so she had not finished the novel but he was interested. or at least to publish novel. and four months after her first inquiry, the book was published as part of the yellow paper cover series. in the advertising heavily in jar lying in august. including at that year among the best books for idle summer days. in a little bit of the site here. there is an entirely commercial motive for making this app. she admitted, and building again, and wanted in large sum of ready money. she needed the 600-dollar expense that he was offering. a final chapter in the book fire history. in summary, i really want to suggest. it's about the larger publishing industry since summer reading as well. this is june 1888 issue. and here they decided to go head-to-head with publishers weekly. a summer issue for the trades of the 1870s. it noted its entire june 1888 issue exclusively to the summer book market and some reading. for the christmas promotions but they haven't done it at this point for the summer. and you can see here on the cover, this very definite buildup of the audience for some rea

he then wrote four novels the first of which was the best novel about the war in vietnam, james webb, and annapolis graduate, going to be a leader and fighter and his scotch irish. he explained things i never knew, the scotch irish had been the backbone of american fighting forces ever since the revolution. in the civil war, both sides, both armies, the union army of the north and the confederate army had in the core of their ranks scotch irish. the scotch irish are people from scotland who then went to ireland, protestants, left ireland and many came to the united states. many were poor and but inexpensive land in the appalachians and all these years, they have remained those who were born fighting and they have fought -- anybody who has been in the armed services, southerners everywhere in the armed forces, that is scotch irish. the scotch irish's original source of country music. the scotch irish who also, usually when people are talking about rednecks. redneck is a term, and anachronistic term about which people forget the origins sort of like barking up the wrong tree. i can't te

in chicago is a great metropolis for this is the first novel, the first novel of a great metropolis. you see through her eyes and she knows nothing. that is my original i do idea and using a girl from sparta north carolina. which she has 900 folks. it's up in the blue ridge. a girl who has been raised by very strict mother. an evangelical christian you probably heard of evangelical christians. and she is very strict and very domineering. her father has been laid off or unemployed factory worker. [inaudible] it's in the shoe factory. and so, although there is a fast set there is. being fast and sparta in addition to things including chewing tobacco. also a lot of west virginia chewing tobacco. anyway. she is not a part of any of that. she in her mind, she wants to have life of mind at this great university which i called dupont. she represents innocence. i wanted to make her a plausible example of someone who knew nothing about what she was going to run into. the coed storm really meant. what being filed what it means, what feels like you're remain to have a guy up to the room heard w

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i thought i would write it novel about it. meaning that is a book about a christian minister who loses faith in about four generations they say how they deal with the christian faith or faith in general, faith and life. faith in themselves. so it is a little bit like abraham and isaac and isaac and jacob and jacob and joseph. meant to be that kind of parallel anyway, the beauty of the lilies christ is born across the city. christ wasn't born here. he was born way over there. somewhere else about christine hannity. it is part of the texture and feelings the distance. the something we embrace but most many of us, it is something far away. host: he is giving up three hours of his day. if you have an e-mail question, but to be at cspan.org. you're on, from new york . >> thank you. i've really enjoyed your work over the years . and i congratulate you on your achievements . by questions about some of your favorite authors. had a question about inventory influenced you with it all. second one, and wilson, not on your list. always rem

of novels. after that somehow they became colonials. the french holy right psychological novels. they don't get their hands dirty all this monkey. so grapes of wrath. certainly the red badge of courage by stephen lane. it was newspaperman to the day he died tragically young at the age of 28. and he died a blade from having slept in slaughter houses in order to get material. over and over again. to find out with the lives were really like. the first american novel to try to capture the big city. as an american phenomenon. both in chicago and in new york. i don't think anything he did later was up to the credible standards that particular work. sinclair lewis. his attempt to portray, a very strong american life. and he was so thorough as a reporter that even gave sermons during the summer from the pulpit of ministers who were away on vacation because he was well-known many. he hung around. younger and seminaries. great pieces of reporting. he was our prize winner. in literature. either. [inaudible]. thank you. o'hara. my brain is so full. [laughter]. magnificent book in terms of te

