Program to him. And to honor his memory. I think his spirit will be with us for a long time. And i just wanted to mention him gratefully here as hes been part of our Virtual Events upo this point. Todays event as i said at the beginning is meant to celeate this a wonderful new book within amazing cover which is why it showed it. Theres so much going on in the cover we couldve just spent today talk about the cover. Like what are all the little post its. But we won. The author of t book that is with us today is shamus hues. He wrote this book with alexander and clifford. Shamus isne of the leader counterterrorism exper in the country. Hes been produci report after report for years both for congress and others. Before joining the program for extremism on george whington university which of the ncp National Counterterrorism center before that he was a senior counterterrorism advisor and Home Security Government Affairs committee. There is an awful lot shamus should be talking about today a
Member at your place of worship. Maybe it saves the lives of one of your childrens teachers. Maybe it saves your lives. So, please, i implore you, wear a mask do it for yourself do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement, but it is a good way to start pulling the country together i want to be very clear. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable or take something away from you. Its to give Something Back to all of us, a normal life the goal is to get back to normal as fast as possible and masks are critical in doing that it wont be orever, but thats how well get our nation back, back up to speed economically so we can go back to celebrating birthdays and holidays again so we can attend sporting events again, so we can get back to the lives and connections we shared before the pandemic. It doesnt matter whether or not we always agree with one another. It doesnt matter who you voted for. We are americans and our country is under threat. And now
Saying hes been terminated. Drug giant pfizer says its covert 19 vaccine looks to be 90 percent effective sparking hope that the global outbreak can be brought under control. President elect joe biden is still warning of a dog when to head off to the u. S. Infection count pos its 10000000. We begin with breaking news in the conflict between azerbaijan and armenia in the disputed region of the going to cut back on me as Prime Minister has announced just in the last hour or so he signed a deal with azerbaijan and russia to end the war nicole delivered the news via a statement on his Facebook Page saying the agreement would come into force on cheese day. He described the decision as unbelievably painful but one which had to be made her Armenian Forces had just lost control of a major city in a going to come back not far from the regional capital. Lets go to a binge of aid who is in the capital of the by john who bring us up to date what is the latest that youre hearing. Well weve just hea
A possible breakthrough in the fight against covert 19 u. S. Drug giant pfizer says its vaccine candidate is 90 percent effective. Also in the news there i mean to end a decade of chaos and bloodshed in libya u. N. Backed talks have begun paving the way for a political transition. And uncertainty in peru is the president faces a 2nd impeachment trial in just 2 months coming up a live update from the capital lima. And bumpy december the legal sports news 27 seen masters champion Sergio Garcia withdrawals from this weeks tournament of the testing positive for corona virus. But were starting with breaking news this hour 1 pm in washington d. C. And literally in the last 2 minutes the u. S. President donald trump has fired his secretary of state. In his words. Has been terminated straight to kimberly how could a White House Correspondent cant believe its begun. Yes thats right mark else for is the secretary of defense or at least he was until this announcement by the u. S. President on twi
Heal the soul of this country so that we can effectively address this crisis as one country. Were hardworking americans have each others backs. And now to our top story at 3 and may be months before president elect Joe Biden Takes Office but hes already getting the ball rolling with a new Coronavirus Task force on the heels of pfizer announcing early data its covid19 vaccine is 90 effective. President elect joe biden says a lot of work still remains which is why Biden Announces New covid19 Task Force Washington correspondent alexandra le mon has the details. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around president elect joe biden says a lot of work remains to be done to battle the coronavirus pandemic nearly 240,000 deaths so far. Protecting the projections still it okay we can lose. 200,000 more lives in the coming months thats what biden announced his new covid19 task force which includes a former Surgeon General former food and Drug Administration or and a yale professor biden