To you. I still see myself as a book critic. This book is gamma extension of that work but these days i feel like i am a political journalist and using books as a means to that kind of work. Or is that something you actually steered clear of it has to in some ways beyond just sympathy for so i hope that it will give me a better sense of the decisionmaking that goes into what a book covers and how many chapters. What is it that you do during the day then you read 150 books about the trump era it is a book about books like the book about coffee tables from seinfeld but i hope it simply uses books to try to understand a moment and get a snapshot of a moment so it could have been a lot of things. It could have been film, theater, fiction so its a book about this moment in america and civic life but what do you mean about the intellectual history . There are a lot of ways to imagine. It anticipated everything and ive done some of that myself, guilty but that isnt the kind of book i wanted t
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George floyd was intentional. It wasnt premeditated but it was intentional to be fair degree charge simply meant that there was a reckless disregard for human life and the family in the protesters call that was not an appropriate charge the other 3 are charged with abetting sure of on in that act so yes it is sort of a beginning but a lot of people think the protesters might and once they achieve better initial goal and thats not what im hearing at all here what im hearing from people is that that proves that these protests have been effective and it therefore they have more work to do before his death has spots more than a week of mass protests in the United States time some of the demonstrations have turned violent with buildings and cars set on fire and shops looted president only trump had threatened to send in the National Military but now he says he doesnt think hell have to. The former u. S. Defense secretary jim mathis is criticized trumps handling of the crisis hes accuse the
We all need somebody to lean on that was the scene near the white house last night after days of unrest, anger, and violent confrontations. A Massive Group of protesters paused for a show of solidarity in song. These large crowds of people packed together raising new concerns among Health Professionals about the spread of the coronavirus, as well as fresh worries about tear gas. Earlier i spoke with dr. David eisenman. As always, thank you for joining us. An Oklahoma State Football Player says he tested positive for covid19 after attending a protest. He says he was asymptomatic. As protests continue in almost every part of the country, are you worried we will begin hearing more stories like this . Well certainly see more cases as people go to protests. Its also occurring at the same time as more people are socializing in general and more states open. Hi of course people can go to protests with face masks on. From what i can tell of the pictures and from firsthand reports, most people a
We cannot force talks upon people who are not ready to talk stalemate in the gulf high level meetings on the diplomatic rift with appear to go no way. Live from doha coming up a victory. At the japanese need to reform this countrys pacifist constitution. An exclusive look inside central come on the desert air base and some called the most important military facility in the world plus. When we aggravate i just saw that it was a vampire dozens are charged with murder in malawi after a mob stoned to death people they believe a vampire. Welcome to the program despite hopes of a breakthrough it seems the gulf crisis that seen living under a blockade for nearly five months would drag on u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is in the region but says the Saudi Arabian led bloc is not ready to talk but after meeting. He called an old sides to deescalate tensions but said the u. S. Couldnt force any discussions lets listen through from saudi arabia where he met king solomon but there were no i