the democratic party is the only political party out of the two major parties we have the daughters in this moment to the ideas for the country, to american democracy. trumpism is liberal and authoritarian wish ideology. we can the make no mistake with hostility to our freedoms, the first amendment, the elections process and all of it. we are an organization now that has several million dollars, close to half a million donors that is raising substantial resources to fight back against tropism. so when i say tropism, we mean that as a rooted ideology, something that wasn't four years ago, has become so. when republicans lose, and i think biden will win, and i think the democrats will take the senate majority, today at least but if republicans do lose, what will happen to the party to be understood what happened in the california par party, as political parties shrink, they are like white stars collapsing astronomically. they become smaller, denser and hotter. the republican party, as it shrinks, is becoming more extreme so one of the things that's always miss analyze, if that is a word,

in the nearest future where the united party united russia party would be. taken down from its majority or by by within the specter of russian electoral law now as the economic situation in russia continues to worsen and discontent both political and economic keeps rising a both in moscow and in the regions that that political calculus that the kremlin relies on the right now it could change and in fact it could change very fast and then the political situation could look very different in a very short amount of time if if. there's a different to the extend extent of a lot better routes or is that too much of a far fetched scenario right now. well we have actually seen that the situation in belarus has gone from more or less stable even though in the last election cycles until it was because we had also seen some protests and some attempts to put them down but never before in the last 26 years of look at bankers at all have we seen anything on the scale that we have seen since the august 8th or 9th elections and we have seen and the kremlin has also looked a

the parties think the point. particularly bright and then there is the kremlin you know like the no valley and his allies although he's obviously. in a very difficult situation as a result of the poisoning but looking at his allies can you say that the strategy on the strategy has succeeded to some extent. well i have to some extent and i think certain that alan and his his coalition are are are putting a brave face on things they have made some progress and certainly they have demonstrated the fact that you know this is not simply a moscow and st petersburg sort of urban intelligentsia movement that it does have a nationwide following and that they have demonstrated that this strategy they have a smart voting right of picking and choosing candidates not necessarily in terms of of ideological affinity but based on that who can win who can do the job of getting united russia candidate out of out of out of office. that does work right now and at the electoral map doesn't work but it works on a low level so we've se

there is no republican party to speak of right now, there is the donald trump party. i think that there needs to be a party that focuses on free markets and fair trade, but i do not think that the current republican will shake off trumpism very quickly. it will have to learn lessons about the political costs of abandoning every principle you claim to believe in and moving into this era where you are a personality cult rather than a political party. host: one day i have not asked is about the "new york times" story that says that president trump has paid $750 in taxes in 2016 and 2017, after he became president. what is your opinion on that story? guest: how is anyone surprised? i wrote in my first book a recollection of a conversation i had in 2015 with a new york billionaire, and he leaned back in his chair, and he goes, he will not spend his own money. he is not a billionaire, he is a clown living on credit. that was a great story because it was revelatory about what people actually knew about donald trump. the fact he has been involved in a multiyear scheme to maxi

and lavish parties. washington was nothing if not a place to party. it typically was the case that there would be balls, that the president would have balls. this is the case where the first lady could help to arrange those parties. smoking cigars comes up. it is one of the ways men bonded with each other and became friends and more. so what we have here is a washington dc by the time of the civil war period that is indeed quite advanced along this line. that was not exactly the case when thomas jefferson became president. was justwashington dc getting started. this image shows the white house as it was just built in 1800. john adams was the first to occupy it for a few short months. jefferson was the first to occupy the white house during his entire presidency. the washington of 1800 was an undeveloped place. there were swamps and muddy roads all over. in the capital there was little to do. not so by 1850. one of the big differences between 1800 and 1850 when it comes to the city of washington is that it is actually a city now. this is a familiar out

and criticism of the party becomes sedition in this world view in this hyper nationalist party lens with which the reader be seized. the constitution of this is completely contrary to the constitution but but the structures have preceded the read your p.c. government under prime minister only what is new is then extremely in my line and brazen used to punish all forms of dissent and i actually feel that this is in some ways a fall off previous inion regime from even the opposition states in the country today and picked. up to a sufficient theory. which you can call it by political insurance and so you know democracy every limb party must govern with the notion that it will be the opposition tomorrow and what you do when you are in government is to buy political insurance by making the police and prosecutions independent so that when somebody else is in government they are not target you wrongfully and that never happened in india i think of you people need to also understand that they will not be the government but ever in that and that for their own in might in south and you know w

