historian horne studies war, and in democratic by design, gabrielle metcalf explores the way the sharing economy is creating social change. look for these titles in book stores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. booktv attended a public party for author and time magazine columni joe klein. his latest book charlie mike profiles who veterans, eric greitens and jake wood, who created public service organizations after leaving the military. mr. klein visited with guests and took part in a panel. that s what this book is about. and syria. no, no, we need them here. i see what you mean. we don t have many of them come back and they re not talked about creating a wage for people who have had those experiences in military service, some sort of formal credit that can transfer. i ve been fighting this fight. i m a journalist for everything else but only for the next year, but i m a lobbyist when it comes to these kids, and
war and it s showing. every day 22 veterans commit suicide. we re going to take a look at the oscar-nominated documentary showing the people at the va. but first, major headlines in the middle east today. we start with the situation in yemen. thousands have taken to the streets in protest against rebels who have tightened control over the capital city. the u.s.-backed president of yemen resigned friday. the volatile situation in yemen has led to reports that it s having an effect on u.s. counterterrorism operations there, a claim that president barack obama is pushing back on. he spoke about it this morning in a joint press conference with india s prime minister. i saw some news reports that suggested somehow that counterterrorism activity had been suspended. that is not accurate. we continue to go after high-value targets inside of yemen, and we will continue to maintain the pressure that s required to keep the american people safe. let s get to nbc s kristen welker, who
tomorrow the president-elect will kick off what is apparently going to be a multi-state series of campaign rallies except there s no more campaign. so maybe it s more like a concert tour but without a band? when they first announced plans to do this, people thought maybe that it would be their victory tour? now they tell us they no longer want us to call it a victory tour. they want us to call it a thank you tour. okay. honestly, i don t know what to call it because who knows what this is? in other countries, you have sometimes seen stuff like this. that comparison is not a heartening one. in other countries in other eras of history, strongmen type leaders have liked to hold mass rallies to demonstrate their support among the people and often to intimidate their opposition. there s no reason to think that that is what president-elect trump is starting tomorrow, right? but we honestly do not know what this is for, what it is. it s not apparently about selling a particular idea
1919? 8,000 miles in 22 days? that was an almost impossible thing that he set out to do. and it didn t work. people in this country didn t like his idea for this league of nations thing. they didn t like that idea before he hit the bricks on an 8,000-mile tour to promote it. they didn t like the idea before the tour. they didn t like the idea after the tour either. and worse, the tour itself basically killed him. he started that tour on september 3rd. by october 2nd, the president had collapsed from exhaustion and suffered a serious stroke. it was just a disaster at every level. it went bad in so many different ways. and not all of them fail that seriously, but these things are genuinely known for failing. like when george w. bush did it after he was re-elected in 2004. after that election, famously george w. bush decided his first priority would be to privatize social security. he wanted to hand social security over to wall street, give everybody a private account. and to co
i ll convince the people. i ll get them on my side. he set out on a tour in september of that year, 1919, he started a tour and his tour went 8,000 miles in 22 days. and that s one thing if you re like flying around in air force one, right? that can take you to all those miles, but a century ago in 1919? 8,000 miles in 22 days? that was an almost impossible thing that he set out to do. and it didn t work. people in this country didn t like his idea for this league of nations thing. they didn t like that idea before he hit the bricks on an 8,000-mile tour to promote it. they didn t like the idea before the tour. they didn t like the idea after the tour either. and worse, the tour itself basically killed him. he started that tour on september 3rd. by october 2nd, the president had collapsed from exhaustion and suffered a serious stroke. it was just a disaster at every level. it went bad in so many different ways. and not all of them fail that seriously, but these things are gen