he's always seen themselves as a reformer set on shaping the future japan's prime minister shinzo abi and his party v l d p won the 2012 election on a platform of revving up the economy and breaking with obsolete economic traditions his main plan was to ease japan's monetary policy the country's central bank set the printing presses in motion and flooded the market with fresh cash then he installed credit financed economic stimulus programs abhi wanted to make japanese society its legal system and labor market more business friendly one objective to get more women into the workforce thereby increasing productivity he called his program abi nomics using rb nomics i will increase jobs and incomes and revitalize the countryside while making citizens livelihoods better. and it worked at least in the beginning abi nomics temporarily boosted the confidence of the japanese economy and japan citizens but after the initial highs the stock markets in japan plummeted sharply. makes couldn't strengthen the economy in a sustainable way as g.d.p. during avi's term in office shows the risks of abi n

. >> what i really love, we both Ãbi love how the book is both "wandering in strange lands" and so muchering in it, like a wondering about ultimately your people and your father, your father and his people like led you to this journey where you come from you come down south come you leave new york, you're trying to find a part of you. i wonder if it's fair to say that you feel like you are going to look for a part of you and are going to look for a part of your father? >> absolutely. i'm going to keep it real, i was very insecure about where i fit in my father's life.when i was born the mother and my father were not together anymore. last i recalled i didn't even know i had three other sisters until i was about seven years older eight years old, i was like now where do i fit in these family trees? when i wrote this book, particularly when i wrote the louisiana section of the book which is where my father is originally from, it was so healing for me. i went walking to the woods and places he hadn't even gone to himself. it was definitely a journey of not only trying to find out the expan

and it worked at least in the beginning abi nomics temporarily boosted the confidence of the japanese economy and japan's citizens but after the initial highs the stock markets in japan plummeted sharply abby nomics couldn't strengthen the economy in a sustainable way as g.d.p. during avi's term in office shows the risks of abi nomics may outweigh the benefits but over leveraging the economy to the point of sovereign bankruptcy. not to mention the loss of confidence on capital markets. now for more i'm joined by professor jeff kingston director of asian studies at temple university japan he joins us in tokyo good to have you with us you probably just heard our report and saying that the risks of abba nomics outweigh the benefits and from your perspective what did work well and what didn't. well the list of what did work well i think it's relatively short. i think he was good in terms of promoting free trade deal with the he he also risky. but what didn't work he never delivered structural reforms which were the 3rd era of bombay nomics was are supposed to improve productivity he never

and it worked at least in the beginning abi nomics temporarily boosted the confidence of the. apennines economy and japan citizens but after the initial highs the stock markets in japan plummeted sharply. makes couldn't strengthen the economy in a sustainable way as g.d.p. during avi's term in office shows the risks of abi nomics me outweigh the benefits but over leveraging the economy to the point of sovereign bankruptcy not to mention the loss of confidence on capital markets. well for more let's cross straight over to tokyo where journalist michael penn is standing by michael what more can you tell us about the reports that she is going to result. well basically certain because he's already according to the japanese media that's very well informed he's already told the ruling party. you know and they're already basically preparing how to elect his successor so while the public has not been told formally that's still an hour or 2 away the fact that the gears are moving and his resignation is in process now. is japan's longest serving prime minister he just reached that landm

lauren richardson is an expert on the region she says prime minister shinzo abi has in effect changed japan's security policy. japan has made a lot of the pole of use of both of reparations and normalize their relations with many of the countries that they have conflicts with there are still some ongoing issues some of the victims especially in china and south korea the countries that well the brunt of japanese imperialism still pursuing their own forms of justice took quite a long time the conservative party and the ruling liberal democratic party has been pursuing mullally way in it's the friends in security policy a lot of officials believe that that peace constitution is like out they did it because it was signed in the context it was kind of imposed upon japan by the occupying u.s. forces and. it was done sort of in acted in the context of the immediate post-war when the u.s. was to demille it tries to plan but now that will almost immediately now that the cold war broke out and the u.s. and japan signed an alliance so almost even by that stage the peace constitution was sort of