position of which parties like the communist party of the russian federation the l.d.p. are. controlled by a not skew a puppet populist speaker of the russian duma the just russia party these parties are in close correlation work in close correlation with the kremlin and they are allowed to more or less freely pureed in the russian political space and now some of these parties. gained seats in the general assembly is. the communist party had gained seats in several regional assemblies compared to the results in the last election cycle then there were there were several new parties which were called the so-called spoiler party is the so-called the green alternative. the new people parts here and here called for a truce. led by a russian patriotic writer as a kind of prediction so these parties also work in close conjunction with the kremlin and they are seeking to gain the ability to get into the next russian duma when the elections are held probably next year i'm wondering then the parties have to take the point. particularly bright and then there is the kremlin you know

for example the parties had the ballot. he got a republican ballot if you ask fort or democratic ballot if you asked for. and then as you walk to where you're going to your vote, there be all these people standing around. and you had the ballot. they'll be talking to you, trying to persuade you change your ballot. can't do too deeply into this. the other interesting thing the parties create is every city in america. there is a republican newspaper mn democrat newspaper. and all they did was tell their parts of the story. and that is what the citizens have to read. and it went on and on. there's all kinds of rules created way back when. in the constitution there are things they created that allow them to gain tremendous control to also kind of separate themselves and have this partisan competition. i was the went by, during this gilded age our government just kind of shut down. there is no longer any process, there is fighting with each other. and then, so that was the first phase. the book is covered in detail in the book,

and what struck me about the direction of the democratic party was that it is taking that party in such an extreme direction that it risks falling over the cliff and pulling the country with us. one of the most important things that changed my mind about politics was my experience for 7 years in south africa seeing that left-wing government mismanage the country after apartheid. and i came back to the united states with the lessons of that experience very prominent in my mind and they really guided my thinking about american politics and i see the american left making the same mistakes whether it's with regard -- whether identity politics or state-driven economic policy, radical restructuring of our energy policy, the emphasis on race, all of those things in my mind are not just bad policies but they can actually be extremely destructive of democracy as we know it. i wanted to get into the democratic primary to document the process and examine the candidates, examine the issues and warn people how dangerous this was both to political fortunes of democrats and to the country itself. >> n

by his insistence on the democratic party truly becoming a democratic party. because of his efforts and the efforts of many of you, the convention of 1972, as interesting as it was, helped save the democratic party and helped open the doors for young people, women, minorities, and people who had come up to that time, then shut out. it is fashionable for people to say there is not much difference between the parties, but there really is. there is a necessity for a democratic party and the kind of democratic party george mcgovern envisioned and helped create. >> what is your reaction, jules witcover or? -- jules witcover? >> mcgovern's role was a critical role. i go back to before 1968. i can remember in 1960 when john kennedy was running. he, his aide, and speech writer would get on an airplane, fly around, and visit governors and mayors who were so empowered but you could pick up the nomination that way. not with the people, but with the officials and politicians. >> jules witcover, what was it like to see these new faces in 1972 and going forward at the conve

parties.inally, the bulk of the lecture is going to be presenting new evidence on the antebellum political culture. as you will see i have three , major areas as evidence to talk about today. one,acone, tobacco culture. number two, political friendships, and number three, affairs of honor. like we often do in the class, i will start with an image on the screen. i'm going to ask you to tell me what you see. this is lady washington's reception from 1861. take it in. who can point out something you see right away that strikes you? >> lady washington is on a platform. prof. balcerski: how high do you think she is? off the ground? >> like a foot. prof. balcerski: that's a good piece there. what else? >> everyone is dressed up fancy. prof. balcerski: like you are today. exactly. very fancy. ladies are wearing downs. good. how about a third thing? go ahead. >> at looks like they are fairly close together. they may be dancing. they are all close together. prof. balcerski: very good. i should say about

