also a trusted adviser to the mercer family helped to see the paris climate accord. so we're getting our. money in politics has been a problem continues to be and looks like it will be for the forseeable future the only solution to the problem is to regulate the money being spent on elections and to restore the power of the voter as opposed to the the power of the dollar. but the citizens united verdict remains valid getting companies and billionaires the right to spend unlimited amounts of money to exert influence we have stories about these giants that are insatiable they're always hungry and. they're going to try to go eat some more and with. to own. or not to own. what about a shooting economy instead. of a change in thinking is changing the economy to create something new. economics magazine 3 in germany. in 30 minutes w. . in the far north. beyond the inhabitable world. it's lonely. barren. and breathtakingly beautiful. arctic. powerful expanse of the cold. and the sound of global warming. take a journey around the north pole. profiteers and talk with people ex

robert mercer became a multi-billionaire as a hedge fund manager. and his more socially visible daughter have learned a lot from the coax in 2011 rebecca donated more than $25000000.00 towards the coast political activities but in some ways the mercers are even more radical. they supported donald trump in 2016 with their own network using dubious tactics and a lot of money to gain access to the. white house. david mager man was taken aback by his boss's actions by 2016 he'd worked over 20 years for robert mercer and had health developed the algorithms that earned billions for the family i felt that i had my my intellectual efforts and my work had gone into creating the possibility of people having outsized influence on politics. during the $26000.00 election campaign the mercers didn't just rely on the dividends of a classic campaign they invested an additional $10000000.00 in the breitbart news network far right populist steve bannon head of breitbart and mercer's confidant headed trump's election campaign the mercers also invested in cambridge ana

robert mercer became a multi-billionaire as a hedge fund manager. and his more socially visible daughter has learnt a lot from the coax him 2011 rebecca donated more than $25000000.00 towards the koch's political activities but in some ways the mercers are even more radical. they supported donald trump in 26 teamed with their only network using dubious tactics and a lot of money to gain access to the. white house. jaded mager man was taken aback by his boss's actions by 2016 he'd worked over 20 years for robert mercer and had helped develop the algorithms that earned billions for the family i felt that i had my my intellectual efforts and my work had gone into creating the possibility of people having outsized influence on politics. during the $26000.00 election campaign the mercers didn't just rely on the dividends of a classic campaign they invested an additional $10000000.00 in the breitbart news network far right populist steve bannon head of breitbart and mercer's confidant headed trump's election campaign the mercers also invested in cambridge

rebecca donated more than $25000000.00 towards the koch's political activities but in some ways the mercers are even more radical . they supported donald trump in 2016 with their own network using dubious tactics and a lot of money to gain access to the white house. david mager man was taken aback by his boss's actions by 2016 he had worked over 20 years for robert mercer and had health developed the algorithms that earned billions for the family i felt that i had my my intellectual efforts and my work had gone into creating the possibility of people having outsized influence on politics. during the $26000.00 election campaign the mercers didn't just rely on the dividends of a classic campaign they invested an additional $10000000.00 in the breitbart news network far right populist steve bannon head of breitbart and mercer's confidant headed trump's election campaign the mercers also invested in cambridge analytical the london based it to influence voters now with the power of the internet facebook social media and the. ability for funding to come in to support almost arbitrary scaled effor

robert mercer became a multi-billionaire as a hedge fund manager. and his more socially visible daughter has learnt a lot from the coax in 2011 rebecca donated more than $25000000.00 towards the koch's political activities but in some ways the mercers are even more radical. they supported donald trump in 26 teamed with their only network using dubious tactics and a lot of money to gain access to the. white house. david mager man was taken aback by his boss's actions by 2016 he'd worked over 20 years for robert mercer and had helped develop the algorithms that earned billions for the family i felt that i had my my intellectual efforts and my work had gone into creating the possibility of people having outsized influence on politics. during the $26000.00 election campaign the mercers didn't just rely on the dividends of a classic campaign they invested an additional $10000000.00 in the breitbart news network far right populist steve bannon head of breitbart and mercer's confidant headed trump's election campaign the mercers also invested in cambridge

robert mercer became a multi-billionaire as a hedge fund manager. and his more socially visible daughter has learnt a lot from the coax in 2011 rebecca donated more than $25000000.00 towards the koch's political activities but in some ways the mercers are even more radical. they supported donald trump in 2016 with their own network using dubious tactics and a lot of money to gain access to the. white house. david mager man was taken aback by his boss's actions by 2016 he had worked over 20 years for robert mercer and had helped develop the algorithms that earned billions for the family i felt that i had my my intellectual efforts and my work had gone into creating the possibility of people having outsized influence on politics. during the 26000 election campaign the mercers didn't just rely on the dividends of a classic campaign.