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novel. [laughter] he's trudging up to the fifth floor of some dip decrepit walkouts thinking about the fact that he has nothing, he has no power and it isn't a really interesting novel. that's because all that is left is what happened in the preceding two here's. they could never let anything like that happen. when they were to do this notorious school where parents what are th park the children ty didn't really want around, he went out there as a parent, pretending to be a pair and and ruled a son and he spent the day, soaked up the atmosphere and it provided an incredible beginning is enough nickleby. that's come forward in time to join steinback was our winner in literature. as essentially one for the novel the grapes of wrath hell did he happen to write that, his family was trapped in one of these labor camps in california and he went through hell and wrote about it, not at all. he had already written a novel that had been developed that he joined staff of the san francisco news so that

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back in washington relatives of other black people shot by police took the stage oh you know every novel memoir the inside right now. it's happening right now because we demand civil rights leader al sharpton cast martin luther king's legacy as one of unfinished business. is dream is still alive you might have killed the dream oh what u.k. killed the dri because truth crushed earth shall rise again. one clear theme was repeated over and over speakers encouraged everyone present to vote using the ballot box to make change happen to prevent us from voting the n.b.a. playoffs will version in florida on saturday off to the league and players reached an agreement on social justice concerns guidance have been halted for 3 days off that the milwaukee bucks refused to play in protest of the police shooting of jacob life in the hunt state sponsored action led to other sports to follow suit in great to a number of social justice initiatives including turning basketball a brain is into polling stations for the 2020 presidential election. all right let's take a look at some of the other stories maki

and that is what the novel addresses. >> host: did you speak to him? >> guest: no. >> host: so how do you then grasp from that story or any story you try to incorporate into your writing? >> guest: that story is our story. i was watching more than anything else a guy being interviewed, he had a complex here and there, two different housings, the policemen came and started going to children together so the children of the games at least play football together and may b maybe slowlyd of quirks and stuff out. one of the guys was asked as children were playing, what do you think about this. he said it's kind of amazing to me. the way that i'm used to the police, they grabbed me come up with me in handcuffs, beat me and throw me in jail. that's my relationship with the police, that's what that guy said, this is like a general knowledge. and not just among black people, chicanos, all the different people coming in a month poor white people in america. that the police become people who are trying to force you to fit inside an order that may not be conducive t

but no, not a historical novel. i take many liberties. i would not stick to the facts but larger american truth that's not bound by chronology and what actually happened but a different kind of connection that i can make and give to the reader with different historical episodes. >>host: did the rental plantation actually exist? did you visit these places in your research? >> the rental plantation where cora is raised and enslaved is my own creation. i had the latitude and from pop culture to have this idea of a plantation that's big with 100 slaves. when you could be one of three slaves on a small family farm or a midsize plantation or domestic slave in a townhouse in baltimore. and it goes from how plantations actually work but it service my artistic needs. in terms of visiting plantations to figure let's be a wheel writer to do some field research i went to new orleans with my wife and we took to plantation tours and i got on the tour bus. i was only the black person. [laughter] going north and the guide is giving - - feel that this is

>>host: you have a new novel coming out called 2034 novel of the next world war. this is a text message we received. i am a 33 year active duty officer why are more americans not as extremely concerned of the statues of granted washington and other historical figures that is definitely under attack by the left-wing. it t is. >> i disagree with most of what i heard i agree with a portion of it. first of all any statute anywhere should be torn down by a mob that is not appropriate we should have a national conversation, and we are beginning to which individuals from what period of history are re-examined as we look at the spectrum and the confederates generals and are more and roles to take up arms against united states of america but also to take up arms against their nation in defense of the system that includedut slavery and they don't pass muster to have statutes put up and where there are such statute and there are many around the country come it's time to have a commission as we come to the conclusion it's time to take them down and put them in a museum. they

for his latest novel, he traded his landmark white suit for a blue blazer. he set out for the nations institutes of higher learning. the result is satire of campus sex and party at a mythical ivy league campus. his new book is titled i am charlotte simmons. it features wolf first female protagonist. she is a scholarship girl from a tiny north carolina mountain town will tom wolf joins me in studio to talk about her and adventures on campus and perhaps give us a sense of his own adventures and he wrote this book. when you made the decision to go in to various college campuses, where you specifically focusing in your own mind on sexuality? or was it simply i want to find out what life is like on college campuses today? >> it is a bit of both. there were certain things i heard about colleges that even more because nothing was written about it. one was report there was a lot more effects on campuses and norms. i said to myself, why hasn't anybody written about this? it was odd because it's very titillating. there were a lot of reports about what was now called b

