foreign ministry quite a very long tenure. indeed, syria, of course though it remains a country, a deep, deep turmoil. how do you think he'll be remembered by my syrians? will he be missed? well, i think essentially syria is divided. those who support the regime or people in the regime value, his service, his own device, his loyalty to the regime and his loyalty to the party. and its loyalty to the assad family for such a long time. he served shimon peres country very well throughout this period. but for the opposition. and i would say for hopefully a day for more syrians than he was good with the regime. so if you are in the opposition and you are all those that regime, certainly he was a creature of the regime and definitely part and parcel of the also in theory and rule the family i don't excessively to that crime committed against the position to this very well, he was a creature of the regime but also very much a creature of washington as well. you could only, i will the international community remember him. indeed, you k

his health was not good when tenure of camp began. his health grew worse and worse, until they finally were forced to remove him. in his place, they put benjamin tracy. tracy was not on injured reserve. interesting man in his own right. one of those politician soldiers, that grant in sherman disliked. he was an assemblyman in new york before the war, lawyer, district attorney. to give him credit, he raised a regimen, served with a 109th in new york, and earn the medal of honor for his heroes him at the battle of the wilderness. he earned his strikes, but he was a politician through and through. it is clear that when they place him and amara, the war department knows who they are getting. he has a clear idea of what is expected of him. they want him to keep his head down, not put any noise, and be prepared to follow orders from the war department. this includes the cutting of russians twice during his tenure. despite the fact that food was abundant in the area. this is what has led to some suggesting that wet he had going on in elmira

his tenure on the commission has been unparalleled. his intimate knowledge of critical maintenance practices required to sustain the projects and policies approved by the commission guided his decisions, saving the city countless tax dollars. his thoughtful probing and perspective helped ensure projects meeting commission approval were conscientious,able and most of all sustainable. his calm, no nonsense approach has been appreciated by literally thousands of r.p.d. employees over the years. he start as advisor, counselor and sometimes con -- confidant during the challenging days. his legacy with r.p.d. and the commission will live on in the commitments and dedication employees today share for the realization of san francisco's park system stream. thank you for your service, dedication and friendship. and we didn't have time to read a thousand comments but i think that there are a thousand people in this organization that would say the same things about you, tom. again, 56 years of service and an organization that is only 150 years old

during his tenure. despite the fact that food was a bunted in the air around elmira. this led to some suggesting that what you had going on here, in elmira, was a union answer to the atrocities in andersonville. a concerted effort to punish confederate prisoners because of the treatment of union soldiers in andersonville. and the evidence definitely sustains this. as i told you before, they were housed intense. the prisoners were houston tents, in the beginning. so by october 1st we had 9000 prisoners in elmira, but you only had a small number of barracks. the first snow arrives in october, and you are still going to have hundreds of men intense, in january. when the final barracks getup. it's a man not in barracks are sleeping on the ground, on bare ground, largely unless they have some stronger something else to sleep on. every prisoner is given to blankets but of course we all know those of us who are from western new york, how cold it can get in elmira that time of the year. we know that by january 1st, there was a foot of snow standing on the ground. so these men

and he will have almost 3,000 of those to deal with during his tenure as the caretaker. another interesting figure in all of this is eugene sanger. he does not arrive until at least six weeks into the existence of this camp. they're operating on local physicians at the start. but sanger is sent to become the chief surgeon, native of maine, went to dartmouth college before going to school -- medical school in philadelphia. he was not a man that was really well respected in elmira. especially among the prisoners. anthony kylie one of the more predominant of the prisoners who wrote a memoir said he especially hated sanger and accused him of murdering the prisoners. he called him a little man with snakey eyes. kylie himself had much to say about his incarceration. he'll be there from july until october. he's worth mentioning because he's not the ordinary prison. when you look at the ranks of the prisoners in elmira, these are your foot soldiers from lee's army largely. almost no officers. and kylie actually was a civilian when he was caught near petersburg. he was called out