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. >> welcome to another Ãbi marked absent from the freedom center, this week we are pleased to featuredavid horowitz himself discussing his new book "blitz" trump will smash the left and win. just a moment i will turn things over to david after he speaks he will take some questions from those of you viewing and i will come back to help facilitate that. david is the founder of the freedom center, former radical leftist whose Ãbbecame an intellectual battering ram for conservatism. he knows the left better than they know themselves and that's why he is there most hated apostate. he is the author of many best-selling books including radical son, left illusions, destructive generation, unholy alliance to name a few. as well as the black book of the american left, a nine volume collection of his conservative essays over the past few decades. david has also written three recent titles from human textbooks about the donald trump era big agenda, president trumps plan to save america, dark agenda, the war to destroy christian america in the aforementioned blitz. his new book david recaps the li

japanese prime minister shinzo abi has decided to bow out of the country's top job we leave you with a look back at i'll be on the wall on stage and also his political career back on monday you know that by. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour carona update. 19 special next on d w. 6 to go beyond yes. as we take on the world. all of the stories that matter to you. but never. mind. you could see it from space shown in red china's air pollution cleared up dramatically during the great lock down. less traffic and closed factories so thick smog give way to blue skies. air travel is responsible for 7 percent of greenhouse gases long haul flights were down 90 percent it. could be a roadmap to a green a future. we've seen with the drastic measures that china has taken with regard to corona that the missions have gone down seriously so people are working from home and manufacturing a slowdown so these are the kinds of drastic measures that we will have to take for climate change no one wants a 2nd lockd

shinzo abi steered japan's defense strategy in a radical new direction he pledged to revise depends pacifist post world war 2 constitution to counter changing security threats in the region. in his 1st speech to the nation he said the security of japan is not someone else's problem it is a crisis that exists right there and now. those words set the tone for japan's defense over his years as prime minister as a base sought to ward off a newly assertive china making incursions into japanese waters and expanding its territorial claims in the south china sea. north korea has also posed a nuclear armed menace with frequent missile tests to demonstrate his muscular stance abbay loosened a ban on arms exports and in 2015 his party pushed through controversial legislation for so-called collective self-defense. allowing japanese troops to engage in overseas combat with allied forces. the law drew strong opposition domestically and a later push to revise the pacifist constitution failed. aves military reforms and containment diplomacy have upset china its largest trading partner. allies like u.s. pres

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we speak about china really relate to him it's given us to some extent a world of peace, we've seen Ãbinow you've seen as a complete waste of american lives, and of course american treasure. how do we extricate ourselves from places like iraq and afghanistan? when others can be a vacuum, we know there are concerns how do we get out of those big wars and focus energy and resources at home? >> i think foreign affair is like life, frankly, like childbearing, you pick your fights and you have priorities, to me the big priority is china. while isis is a problem and all these other things, they are problems but you don't want to lose track of the real problem. i worked with president megan and he was great at understanding what the real gain here? the soviet union and the united states. in its nuclear weapons. let's not get sidetracked with all this other stuff because it might prevent you from dealing with a major issue of your time. what trump has allowed the energy industry and all united states, we've gone in three or four years from net energy importers to exporters. within a short perio

oh the foremost of the century should so abi has dominated japan's politics he comes from an influential political dynasty his grandfather was prime minister and his father foreign minister the conservative politician rose through the ranks of his liberal democratic party and became japan's youngest prime minister since world war 2 in 2006 but that stint ended the full year due to help. 5 years later he returned if his 1st term was mauled by a political inexperience the 2nd had a renewed focus on agenda. i mean is that what became known as don't mix was a series of a vicious reforms aimed at boosting japan struggling economy his vision of a well the stronger japan came with a lifelong ambition to amend the country's pacifist constitution which bars it from hostile acts except in self-defense many japanese opposes constitutional changes but he did manage to repeatedly win elections as a result of the stability that he brought the fact that he's won 6 national elections and basically been unopposed and really has shown no sign of losing his power really up until now and it is a year that j

atwebe abi frnhis , we see the damage the fire has caused. do you have the latest on that when it comes to the damage the fire has caused and have been injured? >> so there has been some structures damaged or stded.roos >> and so you talked about the mandatoryacuations. what is the latest on the number of people who have been asked to leave their homes and do you anticipate or needed? >> i don't have an updated number on that so i waiting for the update to come in on how many residents are impacted by the new order. >> what has been set up for people who have been asked to evacuate, where re asupposheed t toy go to oet advantage aration center is at the crosswalk community church in napa. 2590 first street in napa, california. >> so what is the plan for today? i know that you are waiting for the update at 7:00, but what is happening right now in the hours til en in. >> so of course a lot of planning and preparing for the fire activity throughout the day. w smuch for takil,ng to checkn with us an id of course we'll check bac in with you at 7:0

