in california and also keep voters safe as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Fears of covid19 have pushed governor Gavin Newsome to send mail in ballots to all registered voters before the november election, the friday is reinvigorating the voting debate between the left and the right political crisis go to waste as the democrat. Always happy to say a San Francisco Republican Party chair john denn