they there is only pro-communist party discussion and debate that there is not another point of view so it's of really a really effective propaganda. influencing and interference system that that is coming out of beijing targeted at the west why because liberal democracy is dangerous for a communist system and a congress system cannot tolerate opposition because it's it's well by definition it's a one party so it can't hold it opposition so what's happening is that in order to make the world safe for china if you like the communist party it has to somehow control manager shape criticism debate and discussion elsewhere in the world is simply has to happen otherwise it gets too dangerous a home for the party and that's the point where the real frictions starts and that's the point where i think we've arrived at now ok alexander up next we we we talked about the americans american president donald trump has for years taken a tougher approach on china than the europeans and as a result washington and china have been locked in a bitter and destabilizing trade war and there's a huge showdo

the only can about that as any value, and it has a lot, is the party primary vote in the party primary that is guaranteed to win that district. so this small proportion of voters who have any power. the answer most people think of is we need to take in the amount of money in politics but actually that's not the way to go at it. first, because we can't get at that but second, what's far more powerful is increase the value of the vote. to get at your question who is buying what, with our votes were supposed about representation for our interests. i voting for people who are going to deliver to us. with the money the people that pay without hardline representation of the inches, both in favor of legislation and also favorable regulation. favorable access. i'm not saying everything is an exact quid pro quo but i am saying the reason that money can be so valuable and they can get us favorable outcomes from government is because the value of the votes has been dramatically diminished. the thing that needs to happen to change that is we have to eliminate a barrier to new competition so that o

that party, the democratic party, is the only political party out of the two major parties we have in this moment, the ideas and ideals of the country, to american democracy. trump is an authoritarian ideology. we should make no mistake with its hostility to our freedoms, to the first amendment, to the election process and all of it. an organization that has several million followers, close to half 1 million donors, and substantial resources to fight back against trumpism. we mean that as a rooted ideology, something that wasn't four years ago, when republicans lose and biden will win, democrats will take the senate majority today at least, if republicans do lose what will happen to the party can be understood by observing what happens to the california party. as political parties shrink they are like white stars collapsing astronomically. they become smaller, the become denser and they become harder. the republican party as it shrinks, becoming more extreme. one of the things that is always analyzed, if that is a word in the press, is trump has 96% support in the republican party, tr

this is the democratic party that completely lost control. they've given over not just the activist in the interest groups, but they've given control to the crowd. in a year later, you see that. you see that with black lives matter defining the agenda for the democratic party. the first night of democratic convention we heard democrats repeat, for example, the idea of peaceful protests. these have not been peaceful protests. they have in many cases been violent and with reference outside of the white house in lafayette square that was cleared ouwas cleared outby thes according to bill barr, pepper balls and other things but what is amazing to me is th the callt that peaceful. we had a journalist from breitbart news and he was assaulted in a protest. we have video of that taped by the people. he was assaulted by people at that protest and he wasn't the only one. they assaulted a fox news crew and other journalists. the only reason more people don't know that this wasn't a peaceful protest is that journalists are afraid to report from some of t

we have been sold out not only by the democratic party, but the republican party. the democratic party is a party against the people of america. they are not for america. anytime you support anyone who says it is all right to murder a baby in the womb of to the ninth month and you can support someone like that, in time a party says, no, god does not care who you love, but he cares about who you marry. i cannot support someone who does not stand for the word of god. and joe biden, he has never been for the black race, he has always been against it. as far as black lives matter and in tivo. and i have been watching what is been going on in this united states, it reminds me of the kkk and sends me back when we had to get on the back of a cotton truck and leave mississippi from the burning, looting, and murder of black people. and you can get people to support this party and urge people to say to go back to their own nation. you have people in the house of representatives and their job is trying to destroy and bring the united states down to its knees. so i do not to b

