on the way the question of how revolution succeed and fail is one i will discuss with mitch abbott or the author of may made me an oral history of the 1968 uprising in france the book is important for those on the left you pick the right people and what's even more important you ask the right questions. and so i want to kind of go through this popular revolt. which unlike revolt in the united states berkeley. was a nation wide phenomena which included the working class of the working class was possible in the 1960 s. to the progressive radical anywhere movements. but let's begin with i think one which i mentioned in the intro this idea that what triggers. a revolt of this magnitude is often so but all right because as you said. it begins it's known to be the real activism begin to let me just for people who don't know a non tear so just a quick is in the west of paris it's a solace horrible like most french college campuses and. if you had had up until world war 2 only a tiny percentage of the french public had a college education and that was almost exclusively for the only 6 in a le

thumbed on contact today we discussed the lessons of the may 1968 uprising in france with author mitch abbott on what happens in in may is. as as a mass cultural as a class of it and its results are ambiguous but its results for the for the individual enormous and there was a great and really funny example in the book when i asked everybody like how did it change your life and so people talked about how you know i discovered my voice you know the 1st time i spoke it changed my entire you be there was one woman who i interviewed and i said like how do you change your life and she didn't even have to think about it she said you know. it was thanks to me that if it was subpoenaed in group 6 i never would have done it without everybody. but. so as it as it is that event that would free individuals it was an absolutely essential and successful living and if that was what it ever set out to do in whatever way you moved without planning it was a huge success but what doesn't kill capital makes it stronger. and i think maybe 68 is a perfect example of that. in may 968 france erupted in a nationwide r

welcomed on contact today we discuss the lessons of the may 1068 uprising in france with author mitch abbott on what happens in in may is. as as a mass cultural as a class of it and its results are ambiguous but its results for the for the individual enormous and there was a great and really funny example in the book when i asked everybody like how did it change your life and so people talked about how you know i discovered my voice you know the 1st time i spoke it changed my entire you be there was one woman who i interviewed and they said like how do you change your life and she didn't even have to think about it she said you know. it was thanks to me that if a disappointed in group 6 i never would have voted our way. but. so as it as it is that event that would free individuals it was an absolutely essential and successful of it and if that was what it ever set out to do in whatever way you moved without planning it was a huge success but what doesn't kill capital makes it stronger. and i think maybe 68 is a perfect example of it. in may 968 france erupted in a nationwide revolt the revol

reporter: governor abbott said something about biusinesses and liability. do you support mitch mcconnell's liability -- >> i think you have to have something to do with liability for covid because you can't have a restaurant, and a guy is going to hope aopen and it's a nice bs but it's not exactly the oil business in its prime, right? and somebody leaves and they say oh, i'm going to sue them because they caught the plague and now whether he was guilty or not, the legal fees would drive him out of business. you can't do that. so i think you are probably going to have to have something. yeah, i would support that. i mean, you go to a game and you sue the team owner or you go to some place and it would be litigation heaven. and you will noeever know where they caught it. so we have to have something like that. otherwise there's going to be lawsuits, i mean, there already is in this country. but you would have lawsuits all over the place. right? reporter: international travel restrictions with china and all around the world, do you see any scenario of easing them any time soon? >>

abbott lab tests available to capitol hill in order to test members of congress who would be returning to washington to do legislative business, but speaker pelosi and the senate majority leader mitchconnell politely declined. saying our country is continuing to scale up nationwide and congress wants to keep directing resources where they can do the most good. kaylei kayleigh mcenany saying they wanted to help. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >>> be sure to watch the "the pandemic and the president" jake tapper takes us through the past four months, week by week, sometimes day by day. he looks at what the president did and said, what he did not say and do and how the u.s. end the ended up with more cases and deaths than any country in the world. >>> dr. fauci has a big fan in warren buffett. the billionaire praised dr. fauci at his shareholders meeting. >> personally, i feel extraordinarily good about being able to listen to dr. fauci, who i'd never heard of a year ago. but i think we're very, very fortunate as a country to have somebody at 79 years of age who appears to be able to work 24 hours a day and keep a good humor about him and communicate in a, in a very, very strai