to begin i want to thank you for the support and assistance you provided the sec during my tenure. i have enjoyed the thoughtful it candidate engagement and you have provided adequate and additional resources to help us expand and modernize our investor-oriented efforts. i wish circumstances would have allowed us to get together in person and i hope to reach out to all of you bilaterally in the time i have left. working alongside the dedicated women and men of the commission has been the privilege of a lifetime. i am honored to call them colleagues and friends and i could be proud of the work they have done each and every day on behalf of investors, especially this year in the face of incredible professional and personal challenges. their dedication combined with a strong, time tested and flexible regulatory framework allowed the sec to respond quickly to the and otheronomic, unexpected challenges we faced this year. i am pleased to report that while the pandemic significantly impacted how we did our work, and did not impact the work itself. with respect to covid-19 the sec respond

what does that mean as far as readership elections in nancy pelosi's tenure as house speaker? >> she said before she wanted to serve one more term. she could have one more shot to do the thing she does best which is passing legislation. i don't know if anyone is going to bother to challenge her. if they do, they will lose. her hold on the democratic caucus and the house of representatives is absolutely secure. i don't think there's any concern about that. in terms of the losses the democrats suffered, we have seen some sniping between the progressives and the centrist and the party. some of the centrist members are saying it's because they were saddled with these things the progressive members said so that the fact that the representative from seattle, she calls herself a socialist and therefore that would be a problem for a democratic member of congress running an election 3000 miles away. the trouble with that is that if you look at who lost among the democrats in the house this year , almost all of them are people you absolutely would have expected to lose. you take a membe

you know, we know that by the end of his tenure, we can say that obama was even in chanted by the german chancellor. he was not in chanted by the french president sarkozy. this is what he writes about him. what sarkozy lacked in ideological consistency. he made up for in boldness, charm and manic energy. indeed, conversations with sarkozy or by turns amusing and exasperating his hands in perpetual motion. his chest thrust out like a bantam cox. his primary barely disguised interest was to be at the center of the action and take credit for whatever it was that might be worth taking credit for. as much as i appreciated the fact that sort cozy had embrace my campaign early on. it wasn't hard to tell which of the 2 european leaders would prove to be the more reliable partner. and jeff obama is calling the french president there a fair weather friend. that's not the nicest compliment you can give someone. can you tell us? is that how the state department viewed sarkozy at the time? well, i don't think we would look at it that way. i think, you know, like many other french presidents. and inde

it's a little late in this session under your tenure that would create guardrails and prevent these kinds of failures and abuses. i think your comments were appropriate. we allow companies to still do -- they have to provide real transparency which they don't always. have to reward workers not just shareholders. senator brown: i'll close with a statement. we saw earlier this year the pandemic crashing our families, hospitals, and the economy. how the market seized the up. the s.e.c.'s recent report on interconnectedness in the market offers insights but no real policy recommendations. i know that you and vice chair and represent duty pute secretary money market reforms were not good enough. it is clear your successor, the next banking regulators will need to reduce risk from interconnectedness and excessive leverage. the economy may in the future will depend on it. thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator too manyy. senator toomey: chairman clayton. welcome back on what i gather is your final appearance before our committee. let me just take a moment to say i really appreciate the excellent wo

left and their agenda during his tenure as a official and senior party member. well, we can't verify any of the claims we have invited. the w.h.o. directed rahsaan, we invite him on again. and of course there is a news blackout into gray at the moment bonanza like a thank you. and them in the like as we need to be earlier than to finish or will be back on saturday, 20 years to the day, the florida supreme court granted you have democratic presidential candidate al gore's request to keep the presidential recounts going after the votes were contested, in the 2000 u.s. election, despite the recounts later being dubbed unconstitutional, does paving the way for iraq war architect george w. bush to take the white house until then you can join the underground by following up on you tube twitter, facebook, instagram, sound i was always on the ball, but i used to show big city bright lights, you jump but you know, g.'s and many dangers to blow the lid to. it's also a city where up to $300000.00 crimes are committed every year. all the last one, but it will be the new mos

