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October 14, 2019
Have not done is carry out field experiments with some of the 700. 100000000 people worldwide who are living in extreme poverty theyve gone to these different parts of the world and done experiments to see directly how public policy affects those people so try to make it less a case of number crunching when it comes to coming up with ways to alleviate poverty but actually basing it on the real experiences of those people so a real hands on approach as opposed to pure science in an ivory tower an...
October 14, 2019
Have to talk about the woman there because its this gas what does this tell us well yeah i mean scarce is a understatement i mean so we have as to do flow today becoming only the 2nd economics nobel laureate there have been 84 nobel laureates in account in economics over the past 50 years 2 of those have been women so for every woman there are you know 42 men getting this award. i think its fair to say that thats not great figures it doesnt look great so theyll be pleased to have at least added ...
October 14, 2019
The medal of honor. >> martha: indeed. kyle is sharing his story with "you are worth it," a book general james mattis they remain hallmarks. kyle carpenter joins me now, good to see you again. we were talking a long time before and its great to see you again. kyle, i want you to recount a story from the book about your mom and a very low moment that you had in the middle of this recovery and how she was able to get you on the other side of that. >> i was injured in november november 2010. that f...
October 14, 2019
Popular video game for the night that this ended their season 10 with a bang. they left players staring at a black hole. what can you tell us about this? >> reporter: very bra dramatic. every players screens went black showing this black hole graphic. as millions of gamers tried to tune in to streams and into their own games, they suddenly lost the ability to log in. and the official twitter account of fortnite tweeted this is the end. but its likely not the actual end of fortnite, rather the ga...
October 13, 2019
>> thats what hes saying. it is the better of the two options. >> you have seen him also just completely unable to give any kind of accounting. one of our own reporters pressed him i thought quite well. at a rope line at an event he did with joni ernst. he just wont answer the question. like did you know the president wanted them to open an investigation on the bidens. he cannot answer that question. >> it is obviously very uncomfortable for him. but its interesting to think about if he -- when ...
October 13, 2019
Now to morning headlines and this breaking overnight. all roads closed due to wind fuelled fires are open again. all evacuation orders have been lifted. more than 30 buildings damaged or destroyed. >> lucky is an understatement. this is well, what, the second time weve been evacuated and the third time weve been involved with a fire. >> those fires are responsible for three deaths ft firefighters battling the the flames in saddle ridge where nearly 8,000 acres are scorched. they say the fire is ...
October 12, 2019
Believe theyd buried me early. so my friend michael callahan -- >> who was a mentor of yours. your history teacher, youre boxing coach. >> he was the only mentor i really ever had. and he appointed me state gaming commission, and i was chairman of that. and that was a time of very, very difficult time in the history of the state of nevada. organized crime came out of the wood work. we always thought it was here and it was here big time. and i survived through that. >> yeah, you survived through ...
October 12, 2019
Before he met with him? >> right now he has to essentially plead ignorance. >> thats what hes saying. it is the better of the two options. >> you have seen him also just completely unable to give any kind of accounting. one of our own reporters pressed him i thought quite well. he just wont answer the question. like did you know the president wanted them to open an investigation on the bidens. he cannot answer that question. >> it is obviously very uncomfortable for him. but its interesting to t...
October 12, 2019
The symbolism was hugely informative here. it didnt have to be this way, he wrote. >> that is a huge understatement. as a political analyst, i dont even know what to say about this. talk about real-life implications. this is really good reason about why we need to be loyal to our allies. donald trump is really ruining and destroying foreign policy and who we partner with on the ground. american foreign policy has always been built a little on hypocrisy. when do you remember an american president...
October 9, 2019
Border. the question is when, where and how large of a force do they move across. we might be seeing the beginnings of that right now, craig. >> mr. bradley, let me come to you there in iraq. whats the sense in the region there? i would imagine that there is -- this is a great understatement, but anxiety about what comes next. >> reporter: craig, other than the fear of a massive humanitarian catastrophe -- what were talking about here are two u.s. allies clashing in northern syria, one, on the o...