who was robert mccormick?amela: robert mccormick was the owner and publisher of the chicago tribune in the years between the two world wars. he was an artillery officer in world war i, had inherited the paper from his father, and he was a newspaperman to the core. peter: how would you describe his work? pamela: he was fascinated by world politics. he was fascinated by the military. he also was an isolationist. he was antisemitic in sort of a reflex way. much in the way that he was presbyterian and inherited an identity that he had not thought three very much, he had hesitations about the east coast of the united states, was anti-england, and gradually came to go from disliking franklin roosevelt to actively hating him and that combination of isolationism and being anti-roosevelt shaped much of his policies around the paper but at the same time, he was just interested in putting out a good paper. so he hired good people and pretty much let them run the stories they thought needed to be told. peter: one of those

who was robert mccormick?rmick was the owner and publisher of the chicago tribune in the years between the two world wars. he was an artillery officer in world war i, had inherited the paper from his father, and he was a newspaperman to the core. peter: how would you describe his work? pamela: he was fascinated by world politics. he was fascinated by the military. he also was an isolationist. he was antisemitic in sort of a reflex way. much in the way that he was presbyterian and inherited an identity that he had not thought three very much, he had hesitations about the east coast of the united states, was anti-england, and gradually came to go from disliking franklin roosevelt to actively hating him and that combination of isolationism and being anti-roosevelt shaped much of his policies around the paper but at the same time, he was just interested in putting out a good paper. so he hired good people and pretty much let them run the stories they thought needed to be told. peter: one of those people was sigrid

i was going to say what was her relationship with robert mccormick? >> it was complicated.th just about everything. but, she also saw the tribune as family. at some level colonel mccormick was one of that many complicated father fixtures she found throughout her life. but they really did disagree with just aboutth everything. but he never featured her work he never tried to control what she wrote. if he did not agree sometimes they would go further back in the paper sometimes important stories about the rise would for instanceld be on the entertainmt page with a piece about mae west instead of on the front. it was a complicated relationship but she admired him tremendously. >> affect your book the dragon from chicago.oo a more daring in her private report t robert mccormick what sheet mail from outside germany or entrusted to friends. then she was in her pblem stories or publication put those reports she shared wthe thought aboutitr and the nazis in addition to what she could prove she often referd sarcastically to the darling darling nazisnd the darling ss. particularly wh

mccormick is leading democratic incumbent bob casey by half a%. it's the threshold for an automatic recount. tally for everybody. roberte mccormick at 48.93. significant difference but it is within 5%. the thing about bob casey has been a senator for a long time. when they first started this race the approval rating was pretty low. is this the hardest thing he has ever fought which will be a losing battle? >> if he fought this hard for the 18 years in senate he would have won re-election. it will cost the taxpayers a million dollars. this entire thing is a scam to raise money. it will go until november 27th pumping out fundraising emails and text messages saying bob casey needs your help. it is over. they will stretch it as long as they can. the casey name goes back to the 90s. he was a legend in pennsylvania politics. they will milk this as long as they can. >> bill: mccormick saying it is insur mountable. i might be right. you work and live in philadelphia. i don't know what the city is like by now but we've been reporting on it since the pandemic. new york is a mess. the city has gotten dirty. getting off the subway

roberts. the race for dave mccormick. chuck schumer invited him to washington for orientation.ocratic senator bob casey has refused to concede and help taxpayers around the hook for $1 million to have every ballot that was eligible recounted and a few that apparently worked. >> sandra: the new senate majority writing "this is a blatant attempt by the democrats to violate the rule of law firm for over a week it has been clear that dave mccormick won the election. senator casey needs to concede. he will join with his reaction in moments. >> we began with alexis mcadams live in our new york city newsroom. >> most people at home that are watching about this thing wrapped up days ago. democrats and some election boards are breaking the law and admitting it to overturn the results in the senate race in pennsylvania counting relatives that do not have the required signatures or the right dates but say people break the law all the time. >> mostly because i think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country and people violate laws anytime they want. for m

mccormick. let's go to michigan. our polls literally have mike roberts tied.n as you mentioned, i can tell you that our latest polls have wisconsin tied. every one of our great candidates in those blue wall states, we see them as a dead heat tie. it will all come down to who shows up to vote on tuesday. >> nebraska looking like deb fishers race getting a little bit closer. arizona, it looks like kari lake is not particularly strong. jackie rosen leads sam brown by nine points here in nevada. is there a possibility here, i don't want to say he will lose nebraska, it may be closer than you think. losing nevada and arizona. >> let me talk about that first. i just came back from las vegas late last night. we had a rally for sam brown. severely wounded by a terror attack. >> we lost the senator there. we've been having some problems. at this point a likely republican pickup, if the republicans were to be able to get seats in pennsylvania, ohio and michigan, that will give them 52 for the majority if they were to run the table it would be a bloodbath for the democra

