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
Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
Reasons are at highest risk of all. Alison aubrey will report our cover story. Reporter as the nation ever resulted in protests over Police Brutality, keicha matthews had her own struggle. I have never been as scared in my life. I didnt think i was coming home. It was hard. Reporter black americans are at higher risk of getting the coronavirus. People are now hungry and they are hurting. 0. Reporter coming up, later on sunday morning, race and the pandemic. Cowan doing a late night show talk show without a studio audience has been tough on comics. Trevor noah host of the daily show included. He is in conversation this morning with our jim axelrod. When do you think you will be back in . No clue. Reporter when the pandemic shut down his studio, trevor noah took the daily show online. Hey, everybody. Trevor noah here. And for the standup comic you know its really interesting what is happening in america right now. Reporter has become a standout moment. How do you find the funny in . It.
Good evening, [inaudible] [applause] to introduce our speaker for this evening who will tell you, Leeanna Keith teaches history at the Collegiate School for boys in new york city. She is the author of the colfax massacre. [inaudible] [inaudible] please join me in welcoming Leeanna Keith. [applause] thank you everybody. Forgive me for remaining seated. Im going to tell you what happened to me. I know you want to know how i broke my legs. They sideswiped me. I feel very lucky to be here at all. Now im going to tell you a story about the civil war and afterwards all i can remember is on the lady who a [laughter] what can i say, thats my story. Ive been traveling and one thing about my book is theres a lot of local history and their s, stories that happen in different places. This is not where much of the action takes place. Seeing how about how to organize this talk make me recognize a certain pattern to the geography of the civil war and the whole radical movement. Which in my story get
This is R T International im sean thomas glad to have you with us. In an unprecedented Foreign Policy move the trumpet ministration has designated irans revolutionary guard as a Foreign Terrorist Organization u. S. Secretary of state might bump aoe announced the decision on monday repeating accusations that the elite force both finances and promotes terrorism. Today the United States is continuing to build its maximum Pressure Campaign against the iranian regime. I am announcing our intent to designate the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps including its goods force as a Foreign Terrorist Organization accordance with section two nineteen of the immigration and nationality act as a nation will take effect one week from today. Earlier my colleague discussed these developments with our correspondents new york and policy. Still be the first time that weve seen the u. S. Government designate part of another countrys government as a terrorist organization now donald trump in the statement he