during a hearing on capitol hill 2017, a tenured professor, princeton, i would assume a pretty smart guy explained how fraudulent software could be used to seriously alter elections. just two short years ago, take a look. >> each voting machine is a computer running a computer program. whether that computer counts the votes accurately or makes mistakes or cheats by shifting votes from one candidate to another depends on what software is installed in the computer. installing software is how you hack a voting machine to cheat. i wrote a vote stealing program that shifts votes, it takes 7 minutes per machine with a screwdriver. the software i built was not rocket science, any computer programmer could write the same code. it could steal elections without detection for years to come. >> sean: by saying this happened with dominion -- how would i possibly know? we do know that there have been so many warnings "the new york times," the associated press, congressional hearings, you have the attorney general and secretary of state of texas twice last year projectin rejecting the sya princeton

during his tenure as official and senior party member, well, we can't verify any of the claims we have invited. the w.h.o. directed rahsaan. we invite him on again. and of course, there is a news blackout into gray at the moment in amman's, and i can thank you and them in the lack of speaking to me earlier. and that to finish here will be back on saturday, 20 years to the day. the florida supreme court granted you has democratic presidential candidate al gore's request to keep the presidential recounts going after the votes were contested in the 2000 u.s. election. despite the recounts later being dubbed unconstitutional, thus paving the way for iraq war architect george w. bush to take the white house until then you can join the underground by following up on you tube, twitter. facebook, instagram assange. during the vietnam war, u.s. forces also bombs neighboring laos. it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know until our sell, my skin is officially the must have rebounded country per capita in all human history. millions of unexploded bombs still in danger li

you know, we know that by the end of his tenure, we can say that obama was even enchanted by the german chancellor. he was not in chanted by the french president sarkozy. this is what he writes about him. what sarkozy lacked in ideological consistency. he made up for in boldness, charm and manic energy. indeed, conversations with sarkozy or by turns amusing and exasperating his hands in perpetual motion. his chest thrust out like a bantam cox. his primary barely disguised interest was to be at the center of the action and take credit for whatever it was that might be worth taking credit for. as much as i appreciated the fact that sort cozy had embrace my campaign early on. it wasn't hard to tell which of the 2 european leaders would prove to be the more reliable partner jeff obama is calling the french president there a fair weather friend. that's not the nicest compliment you can give someone. can you tell us? is that how the state department viewed sarkozy at the time? well, i don't think we would look at it that way. i think, you know, like many other french presidents. and indeed, i

during his tenure as official and senior party member, well, we can't verify any of the claims we have invited. the w.h.o. directed rahsaan. we invite him on again. and of course, there is a news blackout into gray at the moment in amman's, and i can thank you and them in the like as we need to be earlier. and that to finish here will be back on saturday, 20 years to the day, the florida supreme court granted us democratic presidential candidate al gore's request to keep the presidential recounts going after the votes were contested in the 2000 u.s. election. despite the recounts later being dubbed unconstitutional paving, the way for iraq war architect george w. bush to take the white house until then you can join the underground by following up on you tube, twitter. facebook, instagram, a sample results of the u.s. election cycle. that surprised many, there was no blue wave in the g.o.p. winning is gains for all across the board. both parties have deep internal divisions, and the court is in both parties based populist challenges. this is the perfect recipe for a political deal like

