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when ite asked john barry somete ago, , the author of the great influenza, actually on this program what was most important take away an lesson from the great influence of 1918, he replied governments in in a s must tell the truth, not manage it, distort nothing, put the best face on nothing, manipulate no one. it's all about public trust. pulling together in the face of this extraordinary crisis. enough said. in april which this seems like years ago when we first took up covid on this program it was clear even then that this pandemic was much more than a passing headline. it may well be viewed on reflection and in the rearview mirror as the most world altering event since the second world war and it is already altered that world as we know it. for how long it may do so we don't know. but 2020s has now given way to 2021, the virus continued to exact a terrible toll but there's also greater possibility than ever before, a new year, a new vaccine, new u.s. leadership, and new hopes to conquer covid. what is the new year going to bring? where are we in the covid arik and trajectory of the r

mentioned earlier our guest is tim mcgrath, or two time winner the come door book award for his books john barry an american hero and one book won the samuel award for naval literature and the author of the new book "james monroe a life," a big pick but itself a delightful read. tim, i'm delighted to welcome you to the program. >> thank you, jim, very much for having me and to the staff at mt. vernon as well. >> it's great to see you. i'm excited to talk about all things monroe this evening. evening.jimbo. you have within two very important books but naval history of the american revolution and the early republic. so, why james monroe? >> well, when my editor brent howard was looking to do another book and was thinking let's good past naval history and come up with something, he says pick a president so we went back and forth, and harry truman's name came up and i wad like not after david mccullough, and then i brought james monroe up? he said why. i said because when i was seven years old he was my favorite president. i had been taken to valley forge not far from where i lived and grew up and t

escort some of those members when they took overseas trips and became sort of a protÉge of john tower and barrygoldwater and scoop jackson and some of the old bulls in the national security guys and he became peers and personal friends with the younger guys at that time and we were all older but they were young back in the 70s and gary hart, bill, young senator biden and he traveled with them and became friends with them and told me he would watch in amazement and appear in the service committee and he would see skip jackson or power or somebody motion and aid over and scribble something on a piece of scrap paper and that would become an amendment to the defense bill and hundreds of millions of dollars would be sent from one account to the other just like that and said it dawned on me the most of these guys had more power than a one or two star admiral would ever have which was the most i think he thought he could realistically aspire to and so he decided to retire from the navy and moved there with a entry into politics in mind. >> i wanted to ask you why you chose that particular structure to

have to have leaders of the republican party who were like those back during watergate, the john rhodes and bu barryer, and we need some like those that say president you have to go and you have done too much to the country to allow you to stay in office and you need to hand off the baton now and get out of town. >> yeah, you were in that group as a young congressman from maine, in that same group of republicans, i should point that out as well. secretary cohen, thank you for joining us. >>> four days since the pro trump riot on capitol hill. federal authorities just charged two more men for their alleged roles in the insurrection. we are getting new information and have details we will share with you when we come back. my hygienist cleans with a round head, so does my oral-b. my hygienist personalizes my cleaning, so does my oral-b. my hygienist uses just the right pressure, and so does my oral-b. oral-b combines a dentist-inspired brush head with the gentle energy of micro-vibrations for the wow of a professional clean feel every day. my mouth says wow and so does my oral-b. process feels too easy

more tense, you know more pressure on you to, like, do new moves or whatever and on "barry" i can't just rely on john, uh, yeah, you know, it was -- it is very, very hard and, yeah, we ended on a cliffhanger in the last year and, yeah, first day back in the writers room it was like everyone going, "so, what happens? and we were like, "i have no idea really, really screwed ourselves here." and still saying it. like, yeah, were still trying to figure it out. >> seth: uh, i can't wait. obviously, i'm very eager for you guys to get back to work on that and i have more to talk with you about. we'll be right back with more bill hader ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (quiet piano music) ♪ ♪ comfort in the extreme. the lincoln family of luxury suvs. [phone rings] “hello, how can i” sore throat pain? try new vicks vapocool drops in honey lemon chill for a fast-acting rush of relief like you've never tasted in... ♪ honey lemon ahh ♪ woo vicks vapocool drops now in honey lemon chill [squeaky shopping cart] [sniffing] don't get mad. get e*trade and get more than just trading. investing. banking. guidance. tasha, did you know geico c