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. >> he mainly warned a dark future if there's abide there's abi biden presidency. >> his own party can'tkeep the lights on. >> during a week of racial you be rest following the police shooting of jacob blake, the president did not call blake by name, he cal enforceme enforcement. >> the republican party condemns the looting and arson that we have seen in democratic run cities. >> it's unconventional for the amount of people there, and the location. >> our president is a president, not a cung. there's a reason that the white house is sacred ground, it's the people's a long-time operate >>> miller spoke to us from his home in oakland. >> the president came tonight with basically one goal, i think. and it was to win back the people he lost to his own base. it was a no stalgia act, and i think it will be successful winning over some of those people. but i don't know if he is winning over anybody new. >> protesters outside the white house could faintly be heard in the speech, biden was tweeting in real time responding to the speech. >>> all right, liz thank you. >> and we have complete covera

finale there's mall on our website you know a dot com for what slash asia japanese prime minister shinzo abi has decided to bow out of the country's top job we leave you with a look back at i'll be on the wall stage and also his political career back on monday you know that. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour corona update. 19 special next on d w. is for me. is for. beethoven is for. beethoven is for. beethoven is for. beethoven 2020. the 50th anniversary here on d w. you could see it from space shown in raid china's air pollution cleared up dramatically during the great lock down. less traffic and closed factories so thick smog keep way to blue skies. air travel is responsible for 7 percent of greenhouse gases long haul flights were down 90 percent it. could be a roadmap to a green a future. we've seen with the drastic measures that china has taken with regard to corona that emissions have gone down seriously so people are working from home and manufacturing a slowdown so these are the kinds of drasti

oh the foremost of the century should so abi has told me to japan's politics he comes from an influential political dynasty his grandfather was prime minister and his father foreign minister the conservative politician rose through the ranks of his liberal democratic party and became japan's youngest prime minister since world war 2 in 2006 but that's didn't ended the full year due to help. 5 years later he returned if his 1st term was mauled by a political inexperience the 2nd had a renewed focus on agenda. up in the midst of what became known as abu nomics was a series of the bishop's reforms aimed at boosting japan struggling economy his vision of a well the stronger japan came with a lifelong mission to amend the country's pacifist constitution which bars it from hostile acts except in self defense many japanese opposes constitutional changes the but he did manage to repeatedly win elections as a result of the stability that he brought the fact that he's won 6 national elections and basically been unopposed and really has shown no sign of losing his power really up until now it is a y

shinzo abi steered japan's defense strategy in a radical new direction he pledged to revise depends pacifist post world war 2 constitution to counter change and security threats in the region. and his 1st speech to the nation he said the security of japan is not someone else's problem it is a crisis that exists right there and now. those words set the tone for japan's defense over his years as prime minister as ave sought to ward off a newly assertive china making incursions into japanese waters and expanding its territorial claims in the south china sea. north korea has also posed a nuclear armed menace with frequent missile tests to demonstrate his muscular stance are they loosened a ban on arms exports and in 2015 his party pushed through controversial legislation for so-called collective self-defense. allowing japanese troops to engage in overseas combat with allied forces. the law drew strong opposition domestically and a later push to revise the pacifist constitution failed. aves military reforms and containment diplomacy have upset china its largest trading partner. allies like u.s. p

. >> he mainly warned a dark future if there's abide there's abi biden presidency. >> his own party can't even keep the lights on. >> during a week of racial you be rest following the police shooting of jacob blake, the president did not call blake by name, he c enforceme enforcement. >> the republican party condemns the looting and arson that we have seen in democratic run cities. >> it's unconventional for the amount of people there, and the location. >> our president is a president, not a cung. there's a reason that the white house is sacred ground, it's the people's ground, we all pay for it. >> tim miller is a long-time operate >>> miller spoke to us from his home in oakland. >> the president came tonight with basically one goal, i think. and it was to win back the people he lost to his own base. it was a no stalgia act, and i think it will be successful winning over some of those people. but i don't know if he is winning over anybody new. >> protesters outside the white house could faintly be heard in the speech, biden was tweeting in real time responding to the speech. >>> all righ