throughout his tenure, he maintained close contacts with iran, meeting regularly with the leaders of that country. while him would also hit out at israel, at the united nations general assembly in 2017, he accused of supporting what he called terror gangs fighting against syrian interests. the speech also referenced the occupied golan heights and his government's desire to retake the territory. and in 2014, he had this exchange with then u.n. secretary general ban ki moon. and it was that a list of the prime minister. i'm sorry to tell you 1st, i was nervous for 20 minutes yourself. if you live in new york, i live in syria. i have the right to give the syrian version here in this forum. in recent years, the syrian government has relied on russia to push its case to the international community to turn the war in its favor. and throughout malam remained at the center of the syrian government's mission. so it's come on al-jazeera. protecting the dreamer's u.s. court ruling that could have big implications for undocumented migrants sport across the border as children. and the conflicts i

in your tenure at the c.i.a., intelligence cooperation was made stronger than other and enhanced the security of both of our countries. u.s. representatives at the u.n. and other international forums have defended israel with no apoll getics and no artificial correcttives. just defended israel and defended what is right and true. america has stood up to the per version of justice at the i.c.c. and i thank you for your personal involvement in all these things. everything that i said involves your personal contribution as well and u.s. rejected the assumptions about the legal status of israeli communities. thanks to your tremendous efforts to carry president trump's massive campaign. iran's feet have been held to the fire and seen a reduction in the amount of support they have given to their various proxies in the region. your 12 points set the standard for what iran needs to do if it wants to be treated like a normal country. those who claim that your 12 points are either unnecessary or unrealistic want to give iran a free pass, a free pass on iran atrocious human rights record and su

court with a nine membered life tenured court gets to decide what rights that are not mentioned in the constitution ought to have constitutional protection , we are really asking for it when comes to politicizing the court. this is a crown jewel of american government that got us through brown versus board of education. other important milestones in american history. there are going to be times and we need that court. we need the people to think of that as a political neutral court. so, that was the warning shot the canary in the coal mine. to me, you look at our last presidential election, by too many accounts to deny it turned enough americans treating a vote for president of the united states as a proxy to fill one seat in a nine member court. you spend the rest of your life you're reading about 1776. you are not going to find anyone that says the reason we break from england is to create a life tenured nine member court that can make the key decision in american society. that would have been laughable. we would have stayed with britain if that had been the plan. and you know, this

during a hearing on capitol hill, 2017, tenured professor at princeton, i assume you're pretty smart guy. to explain how fraudulent software could be used to seriously alter elections. just two short years ago. take a look. >> each voting machine is a computer running a computer program. whether the computer counts the votes accurately or makes mistakes or cheats by shifting one vote from a candidate to another depends on what software is installed in the computer. installing the software is how youli hack the machine to cheat. installing the vote stealing program and the machine takes 7 minutes per machine with a screwdriver. itte but the software i built ws not rocket science. any computeret program i could write the same code. once it is installed they could steal elections withoutit detection for years to come. >> sean: sang tonight this happen with dominion and the cycle, no, how would i possibly know? we dopo know that there have ben so many warnings in "the new york times," the associated price, congressional hearings. they twice last year rejected the system. the princeton te

court, of a nine-member life-tenured court gets to decide what rights that are not in the constitution ought to have constitutional protection, we are really asking for it when it comes to politicizing the court. and, you know, this is the crown jewel of american government, it's the kind of thing that got us through brown v. board of education, other important milestones, and there are going to be times when we need that court. we need people to think of that as an apolitical, neutral court. so that was the warning. that was a warning shot. the canary in the coal mine. and, you know, to me, you look at our last presidential election, you know, by too many accounts to deny it turned on enough americans treating a vote for president of the united states as a pox city to fill -- proxy to fill one seat on a nine-member court. and you could spend the rest of your life reading about 1776, and you're not going to find anybody the reason we break from england is so we can create a life-tenured, nine-member court that can make the key decisions in american society. that's, that would have been