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john's right and barry mccaffrey is right, it was a massive failure of law enforcement. fighting for their lives quite literally. we showed the video of the single officer backing up the steps, and thank god he got out of the way. there was a massive failure, no question about it. then there was the question of the republicans who made all of this possible. this is something you have been talking about for years now during the trump administration. lindsey graham finally -- i don't know, 3:00 in the morning, 2:00 in the morning last night saying enough is enough on january the 6th. he said that of 2021 with less than two weeks to go and after someone had been killed inside the capitol in the middle of a riot. what do you make of, what to you say to the republicans who enabled this and who still after the riot of yesterday late in the night voted against the electoral process and the certification of the electoral college in a couple of states? >> well, yesterday was a heartwrenching day for me personally in many ways. as a native washingtonian growing up about a couple o

john? >>> we want to remember some of the nearly 420,000 americans lost to coronavirus. 80-year-old larry barry was instrumental in starting a volunteer fire department in hickory flag, georgia, that had no fire service before. that was more than 40 years ago. family members said he lived life to the fullest, dedicated to service at the very end. one georgia school district lost two educators to coronavirus on the same day. dana johnson was a teacher at kemp elementary school. the cobb county school district offered its condolences and said the deaths were a reminder for all staff, students, and families to wear masks and social distance. >>> 36-year-old ashley bennett was 34 weeks pregnant with her tenth child when she and her whole family tested positive. when her health began to slip, doctors delivered the baby by emergency caesarean. ashley died a week later without ever having held her baby girl. want to make a name for yourself in gaming? then make a name for yourself. even if your office, and bank balance are... far from glamorous. that means expensing nothing but pizza. your expenses lo

>> so, john, is staff going to present anything? >> barry hooper from the department of environment will be presenting. >> sorry fort delay. didn't want to speak until i was recognized. this is barry hooper. department of the environment. thank you, commissioner and members of the commission. i'll try to keep it brief. at your august meeting you reviewed an ordinance. at your september meeting you supported the ordinance and how to address physical and technical feasibility. the legislation was passed ultimately in november and signed into law by the mayor on november 25. the item before you just proposes to update the regulation adopted by this commission to reflect some revisions that the board of supervisors made to the ordinance. those revisions are summarized in a document in your supporting materials. i'll just highlight three of them briefly. the date of applicability to the ordinance was revised to submit their initial application for site permits on or after june 1, 2021. the supervisors added exceptions for limit -- limited excepti

barry, there are a bunch of questions about performance history and education of shakespeare in the 19th century. john freed asks, please ask one of the panelists to discuss the significance of the riot in new york city in 1849, that protested a performance of macbeth with an english actor in a leading role. i don't know if you happen to know about that incident, but maybe you extrapolate from that, if people are rioting over who's playing macbeth, obviously this is hugely popular entertainment that people care a lot about. tell us how at the same time, bonnie zedick asks, as public education emerged in the u.s. with shakespeare routinely taught him with their variations, such as the geographic location of the schools. so give us a sense of how shakespeare's popular entertainment was central to the curriculum in the 19th century. barry: i will. and i'll try to be brief. we could do a whole panel on the astor place riots of 18, i think, 45. the exact dates kind of slip my mind. 1847. something like that. first, let me just say, you know, when i teach actors, i use lincoln to teach shakespeare, because

john, thank you very much at the white house. let's talk more about what you'll see take place starting really tomorrow morning and in the next week or so. barry burke is here. he served during the first impeachment. also currently representing the state of pennsylvania against the president's electoral challenges. and robert ray, a member of president trump's defense team during the last impeachment. barry, you warned in a statement before the judiciary committee in the last impeachment, which it's remarkable that in the span of a year there have been now two impeachments and proceedings against the president, but you said to the house, quote, our imagination is the only limit to what the president does not do next, if he is not checked in this impeachment. i just wonder what your thoughts are this morning as we head into tomorrow. the second impeachment vote in a year. >> good morning, poppy. no, i am horrified how true that statement was. in ways that was hard to even imagine. so it was right to talk about that. right after the impeachment when the president is emboldened for being acquitted for his unconstitutional conduct. he then proceed

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john carl. the president is isolated inside the white house. his numbers are dwindling, surrounded by a loyal few. we're not quite at the situation we saw in 1974 where hugh scott and barry goldwater went to the president, and said you have to resign, but the pressure is growing on the president to take that move. >> i think that we actually are to a degree, george, at that point. the problem is that unlike richard nixon, donald trump is not prepared to urgings and that marthy who is an ally as he has had in republican leadership over the past four years, bluntly told the president before his trip to texas before his public appearance yesterday that he needed to get out there, that he needed to call joe biden, that he needed to come to terms with the fact that he lost the election, the election is over, and he lost. and mccarthy warned him that if he doesn't come out and take these steps and also plea for calm, that he would face a choice of certain impeachment and quite probable conviction in the senate or resignation. that was the advice he got from an ally. and ob not do that yesterday, he came out and he said that he did nothing wrong. that his speech before that cap