Former Obama Administration National Security advisor and un ambassador susan rice discusses her life and career in american diplomacy and foreign policy. Shes interviewed by the new yorker columnist robin wright. After words is a Weekly Program with guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest works. Welcome, susan rice to after words. After thank you. Its great to be with you. It is a fascinating book. So it is a personal tale and a chronicle of your professional life and threw a wide array of crises and challenges, but lets begin with the Current Crisis that the United States faces. As you know, President Trump had a phone call with the president of ukraine in july, a whistleblower reported on it in august. It was released last week. What do you make of the whistleblowers complaint . What did i tell you, what struck you . What is so extraordinary about this is that we have now in blackandwhite in the president s own words evidence of the fact that when hes cond
Corridor are still removing sandbags and cleaning up after the latest fight with flood waters. At the same time the National Weather service the National Weather service ctr. Is getting ready for the next time thing we can all do more to prepare and limit damage. Matt hammill was out there and joins us live with the message. Other rivers. And even though some didnt see a drop of water this time next century they could. Could. We learned from 2008 that information was lacking nats flood Iowa Flood Center director vee told kry essky says that disaster was a call to action now he wants flood fighters to know there are more scientific tools to help them plan. Amid torrential rains he says relying on history can leave you under water. Water. We usually hear you know i have lived here for 20 happened. That is not a contradiction to the fact that it can still happen. Among the new tools a way to better to determine the flood risk and severity at your house. Hearing the river could crest at 21
Via paris, louisiana dealing with the biggest disaster since hurricanes and he peered over 30,000 people arrested since the flooding began last friday. Homeland security chief jeh johnson to assess the damage of 70,000 people have signed up for federal assistance from the map. Thousands are without power. 100 plus degree heat and the American Red Cross say costs could top 30 million. The groups president and ceo here on the progress. Thank you for joining us. Another horrific disaster. Give us an assessment of where you are and what it looks like on the ground. Well, the devastation here is incredible as you pointed out. It is our largest disaster risk bonds since superstore and standing. As far as the eye can see, the show so much devastation and flooding. You can see where the watermark and then in so many people have lost their home. In fact, at the peak of all of this, we had 10,000 People Living in our shelters and we have over 1000 volunteers and workers on the ground here that a
Keystone xl pipeline. The fight against the controversial project isnt over. We will also look at the link to South African spy cables. I was greenpeaces kumi naidoo being spied on . The to the corinthian 15, and group of students go on a debt strike refusing to pay their debt owed to a forprofit college. A lot of the older generations the criticized the millennials grew up in a time when you could go to a State University and pay your way through with summer jobs. These millennial children they got to college and realized, the money is not there to pay for me, im not going to be able to try to it in took issue job. In fact, everything i was told about the way the world works turns out not to be the case. And we will hear why adjunct professors are holding a national walkout. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has vetoed a republican bill approving the keystone xl Tar Sands Oil pipeline.
President obama vetoes a congressional bill to veto the keystone xl pipeline. The fight against the controversial project isnt over. We will also look at the link to South African spy cables. I was greenpeaces kumi naidoo being spied on . The to the corinthian 15, and group of students go on a debt strike refusing to pay their debt owed to a forprofit college. A lot of the older generations the criticized the millennials grew up in a time when you could go to a State University and pay your way through with summer jobs. These millennial children they got to college and realized, the money is not there to pay for me, im not going to be able to try to it in took issue job. In fact, everything i was told about the way the world works turns out not to be the case. And we will hear why adjunct professors are holding a national walkout. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has vetoed a republican