Want to thank the commentators and everyone for assembling this deeply honor especially to be giving the William Roger lewis in the flesh. We were on the state Department Committee suffering through a lot of bows and arrows back in the decade prior, and i got to know him well and i feel really honored to give a lecture that is in his name. This book came about and so many of you, my friends, have heard this origin story. This came about because lewis liked the review i had done and mentioned the series that helen was doing that would use my biography to teach history that would pick biographical topics or would use a representative biography to get a broader subject of history. They had just published their first volume. It was on pocahontas. And issues regarding native American History, they were looking for somebody to do something on foreign relations, he offered me the opportunity to put together the perspectives. These were supposed to be short and concise books, that was the idea
His absolute priority and he is getting working already in the next 24 hours hell be naming a corona virus taskforce that he will be sitting up he has been advised by various experts for a long period of time now among them ron klain who was the a boat and barack obama but we understand as well that this task force is going to be headed by beck murphy whos a former said Surgeon General appointed by obama and then fired by donald trump in 2018 as well as a former commissioner of the food and Drug Administration David Kessler so this is really a heavyweight team that will be advising biden and which will form part of his Coronavirus Task force as he and his. Vice president elect come heris go forward but biden has made very clear through his campaign and hes made very clear since he was spoke as president elect that he believes that the way to combat the pen did make is to follow the science. And to find donald trump has refused to concede defeat and is preparing for a series of legal fi
Be only doing one of those 2 and you know. Winning is easy losing is never easy now for me its not. But i think we have when we see rallies the likes of which in the history of this country probably in the history of the world nobodys ever seen before. Theres a tremendous love going on in this country and theres really a tremendous unity theres a tremendous unity nobodys ever seen that we take an airport and the airports not big enough to hold the crowds nobodys ever seen a thing like that and our opposition is you know we have a few people sitting in circles and thats ok thats not normal thats not abnormal actually i mean thats the way it is 11 f. Alan fischer in washington d. C. Monitoring all developments in that was president trying speaking about an hour and a half ago just under 2 hours how did he seem to you. Different tone isnt it i mean its not quite the bullish attack hungry donald trump that weve seen over the last 3 days on the campaign trail remember he said 17 events in t
The Prime Minister of armenia and the president of the Russian Federation signed a statement which declares a complete cease fire and of military action in the nagornokarabakh war zone starting from midnight on november 10th moscow time armenias Prime Minister described the deal as unbelievably painful. The backlash was immediate moments after the announcement furious summons traders stormed into parliament in your avant to protest the move the conflict they argue is about much more than land. But armenia had undergone a number of defeats azeri forces overran nagornokarabakh 2nd city shoe shop and they were on their way to the capital when the deal was signed some analysts say armenia didnt have much choice the prospect of conflict and its costs could be so much worse for the armenians given the current rate of momentum. So hes in a difficult position to be sure and it remains to be seen what the future holds for him more than a 1000 people on both sides have died tens of thousands are
The president during meeting warning the Palestinian Authority that they need to sit down with israel to broker a peace deal. Otherwise all of that money, tens of millions of dollars that the United States gives to Palestinian Authority in aid, that could be at risk. Listen to who the president said. The money is on the table. The money was never on the table. Ill it will you up front. We give them tremendous amount, hundreds of millions of dollars a year. That money is on the table. Why should we do that as a country if theyre doing nothing for us . What we want to do is help them. We want to create peace and save lives. The president reaffirming his decision to declare jerusalem as a capital. He hopes the small version opens some time next year. Netanyahu for his part dismissed the criticism that he about moving the embassy to jerusalem. This is historic. That will be forever etched in the hearts of our people. For generations to come. People say they push it pushes peace backward. I