money being the key factor and they've not been the only conservative billionaire is involved the mercers are another highly influential family. robert mercer became a multi-billionaire as a hedge fund manager he and his more socially visible daughter have learned a lot from the koch's in 2011 rebecca donated more than $25000000.00 towards the coax political activities but in some ways the mercers are even more radical. they supported donald trump in 2016 with their only network using dubious tactics and a lot of money to gain access to the. white house. david mager man was taken aback by his boss's actions by 2016 he'd worked over 20 years for robert mercer and had health developed the algorithms that earned billions for the family i felt that i had my my intellectual efforts and my work had gone into creating the possibility of people having outsized influence on politics.

phil mercer. covid—19 pandemic have brought about a surge in tv watching and online streaming around the world. but how tricky is to feed that appetite for content when the enternatinment indusrty is bound by the same pandemic restrictions? over the past few months the industry has been formulating protocols and there was a big breakthrough in september when the big entertainment industry unions and producers agreed strict testing agreements, how to change the actual production set. as sharon osbourne was alluding to, there are people there to monitor this and keep it, keep from any outbreak spreading on the set because there had been cases on set, but so far no big outbreak. it is all about keeping the industry open and going. someone died i think, after working on a film set and there has been thousands ofjob losses ? has been thousands ofjob losses? the person that died, assistant director was on a commercial set, where there aren't that strict restrictions there are on film and television yet.

phil mercer, bbc news, sydney.ld a "big beautiful wall" along the us southern border with mexico and he told undocumented people living in the us to be afraid. as his presidency now comes to an end, the wall remains under construction, but federal enforcement teams continue to arrest undocumented immigrants who've lived in the country peacefully for decades. many supporters of migrant rights are now counting the days to joe biden's inauguration on january 20th. 0ur correspondent sophie long examines what change can be expected. we were in san diego, california, ice agents just pulled over a worker on his way to work. immigration activists live—stream, record and document an attempted arrest. the safety issue is ice — they are terrorising our people, they are separating families. they believe ice, immigration and customs enforcement, operate unlawfully and consider this attempted kidnapping. they are in violation of state law right now. even the president is trying to intimidate people here. they want these operatio

phil mercer for us in sydney.uclear scientist. ransomware attack in maryland meant all pupils to —— learning when i —— meant all pupils to —— learning when i —— ransomware meant all pupils to —— learning when i —— ransomware attack imp stu d e nts when i —— ransomware attack imp students in marilyn learning remotely meant that they could no longer study. schools will remain shut until wednesday. ireland's taoiseach michael martins is british and eu negotiators have the options in front of them to conclude a brexit free trade deal this week. he went on to say there isa landing week. he went on to say there is a landing zone for an agreement but it will require political will to conclude the deal. he has expressed hope at the beginning of last week that the beginning of last week that the outline of a trade deal would be agreed within days. french lawmakers are rewriting a controversial clause in a security bill that would have made it an offence to share pictures of the police online maliciously. critics say it cou

fdr having his relationship with lucy mercer which began when anna was a little girl and is ongoing, not in a traditional sense, certainly an emotional affair and one that he asks his daughter to keep from eleanor. she doesn't want to betray her mother because she knows how awful it was for eleanor when she learned of this but also sees that her father is dying and will do anything to give her some measure of peace and relaxation and comfort in these last days of the war, the last days of his life and agrees to keep his secret which is a horrible position for any child to be in. >> host: wasn't it also an affair -- katherine had an affair - >> guest: kathleen had a brief fling with fdr junior's younger brother. >> who was married to the sun. >> guest: there are letters between kathleen and fdr junior on some of his transatlantic trips. >> host: this is a rarefied world where everybody seems to know each other. how much do you think that social knowledge helped things to progress but also in danger. >> guest: moments where politics is intimately personal. you cannot take them apart. t

amid mercer's avarice and i am glad this is the way does work the fields back then. our grandparents towards her parents and our parents taught us. that we have to plough this up every year are these key members. yes exactly the old roots and you leave these twigs here. and yes we rake them using tools like this. i think that's a way of working the soil. impact before. and that's involved it doesn't influence you. it's a traditional system that's been practiced for centuries. why now here for even here there is room for improvement in terms of sustainability. but compared to the mechanized farming down in the lower than plains this is more environmentally friendly that. the soil has time to regenerate between the 2 harvests he on the hillsides the plants the large the individual kernels plump. yes at the end in march endymion 3rd see this close here it's yielding really well you know look at the seed heads the kernels are nice and ripe but our standards these are the best grains we store them and use them as seeds are the same in. your community has brought along som

