Ask you this question. You worked for cnn for some 30 years. You have a variety of shows, you are not an orthodox republican, obviously not a liberal democrat. Could you go back into the environment today or what was the formula that allows you to exist for three decades . You have a particular relationship with him . Enlighten us a little bit. It was helpful i joined cnn in 1980 at the beginning, one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was there, i was president of creation, as they say. It was a spectacular place to work because it was something on thought of before ted turner. The global cable news cast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was truly remarkable. It changed over time and refounded it in 1980 and by 1984, ted was on the forms, the wealthiest list and have been basically on the verge of bankruptcy three years earlier than when he founded it. His positioned changed and subject hours. We were growing and over time, is, teds commitment t
Minutes or so but we will take questions from the audience. If you have a lot of questions we will cut the check shorter and go to your questions. For those of you joining us soon it would be great if you could write your questions in the queue and a window and for those joining via youtube live, those questions will get to us. Please start writing those questions especially if you had the privilege pleasure and privilege of reading economics. Lets get started. I love this book, really provocative and fascinating. You mentioned in the book, the work is intended to restore economics over angrynomics. What does that mean . His life goal was we figured out how the world works, such a thing that it is like a root canal. Painful, you fix it. Nothing special or spectacular. Becomes part of the process and to engineer the world in that way. A world that seems to make more and more people angry and the motivation, it has never been retro. And and in the lockdown protest. Then we have racial st
Matthew whitaker, acting attorney general from november of 2018 through february of 2019, the author of this new book, above the law the inside story of how the Justice Department tried to subvert President Trump. Before we begin with the book, explain how you became the acting attorney general to us. Great first question. I was chief of staff to attorney general Jeff Sessions starting in october of 2017, i did that for 13 months before general sessions resigned abruptly the day after the elections in 2018 and the president appointed me that day, the acting attorney general utterly bridged the gap between Jeff Sessions and william barr. How did you become Jeff Sessionss chief of staff. Were you a friend of his . One of the things i talk about is how i only met Jeff Sessions once before i was selected to be his chief of staff. I interviewed with him and talked to him many times, mutual friend in the white house and at the Federalist Society recommended me to him and his people. We bonde
Trial against President Trump this is about 25 minutes. Good morning everyone. One thing before i get started on the issue at hand. The Supreme Court Just Announced that it would delay ruling on the administrations lawsuit against our health care law. Its a sharp reminder to the American People that while all this importantbusiness is going on , the president and Republican Party is trying to take away americans healthcare. Woe is us should they succeed either this year or next year. Now, lets get to the issueat hand. As you all know, President Trump is accused of coercing a foreign leader into interfering in our elections to benefit himself and then doing everything inhis power to cover it up. It proved the president s actions are crimes against democracy itself. It cannot be overstated how serious this charge is. If americans start believing that foreigners can affect and elect president s, or senators or governors, if foreigners can interfere in elections and determinethe outcome in
This is a very very steep very very bid park that a lot of people use. Lately it has been close because of all the damage the storm did. I must tell you that the mud flows, landslides and debris danger is very real, because the land is already getting very saturated. At windsors foothill regional park, crews are are already working to prevent massive erosion that was incinerated when the kincaid finer sweat through it. We have seen Minor Movement of soil. We have a contractor right now working at the front of the park on something, soils that we are moving. It has eroded in a small amount of debris getting into one of the ponds, visitors and hikers enjoy. That should all be mitigated when the park officially reopened next week. The stuff that burned away is called understory. The understory holds the soil, binds the soil, also slows rainfall. Water from impacting the soil, so heavily it slows water down as it is flowing into streams and the ponds. Reporter the reason the parts Park Dis