one of the reasons why i arrived at my tenure as president and the focus on attracting investment to to correct this. we are in the process of doing so. we set ourselves a goal of attracting $100 billion into our economy in five years, and we are already more than halfway there. commitments are being made by companies and many of these commitments are actually being actualized, so attracting investment is an effort to vis-a-visnvestments our gdp, and i think we can turn things around quite significantly. but it also means that the itsic sector, throughout various entities, also needs to demonstrate its own confidence in the economy of our country, so the public sector investment had taper down, and we now want through thet and infrastructure play and through refocusing our state owned enterprises, we will be able to do so. and in tandem, we will also see the private sector getting to invest more. >> how confident are you that south africa can avoid a sovereign debt crisis? this is the risk that the finance minister highlighted. >> we have taken it upon ourselves to draw a line in the

our guest host in the last 30 minutes had said tenure paper take it down 2.65%.s the state of play on the markets. let's get the rest of the news from the u.k., england going into lockdown. the central bank set to announce a new round of stimulus. we will also hear from the chancellor addressing parliament. good morning. good morning, manus. that's right, this is the first day of lockdown and the boe is expected to ramp up their asset purchase program by about 10 billion pounds. that estimate set perhaps prior to the second lockdown announcement, so now estimates have moved higher for how much qe table and into the system. reporting yesterday could be as much as 200 billion pounds. really supporting them as well. the other thing to look out for in today's announcement is an update on the forecast. the prior forecasted assume a second lockdown. however, it was somewhat of an optimistic outlook for the gdp, so we could see a downgrade there as well as an extension on the length of time it will take the u.k. economy to recover from the lockdown. thank you so much, d

fill one seat on the nine-member court but in 1770 sexual not find anybody saying to create life tenured court that can make those decisions in american society. that would have been laughable and this is an pointing fingers it happens over time but to wake up and realize it's important for the court to be engaged in something the american people that is outside their own policy preferences and that's why justice scalia pushed for regionalism the people the representatives have these statutes were in the way they were written judges are supposed to do the best they can to honor compromises and leave it at that. and then to say they are free to change and then we do that democratically spirit there's a song we are in alabama called will fill their shoes? you may know it. >> actually i like neil young. [laughter] >> who will fill justice scalia's shoes? >> that such a great question and it's a really good answer. he and justice ginsburg are not in control, they did the best they could with her time on the court, you cannot deny how to handle the conflicts and it's time for somebody else th

going to do, but what she's not going to do because she worked closely with wall street during her tenure and what we will not see is tougher regulations on banks and on wall street. that's at least what the market is vetting on. and then i mean, she has a lot on her plate. we shouldn't forget that we have a huge debt crisis, even after we're leaving the pandemic, hopefully any time soon. and then we also have to wait and see what she can do because congress probably might remain as pretty split. but what wall street is really cheering, is that not a candidate like elizabeth warren, for instance, or would have been much tougher on wall street. got that pick, but presumably janet yellen will take over their helm and then on top of it, she also worked very closely during her time at the federal reserve, jerome powell, so the current head of the federal reserve. so that transition also should go pretty smoothly and well, wall street also likes it that they know what they're going to get. she certainly has experience. can't cut it. thank you very much. germany's benchmark docs index is set fo

you know, we know that by the end of his tenure, we could say that obama was even enchanted by the german chancellor. he was not in chanted by the french president sarkozy. this is what he writes about him. what sarkozy lacked in ideological consistency. he made up for in boldness, charm and manic energy. indeed, conversations with sarkozy or by turns amusing and exasperating his hands in perpetual motion. his chest thrust out like a bantam cox. his primary barely disguised interest was to be at the center of the action and take credit for whatever it was that might be worth taking credit for. as much as i appreciated the fact that sor cozy had embrace my campaign early on, it wasn't hard to tell which of the 2 european leaders would prove to be the more reliable partner. jeff obama is calling the french president there a fair weather friend. that's not the nicest compliment you can give someone. can you tell us? is that how the state department viewed sarkozy at the time? well, i don't think we would look at it that way. i think, you know, like many other french presidents, and indeed, i