out now from mercer university press. as a little bit of a tidbit, wayne and i are distantly related. i am a descendent, were cousins. the data here because mike to thank you for having me at the southern festival of books. people may be wondering who they are, they're not the most well group of people it's mixed race people who were first documented in the northeast tennessee southeast region. the beginning of the 19th century. in the 1990s has the internet became more widely accessible to ordinary people, they underwent kind of a resurrection the resurrection of a proud people for it i was to be able to work with doctor kennedy. i foresee doctor kennedy passed away about three weeks ago i wanted to dedicate this to him. he became well-known is the topic is what i wanted to write about. is not the really well-known it was a brief run for this particular outdoor drama just from 1969 to 1976. it represented a lot. only part of that trying to make hancock county a more viable place to live. and i would like to read just a l

skylar has worked hard to be a junior at mercer at 18 years old. she started when she was 16.stop and take a year off and start over again, classes are only offered certain semesters, you know, it is heartbreaking to us. again, we are not trying to say she didn't do something wrong. we just want her to be treated the same way they are treating everybody else. and that is pretty much -- >> martha: i don't blame you. you want the punishment to fit the crime. it is a very nice response. several months in jail after she tested negative which means very harsh. i think any parent would look at the situation and say, you shouldn't have taken the bracelet off or left the building or ask permission before you do that. but on the other hand, this is very, very heavy-handed sentence for what has happened here, especially i can see if may be tested positive. she knew she was carrying the virus and went out, but that is not what happened at all here. i know you have reached out to the united states government for help, to the white house for help. what is going on with that? >> well, it is

. >> even for a new yorker named ashley mueller, who signed up at the mercer law school here. >> youever meet a stranger, i guess, in the south. that's what makes it so wonderful and comforting. >> it's where she met lauren giddings. >> when we found out we both were from the north, we just instantly connected on that. >> but then why wouldn't she want to connect with lauren? she was bigger than life. >> she was infectious. i mean you couldn't be around her for more than five minutes and not already be having a good time. >> she was the adored eldest of three sisters. youngest, sarah. >> we would always go on runs together. >> caitlyn in the middle. >> she was more like a bookworm. she loved to read, academics. >> lauren grew up in maryland, halfway between baltimore and d.c., with her friend katie o'hare. >> we knew each other inside out. i'd always know she could cheer me up. she was a funny girl. she was a riot. >> how would she make you laugh? >> the things that would come out of her mouth sometimes didn't have a filter. >> why did she go south to go to school? >> she loved the s

phil mercer is in sydney for us. this latest outbreak, and how difficult will it be to contain age? there have been four key pillars to australia's coronavirus strategy, mass testing, sophisticated contact tracing, strict lockdown turned the closure of international borders to foreign travellers. it is a sophisticated contact tracing that is now in full swing in sydney as the authorities raised to try to find a source of 28 infections in the northern beaches district of the city. 28 infections might not seem a large number compared to other countries, for example, but in the australian context it is significant, the authorities here are urging residents to be on high alert and, as you say, 230,000 people living on syd ney‘s as you say, 230,000 people living on sydney's northern beaches have been told to stay at home at least until monday understatement at market new south wales says it's the outbreak cannot be contained in the next two or three days, there could be more stringent measures in place over the christmas

a myth mercer's ever knows that this is the way his work the fields back then most of our grandparents towards our parents and our parents taught us ok. we have to plow the stuff every year are these clean or roots. yes exactly the old roots and you leave these tweaks here. and yes we rake them using tools like this. i think that's a way of working the soil. you don't care for. an advantage . it's a traditional system that's been practiced for centuries. why now here for even here there's room for improvement in terms of sustainability. but compared to the mechanized farming down in the lower than plains this is more environmentally friendly. the soil has time to regenerate between the 2 harvests he on the hillsides the plants and large the individual kernels plant. yes if you and then marsha endymion 3rd see this clones here it's yielding really well. look at the seed heads the kernels are nice and ripe but our standards these are the best grains we store them and use them as. your camille says brought along some keen march from a german supermarket. he wants to show the farmers how t

phil mercer, bbc news, sydney.62 death certificates in the week of the 11th of december. that's very slightly lower than the previous week. lincolnshire is one county seeing the impact of this. a temporary mortuary has been opened there because death figures are double what they would normally be for this time of year. sara barry — is the chair of the lincolnshire mortality planning cell at the lincolnshire resilience forum. thank you very much for talking to is right now. just tell us, in terms of the number of deaths you are seeing in lincolnshire, how many excess deaths, how many would you say are covid deaths? we would say that the majority of the excess deaths that we are seeing are due to covid. just tell us, in terms of your planning, what does that mean that you had to change? since the beginning of the pandemic, we have been preparing this whole death management system. we were lucky in lincolnshire in the spring that we didn't see high infection rates and therefore, we didn't see high death rates. u nfort