you originally said that a vote for joe biden will save the republican party how. well i think the party has been captured by the personality cult of donald trump and a lot of these former republicans have been morphed into trump this and so if you really follow the principles the longstanding principles of the party dating back to link in passing through people like eisenhower and reagan the president clearly is not a republican by the brand of republicanism and so we have a very big schism in the party right now if the president is reelected he's going to to new to narrow down the part that party is aging demographic it's a group of people that are frankly buying catheters on fox news commercial breaks no offense to the age the mom and i'm over 55 myself but i do think that that is not where we need to go as a republican party we need to expand the tent we need to include those people for sure but we need to expand the tent of the republican party demographically across . income strata and we need to have that party be looking more like the american people a more

couple months party. -- the bull moose party. they were the two most successful third party votes -- not electorial votes but popular votes of the 20th century. >> one question we did not answer from an earlier caller is whether or not ross perot's strained relationship with george bush was one of the animating factors in his campaign. do you know if that was a factor? >> i think it was a factor because he -- going back to the pow mia days, he thought that when bush was vice president the administration was not doing enough to get the mias and pows out of north vietnam. he went into the persian gulf war without a declaration of war. he also thought that president bush was too focused on foreign affairs and was not a dress and the domestic problems of the day. he thought he did not understand the domestic problems of the day. the problems were very much like today. there are so many similarities with the economy, recession, loss of jobs, people feeling like it was no longer a government by, of, and for the people, but government f

party, the idea of having a center right party that believes in the things that the republican party claims it represented is very appealing. we don't know what the end of this election cycle looks like. but we know, we're going to be stuck with trumpism for a white. there will be a battle between racially charged politics and a party about economic liberty and individual freedom. what that looks like, i don't know. i don't think steve knows. i don't think any of us know because donald trump has really fundamentally poisoned the brand of the republican party. they may emerge as a party that looks like something we haven't seen in our politics before, and even though people who used to say, the bushes have been around for too long, the kennedys have been around for too long, those people all had a certain modesty about their civil -- about their public service. they had a certain degree to which they acted as servant leaders. these people act as pair sites on the american body of politics and we're going to see the republican party in 2024 look at donald trump jr. as the lead candidat

. >> a moment in time, but is the democratic party essenticaly a talist party? >> look, the democratic -- >> democratic socialists? >> you are assuming that there is a rigidity there that cannot be changed. if your question is has, for many, many year, the democratic party received an enormous amount of funding from some of the largest and most powerful corporations in this country? yes. have they stood up for working people effectively? no, they have not. but things change. and when we are seeing all over this country the election of strong progressives, and when we e seeing the democratic party view, a more progressive party, i think things are changing, and that's what we have to do. >> and yet, it's president trump who then says that joe biden will just be auppet of the radical left. >> o that that were the case. unfortately, it is not. look, we have strong representation in the congress. i would hope that joe will support, you know, the progressive community, it is an important pa of the democratic community, democratic party, and i would hope thawe will ha

convention next tuesday to officially launch the party.lier aichi cheed dough put this news into context. >> how do you see this merger affecting japan's political landscape, uko. >> at nearly 100 members, this is the biggest party to sit in the lower house in nearly eight years but the liberal democratic party is still three times bigger. that does not mean the opposition lawmakers have no chance at power. in 2009, the democratic party of japan was around this size. they were able to take advantage of ldp scandals to win power. >> that was the most recent time but there was also another brief period in 1993, but that means that the ldp has been in power nearly continuously since it was formed 65 years ago. so why have other parties found it so difficult to break through? >> recently, they've struggled to prove their stability. over and over, the groups had splinters, creating new parties whenever policy differences got in the way. the public gave the democratic party of japan a chance at power and for the most part, people think they fail

not just for the democratic party before the country. i had been a democrat in my college years and shortly thereafter. i became more conservative over time before becoming a republican joining breitbart and so forth. even then i have an empathy for the utopian thinking that left does. i'm not a utopian myself but i do think that many democrats and they went to make the world better and what struck me about the direction of the democratic party is it is taking the party in such an extreme direction it risks falling over the cliff pulling the rest of the country with us. to see that left-wing government mismanaged the country and with the lessons of that experiment experience very prominent to guiding politics and i see the american left making some of the same mistakes whether identity politics or state driven economic policy our energy policy and emphasis on race not just bad policy but to be extremely destructive of democracy as we have known it and to document the process to examine a candidate in the issues and if possible but also t