>> the novel was not. and not until john leonard read it and took it vent on - - to get very seriously and it wasn't whether he liked it. and with the judgment of his merit and i will always be grateful to him for that. i'm not clear but the category was in 1972 when the book was published if the category was african-american, blac african-american, black, afro-an , but what i do remember is that books written by black writers were given their own shelves just like women's books or detective stories it was unlikely for my book to be shelved alphabetically. which i so much desired. and then to that convenience customers did not appreciate it to say the same separation those were the days with the book of poetry by a black writer along with novel and a collection of essays by another black writer were reviewed together in one article and the reviewer who was white could and did decide which of those three separate genres and i recall actually choosing and insisting they appear in separate seasons to avoid th

>> host: any good novel. >> guest: doesn't have to be a great novel or a very good novel but any good novel that talks about any character has to talk about how that character is anchored in society and the culture and the politics. if you don't do that it is not, you don't have a real character so it seems to me that everybody does that. what is different is not a lot of people were doing it with black mail heroes. becomes a strong social commentary not necessarily because that was my intention but i was the only person doing it for a while. >> host: a review of your book, for once a black man's feelings are honestly expressed in traditional detective literary form. >> host: >> guest: that is true, the traditional form and a black character. i am not trying to take anything from either of those things because otherwise the people i am representing, that is one thing i don't want to do. >> host: did you aim to create this as a series? >> guest: not necessarily but i had written another book called gone fishing. they were younger coming of age and the swampland. all the publishers said

this is the first american novel of a great metropolis. and that was my original idea using a girl from sparta, north carolina, which exists, 900 folks, only town in allegheny county up in the blue ridge. a girl raised by a very strict mother, evangelical christian, you've probably heard of evangelical christians and she's very strict and domineering. her father is a laid off factory worker, last in the tom mccann shoe factory, machine. although there's a fast set in sparta, north carolina, at the high school, there is and being fast in sparta in additional things, includes chewing tobacco. also a lot of west virginia, a lot of chewing tobacco. anyway, but she's not a part of any of that. so she in her mind is going to want to live-- she wants to live a life of the mind at this great university which i call dupont. she represents innocence. i wanted to make her a plausible example of somebody who knew nothing about what she was going to run into, what the co-ed dorm really meant. what being sexiled so your roommate could have someone up to

a novel of the next world war. this is a text message we received for you admiral. >> i am a 33 year active duty officer, why are more americans not extremely concerned about american statues grants, washington, other great u.s. historical figures are being gleefully taken down our history is definitely under attack by the left wing, it simply is. thoughts? >> i disagree with the most of what i just heard. although i agree with a portion of it so let me try to un- package that. first of all i do not believe any statue anywhere ever should be torn down by a mob. that is just not in my view appropriate. we ought to have a national conversation and we are beginning to about which statues of what individual from what. if history are being re-examined and for my money as i look at the spectrum i would say for example the confederate generals and admirals who took up arms against the of knighted states of america, therefore were by definition traders not only to their oath, to support and defend the constitution of the u

i said yes i'm i can write a novel, i know how to write a novel. he said all right, give me an outline and give me a chapter of this. i said admiral you're a great guy, you're a great writer, you're not a novelist. i was crushed but scott said i have an idea, i'm no novelist, elliott himself was with the national book award with his second novel in elliott has a new novel out which i recommend is called red dress and black and white about a love triangle in instant bowl. so scott said how about you and elliott take your idea about a novel and a world war with china and collaborate. so i would do the outline, the big idea with the politics and strategy in the war fighting in the technology and someone who is a good novelist. and then pre-people and make a character of ally, i think it is a nice mix as it came out in the sneak peek is the subtitle which is 2034, that is the year, it set roughly 15 years from now, 2034, a novel of the next world war, it's a story about how the united states were in fact stumble into a real war, shooting war with china