she is very mature and been in college in mercer since she was 16 years old.s 16 years old. she graduated from high school at the top 10 students in her class. and was like a 4.3 or 4 grade point average and entered mercer as a sophomore. she has dedicated her whole life to making the grades to get her into mercer. >> trace: ?e is very smart. she admitted quoting here i made a mistake and words cannot express how sorry i am for this. i was afforded the opportunity to enter the islands during these trying times and i abused it. i ask for the forgiveness of the community. have you contacted the u.s. embassy, the white house, and if so have they gotten back to you? >> we have been working with the u.s. embassy. i'll be honest with you, originally the one in the caymans was not very helpful saying she broke a rule and has to serve the time. then i came back and said we don't disagree she broke the rules. she should not have done it. but the punishment should fit the crime. they have not given anyone else this. she has already paid $3100 in american money in what t

about his relationship with mercer. really keeping secrets from herself about her own life and marriage but she carries an enormous burden and of course cannot tell anyone about what is happening. rights of these three women all with tricky instinct difficult lives arrive and can you now set the scene because russia in many ways has been a type of village that you looks on the outside to go enjoy these great buildings you go up to the second floor and suddenly everything disappears. it is all for show. so what are these palaces like? what is yalta like? how do they make life comfortable for their three charges? in many ways russia has a perception there's no reagent relationship to reality. yalta itself is almost like a character in the story with the richness of the setting. just the chaos that is being swept under the rug while they are there. i think it's important to understand what it took to get to yalta. there's a map we can put that up on the screen. which shows just how far it was. churchill had to fly to londo

rebecca mercer was involved in the beginning providing funding.hey all observed there were two big problems with social media. they were becoming speech restrictive. at the same time, they were not respecting the privacy of individuals. there was a lot of data mining or as we heard in the hearings yesterday in the senate, data stripmining, a new phrase i heard. data mining to a huge extent. none of them were satisfied with that and decided instead of complaining about it like others do, they would go out and start their own platform and try to compete, which is the american approach to problems like this. is parler aikoff, conservative site? is it an alternative for conservatives? amy: parler has provided a platform that is an alternative to conservatives who feel mistreated on other platforms, but it is not intended as a conservative platform. we are viewpoint neutral. considerarler do not themselves either liberal or conservative. what we believe in is free speech and allowing that alternative for people has been of use to conservatives of late

keeping many secret ford her father and for heir from her mother about his relationship with lucy mercer, and keeping the secrets from herself about ore own life and marriage and she carries an enormous burden and of course can't tell anyone but what is happening. >> so these three women all with tricky, interesting, difficult lives arrive at yalta. thank you set the escape pause russia has been a o'temp kip village. looks grand on then outfield but you go into one of this great buildings, go up to the second floor and suddenly everything disappears. it's all for show. what of these palaces like? what is yalta like? how are these. -- make life comfortable? >> in many weighed it russia is a place where perception has no relationship to reality and yalta itself is almost like a character in the story apologies it's the rich unless of the setting and -- the rhythm richness of the setting and the chaos being swept under the rug and it's important to understand what it took get too yalta. there's a -- if we can put that up on the screen -- which shows just how far it was. so churchill had to

phil mercer in sydney, thank you.er. clearer skies in the north, a fair bit of sunshine, it will turn haiti through the day across northern ireland, northern england and southern scotland, a few showers in the north—west will be wintry in the hills, but in south wales towards east anglia southwards, lots of cloud, much milder and east anglia southwards, lots of cloud, much milderand rain, turning heavier through the afternoon. that rain will advance northwards this evening and overnight and you will notice the winds started to pick up in the south—west, in the north, clearing skies, a cold night, some fast, still those showers and some of those will be wintry down to about 250 metres. with all this rain falling on already saturated ground there is the risk of localised flooding tomorrow as the rain will be happy and persistent, and the potential for gales across parts of wales and south—west england but quieter enjoy further north —— as the rain will be heavy and persistent. pastels this is bbc news with the latest he

