Household name for public institutions, the banking legacy. Can you tell us about him and what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape you are drawing. Guest when i started looking at this time period i knew a lot about roosevelt than i did about morgan as is true of most. This was morgans world, that roosevelt quickly and abruptly in terms of wall street, and by the time roosevelt became president morgan was at the peak of his power. He was the king of wall street, literally called jupiter and zeus. On the eve of the inauguration, the first billiondollar company in the world. That was a company that employed more than any other for the steel production, was a huge monopoly. Just a few months into roosevelts presidency, morgan created the secondbiggest company in the world which is the focus of the book, 400 million which would be 11 trillion. The two Biggest Companies but beyond that morgan controlled the flow of capital. That is where
Personnel are headed to elson air force base in alaska i want to show you exactly what were talking about we put the map up so you can see that area where alaska is and if you were close in on this a little bit you going to be able to see just what were talking about at least as far as alaska is concerned theres the air force base weve kind of blown up this area so you can see what were talking about this is where the f. 35 there are going to join the f. Sixteens that are already there or along with the 169 air refueling unit now. What is the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this day and age and in this particular area right here around alaska well the 1st thing you have to look at is russia right why well geography geography number one history number 2 so 1st of all look at just how close the territory of the Russian Federation is to the territory of the United States i mean were not talking about a lot there in fact i want to show you something i found just
With ireland and Northern Ireland and a legal text then no one is actually seeing the full version of so actually seeing the full version of so broadly speaking, is everybody ready . Broadly speaking, the solution to replace the backstop, which was the thing in the last thing that fell into the comments to go against the border coming back was Northern Ireland, for agriculture, things and stuff thats made and Northern Ireland, stays in the Single Market following the eu rules, but Northern Ireland gets a vote on that every four years and it kinda gives people a veto. They get a veto even before it comes in. Six months before. It will be due to start of this ever happened at the end of the transition period which is the start of 2021, so it is not immediate if this was the fly, it would not have to have been at the start. The second bit of it which is much more troubling in terms of the politics of it all is of the whole uk leaves the Customs Union and that means that it would have to b
Fruitjuices and fizzy drinks are linked to increased chances of getting cancer, according to a major new study. The French Parliament approves a new tax on Technology Giants that could provoke retaliation from the United States. Crunch time as england take on australia at edgbaston the winners will play new zealand in the final at lords on sunday. Dream start for england. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Three iranian boats have tried to intercept a British Oil Tanker near the island of abu musa in the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf, a strategically important passage in the oil and gas trade. The uks ministry of defence said the iranian boats, believed to belong to the revolutionary guards, asked the oil tanker to stop in iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a british warship was positioned between them and the oil tanker, and a warning was issued. Iran has denied any encounter between its forces and foreign ships in the last 2a hours. Relations between iran and
the legal process, the department of justice, local election officials, and a relentless pressure campaign to what he called, an attempt to stop steal. now the fact that nothing had been stolen, details, details it seems. i ll leave you all to decide whether this hearing so far has threaded a needle, or move drone needle. but were seven hearings in, we re learning tonight that january six committees upcoming eight hearing, will now turn to the number one 87. that s 187 minutes where the president of united states was radio silence. i mean crickets. well at least publicly. but what exactly what he s doing for over three hours? i mean after the capitol have been breached, and while he was being attack, officers were valiantly felt to protect members of congress, everyone inside that capital. as witnesses describe the mortal combat, almost medieval like combat, just what was the commander in chief, the one who swore to do this i donald john trump do solemnly swear, reserve,