and often i hate when i come to the end of one of your novels or a dickens novel or something james baldwin has written because then i have to leave that beautiful world that you opened up. my question has to do with your self and james baldwin, both of you write fiction and nonfiction. i was wondering if the process of writing fiction is different from the process of writing nonfiction and if so, how do they differ? >> thank you. >> i don't know what it was like for him, james baldwin wrote plays and novels and poetry and did really marvelous essays. i think i explained earlier for another question that for me the difference is i can't write when i teach because teaching is very analytical you're taking something apart, shaping it, trying to persuade or at least open up something in an essay where you can bet somebody that this is probably Ãbfiction writing for me is open to surprise, i want to be available for wilderness in a way that i'm not what i do an essay. it's looser. it's freer. i can range wider. the actual writing of it i have to pull all those things together and make it work

this is a novel virus. there wasn't a test and this president led the way in getting emergency use authorization to, one, identify working tests, and surge the testing capacity by 32,000% since march 12. that's thanks to the president. reporter: the president has argued that the united states should receive money in return for potential sale. wasn't explained how. under what authority could the treasury collect these from china, microsoft, or anyone else to get this done as the president demanded? press secretary mcenany: i'm not going to get ahead of the president on any official action. he has made that point. and he both secretary pompeo have said that the u.s. will take action in the coming days on chinese apps including tick tock due to the national security risk and we all agree there needs to be a change, especially with tick tock -- tiktok. i won't get ahead of the president on what those actions look like. reporter: also on tiktok, beijing has said it may hit u.s. firms. what do you say to that in

he is credited with the birth of new journalism at the desk of the american novel by some. he's the mark twain of our time. how lucky are we to have a moment in time with him. and what better way to start the conversation, i'm glad to get them to come to the stage than a published author in his own right. and a man whose name is synonymous with leadership of our own former mayor. manny diaz, let me turn over to you. hopefully we can talk is supposed t [applause] >> good evening, everybody. let's get started. you chose wall street on the upper sinus your setting and the man in full, you chose atlanta but then i brought my control you wrote about college today, a fictional college. many believed especially since your daughter graduated -- my question is, and i think that's what all the fuss want to know is why am i here, how did you choose. if you write a book on immigration. this is still i was working on my last book and people would say what do you want to work on next. and i would say i'm going to do something with immigration and it was always the same response. that's i

he is credited with the birth of new journalism and the death of the american novel by some. he is the mark twain of our time. how lucky are we to have a moment in time with him and what better way to start this conversation and with a published author in his own right and a man whose name is synonymous with leadership, our own former mayor, manuel diaz. let me turn it to you. hopefully get him up here and tom wolfe. [applause] >> good evening, let's get you started. in "the bonfire of the vanities" you showed wall street and the upper east side, then you wrote about college sports in a fictional college, your daughter intended to graduate, the question all of us want to know is how did you come to choose miami as the backdrop and what is the price? >> my first purpose is to write -- people would say what are you going to work on next? something on immigration, always the same response. they go to sleep standing up like a horse but i thought it was a subject when people get in but they do. my first choice was the vietnamese in california, there in huge numbers migrating from

is credited with the birth of journalism and the death of the american novel by some. he is the mark twain of our time. how lucky are we to have a moment in time with him and what better way to start this conversation if i can get them to come to the stage than with a published author in his own right and a man whose name is synonymous with leadership our own former mayor. manny diaz let me turn to you. hopefully we can get him up here and tom wolfe. [applause] [applause] enacted evening everybody. let's get this started. you have chosen wall street in the upper east side as your setting. and then he wrote about college sports and the fictional column. many believed it was duped especially since her daughter graduated from duke. my question is, think is why he miami? how did you come to choose the as the backdrop and what surprised you the most about it? >> first i wanted to write a book on immigration. i was still working on my last book and people would say what he going to work on next next and i'd say well i'm going to do something on immigration and always the sam