cluster of coronavirus infections in the nothern part of the city. 0ur correspondent in sydney is phil mercergrown to 122, and that number may not seem much compared to other countries but there are about 180 active coronavirus cases across the entire country. this cluster of cases in sydney is causing a great deal of concern for the authorities. it is focused in the northern beaches district of sydney. some of those coastal suburbs have gone back into lockdown. there was an amnesty for a couple of days over christmas but those regions are now back under those restrictions. other parts of the northern beaches have stay—at—home orders imposed on residents. there are restrictions on other parts of sydney as well. australia had been hoping for a covid—safe christmas but this outbreak in sydney is causing the authorities a great deal of concern, and these restrictions in sydney will last until wednesday and then they'll be reassessed. so, in total since the pandemic began, australia has recorded 28,000 covid—19 cases and more than 900 people have died. in the italian capital, rome, health workers

our sydney correspondent, phil mercer says the relaxation of internal restrictions, is an important milestonethe whole of new south wales and the state of victoria. this is the first time in more than 250 days that cleans lands‘s borders have been fully open. as you say, other restrictions in other parts of the country are now being lifted. in the last hour or so we have heard from the western australian state government and they are to reopen their borders with a victoria and new south wales in a weak‘s time. in a week's time. many internal borders in this country were closed in an attempt to curb the spread of covid—19. it wasn't universally popular, the federal government said those state border closures where unnecessary but state and territory leaders were adamant they need to protect their populations. if you look at australia's numbers, this is a country that has recorded about 28,000 coronavirus cases, just over 900 people have died. we understand there are just over 60 active coronavirus cases across the entire country. so australia is now opening up fragmentation brought by covid—19

jesse kempson has been convicted of sex attacks on two more women. 0ur correspondent in sydney, phil mercerled as a serial sexual predator. for the first time, we can report that he was found guilty of raping another young british woman in auckland in new zealand just a few months before he had killed grace millane. he was also found guilty of terrorising a former girlfriend. now, grace millane, she was... she went missing in december 2018 on the eve of her 22nd birthday, and this man's identity was suppressed after he was convicted of killing her so that those other trials could proceed without any fear of being prejudiced. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is — nearly 3000 lorries are still stuck near the uk port of dover over fears a new strain of coronavirus might spread to europe. france has said it will begin to ease its uk travel ban from wednesday. a lot of these infections are from this new variant of the virus, and leading scientists say they have "high" confidence that it's easier to transmit than other variants. the uk's chief scientific adviser i

let's speak to our correspondent phil mercer who's in sydney and joins us via videophone.? the authorities here in sydney are racing to identify the source of new infections in the city's northern beaches region. the number may be comparatively small but in the australian context as it is very significant stop at the new south wales government says that if this outbreak isn't brought under control within 2— three days there could be more restrictions. we have more than 250,000 residents of the northern beaches are effectively being told to stay at home. residents from other suburbs, other parts of the city, other parts of the state of new south wales have been told to stay away, too, and i think it is telling that the new south wales health minister brad hazzard explaining what has described as an avalanche of complacency for this outbreak. australia, since the pandemic began, has recorded about 28,000 known cases of coronavirus, 908 people have died but this cluster in syd ney‘s died but this cluster in sydney's northern beaches is another sharp reminder that the fight ag

ken mercer probably would have done backflips and every other educator around.le those words may have gotten your attention, they didn't get to the heart of the deal. >> there has been an objection that the elector needs to maintain his speech on the motion, not on the resolution entirety. please limit your remarks to the amendment to the resolution. thank you. >> that is correct, sir. these two small words "moral cowardice" are like this fire ant bite i got the other day. it is irritating and everyone has one. when you throw those words out front, yes, you get their attention but not in the right way. i say if anybody here can stand thomas,nd tell justices barretth and coney that they lack moral courage, you better rethink things. i stand with the amendment to delete the words "moral cowardice" from it. you could even substitute the word "action." thank you. >> is there any discussion on fo r or against the amendment to the motion? >> matt patrick, congressional district 32. i speak against the amendment. i would like to leave the words in there. i wish i could

canada is said to receive its 1st doses of pfizer's coronavirus vaccine by the end of the month by mercer just into a go says if approval is granted in the next few days the 1st shipments could arrive by next week in health care workers and vulnerable people including the elderly over the 1st to receive it a high level inquiry into last year's mass shooting at 2 new zealand mosques as found failings by the police and intelligence but it says nothing could have stopped the attack as turning gunman brenton talent is serving a life in prison without parole for murdering $51.00 more shoppers in march last year there are commission has made dozens of recommendations including setting up a new national security and intelligence agency. ultimately this roughly 800 page report came be distilled into one simple premise with some new zealanders should be safe anyone who calls new zealand harm regardless of race religion sick show orientation gene data should be safe new zealanders deserve a system that does its best to keep you safe and that is what we are committed to building. here wayne has join