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ago but what's really agitated japan is that the man looks a little like the prime minister shinzo abi himself no stranger to inflaming this dispute japan says if it is based on our it will seriously impact relations with south korea due scoble could do with seeing such a thing is unforgivable in terms of international courtesy if the report. curates it will have a decisive impact on japan and south korea relations. the biggest issue behind all of this is over reparations for the so-called comfort stations and they were active between 1000 touch 2 and 1905 the end of the 2nd world war women were lured by the offer of walk only to be forced into providing sexual services to japanese imperial army soldiers it's thought that around $200000.00 mostly korean women were enslaved now attempts to resolve this dispute over the years well they've been slow a treaty to try and normalize relations came about in 1965 but it took until 1903 to finally apologize and admit that the women were forced into sex slavery by 2015 a formal apology a deal was agreed with a fund to compensate victims but it di

for the 2005 bombing in beirut that killed her very and 21 others and japanese prime minister shinzo abi has dismissed concerns about his health the 65 year old said a hospital visit on monday was for a routine checkup it came just days after a top politicians had appeared over. they took time off from politics a decade ago for health reasons he is depends longest serving prime minister. now leaders of a military coup in the west african nation of mali say they will bring about a political transition and hold new elections within reasonable time mollie's president. announced his resignation just hours after being detained by armed soldiers his ousting follows months of protests over corruption and economic mismanagement but while the events have been met by jubilation inside mali they sparked alarm among international observers. gunshots that aren't meant to kill better celebrate this car navigates the geron crowd sitting inside is believed to be the detained president abraham cater and other officials and later in the day where we're looking president cater appeared on state t.v. . in s

i was like this is Ãbi said that sounds remarkably freeman.en there's a lyric in that song that refers to the document i found at the new york historical society about the doctor turning his back so he could have deniability. when that line appeared i heard that line coming from sage i turned my friend and said, that's my document. i know that document. that's my document. when i got to talk to lin manuel miranda later on i said is that based on the chapter. i said of course it is. i get to have my document song and what ultimately it did a lot of work to make people aware of people and a period a lot of people weren't aware of. it does some things as a historian i think are wonderful things to do. they remind people about the contingency of that moment i think people look at the founding and they see it as a series of courses. of course we won the revolution and the constitution and constitution blah blah blah. there is no of course is when you're in the moment. that's part of what defines that period. i think the play kind of reminds people

finale there's more on our website the double dot com for what slash the japanese prime minister shinzo abi has decided to bow out of the country's top job we leave you with a look back that i'll be on the wall on stage and also his political career back on monday you know that. we spoke different languages we fight with different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving freedom of choice global news that matters w made for mines. i know nothing at the gym well i guess sometimes i found nothing which. digs deep into german culture looking at stereotypes but if you're thinking country that i now live. pictures grandma. it's all about ok. i'm rachel join me to meet the german. post. greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to arts and culture so many of our normal activities were impossible during the weeks of corona lockdown but computer games were a welcome distraction day or night and we'll look at how computer games are evolving in the new pandemic reality and also in the pipeline. the 3rd of 3 good to medal laureates for 2020 south

the usta telling aby news they are confident in their safety plan and say the infected player was not following protocols. tom? >> eva pilgrim, thank you. >>> we now want to go to that breaking news we mention ldz at the top of the broadcast. a military plane crashing in virginia. the crew parachuting to safety. abc's gio benitez with the details coming in. >> reporter: tonight, a harrowing survival story after a military plane crashes in virginia. >> plane crash. >> we've got an eye witness report of one single parachuter from the aircraft. >> reporter: the u.s. navy confirming it's an e 2 c hawkeye conducting a training flight. >> we've accessed the plane. it is fully involved. you can't really even tell it's an airplane at this time. >> reporter: incredit bli, the two pilots and two crew members bailed out safely. photos showing some of the survivors apparently uninjured. their parachutes saving their lives. and tom, tonight, the u.s. navy calls this crash a mishap. it is now under investigation. tom? >> so great they all survived. gio, thank you. >>> now, to the devastation from h

world war 2 surrender but there was no apology from the japanese prime minister shinzo abi he thanked the dead for their sacrifice for the 1st time in 6 months passengers from mainland china are being allowed to transit through hong kong as airport the city is gradually relaxing as virus travel restrictions this is a much required boost to cathay pacific on wednesday the carrier reports at a loss of more than $1000000000.00 beijing's biggest wholesale food market has reopened 2 months after it was shut down after the break of the virus and cases in beijing u.k. tourists have been scrambling to get home after the london government imposed a 14 day quarantine for travelers coming in from malta france and the netherlands the measures were introduced after a surge in virus infections in those countries is a lot more news than if you want it on the website al jazeera dot com tweet me i'll switch you back at peter dolby one at up next inside story i will see you very soon . we know what's happening in our region we know how to get them they feel that others cannot i was just thrown. back to