the republicany party is not as defined, the republican party is trump. it doesn't sound like you are a republican anymore, and that is fine. i think trump is what republicans are now. i think trumpism is how the republican party is defined. it would be like saying i am a democrat against joe biden. i don't think anyone would take that seriously, i don't think anyone will except those people. i think you just say you are against joe biden. if you are against trump, you don't need to put a prefix in front of it. you are just against trump and that's ok. host: this is marianna in new york on the line -- maria on the line for those who support joe biden. caller: good morning. it's the blacks, hispanics, and minorities, young people, and suburban women don't go out and vote for biden, they deserve everything they get on trump. suburban women who are afraid now, will be afraid if trump is elected because you and your daughters will be back into kitchens, suburban housewives, which is where trump wants to put you. seniors will no longer have their social securi

and who the parties are, how difficult that would be.ut recognition that america has accomplished fewer than 200 al qaeda left in afghanistan today and now delivering a set of outcomes that will reduce the costs in blood from our american servicemen and women, in treasure, from the american taxpayer, and risk, to the united states of america. so what we'll see today at the white house is a set of countries that came to the same conclusion that we did what was best in their sovereign interest and recognize the relationships with them and build up security relationships around that. a coalition that has been in the works for three plus years now. i heard someone say boy, this happened overnight. i can assure you, this has taken all the efforts under president trump's leadership for three years now to get us to this place today. >> and the question of what kind of impact this could have on the u.s. alliance structure, could there be techtonic shifts? what are the longer views for the region and the united states and the region? >> i think t

what they can do for the country and they are instead asking what the country can do for them their party and their corporate lobbyists because if they did serve the country and not themselves then the epic water crisis that took place in flint michigan back in april 2014 would never and should never have ever happened only now after more than 6 long years the people of flint michigan are finally getting some restitution for having their drinking water poisoned by the negligence and greed of the rome state government in a settlement announced on aug 20th n.b.c. news reports that the state of michigan has agreed to pay 600000000 dollars to residents whose health was afflicted by lead tainted drinking water and that under that deal the state has agreed to devoting 80 percent of the money to people who are younger than 18 during the period when flint was using river water. and while 600000000 may sound like this massive number for many in flint that doesn't even begin to compensate for the losses and anguish they have suffered as flint resident maccie awakes who since 2014 has faced $22.00 m

throw a different type of party.ou know, so much more possibilities with that than whether or not it has a penis. >> that is a great idea, you should throw a party and reveal what the child's name is going to be, so that all your family and friends can sit around and judge the name you picked and tell you stories about all the assholes that they knew with your kid's name. >> that happens. >> i would just like to know that kate-- mommy needs so am quiet time. >> >> trevor: thank you so much for that, desi. when we come back, i'll be talking to the ledge enary actor and activist jane fonda. don't go away. the daily social discontinuing show. earlier ted i had the honor of speaking with the one and only jane fonda about her new box on climate activism and what it takes to be a protester fighting for what is right. >> welcome to the daily social distancing show. >> thank you. >> trevor: some know you as an oscar winner, some know you as an emmy winner. through the years you have been given every tight frel sex symbol to

of third party. and then there was -- in the convention of 1996, perot and dick lamb, who had been the governor of colorado indicated an interest in running on the reform party ticket. and perot re-emerged to lead the ticket. so, that probably was the high point for the reform party. after that came jesse ventura was elected governor of minnesota in 1998, i believe. and then in 2000, pat buchanan was the nominee, the presidential nominee for the party. and buchanan was a firebrand conservative but also a populist. but he certainly could not motivate the reform party people like perot did. and the party was sort of found -- it initially was established with the same kind of priorities that perot had set in his first campaign. reducing the deficit. term limits. some of these issues that ended up being in the contract for america. so i think there was definitely an impact. and you saw the republican party co-opt some of those issues. term limits was never passed. but it was part of the contract. gingric

