Warlike situation, relationship changed but the dependency of one group on the other continued. It was either about money or influence by them is pretty much prevalent in different ways through different presidencies weve had throughout our history but the history i cover specifically since Teddy Roosevelt administration until today. Host is there a reason you picked that starting point . Guest yes. First of all it was only so much time i had an life basically to do a couple of centuries versus one but really what happened was as we know there was a crisis, a crash, black tuesday 1929. Not want to start the book but when i realized when i researched that crash was a couple of the bankers that were most connected to the crash and most concerned about it including bankers from the morgan bank bank which we now s j. P. Morgan chase, if you trace them back, traced back to j. P. Morgan and j. P. Morgan was one of the league bankers in the country from 1890. There was this through line of in
Welcome to monday morning on Market Makers. Erik schatzker is skiing all week long. We have a special treat in store. Bill on like kanye, i will not upstage you. Stephanie this is my guest anchor for the day. I do not think kanye upstage anyone. Bill it is the postgrammy interview where he did say stephanie what did you think . Bill i dont know. Stephanie did you listen to becks album . Bill he is a gifted artist. Truth be told, i did not know he had an outcome. I would have given it to beyonce. There are other things to talk about besides kanye. Those betting on a greek failure are paying are playing with fire. He will go see it with creditors up to a point. It will be reflected in a midterm plan and will respect the but will not condemn it to austerity. Stephanie finance ministers meet monday on how much money greece needs. We are expected to hear from them less than 90 minutes from now. The president is being pushed to provide weapons to ukrainian forces. Sales fall at the largest r
She joins me today to discuss her most recent work, all the president s bankers the hidden alliances that drive american power. Nomi, welcome. Congratulations on such a fabulous book. Washington wall street and the family that had such a nervous impact. Guest thank you, so much, larry. Both on wall street and now off wall street youre doing very well. Its truly a pleasure to have you. This is truly an incredible history of the relationship between wall street, the large fingers in washington. What motivated you to produce this book . Guest insanity and the intensity. But actually, black tuesday was a historical novel on the crash of 29 had he seen in it that id researched lately. Nothing near the research i did on the spoke about six acres and 23 wall street to decide to try and save the market that were crashing around them in later toe brittany and 29 by themselves and a fellow named tom lamont, acting chair of the morgan bank at the time, his real chair, jack morgan is gallivanting
Them money, but the entire industry. All the president s bankers the hidden alliances that drive american power. We will speak with nomi prins about the 100 year history of collusion between washington and wall street. In shining a light on the nsa black budget. We will go to capitol hill to speak with commerce member peter welch is sponsoring the bill to force the president to include the total dollar amount requested for each of the 16 intelligence agencies. Then, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging u. S. Governments killing of three americans in yemen in drone strikes. We will get reaction from attorney maria lahood. The constitution clearly applies to our awlaki because he is u. S. Citizen, so he is guaranteed due process. If the Us Government can kill a u. S. Citizen in yemen, that not only expands the global war, but also means a u. S. Citizen can be killed anywhere by our government. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the w
Mitt romney disagrees but says he still supports him. Will this stall romneys surge . Plus, donald trulmps october surprise fizzles a bit. I ask him some tough questions. What is the difference between mitt romneys refusal to release his tax returns and the president not being inclined to release his College Records . This is piers morgan tonight. Good evening. Our big story tonight. A shift in the electoral map. With just 13 days to go until the election day, cnns moving North Carolina from a tossup to a lean romney. That is of course, the state where president obama accepted his partys nomination just a few short weeks ago. Indiana and missouri also shift from lean romney to safe romney. Cnn now estimates that mitt romneys leading in states with a total of 206 electoral votes, the president s leading in states with 237. It takes of course 270 to win the white house. Listen to mitt romney today talking in cedar rapids, iowa. Our campaign is growing into a Movement Across this country