>> guest: it was found in 2018 a couple years ago by john and shared and also rebecca mercer, people of been reading was provided funding. they all observed there were two big problems with social media. they were becoming speech restrictive, the dominant platforms, and at the same time they were not respecting the privacy of individuals. there was a lot of data mining or as we heard in the hearings yesterday in the senate, data stripmining was new phrase i heard. data mining to a large extent. neither of them were satisfied with that and they decided they would instead of just complaining about like others do, they would go out and start their own platform and try to compete which is the american approach to problems like this. >> host: ms. peikoff, is parler i conservative site? is it an alternative for conservatives? >> guest: parler has provided a platform this is an alternative for many conservatives recently about they have been mistreated another platforms like it is not intended as a conservative platform. we are viewpoint neutral. many of the people for in parler who don't t

rebekah mercer, a big conservative donor, how much input does she have and how you run the business?ou seeking her out for advice? john: she has a relationship as an advance or -- as an investor. not part of the day-to-day. a lot of what we do is central around our marketing team, advisory team. she is not a part of those conversations because she is an investor. if you purchase shares of facebook, you are not welcomed to the day-to-day. it is a similar situation. emily: let's talk about the return on investment. there does seem to be an issue with inappropriate interaction. john: if you look at any social platform, you will get people trying to attack it. promote advertisements, and agenda. yes, we crackdown very hard on anybody who does that. i would not describe it as a problem. 99% of people don't see it. anybody sharing that stuff, most of it is flagged automatically by our sensitivity filters. it has been manufactured by the press to make us look back. we are building more and more algorithms to put in the hands of people to use to work out any issues they have. either they do

phil mercer in sydney with the latest, thank you.es's largest hospital has issued an urgent appeal for help to deal with a high number of coronavirus patients. the cardiff and vale university health board tweeted that it was urgently looking for medical students for its critical care department. last week, public health wales warned of "an alarming rise" in coronavirus case rates across the country. authorities in the us are investigating whether a campervan explosion in the city of nashville on christmas day was a suicide bombing. three people were injured in the blast, and dna tests are now being carried out after human remains were found near the site of the blast. no motive has been established and no—one has claimed responsibility. george blake, the former mi6 officer and one of the cold war‘s most infamous double agents, has died at the age of 98. as a soviet spy, he betrayed hundreds of western agents in eastern europe. russian president vladimir putin says blake was an outstanding professional. moscow correspondent steve rose

sincere hope of her parents she can safely return home to continue her studies as a premed student at mercerversity. they are also battling for their jobs in runoff races january 5th that will determine which party controls the senate for the next two years. the high stake led to record fundraising. purdue's opponent john ossoff raise $76 million compared to $68 million for 4 do. personal tax blanket the airwaves. ossoff refers to purdue is a crook while republicans charge ossoff is supported by the chinese government. >> you done business with a media company owned in part by the chinese communist party. >>'s production company received compensation from hong kong conglomerate owned in part by the chinese government. he amended his financial disclosure after initially failing to disclose the compensation. a spokeswoman says the charge was false and desperate. the washington free beacon reports counselors in the camp run by warknock, a 12-year-old camper enforcement remain outside overnight as punishment for wedding his that. the camper anthony washington, now 30 said his family received a f

guest: so, it was founded in 2018, couple of years ago, by john and jared thompson and also rebecca mercer that people have been reading recently was also involved at the beginning providing funding. they observed that there were two big problems with social media. again, they were becoming speech restrictive and at the same time they were not respecting the privacy of individuals or data mining or as we heard in the hearings yesterday and in the senate data strip mining was a news phrase that we are today but data mining to a large extent and neither of them, none of them were satisfied with that and they decided that they instead of wood just complaining they would go out and start their own platform and try to compete which is the american approach to problems like this. >> is parler a conservative site or an alternative for conservatives? >> guest: parler has provided a platform that is an alternative for many conservatives who recently have felt that they have been mistreated on other platforms but it is not intended as a conservative platform and again we are viewpoint neutral and ma

amid mercer's average. this is the way sisters work the fields back then. our grandparents stores have parents and our parents taught us. that we have to plough this up every year are these key members. yes exactly the old roots and you leave these tweaks here. and yes we rake them using tools like this. i think that's a way of working the soil. health care. and also survive it. it's a traditional system that's been practiced for centuries. why now here for even here there is room for improvement in terms of sustainability. but compared to a mechanized farming town in the lower than plains this is more environmentally friendly. the soil has time to regenerate between the 2 harvests he on the hillsides the plants and large the individual kernels plump. yes at the end in march endymion for see this clones here it's yielding really well you know look at the seed heads the kernels are nice and ripe but our standards these are the best grains we store them and use them as sealed so the same in. your community has brought along some key more from a german superma