coronavirus -- wuhan novel coronavirus threat to citizens. it was the first threat of what was to be come just become a global pandemic. hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. the minister lady blackwood tried to reassure. >> the wrist the u.k. is currently low. the u.k. is well prepared for the novel virus. >> the health secretary came to a comments before social distancing restricted numbers, to tell mps that england chief medical officer had revised the risk to the u.k. population from very low to low. there was an increased likelihood that cases may rise in this country, we are well prepared and well-equipped to deal with them. the u.k. is one of the first countries to have developed a test for the new coronavirus. >> the world health organization has warned that countries are ready for a pandemic. there has been a significant spread of the virus. in particular and other cases have been identified and austria, croatia and switzerland. it is very, very seriously -- serious. >>'s updates became a regular feature of comments life as the v

i think in the novel she bosses everybody around she also bosses me around. "must i go" from the novel i must not so she actually insists that i come back to write her story >> seth: that is very nice when characters have that pull on the creator. i think that then shows up on the page >> yeah. >> seth: there are two books i've read that you reread every year those books are "war and peace" and "moby dick." can you talk about what you get from rereading those two classic works of literature? >> yes so i read those novels, you know, six months of "moby dick," six months of "war and peace" a year, every year so "war and peace" is the most realistic fiction. you know, the epitome of realism. and "moby dick" is the opposite. it's all metaphorical writing. so i enjoy just going from realistic setting to metaphorical setting and back and forth just so my life has that good rhythm >> seth: i read "war and peace" in college and i never would have read it, except it was assigned and we had the most wonderful teacher, professor weil and you have actually shared the exp

there is a wonderful mom and, you have two dramatic climaxes in this novel one of which, the u.s. navy sent a gunship to beaver island which is amazing which proceeded to the true ending and is really good. the tragic story in the end, one little mom and talking about this figure who is sailing, going to beaver island, the warship closed in on a small channel between late here on -- lake here on, to see the forest and shores of michigan were conifers sword high into the air, rivaling it with their fresh red smell. i underline that moment because it is exemplary of what distinguishes the narrative history you are doing here, the literary story from some scholarly history though it reminded me of the historical imagination. needing to imagine yourself in this moment. when you talk about the methods, how did you go about getting the sense of place and detail. >> first of all it is tricky to talk about this, not completely but one of the exceptions in the last 40 years, i don't want to get slapped upside the head by some of my colleagues but academic historians have pushed back on the

outraged and, one of the things that my great great grandmother did later and her life were to write cabin novels.

and another immigrant to this country all the aggression of a debut novel is featured in our continuing series $100.00 german mystery. and t.v. was determined that this is via maze would go ahead despite the obvious restrictions at various venues in new york on sunday night's kept secret so fans didn't congregate by m.t.v. achieved a really unique show lots of life performances no law you've already insist on with 2 extra special awards created because of the corona pandemic of talk about them a bowl in a minute but 1st the show beginning with this year's big winner and how fabulous costumes. tell. me. lady gaga out with ariana grande's lady gaga our. lady ga ga dominated the evening taking home 5 major awards the queen of pop finally back on stage this has not been an easy year for a lot of people but when i see in the world is a massive triumph of courage stays safe speak your mind and i might sound like a broken record but wear a mask if the center of. the sea is caught up in the woods did deliver but it was something of the species spectacle we'd see us of coming. to the audience me

i saw my good friend mary higgins clark and told her that and she suggested that i write a novel and said it would be very easy and said pick up plot and narrow the ending and work back she told me when her characters talk to her she won't let her say something that she knows that she is on the right track and says if they tell her i wouldn't do that are say that it sounded easy so i set forth to write a mystery novel and made up a rather interesting plot centering around two female roommates a flight attendant and the secret service agent who never stayed in town long enough to me any attractive eligible men. they decided to get in touch with an escort bureau, a dating service all of the men ended up dead i knew the killer and it worked my way back but why had one huge problem my characters never said one word to me. [laughter] i spent hours waiting. nothing and besides that my conversations were stiff and awkward and boring so i decided to leave the imagination for the real writers and stick to what i knew. after all life did not stop after the white house the last ten years are fi