republicans flipped another senate seat on thursday as thei candidate, dave mccormick, ousted three term incumbent democratic senator roberty junior in pennsylvania, ensuring that the gop will have at least a 53 state majority in the next congress. it comes after republicans flipped seats in montana, ohio, and west virginia, with senate races in nevada and arizona remaining. mr. mccormick benefited, talking about president-elect trump, the coattails of trump, 0.5%, narrowly 32,000 votes ahead of mr. casey when the associated press called the race with 99% of ballots counted if the final margin remains have of a point or less it will trigger a recount process, per state law. mr. casey did not concede the race after the call, his campaign spokeswoman mattie mcdaniel said in a statement that there are tens of thousands of ballots left to be counted, including provisional, military, overseas, and mail-in ballots in the race should not be called until those votes have been tallied. 25 minutes left in this morning's "washington journal," alex, independent line, good morning. caller: thanks for taking my call. i just wanted to st

robert as land senior vice president of policy, business council of canada. george chris status, interim president, canadian nuclear association. and brian mccormick, partner of equinox global solutions, co-founder in the united coalition for advanced nuclear power and former chief of staff, department. thank you all for joining me today. we would like to start out, we talked backstage to give each of you five minutes to kind of present your opening and how you view things, and then we will have a robust discussion. so, robert, to you. >> thank you, everyone. i will make three broad points to start out with. the first is, i really believe economic security, energy security is kind of the burning platform for u.s.-canada right now. people really need to understand how powerful that platform can be. i think in this world of geopolitical change, u.s.-china rivalry, europe being in the position it is, i cannot stress how important it is that we think in those terms. so, economic security, energy security is really key. the second point i would like to make is this is also a growth /productivity/innovation/opportu nity for both countries. as our previo

that i see between the two of you, robert cahaley is in michigan where you have donald trump winning their and matt you have them down by wanted and pennsylvania mccormickp by one and matt you have mccormick down by one. what you make of the difference. >> two completely different methods of doing this. a lot of the time were very close almost exactly the same numbers but it does matter, how you put together models and what do you think and worst-case best case scenario and how the weightiness. it's easy for two different people to differ, both be accurate because the fact is any given night the sample could be different. who you get and what else is going on it's completely reasonable but what we find we don't end up far apart usually so these again our margin of error differences. >> let's take into account the shortfall if you will in early voting for kamala harris and the surgeon republican early voting because there is a dramatic difference from all past presidential elections this is never happened before. lara trump adjust lower propensity going on higher numbers and are republicans cannibalizing election day votes or do you think that they are b

mccormick filed a lawsuit during a primary and dated ballots should be counted. arthel: madeleine rivera thank you. eric: president trump is a pick to head the health and human service agency, robertromises to make america healthy again but mr. kennedy's under a lot of criticism. supporters that he will revamp the health system to address problems like he calls chronic disease epidemics, processed foods and obesity. others say kennedy is unqualified to run the agency pointing to inspecting skepticism, embracing what they say are conspiracy theories and cutting research. former acting dir director of te centers for disease control. >> i am outraged because lives are at stake here. the head of health and human services touches the programs that affect every single life in our country. i have been focusing mainly on the public health impacts. i do have someone leading hhs it was one of the biggest deniers of vaccine and our country would undermine the confidence in that program and likely would cost lives. eric: what can we expect and will that happen? north carolina congressman greg murphy joins us. >> liked it nice to see you. eric: if you think mr. kennedy should be confirmed? >>

robert as land senior vice president of policy, business council of canada. george chris status, interim president, canadian nuclear association. and brian mccormick, partner of equinox global solutions, co-founder in the united coalition for advanced nuclear power and former chief of staff, department. thank you all for joining me today. we would like to start out, we talked backstage to give each of you five minutes to kind of present your opening and how you view things, and then we will have a robust discussion. so, robert, to you. >> thank you, everyone. i will make three broad points to start out with. the first is, i really believe economic security, energy security is kind of the burning platform for u.s.-canada right now. people really need to understand how powerful that platform can be. i think in this world of geopolitical change, u.s.-china rivalry, europe being in the position it is, i cannot stress how important it is that we think in those terms. so, economic security, energy security is really key. the second point i would like to make is this is also a growth /productivity/innovation/opportu nity for both countries. as our previo