what possible stake to grown men have in me features of 25 perfect strangers, vagabond mercer mercenariesne sums to play a game for half a year. i've been a baseball fan most of my life. whyy should i care about these tobacco spitting, adjusting players who would not care about me -- why? i have i no idea. >> daniel: reading what he wrote about it, he had such an appreciation for the raw beauty, a perfect double play, or throwing just the right pitch to just the right batter, at just the t rigt moment, so there was a little kid in him, for sure, that love going to the ballpark and eating hot dogs, but i think there was a deeper and more soulful meaning, that there is something innately beautiful, and what he compared to music or number theory or art, that really expresses something in the human soul. >> bret: heso called opening day a religious holiday. >> daniel: yeah. >> bret: did he impart that love of baseball to you? >> daniel: he did. i can't claim to be as fanatic a fan as he was, but i grew up playing baseball, little league. he was probably at just about every single game and pra

continue her studies as a premed student at mercer coming university.to isolate for two weeks after arriving in the cayman islands and removed an electronic tracing bracelet. and those elections will determine which party controls the senate for the next two years, that's why it has drawn so much national attention and national money. at the four candidates have raised more than $340 million over just the past two months alone, and president trump has announced that he will come to georgia yet again on the eve of the election on january 4th. alicia, back to you. >> alicia: steve harrigan, thanks. let's bring in the panel. thank you so much for being here. i will start with you, president trump has announced that he is going to hold a rally in georgia the day before the election, a week from today. what are your thoughts on that and what impact will it have? congressman? >> i'm sorry, forgive me. thank you for having me on. happy holidays. two things. one, the president has to decide how much of the grievance that he is going out for the georgia race. po

. >> reporter: the 18-year-old, who is a student at mercer university, has released a statement, apologizingsaying, quote, i was afforded the opportunity to enter the islands during these trying times and i abused it. i am humbly asking for the forgiveness of the community. dana, again, according to multiple source, the court reduced maximum sentence from four months to two. her sentence reportedly reduced to half of what it was. back to you. >> dana: all right, charles. thank you. now tensions between the united states and china continues to rise. white house trade adviser peter navarro not mincing words when describing the threat coming from beijing. watch. >> i have referred often to the chinese seven deadly sins, stealing our intellectual technology, killing us with fentanyl. this is a strategic rival and is increasingly an immortal enemy. >> dana: with me now fox's contributor kim strassel. mortal enemy is strong language, but it seems to fit the bill. >> well, there is something to it, dana. i think in addition to the abraham accord, the trump administration's biggest accomplishment is

just yesterday near ken mercer sports park they demonstrated with signs that read things like don't giveanizers say they want a safety plan for allowing in-person classes once the county moves back into the red tier. i believe we are going to show you that story we were just talking about where the shipments of the pfizer vaccination need to stay at negative 94 degrees as they roll out across america. nbc's morgan chessie will show us how it all works. >> reporter: shipping giants nationwide ready to roll out pfizer's covid-19 vaccine. the next 24 hours crucial. the first doses moving from a pfizer plane in michigan to fedex and u.p.s. hubs like memphis, tennessee, and louisville. u.p.s. covering the east coast while fedex covers the west primarily. >> historic this is a monumental event. i believe as a company it may be our finest hour. >> reporter: richard smith is the regional president covering every domestic delivery. he says the company is using real-time tracking to follow every vaccine shipment from start to finish. >> there is a distribution that potentially is broken down into

now from mercer university press. as a limit of the tidbit, wayne and i actually distantly related. i am a descendent of a collins. >> right. >> so we are cousins. >> good to have you here, has. i would like to thank you for having here at the southern festival of books it's a real honor and thank you very much for inviting me. people may be wondering who the malign gemzar. they are not the most well-known group of people in the world but they are a group of mixed race people who are first documented in the northeast tennessee southwest virginia region about the beginning of the 19th century. in the 1990s as we, we became a widely accessible to ordinary people, they underwent a resurrection of interest mainly through the work of brent kennedy wrote a book entitled -- they were a proud people. i was proud to be able to work with dr. kennedy and affordably dr. king the past i went about three weeks ago. i want to dedicate a bit of this to him. the reason they really became well-known is i think the topic of the book and it's what i wanted to write about because it wasn't a really well

