This week on q a, our guest is margaret macmillan, author of nixon and mao the week that chnaged the world. Cspan margaret macmillan, but if you think a book about nixon and mao would so . Guest my father was a good subject and i love the good storiestoriesof history and thou have two extraordinary personality is with great falls and talent and it was an interesting moment that ended the period but in the United States and china and started Something Else so my next book i wanted to do something manageable has a good story. Cspan did he rely on to tell you what that moment was like . Guest that the documents. Theres a record now of all the transcripts of the first memoirs. Bob haldeman did a diary that is helpful, Henry Kissinger wrote them and thereve been lots of interviews, so i gathered whatever i could from those that have been there. Cspan did you learn anything they dont already know . Guest i learned something i didnt know. I think i learned a great deal more about Richard Nixo
Which would be the phrase the logline for pink flamingos so im going to refer 1st to the pink flamingos because we have a tweet directed at us from one of our viewers and his name is. Central and he says off topic i like the flamingos in the report where are they my wife also commented on how nice they are so i got some pics brought them back to the set there on the set you know they should be multiplying like they are moving because of the lockdown all the pink flamingos are surrounding everything just coersion. Right of course pink flamingos was a raunchy bad taste thats fine let it go of course pink flamingos was a raunchy bad taste film by john waters in 1972 and i think 1972 is an important year that we started bringing in bad our bad taste and trashy taste because thats when we started getting trashy food and poor taste sort of investors like Warren Buffett Warren Buffett this past weekend did announce results not only did he lose over 50000000000. 00 in the 1st quarter but he pr
The coronavirus pandemic continues to take the world by storm worldwide cases are now topping 3900000 with 272000 reported deaths here in the United States alone over 1200000 cases and over 76000 deaths are taking a closer look at the Nation New York continues to be the epicenter of this outbreak as strict rules remain in place at the state level it seems that new York Police Department patrols are getting a little violent meanwhile new york is also dealing with dozens of kids falling ill from mysterious illnesses related to covert 19 for more on all this we turn now to our tease trinity charges. For new york citys social distancing patrols taking a turn for the worst. Disturbing video shows a violent clash between a. Parrott social distancing violators and police in brooklyn was grabbed and this cell phone video capturing the moment an officer waves a taser and repeatedly strikes a bystander during a social distancing bust you know the Police Watched and sick using officers of using s
Coronavirus in 15 stat youll like it. Thank you. Lets go to the santa nine deaths linked to the coronavirus. Area. Yesterday, President Trump and traffic is moving well. Federal Health Officials toured well get a quick look at these the National Institutes of health to find out more about a north bay commutes just to know whats going on. Possible vaccine. All the way to san rafael. But the doctors say a vaccine thats a nice drive. Is still more than a year away. 37s a little slow. We have some breaking news highway 4 is a little slow as were following in oakland. You get to bay point and if you we want to take a look at this. Drive in the inner core of the theres reports of a homeless east bay we have mostly camp on fire. This is near east 12th street and 19th avenue. Traffic. 6 01. You can see the smoke there. Lets go back to the desk. This is the camera here at ktvu Bernie Sanders won the california primary but joe on our roov camera here at jack biden is leading in the delegate coun
Strengthened. Welcome to the program nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people have fled their homes in syrias last rebel stronghold in the past 2 weeks escaping a relentless berridge of balls and ass trikes Syrian Government forces in that russian allies have sworn to retake adlib and the United Nations is warning of devastating humanitarian consequences parts of the province of been under a daily aerial bombardment of thousands of families are reportedly too frightened to move. Meanwhile. Authorities in taki have closed the border to syria and see off flame the violence 100000 attack. And says many refugees on now heavily dependent on charities. Most of those people have. Fled their homes heading to cities such as set our kids burn the couplet all of the province others have gone to government held areas of aleppo province but the vast majority of them im from the areas where the Syrian Armed Forces have been. Putting most of the hogs the area around. And the strategic city that sits on t