Author Michael Lewis. His most recent book is the undoing project a friendship that changed our minds. This is booktv live coverage. Can you hear me . I am hearing echoes. All good . We found out michael is supposed to do a power point presentation, takes half an hour to find the power point presentation. Thank you for being here and the library of congress. Thank you, the chairman of the festival. We will have a little chat, a couple of old friends with 1 million other new acquaintances in the hall. We go way back. Lets Start Talking about you are an art history major at princeton and you go to wall street and do really well. You could have been rich, you know . You could have your own plane this morning. Instead you go into the book business. So you know, it is just an accident, they didnt know each other. This is an opportunity to express all the resentment. This is the undoing project. So the question is why i quit wall street, you knew you wanted i didnt have any plans. And grew u
Fire, john young who is not a liar is a friend of mine who interviewed me to become an astronaut, walked on the moon. I believe in this man, he is an honest honorable person. I believe in the Space Program and i know we have walked on the moon because of the efforts to help advance our civilizations and listen to these conspiracy theorists. Some who dont believe the earth is round. I have seen the earth from space, the earth is round. You cant buy into this stuff on you youto be. Any more scientists with analytical minds that can discern these Different Things and understand these things are real. Host you talk about the twang . Guest when you are sitting in the shuttle for three main engines come on and are off from the stack, the entire shuttle rotates forward and we come back, the main engines light, there are eight bolts with explosive charges that are ignited and they blow away and we are off and it is amazing because when you come back up, but weighing on a screen door you open,
Dialogue can contribute and not fashion to peace and prosperity in a very important region of the world. And they can also stimulate and form and other faith public debate on the risks and opportunities that policymakers in washington, seoul and beijing are dealing with. To get us started, we have a distinguished american official who was very much involved in policymaking here in washington and also in the stewardship of u. S. Relations with the republic of korea, peoples republic of china and other important nations in that region. Danny russell, whom ive had the honor of knowing and working with for many years as assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. He recently within the last couple of weeks returned from travels with president obama to china, burma and australia. He is going to provide us with an overview of u. S. Interests and policies in the region. So danny, welcome back to brookings and thanks for giving us the view from washington and the view from
Into the afternoon as of right now temperatures a little cooler the start of the saturday morning trading at the brunch or jog sorrows are right now 4751 degrees on the nappa up. named in the 50s, bay area but we do have pockets of isolated forays. tonight average real see cloud cover bald continue assuming the bay area we saw the sea breeze when to contend with relating our temperatures and also bringing a little more humanity to the bay area so as not as dry as a whistle past couple this end the afternoon player sunshine highs mainly in the 60s and 70s ahead and use fourwheel experience and a cooler day were gonna see increasing the gusty winds death might bad news wont even touching the wild fires. Very bright dry conditions couple gusty winds definitely not an ideal picture will continue to market to this pit coal weather as we head into the start of the workweek we will have all warming trend by the end of next weeks full details on that coming up in 50 minutes trade a top story t
Prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu receiving permission from his parliament to dispatch up to 40,000 Ground Troops for calling a Ground Invasion into gaza, quote, on the table. And public bomb shelters have been open throughout the jewish state. Well be following this developing story throughout this hour. Turning now to the humanitarian crisis on our southern border, the white house efforts to politically exploit the estimated 60,000 children who have illegally crossed our border this year appear to have backfired on the administration. Democrats and republicans alike blasting president obama for his planned trip to texas tomorrow. The white house saying at this hour that he will not visit the border, nor the facilities overflowing with illegal immigrant children. Instead, president obama will be spending his time fundraising in dallas and austin. Here is press secretary, josh earnest, trying to spin away the president s seemingly ambivalent attitude about the crisis that is largely o