Characterize your book . Guest i think you did it very well. I would characterize it by saying my point is that we dont have to be the hapless helpless victims of nature. My friends at nasa and elsewhere in the Space Community like to say if the dinosaurs had a Space Program they would still be here. We have the wherewithal to save ourselves and the book though its an important part of the book is that explains that and comes out with a plan and they plan was not invented by me. It is universally accepted within the community. Host its my impression it leaves you are advocating spending quite a lot more on this problem and on Planetary Defense. Is that right . Guest yes, the cold war is over. Peace allies has broken out and what i like to tell people who say it will cost an astronomical amount of money to do this i say what is your collective life as a civilization were . The dinosaurs got blown away. It can happen again. The chances are its not going to happen very soon but doomsday i
Explains that and comes up with a plan. And a plan was not invented by me but it is pretty universally accepted within the community. Host so my impression at least you are advocating as spent quite a lot more on this problem, on Planetary Defense, is that right . Guest this. The cold war is over. Peace alaska has broken out. What i like to tell people who say it will cost an astronomical amount of money, pardon the pun, to do this, i say where is your collective life as a civilization with . The dinosaurs got blown away. It can happen again. Chances are its not going to happen very soon, but doomsday is always a possibility. So what im saying is protect your cells but that is a very good use of money. Host so what are you advocating able to do . Site if you have a few billion dollars or your king of the world, what do you think is the right thing to do . Guest well, i would set up a permanent Planetary Defense system, and again within the community, just acknowledged having three part
A new report is out on who is paying and how. The share of the bill the parents are putting up is dropping bigtime. Well tell you how people are making ends meet. First though to sue at the nyse. They are talking about that burger down here on the floor, ty, but were going to talk about the s p because right now, as you pointed out, the s p, the dow and the nasdaq kind of a mixed performance. The s p is down about 2. 5 points, but the dow is up 21 and the nasdaq down 13 and the russell off just a fraction, but we want to focus on the s p for just a minute. At the 1692 mark just shy of the 1700 mark. Career to date that means the s p is up a full 18 . If we cross 1,700, what does that mean for all of those wall street strategists who are way under that for the yearend targets . Josh lipton and his team have been calling all the big firms out there and joins us live from hq. What have you been finding out, josh . Hey there, sue. The s p 500 nearing 1700, a big filestone for a market alre
Billion at the recent summit to develop a vaccine. And im very proud the work that dfid is doing. Yes, of course, we will make sure that we guarantee the dfid budget, but what will happen within your department. What will happen now is that every single person, working in that every single person, working in that department in the new whitehall Super Department, the foreign and commonwealth and the Development Office, every person in that department will now have all the idealism and a sense of mission that comes from dfid, but also the understanding of the need to project uk values, uk policies and uk interests overseas. This is a long overdue reform and he should support it. I would like to associate myself with the comments the Prime Minister made regarding jo cox and our colleague from east dunbartonshire. I very much welcome the Prime Ministers Statement Today. Can he confirm this is a merger, not a ta keover confirm this is a merger, not a takeover and actually this has the poten
Very good one for the world, time and place to be determined. Ellison barber is live from the white house for us. Ellison, when did the administration decide President Trump would really sit down with kim jong un . Well, julie, President Trump tweeted about all of this again, said that north korea has not conducted a missile test since november 2017 and promised not to do so through our meetings, i believe they will honor that commitment. President trump alluded to big news in regards to north korea on thursday when he popped his head into the Briefing Room and told reporters that south korea would make a major statement thursday evening they did, south korean officials announced that President Trump will agree to meet with north Korean Leader kim jong un by may if the meeting takes place first time a u. S. Sitting president has met with north Korean Leader, though others have been invited in the past, White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders says that the president accepted the invit