Candidacy but havent release books. Next up a Panel Discussion on new orleans, ten years after hurricane katrina. Thank you all everyone for coming this evening. Its my pleasure to welcome you to this wonderful public launch of robertas new new book. It is how the people of new orleans rebuilt the city. On behalf of the new school and nation books, its my pleasure to welcome everyone. Before we get started i just wanted to say a couple things about some people would have helped helped make the series possible. They are mary watson and pamela tellis from the executive deans office and they are wonderful partners. I also want to think cspan. Its so great that you are here filming us and the cspan audience. Thank you. It is such a pleasure to get to publicly introduce roberta gratz, someone who has been a hero has been a hero of mine for a long time. She is an amazing writer and thinker. She is an acclaimed urbanist and has published for previous book including the battle for gotham. Her
On the difference in how it impacts our lowerincome neighbors as opposed to our middle ifill all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Bnsf. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york. A foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill tragedy struck the muslim world today, marring the end of the annual pilgrimage to mecca, in saudi arabia. At least 719 people were killed when worshippers panicked and stampeded. More than 860 others were hurt. Ifill it was a scene of horror in a place of holiness. Cell phone video captured the gruesome a
Time on booktv. Next up, Roberta Brandes Gratz leads a Panel Discussion on new orleans ten years after hurricane katrina. [inaudible conversations] thank you all, everybody, so much for coming this evening. Its my pleasure to welcome you to this wonderful public launch of roberta gratzs new book, and it is were still hear, ya bastards. On behalf of the new school and nation book, its my pleasure to welcome everyone. Before we get started, i just wanted to say a couple of things about some people who have helped make this series possible. They are mary watson and pamela tillless from the executive deans office at the new school, and they are wonderful partners in all the series of events we do throughout the year. And i also want to thank cspan, and its so great that youre here tonight filming this and the cspan audience. So thank you. It is such a pleasure to get to publicly introduce roberta gratz, someone who has been a hero of mine for a long time, way before i came to the nation be
Host has the president done anything you disagree with . Guest the president has made a major contribution to our state of affairs in america because he is polarized us so much and been so aggressive that people are starting to look at what has happened in our corporate lives over the past 50 years, and their waking up to knew realities. I talk about this crossroad when Abraham Lincoln had to say we can do this anymore. I do havei have to make a decision. When you think about where we are today is a country, we are half and half. I think what the president has done is encouraged all americans to choose this day which side you are on. There are a few things i agree with him on, but i do agree weare going to have to decide which america we want to be. Host have you thought about running for office . Guest i thought about that once. I ran a successful policy institute right now in washington. The center for urban renewal and education. I think were still effective on the outside that you
Will be joining us. But first the top stories. Its nice to see you again. Well do these stories in a second. Well take a look at comcast. It looks like they are beating it looks like they are beating on both the top and the bottom lines there. 79 cents, x items, and then 17. 83 17. 83 billion in revenue. Okay. In the year ago quarter, you had sochi, this quarter, you have the super bowl. So to compare apples to apples, theres a lot of excluding of different revenue metrics. Comcast is excluding olympics and super bowl but Thompson Reuters is not. Most of these numbers look like they are above analysts expectations. We should point out just right off the bat here i think the company is going to there it is Share Repurchases. People were talking about that. Once the deal brian alluded to it when he was on the show. Also combined with the Dividend Increase youd like to send your application to an additional lpder in the future. In some cases the story looked at four or five individual cas