you know, we know that by the end of his tenure, we can say that obama was even in chanted by the german chancellor. he was not in chanted by the french president sarkozy. this is what he writes about him. what sarkozy lacked in ideological consistency. he made up for in boldness, charm and manic energy. indeed, conversations with sarkozy or by turns amusing and exasperating his hands in perpetual motion. his chest thrust out like a bantam cox. his primary barely disguised interest was to be at the center of the action and take credit for whatever it was that might be worth taking credit for. as much as i appreciated the fact that sor cozy had embrace my campaign early on, it wasn't hard to tell which of the 2 european leaders would prove to be the more reliable partner. and jeff obama is calling the french president there a fair weather friend. that's not the nicest compliment you can give someone. can you tell us? is that how the state department viewed sarkozy at the time? well, i don't think we would look at it that way. i think, you know, like many other french presidents, and indee

if there is one word that has dominated donald trump's tenure, whether this is a new term or whetherm, it is division and he has made america and emotional social and political tinderbox and whatever the result is, you know that half the result is, you know that half the voting populationjust the result is, you know that half the voting population just will not wa nt the voting population just will not want to accept the result. he is such a highly divisive character and he has divided america and has divided the world in many ways, but interesting that the international perspective. it's not as much, my side of politics, i am much more on the progressive liberal side of politics and we have lamented what is happening. americans probably now in this moment in time, it will change in terms of the superpowers, but it is the most important political economic geopolitical country on the planet in this collection, all eyes of the rotor on the selection because thisjob is the selection because thisjob is the most important job the selection because thisjob is the most importantjob in globa

the tenure doesn't show any sign of slowing. what is the top technically?re we have a proving grounds. 10 year treasury yields are now decisively above their own moving average, backup into resistance from the june highs. this is a proving ground for many reasons, psychological being one of them. that 1% level a lotf folks are focused on, reasonably so. if we were to see a couple of strong weeks about that 1%, we would have a major reversal for 10 year treasury yields based on the downtrend going back to late 2018. that is something to watch very closely. obviously it would have implications for a lot of asset classes and sectors. alix: no kidding. it will be interesting to see what the revocations are for that. -- what the ramifications are for that. katie stockton, thank you. let's get to the fundamentals. coming up in the next hour, andrew sheets, morgan stanley chief process at strategist, will be joining us. haefele says it will be about small-cap where you get the pickup. we will see if andrew sheets agrees. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ guy: live from londo

a prince during tenured professor has been highly critical of these machines recently democrats have been highly critical, the ap has bee critical, maybe this is a dumb question, you tell me. why would we ever be using them in the first place this is the usa, the home of apple, the hom of microsoft, the home of silicon valley. are we saying we can't do bette than this? of course tonight, serious issues around george's consent decree. two unequal verification standards on the voters in that state. put simply, a georgian to vote in person, they've got to provide id. however, if you live in georgia and vote by mail, you provide a signature that signature does not need to match the voter rolls, in fact, georgia while literally says it blocks county election officials from rejecting absentee ballots because of mismatched signatures . that makes sense. now why would the state of georgia actually put that into law? they have, how has that not unequal application of our laws? what does the state's republica governor, the state republican secretary of state, what are they doing to rectify the

and inpril 2020 the united states embarked on the 2020 census a tenure national count is mandated inhe united states constitution also counng people going back three millennia the census forms collected throughout the century are more than just numbers for those at the national archives the firs encounter is through census records to seek family connections and past. traces the remarkable history and then to show housing institution of housing on - - counting people how society changes and how it changes those as and an economist phd from the university of austin most recently worked the data group of the world bank and co- editor of the allis for sustainable development goals thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for the introduction it is wonderful to continue the series at the national archives because this is the second home of the united states census. the first is the census bureau itself to actually plan and run the census so to come up to date with where we are in 2020 and they just stopped around two weeks ago. now they will be checking and processing the data. in decem