. >> you know, it's so interestin abis virus, how where we're learning about it in real time. and early on,ha we thoughtchildren were vectors of this virus and that they were the ones who arsilently spreading covid-19. and that thinking is changing a bit. you've seen denmark and finlande reopen schools without major spikes in covid-1n their populations. and so how do you think about and how shoulde think about as a as a country, a reopening and a retu to school, but then balancing that against what is a very real spike in cases across this country? >> well, i think you see the countries that are opening their schools have a declining epidemic. they have done sensible polici early on where people actually stayed home,t and so they a declining epidemic. then they're opening very slowly and carefully and safely. and i think what you need to do is to look at your epidemic and follow t science, but foow the measurements in your own county. this is local health commissioners have twork with governors and mayors to make wise deciss there will be places in the is slowly going down,he

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and abi, how has it made you feel, the fact that we are all now talking about science and there's perhapsfor scientists as well? well, i would love to see that continue. i think we have gone through a strange few years where there has been quite a lack of trust in science and evidence and i hope and in this time, and evidence and i hope that in this time, showing that scientists can come together, pull their skills and do something valuable for local communities as well more globally, and might restore a bit of trust in science. we live in very uncertain times and the best way to combat these uncertain times is with evidence, and we can learn a lot from studying the world around us and i hope that, during this pandemic, that's become more obvious. it's actually been quite a nice wake—up call from scientists that perhaps we are a little bit more adaptable than we sometimes give ourselves credit for because we usually focus on a really specific area of science and actually most of the people who worked on this testing pipeline at the crick have very little background in virology but, in jus

hopes the tragedy will never be repeated but there was no apology from the prime minister shinzo abi if the was dead for their sacrifice he avoided a personal visit to a controversial shrine which has caused division between japan china and south korea lauren richardson is an expert on the region she says prime minister mr abbey has changed japan's security policy. japan has made a lot of apology both a favor reparation and to normalize their relations with many of the countries that they did have conflicts with there are still some ongoing issues some of the victims especially in china and south korea the countries that well the brunt of japanese imperialism still pursuing their own forms of justice took quite a long time the conservative party and the ruling liberal democratic party has been pursuing mullally way in it's the fence and security policy a lot of officials believe that that peace constitution is quite outdated because it was signed in the context it was kind of being forced upon japan by the occupying u.s. forces and. it was sort of enacted in the context of the immedi

our prime minister abi ahmed came to power. promising to respect human rights and he has been implementing democratic reforms he has won a nobel peace prize for his efforts to achieve peace and resolve a border dispute with neighboring areas track some ethiopians all of us say he has not achieved what he set out to do and the country still deeply divided along ethnic lines government officials accuse protestors of being violent and their leaders of trying to destabilize the country visiting the negatives family say he was just exercising his right and the government should either release him or charge him katherine sawyer. north korea's leaders because of the risk of coronavirus the country won't accept any foreign aid to help with the heavy flooding weeks of rainfall of course extensive damage to several provinces thousands of buildings have been destroyed and roads and bridges damaged but the north korean leader kim jong un says borders will remain shut to protect against infections rob a bride has more from seoul in neighbor

their program but now there is that confidence with this result of the election in fact present go to abirajapaksa responding to the results as they came through yesterday said he's confident that he can build a strong parliament to take forward he's a vis stars of prosperity that he's kind of mandate and program that he put forward for his presidential bid and that this government is taking forward 16 people have been arrested in lebanon as frustration grows over the government's response to choose days port explosions those detained include officials from beirut port the cleanup is still underway and search and rescue teams are the rubble for any survivors. the saudi crown prince is being sued he's accused of sending hit men to canada in a failed attempt to kill one of his former top intelligence officials the alleged targets filed a lawsuit in the united states. with 19 infections of past 2000000 in india it's the 3rd nation after the u.s. and brazil to reach the milestone epidemiologists say it hasn't yet reached its peak hundreds of afghan leaders callers and elders are meeting in ka

that's why it's a so for we've had some media reports that prime minister shinzo abi intends to step down due to ill health and this is quite a surprise to many people because just as early as last week his liberal democratic party were defending him saying that no no he's fine he intends to continue until the end of his current term which is supposed to go until september 2021 now she is currently serving this existing timmy's being the prime minister for the 2nd time since 2012 but we do know that he suffers from quote chronic health conditions or a condition specifically known as all sorts of choli to us and he's made to hospital visits in this past week alone we also know that this particular illness was poppy responsible for him for him ending his 1st term. as prime minister in 2007 is well now we know that while he has broken a record it's actually just part of this the recall this week for being the longest serving leader in japan he served for more than 2800 consecutive days and he's just beat out his uncle who wrote that record just about half a century ago katrina ok keep u