and it was as a creative thesis that i wrote my first novel. she helped me whip that into shape and i used that to get an agent, had 100 rejections, but i kept writing. that's what you do when you're a writer and my agent signed me on the strength of that book, but sold the book i was writing during that period "songs of the humpback whale", and no one red the other. >> host: kathy from monroe, michigan. thank you for holding. you're on with jodi picoult. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. hi, jodi. >> guest: hi. >> caller: i am so glad to have known that were you going to be on today and that i am watching this show. >> guest: yay. >> caller: i know it. i have read most all of your books. but seeing and listening to you today i am-- i just have to tell you, i am so impressed with you in that you're beautiful, you're incredibly bright, not that i thought you were stupid before, but-- . [laughter] >> you are a real thinker. you're well-spoken and i just quickly have to tell you before i ask you my question, one of my girlfriends and i each

newsline from girlie and lxi novell me arrives in germany for emergency medical treatment doctors at a talk clinic here in pearl green are standing by for the russian opposition leader minutes after his plane touched down the kremlin critic fell unconscious 2 dimes ago after drinking what he supporters believe was poisoned. also coming up the political crisis in bellary state pens as the authorities cracked down on government opponents protesters in the capital minsk form a china of solidarity and the u.s. and is demanding the release of all political prisoners. plus thousands flee some of the biggest wildfires ever to hit california the places were sparked by lightning strikes in the state's governor is blaming climate change. i'm jared reed it's great to have you read this russian opposition leader alexei no valmy has arrived in germany for medical treatment following a suspected poisoning a plane carrying a valid need took off earlier on saturday morning from inside syria before that an ambulance brought the russian opposition politician from the hospital he'd been in the care of

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they also say they found no sign that novell knew it was poisoned the solution so far in the research that has been done no poison has been identified. it's a statement likely to infuriate these team who believe he was poisoned while drinking tea at an airport cafe. wife is frustrated she hasn't been allowed to visit her husband and says she doesn't trust the medics i knew we believe that the doctors that deliberately delaying so that the chemical substance in my house spent alexei's metabolism has time to disappear that's why they won't let him leave the hospital aleksei its health situation is probably very bad so we don't believe the doctors in this hospital and we demand that they have my husband over the whole world know it. so was the old wasn't he poisoned what's known as that felt suddenly ill on a flight from siberia to moscow to various passages caps at the incident on their mobile phones some show a screaming and pain the plane made an emergency landing and medics rushed him to the hospital he is now not allowed to leave. alexei navalny as one of president putin staunchest

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and jared reed it's great to have you with us russian opposition leader alexei novell name is in a barrel in hospital this hour receiving treatment following a suspected poisoning after landing at the airport on a flight from siberia chartered by a barely an ngo he was taken in a convoy to the shop they take a hospital one of germany's top clinics the transfer took place under heavy security after to. war between russian doctors and novell needs wife and supporters fearing for his life collapsed and lost consciousness after drinking tea 2 days ago supporters say they believe he was deliberately poisoned. and d.-w. reporter julia soldierly is outside the hospital where. is being treated hi there julia bring us up to speed please on the valley's condition and what's expected to happen now what we've been told is that his condition is stable after the flight but he remained serious he was transported to the hospital in that military intensive care ambulance that you see behind me and he has now been brought inside and he will be looked after by the doctors who will have to try to establish w