that she can safely and expeditiously return home to continue her studies as a premed student at mercerversity. they are also battling to hold onto their jobs in runoff races january 5th that will determine which party controls the senate for the next two years. the high stakes have led to record fund-raising. david produce opponent, 33-year-old jon ossoff, raised $106 million in the past two months alone compared with 68 million for david perdue. >> is not just the croak. >> personal attacks blanket the airwaves. jon ossoff regularly refers to him as a crook while republicans charge that jon ossoff is supported by the communist chinese government. >> he's done business with a media company that is owned in part by the chinese communist party. >> his production company received compensation from a hong kong conglomerate owned in part by the chinese government. he amended his financial disclosure after initially failing to disclose the compensation. a spokeswoman said the charge was false and desperate. "the washington free beacon" reports that counselors at a camp run by raphael warnock

writing a letter to the embassy in jamaica saying it's a sin sincere hope for her to continue at mercer university. she failed to isolate for two weeks after arriving and she also removed an electronic tracking bracelet. loeffler and perdue are also fighting to hold onto their jobs. january 5th runoff election coming up, getting national attention and national money. your dad then ride the republican for the past 20 years. that changed with joe biden's narrow victory. money is pouring in from all over. the candidates have raised more than $340 million in the past months alone, and president trump has announced he'll be back in georgia to campaign for the two republicans on election eve. julie, back to you. >> julie: newly elected progressive democrats are refusing to say whether they will back nancy pelosi and they run for house speaker. what that says about the relationship between democratic leadership and the growing power of the young progressives. plus, this -- lawmakers reacting to president trump's demands for cuts to what he calls wasteful spending and the massive bill he signed

the study by the human resources company mercer says 55% of puppies pay for laptops, 20% printers, oned pay for mobile phones. >>> the san francisco 49ers are one in for the season. they are hosting the buffalo bills tonight with a home game. but it's not at levi stadium. instead there on the road in arizona. the matchup will happen in the 49er to temporarily home and glendale. the first of two home games for the niners after seneca county bans sports forcing them to relocate. the 49ers, if they win a will approve the record to six wins and three losses kickoff is set for 5:13. one extra game before the niners take the field, washington traveling to pittsburgh to take on the undefeated steelers. steelers offense one of the best in the nfl will face a washington defense that is second-best to get the patriots. kickoff is about an hour away. >>> the raiders able to avoid a disaster in a wild finish against the winless new york jets. >> just coming, putting aaron rodgers, wide open. for the touchstone. >> a connection with a 46 yard touchdown pass to end the game, the final was 31-28. >>>

she graduated from mercer island high school. in 1987, she received her ph.d. in english and american literature from harvard university. she lives with her husband in santa fe, new mexico. we would like you all to give her a warm welcome tonight. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] are you ready for us to go ahead? are you going to go ahead and talk? >> thank you very much for having me. thank you for asking me to talk to caroline frazier. this is really exciting. i think most of us probably read little house on the prairie books when we were young and maybe many others watched it on tv, which i did. i was getting to be a teenager at that time, so i sometimes was a little skeptical and i thought it was a little corny but we will get back to that later. how long have you researched and studied and why did you start studying laura ingalls wilder? >> well, i discovered the books as a kid as well and read them and loved them and thought they were fantastic and i think part of the reason that i really love them was because my grandmother, most of my grandpa

is also left at home after the polls and then fdr is having to dispute his relationship with lucy mercer which is ongoing and not in the traditional sense of an affair at this point, certainly an emotional affair and it's one he asks his daughter to keep from eleanor . and is very torn about this because she doesn't want to betray her mother because she knows how all it was for eleanor when she learned of this but she also sees that her father's dying and she's desperate to do anything to give him some measure of peace and relaxation and comfort in these last days of the war the last days of his life so she agrees to keep secret which is a horrible positionfor any child to the . >> wasn't there also an affair between, kathleen has an affair with anna is not or does not know how to affair with her? >> she has every affair with fdr junior. >> was married at the time. >> there was some letter carrying between kathleen and fdr junior by some of his transatlantic trips between washington and london. >> this is amazingly rarefied world where everybody seems to know eachother . and alice do you

invited to the conference and so he's also left at home as fdr's having, his relationship with lucy mercer which began when anna was a little girl is ongoing, is that in the traditional sense of an affair at this point certainly in an emotional affair and it's one he asks his daughter to keep from eleanor. anna is torn about this because she does want to betray her mother because she knows how awful it was for anna when she learned of this also sees her father is dionysius effort to do anything to give in some measure of peace and relaxation and comfort in his last days of the war and the last days of his life she agrees to keep his secret which is a horrible position any child have to be i in. >> wasn't there also an affair between is it anna had an affair with the captain? >> a very brief fling with fdr junior, the younger brother. >> and was married at the time. >> there was some letter carrying between kathleen and fdr junior. >> this is amazingly rarefied world where everybody seems to know each other. how much do you think social knowledge of both helped thinks of her gas and politic