most recently as chair of the federal reserve where she had a very successful tenure. international prominence which is good for secretary of the treasury. i would put her as the strongest candidate and leading candidate. but lael brainard would be great. courageous on some of the stances she's taken against the mainstream of the fed on deregulation they've been doing. she would be very strong as well. i would love it with all due respect to roger ferguson, i would love to see this become the first woman secretary of treasury as a former treasury official myself. fingers crossed for a woman. i would have to give the odds to janet yellen at this point. >> let me ask you about the role of the treasury secretary other than signing money. there are important things that the treasury secretary has to do in normal times but in this particular time where we've not had an extension of the relief bill and it's stuck in the republican controlled senate, the role we are seeing treasury secretary mnuchin play is he's in negotiations with nancy pelosi to come up with a deal. whethe

if you're keeping track, senators warren chemical bashar, biden -- wyden, tenured perfect shirt know my professor, state of texas, the ap, "the new york" people from all political persuasions surrounding dominion voting systems, hardly part of the vast right-wing conspiracy. if in a divided country like this one you have democrats, republicans, and the media, before the election, agreeing that this is not the best system, why was it used in the first place in 28 states? here is another question: don't you think we, the people, deserve better? don't we deserve better? and now, if you bring up dominion, you are conspiracy theorists from the biggest conspiracy theorist in washington, the media. how is that fair and right? whether the machines worked well in this election is yet to be determined, but why were they used in the first place is my question. what about the hundreds of sworn affidavits signed under penalty of perjury? are their stories not worthy of being heard? where are you, senator warren? senator scott be 21? no longer care about election irregularities, as long as you get

president, yesterday the president informed us that secretary mark esper's tenure leading the department of defense has concluded. when the president considered him, i said you could have better qualifications to run the pentagon than his i resume from west point to his time as secretary of the army, this leader has stepped up when his country needed him. the secretary brought integrity, expertise and steady leadership to the pentagon's top job. i'm great for the work and implementing the president's new national defense strategy to address the challenges of our time. a decorated combat veteran, he won the respect of our men and women of the armed forces. the country is grateful for his career of service. during this time of transition, i'm confident in the professionalism of the men and women of the department of defense, not to mention our uniformed services. we're lucky to have such capable and duty-focused men and women on the watch, defending the constitution, deterring our adversaries and protecting the peace. i expect to speak with acting secretary miller soon to discuss the serio

[laughter] so, i got tenure and i got to do these fun things. and so i started to piece together the history. and frederick muilenburg was the first speaker. although it was not nearly as sexy and exciting an election as nathaniel banks, they had to endure a multi-ballot contest to be elected speaker. it turns out that it used to be very common, not just the famous cases of nathaniel banks, a very common in the antebellum period to have multiple ballots for elections and have a real, honest-to-goodness fight. i will come back to that. then when i started -- coincidence -- benny haskert was speaker of the house when i started. if you were to fast-forward to the present, you would see quite a different story. you would see almost a kabuki theater set of performances upon the convening of every house of representatives every two years. where somebody leaving the majority party would nominate someone for speaker and someone from the minority party would nominate someone for speaker. there would be a vote and, surprise, surprise, all the d's would vo

i got tenure and i got to do these fun things. and so i started to piece together the history and frederick mullenburg was the first speaker. the first speaker had to endure a multiballot contest in order to be elected as the speaker. it turns out, it used to be very, very common, not just the famous cases of nathaniel banks but very common to have multiple ballots for elections and actually have real honest to goodness fights. i'll come back to that. then when i started, coincidence, denny hassert was speaker of the house when i started. when i started the project, if you were to fast forward to the present, you would see quite a different story. you would see almost a kabuki theater set of performances convening on the house of representatives every two years where somebody leading the majority party would in a moment someone for speaker and someone from the minority party would nominate someone for speaker. there would be a vote and surprise, surprise, all of the "d"s would vote for the "d" and all of the "r"s would vote for th