our prime minister abi ahmed came to power. promising to respect human rights and he has been implementing democratic reforms he has won a nobel peace prize for his efforts to achieve peace and resolve a border dispute with neighboring areas traffic some ethiopians all of us say he has not achieved what he set out to do and the country still deeply divided along ethnic lines government officials accuse protestors of being violent and their leaders of trying to destabilize the country visiting the negatives family say he was just exercising his right and the government should either release him or charge him katherine sawyer. the better russian government says it plans to release everyone the arrest of an anti-government protests on friday morning large numbers have again turned out on thursday night a peaceful rally is nearly 7000 have been rounded up during protests that have often turn violent and sunday. of rigging the weekend election which he won in a landslide reports now from the. state academic choir singing a song of p

hello i'm home his unit doha with the headlines on al-jazeera japan's prime minister shinzo abi has resigned because of ill health and 65 built his long suffering and intestinal illness he is japan's longest serving leader. i needed to fight against the disease and be treated i was not really in a perfect state in terms of the health condition and still i have to make political decisions that important once i cannot make any mistake in terms of important decision making the support of the public.

election and japan's government is considering who to make its next leader after prime minister shinzo abiresigned because of poor health the 65 year old is the country's longest serving prime minister but he has suffered for many years from a bowel disease he will remain in the post until his successor successor is chosen . the slum a storm rising continues i'll see for the news hour in about 30 minutes. the . typhoon has hit many of the hard. leaving sounds without food and water. with the authorities struggling to feed survivors comes from a new usual source. celebrity and former slum precedent franken doll has joined the release expert. on not only a good thing i'm going to leave. him alone you don't tell him i don't i was going to be. a little human and they say when i'm beginning to feel that way you know better because you know the. funding and the felony not being good i need to move into the white house sunday night as if i needed philip women to 75 you know ok that was how to make the kind of thing and i mean you know we have not been with it but it was living the good maybe to l

i don't Ãbi do not think it's unprecedented. i think there is not before and after. we will prevail after the pandemic, i hope. i hope that it will be less deadly than some of the past but i don't think that as itself it will change the world. except the consciousness that the proper democracy has to have proper hospitals, has to have a proper health system that while the worst inequalities is what i said before, those who have access, and those Ãbthis hopefully will change. for the rest, i don't rely i don't put my hope in the reaction to the pandemic in order to build a better world. a loss, when the pandemic will be over, the world of Ãwill restart with the same people of the two sides the barricade. those who are happy with the world as it is and those who are honestly genuinely sometimes disparately trying to prepare to repair it will restart like that. and the real point for america is that america will have to reconsider itself as a founder of great values. the creator of the founding fathers. and so on. what is happening with europe is not new to pandemic, eu

. >> is there abi possibility that the renewed lockdowns in some t area of the country you mention thepike of cases in california that they may show up in next month's unemployment figures to the negative side for the economy? >> let me say first, david, it is just important that we all continue to take seriously the precautions that the task force and public healtho authorities have been getting in respect to distancing, hygiene, masksks and these circumstances and the like. we got a warning in those states. too many lives were lost there. so we have to continue to be disciplined. my hope is states to the north of those that have those problems have taken a lesson fromef that are going to be more careful with the opening. i think we can have a very strong august and heeded that lesson. >> one like in marchli and april when there was a consensus at least among democratic governors you had to completely lock down the economy, just stop it, dead stop. now americans are convinced even in some of the blue states that we can americans are smart enough and determined enough and innovative en

and so would i aby and large th along. gorbachev also complained about reagan's jokes. is so there is a hopefulness that they can come back in 1986 and maybe make a deal. conservatives are hearinging this and they are scared that it might be the case, that reagan might give away sdi, that he might bargain away the defense initiative in exchange for nuclear reductions. so they are publishing op-eds and criticizing the administration. and so reagan has to have the grass roots leaders to the white house and he stands up in front of the group and he gives a nice speech about how goorbachev wanted president reagan to not bargain away sdi. and so when he shows up and he and gosh chafgorbachev, it ghes swimmingly well. yeah, we can meet back here in ten years and destroy the last nuclear weapon together and it will be wonderful because all nuclear weapons will be gone. that is how optimistic that reagan is. and they pretty much outline a deal that would have been major reduction or complete reduction in intermediate weapons. but they break up and each group goes its separate w