Ill hop of here and let everybody get started. Thank you so. All right. Well, good evening or hello, whatever time of day youre watching this. Ive got a brief power point im going to use to get into this book. Its based on academic study presented in a nonacademic manner. That was my job as a collaborator. I have been studying this science for a little over a decade and written an earlier book on it, as ill mention. So my job was to keep my co lab to keep it for a lay audience. Before i get into the book i discovered a very interesting study done by the democratic fund, their voter study group, that is actually an examination of attitudes in america of authoritarianism, and i will define authoritarianism for us. We could spend i could do a whole book on that subject alone. But i think most people have a pretty good idea what it is. Larry diamond at stanford shared this information with me and its fascinating. Americans are overwhelmingly love their quote democracy, but that overwhelmin
Good morning and welcome to this Commonwealth Club online program. I am Gloria Duffey president and ceo of the Commonwealth Fund and was honored to serve as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense in the 1990s. Peer are many issues today surrounding National Defense in our military and to the military be used to quell domestic unrest such as the recent protests and should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and contemplating resuming nuclear testing. Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and their statues be removed from our public places. To address these questions and many more today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretary of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. The bipartisan secretary of defense secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book exercise of power american failures, successes and a new path forw
With linsey davis. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im linsey davis. Tonight, the pandemic tightening its grip on the u. S. The death toll nearing 141,000. One glimmer of hope, scientists are one step closer to creating a vaccine. Heres tom llamas. Hi, grandpa. Heres a big hug. Reporter its been months since stella last hugged her grandparents. He turned 93 in june, and i couldnt give him a hug. That was really sad. Reporter to find a solution, she signed up to be part of a brave new army. Feels like im part of Something Big here. Reporter one of the thousands taking a vaccine in a human trial. My grandparents have real patriotism, and i feel like it was a patriotic duty a little bit to sign up for the study. Because thats what we have to do. Hopefully im developing immunity now. Reporter people like stella are crucial to winning the cwar against covid. I can tell you, my safety has been put at the forefront of the entire process. When i see the caring and just the professionalism
Domestic unrest such as recent protests . Should the u. S. Be terminating many of our armscontrol creeks . Even contemplating nuclear testing. Should the names of confederate leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and the doctors be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gates and general james madison. As a bipartisan secretary of defense, secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book, exercise of power, american failure, successes and a new path forward in the postcold war. Doctor cates was an officer in the u. S. Air force and spent 27 years in the cia. He served cia director and became the first career officer in cia history to move from entrylevel employee to head of the agency. Secretary gates served as a member of the National Security Council Staff in four different administrat
Is mornings on 2. Thanks for waking up with us on this sunday, october 6th. Im claudine longer. Happy weekend. Good morning. Rosemary is back in the morning chair and joins us now with a look at our forecast. It is going to be a warm one. Were talking near 90. 90 degrees. That qualities. Outside our doors this morning across the bay. We have a beautiful sunrise there underway. As we get into the afternoon, temperatures are expected to come up by several over yesterdays highs. Yesterdays highs quite nice. Nice and warm. Of course, this type of pathologist earn also brings on that heightened fire danger this time of year. So until 10 00 this morning, we are still with the red flag warning in place. You can see the shades of red indicating where it is. It is over our north bay hills. This does not include the east bay hills nor the diablo range. But areas above a thousand feet. We looking at that for the morning hours. Here is a look at some of the Current Conditions out there in the 60s