so i got tenure, and i got to do these fun things. and, i started to piece together, the history in project maduro was their first one. turns out although it wasn't nearly a 60 or exciting as an election as a dangle banks. nonetheless a very great speaker, had to endure a multi ballot contest to be elected. so it turns out that he used to be very very calm, not just a famous case of nathanael banks. very calm in the antebellum period to have multiple ballots for election, into have real fights. and i'll come back to that. and when i started, coincidence, the speaker of the house when i started this project in fast forward to the president. although maybe this might be -- for some maybe this would be more pleasant. but when i started the project if you were to fast forward to the president, he would see quite a different story. he would say almost a come bulky theater set on performances upon the convening of every house of representatives every two years. where somebody leading the majority party would nominate someone for speaker, an

biden for a long time, first working with him as a senator in the late 1980s and later during his tenure as vice president. klain will be key to biden's coronavirus response with experience dealing with the 2014 ebola outbreak. trump appeared in public earlier wednesday for the first time since biden's victory speech. he visited arlington national cemetery for a ceremony commemorating veterans day. the normally outspoken president made no remarks, but on twitter he repeated unsubstantiated allegations of fraud, writing, "we will win." georgia's secretary of state says the key battleground is launching a hand recount of all ballots. in michigan trump's campaign filed a federal lawsuit to try to block the state from certifying its ballots. at the same time "the washington post" is reporting that some of the president's closest aides have voiced concerns about a lack of evidence. >>> while the political wrangling continues, biden's win is already changing expectations on a range of international issues, including nuclear arms control. one american peace activist hopes that a biden administr

it was trump, after all, who fired flynn from his job just three weeks into his tenure as national security adviser after president obama explicitly warned trump about hiring him in the first place. and it was michael flynn specifically, trump's pressuring of fbi director james comey to, quote, let the flynn case go, that actually resulted in the appointment of the special counsel, robert mueller. today the white house announced that, quote, the president has pardoned general flynn because he should never have been prosecuted. but nothing could be further from the truth. it's important to remember what it was exactly that flynn did and why it was so problematic. remember, flynn came under fbi suspicious in the summer of 2016, right around the time that he was encouraging "lock her up" chants at the republican national convention, and the investigation was part of the fbi's look into the russian hack of the democratic national committee. flynn was scrutinized early on by the fbi because of his coziness with the russian regime, including a trip to russia where he sat alongside vladimir putin.

throughout his tenure, governor hogan has ranked one of the most popular governors in america. usually in the top two. rehe minded me -- he reminded me before-hand number one. and one poll gave him a 75% approval rating. state that just voted for joe biden almost 2-1. numbers most politics -- politicians dream of. not like governor hogan hasn't had an easy go of it. e led through the death of freddie gray, to polarizing issues in the state legislature to the covid-19 pandemic. the people of maryland have come to rely on his steady stewardship. at the same time he's faced extraordinary personal challenge. and defeating cancer during his first term. the i believe is anniversary five years since he's been given a clean bill of health. yet, here today, he's still standing which, of course, is the very fitting title of his recent memoir. now, there are a lot of great stories in this book. life to tical legislative fights. but personal antidotes can really be the best. like the story of his first lunch with the future first lady shared a waterside meal of salad and crab cakes and acc

was a purposeful political strategy on the part of president trump from the very beginning of his tenure. in fact, he was talking about the fake news media, the first use of the term enemy of the people for the media came in february of 2017 just weeks into the trump presidency. he has been running to erode the trust in the media as an independent source of facts, information, and analysis about him from the very beginning of his tenure. you have seen the republican party follow that attack in a very notable way. the same way that their views switched radically on russia and vladimir putin when donald trump essentially told them to. i think that's why people are so concerned regardless of what the outcome was, that win or lose, we have seen a large swath of americans, and remember even if trump loses something like 45% of the american public will still have supported him even after everything that has happened. so, you know, it's hard to imagine that we could just walk away and pretend this never happened. >> right. everybody please stay with me. coming up here, a hurricane of election d