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. >>> a city in west japan has come up with a novel way to lighten the mood in the face of the coronavirus. it's handing out colorful lanterns to brighten the streets after its famous festival was canceled. one million tourists usually flock to fukushima to highlight the festival, but the event was canceled this year to stop the spread of the coronavirus. instead, organizers are giving out paper lanterns so people can decorate the city. this shop has hung 20 of them. >> translator: it will be good if people could feel a little more cheerful. >>> well, high school baseball players in japan have started a series of friendly matches in the western part of the country. it's a replacement for the annual tournament that is one of the country's most popular sporting events. the baseball matchup was canceled this year due to the coronavirus outbreak. the 32 teams chosen for the spring tournament will play a game each in the series. to prevent the spread of the virus, the opening ceremony on monday did not include the usual march of the players into the stadium. only the teams playing in the openin

the report there they say that they're undergoing really very very extensive diagnostic tests on mr novell need to try and find out what happened and of course to try and see about how to treat him best. and it was this is a complex matter so we were expecting an update today that hasn't happened yet because we're close contact with the hospital also with the team but you can understand that they're going to want to get it right they're going to be thinking about their words very carefully because it is politically potentially explosive to say to come out and say potentially that the evidence points in the direction of. security of our people seriously expecting another attempt on his life. yeah i mean as we heard from stephens i'm a medical spokes person there of course you know there are pretty concrete reasons to think about this security when we are talking about somebody who may have had an attempt on his life someone seems to want him dead and why couldn't that happen here in berlin and if that just sounds a little bit like something out of a spy novel well consider this right now ru

>> it is a novel claim to make. african-americans often complain i cannot speak for all black people they are often asked by whites to represent their tribe. i am not a tribal representative. but i am telling a story. >> after the death of george floyd and breanna taylor that you got some resistance to the resistance white supremacy rises and falls again and defined by those traumas inflicted by the past. it is part of a reckoning that much of your work seems to ask us to do. talk about that and why you think it's important for whites to understand, and you do this brilliantly in "the new york times" piece for you invoked the poet i will let you save it you were trying to say that my klansman is not the same or the slave patrol is not the same but there is a certain entitlement attitude. can you talk about that why they are implicated from the traumas of the past? >> the more we acknowledge the experiences of our predecessors the better off we are and honest we are about current circumstances. and the experience of

well we expect a novel need to land in berlin in around 45 minutes time he is being brought here because obviously the shah is a very renowned hospital worldwide but also because as we heard it has already treated a similar case. came here 2 years ago also after a suspected poisoning and he was brought to full health again and these family want to see that for him too they also want to see an independent investigation carried out into what might be the cause of his ill health and they expect that to happen here in berlin ok so an investigation as to the cause what do we know about the specific condition of alexina valmy at the moment. what we know is that he is in a coma we've seen pictures of him being carried into the airplane in a covered gurney an enclosed gurney he is certainly stable enough to fly but his family spokesperson is saying that obviously it's not just a trip for him to get better but it is a trip to save his life so his condition is still serious it appears ok so still in a serious condition i guess we should make it clear that it is that the german government is bringi

this novel virus. the vaccine, again, moving into phase three clinical trials at the fastest rate for any novel virus in history. this could only be accomplished by president trump, by a businessman of the white house who is not only on the race to get a vaccine, we have two coding phase three clinical trials, but securing 100 million doses in advance so that we are ready to ship them out. this president has been hard at work on covid along with a number of others forthcoming. >> reporter: israel reopened schools, and they had an issue with that. there was outrage. what do you think of the fact that israel had to close? >> secretary mcenany: i call on you and you didn't answer question and you bought -- >> secretary mcenany>> reportert to answer my question now? >> reporter: the president said he was doing everything he could do to address the virus. is that really true? is nothing more he can do at this point? also, is he willing -- is he willing to accept the number of deaths? >> secretary mcenany: w

we talked about accelerator and all these new and novel approaches. upon public and private partnerships. academic institutions, universities, pharmaceutical companies and so forth. this is how we have been operating for the last 40 years. this isseen how extremely effective and can help accelerate development. way, it seems to be proven on a completely unprecedented scale and with some actors. we are seeing new models. i think this covax is a unique approach, which is actually trying to also pull in all the countries around the world, no matter if they are low income countries, high income countries. everyone has a role to play in this global effort to get a vaccine out that works and become available to all. theously it is not only science, it is the manufacturing. thesek you mentioned all candidates for vaccines, those that are manufactured upfront, we need to start that work now. we need to use all the resources and approaches to prepare that and provide the funding that is needed for that effort. and, from the european perspective, we talk about