we cannot keep passing it on to one party or the other party.he parties have to start working together, to attack the deficit. we are on a highway to bankruptcy. other mr. sasse, -- under senator sasse, government shutdown four times in the last six years, one the longest government shutdown, december through january, and that was on his dime. they cannot manage the money and we need to get someone in there who can, thank you. >> the final journalist on our panel. >> police departments receive millions of dollars in federal grant money. in light of minneapolis, kenosha and rochester, what stipulations should congress place on those funds to enter police are held accountable for their actions? >> thank you for that question. that is so important as to what is going on in our country now and in the cities he mentioned. this boils down to black lives matter. it boils down to police department etching funded and doing the wrong thing. anti-place -- anti-police. i am not for defunding the police. i think police officer should be paid more for what th

compared to what the chinese communist party does. these were companies built on stealing american technology, turning around and dumping it in the united states of america, around the world and emboldening companies for this. it should understand the chinese show up, nothing could be further from the truth, connected with an trusted vendors in the system and over time, the world is not on the right path, you will see western technology that are trustworthy and transparent. >> reporter: what is your vision for an instinct, decoupling seems unlikely with up your competitor, as china is, where do we land? where is it safe? with this strategy? >> i read the history where to challenge the soviet union. i would tell you there is much to unfold here as well. we know what it would look like and the chinese communist party will make decisions along the way that we will respond to but what it looks like, a world that freedom loving nations, the law-abiding nation can live in, not by those who want to have vassal states but what it will look li

the party of the slavery and party so long of segregation, the party who certain members gave birth ton and party that now stands for what i call again model of statism sr. progressivism but never seems to stand for americanism. i want to ask you about this when we come back. we'll be right back. i'm a performer. -always have been. -and always will be. never letting anything get in my way. not the doubts, distractions, or voice in my head. and certainly not arthritis. new voltaren provides powerful arthritis pain relief to help me keep moving. and it can help you too. feel the joy of movement with voltaren. mark: welcome back i'm here with ben shapiro, and great new book how to destroy america and three easy steps. we're working our way through what's going on today which is covered in a very interintaying embracing way in this book. so ben my question about the democrat party, the democrat party through its history has been more let me put this this way. last proamericanism than anti-americanism. am i right about that? >> historically speaking that's certainly the case and you can see

my republican party, it's not a party, it's a cult of personality. >> the republican party has fully become a cult of personality. >> the establishment republican republicans, just like the establishment generally totally underestimate this president. they idolize obama because he talks like a college professor, but what did obama actually achieve intellectually speaking. he didn't change anyone's thinking. he had no big ideas, he had no ideas of any kind, really. in an unguarded moment he admitted as much. one of the most shocking things i thought president obama ever said was about the historical impact of a president. here's how he sought. >> at the end of the day we are part of a long-running story. we just tried to get our paragraph right. the new york times columnist said at the time mr. president, i am just trying to get my paragraph right. you need to think bigger. president trump does think bigger. he didn't come into office wanting to write a paragraph in the history book, he wanted to write a new chapter, even a new book. look, no one would call donald trump and intellectu

. >> if we truly are going to be the party of the people, then we have to have a party that looks like the people and fights for the people. >> reporter: senator carter says now as his party fights to win the white house, he agrees with the party chairwoman. >> being liberal is not a bad word. those who have chosen to use conservatism as kind of a dog whistle for other -isms, we have got to stand face to face and reject that, and challenge it. >> reporter: this is a very red state, so how do you get those moderates to come over and become a part of what's necesry to make the democratic party great? >> one thing is broadening our scope and not making it so narrow. we are so far left that moderates don't see an agenda that includes their interests. >> reporter: but when news broke last week of the passing of supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, both parties quickly took sides-- national democrats demanding a new nominee not be selected until after the election, but republicans in washington saying they would move ahead. senator carter is outraged. >> the notion that a president

they came late to the party.arlier in this process at the beginning of the riots and the looting, they had many campaign staffers and the vice-presidential nominee herself encouraging people to give funds to bail out violent protestors. that's a big problem for them going forward. as this continues to be front and center for a lot of voters over the coming weeks. people want to know they can be safe in their communicates. they want to know they have a president who is fighting to make sure law and order is at the top of their agenda, whether they are in office or not in office. they want to know that's a person that is fighting for safety. i don't think joe biden demonstrated that at all last night. i think that will be a problem for him moving forward if he can't do that. >> harris: sarah, you have been talking to voters on social media. you are saying people are telling you this. this is what is important to them. juan, when the president had a moment to go after joe biden, it was a moment where joe biden said

