all this coming up in the program but 1st alex sink your teeth mess this. and we're going to spend a bit longer on your messages this week because last week's show featuring professor of human government in the intensive care and dr chris murphy the cambridge but all are just a provoked extraordinary large the sponsor and the quality of the contributions was excellent many if you phoned the show both the star being very very informative janet for example says the 2 experts are like interviewed a frontline scientist working with the virus at the moment.

the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person of those great. sinks . we dare to ask. some or a solution. like just sort of all out there in this series the out today we're covering the big dollars a day globalization what comes next with the best balance or lawrence look paul laurence welcome. welcome back as our teams are national now to the u.s. where the democratic party has officially nominated joe biden for president in a virtual vote during day 2 of their virtual convention during 3 is happening right now but despite efforts to attract younger voters with a star studded lineup for some the event is proving to be something of a bore. without a doubt it will be the most boring repetitive told meanspirited convention in history of thought. the d.n.c. so far feels like one long on you tube usually skip. this convention so far makes me think the democrats are the party ready to lead america into the. party crowd i'm dying which indian see messages goodbye to. 2 2 both democrats and republicans are busy making a raft of campaign promises ahead of nov

sink might this be? both in terms of a constitutional sense and a practical sense? >> well, i think that's a good question, alexere are two things i think about when i see the president saying this election is going to be rigged and that we may need to delay it. one, i think it's an admission on his part that he doesn't feel very confident that he's going to win this election. but the second piece of it is that it's a threat because with the increase in mail-in balloting this november due to the covid pandemic, the delay in counting those ballots, he's setting us up for the november 4th through january 20th period for chaos and for disinformation and for an undermining in the integrity of the process and so i think that it's both a distraction but it's also a threat and he is admitting that he feels he's in a weak position but that means that we need to push for that $3.6 billion that's in the next package to secure the vote and ensure that people are able to have their mail-in ballots counted and they're able to submit them through the united states postal service which trump is also attacking and that that pe