out there and then after the 2 parties t.p.a. left and then you really form a deep prosperity party favored to agree on almost everything even the prime minister removed over members of t.p.s. to be an if members for its cognate. prosperity party members and the federal government officials accused the t.p. and therefore almost all evil deeds or a bad thing this happened within the last 2 decades so the valerie the difference was there but it was intensified after the merger of abiotic f. . s. said they could add to great take this a step further and push for secession they have the memory about wanting independence in this region. we. should grow pretty proud for. the people out of inclined to our decision the dots one idea we should become some new war for brain disease days among the 5 political parties who are participating in this poll in this election today's election one roof is intended to have an independent integrated nation we're going to see where there is not political party would we. forgive the debt in general gove

it plans a nationwide protest against military involvement in politics prime minister imran khan's party denies getting help from the army to win the election 2 years ago. pakistan's army generals have a long history of political meddling since his foundation in 1947 pakistanis have spent more than 30 years under military rule and it has had a big say jurong civilian rule to foreign policy on india and afghanistan have been the preserve of the military for decades military coups have interrupted democratic rule several times. let's bring in our guest is pakistan's minister for science and technology he joins us from the capital islamabad here in doha and his whole even professor of international politics at georgetown university and author of pakistan a hard country and in london isis a research associate of such sosina versity of london and author of military inc inside pakistan's military economy thank you for joining us i'd like to begin in a slow about with thawed choudhry the opposition have clearly stated that your man axons prime minister imran khan is in effect a stooge what do y

in the inside the democratic party there's a conflict striking. you can see it if you look closely at what. a climate you know back about 2 weeks take a look at the internet 2 weeks ago look for democratic party climate programs they're pretty progressive program was biden's program forced on biden he didn't choose it forced on biden by the progress or praise. program better than any that it yet exist tailored at the same internet now to fill in right trey and clipped democratic climate programs what you find is nothing. they removed the d n the democratic national committee the d.n.c. basically clintonite turner oriented democrats managed in a big power play to remove biden's progressive climate program that's a battle inside the democratic party is very rather similar to what we just saw and britain. where 'd the blairite right wing labor party or the mantra labor party managed undermine the korban campaign in a really vicious matter very powerful 800 page deterrent study of how they did it which is being most recent pressed in the british press

rampling on any remaining progressive ideas that might be in the democratic party in fact john k. sikka in his speech said quote i know joe biden and he won't turn to the left like that was a selling point so you know the democratic party yet again doing their best to lose this election you know and they're and they're largely although they will talk about voter suppression here and there they're largely not speaking to the fact that one out of every 12 voters maybe it's one out of every 10 have already been purged from the voter rolls i mean the level of corruption and fraud in this election is going to be immense and not of course the way donald trump talking about it he's using it as some sort of ploy so that he can act like the results are not legitimate if he were to lose. one of the things that i think struck me watching the democratic convention last week was the appearance in the time given to bloomberg and i thought there was a lot of friction whether you're on the progressive side of the democratic party or not there are people who are really frustrated and didn't unders

president putin's united russia party faces a key test in regional elections and sliding off a challenge from the opposition led by hospitalized alexina. and u.s. authorities warn of potential mass fatalities wildfires sweep through 3 western states president trump is due in california later for a briefing. i'm brian thomas kocherry with us today israel has become the 1st country to announce a 2nd national law down to combat the coronavirus this comes after a surge of new infections topping 4000 a day the country's highest rate since the outbreak began prime minister netanyahu said the new lockdown will begin friday and last for 3 weeks. as israel's outbreak threatened to race out of control benjamin netanyahu announced the unpopular but perhaps unavoidable decision will look you know you won't be today we decided on a strict lockdown plan for 3 weeks with an option to extend but as of now we've decided that the lockdown will last until the end of the holiday. door prelims lot of health ministry executives and hospital managers have warned us that death rates are forcing the application