You are down at midnight district of houston the ninth district of houston. Hows the city doing today . Guest good morning and thank you for allowing us to be on. Im appreciative to cspan and im very much appreciative to the people who have volunteered and literally come in from other states to help us out in houston. Samaritansod within the state and out of the state. With prayers i extend to those in harms way and those who have been victims of this horrible circumstance. Currently in houston, we still have rain and we still have people who are stranded and we are try to get help to them as quickly as possible. We have people volunteering with their own boats to go out and help retrieve people. The coast guard is out rescuing people. We have seen people rescued by way of helicopter and more helicopters available now, which was a concern i had earlier that there were people stranded on rooftops and places where they could be to get a helicopter to we have an area in the southern part
Particularly the cochair mr. David rubenstein. You can become a donor or sponsor for the festival. The instructions for donations or in your program. Also, on your phone app and online. Before we begin, just a few announcements. If you have your cell phone, turn them off and at the conclusion of the program, we will be taking questions from the audience at one of the microphones. This afternoon, it is a distinct pleasure of mine to be joined onstage by doctor ronald whyte, the author of american ulysses. Previously, hes written many books on Abraham Lincoln, on lincolns leadership and also on the rhetoric. But today, we are going to talk about ulysses s. Grant. If you have not read the book yet, i can commend it to you. It is 827 pages. I was telling him before hand, i read through all 827 pages, and you do not hear about very often. That very often. Given the recent conversations about the legacy of the civil war, i cant think of a better person to hear from this afternoon at the Nati
Time guy is so nice, he got everybody starbucks downstairs he does that once in a while. Every time he comes in. He expenses it you know, see, you ruined it . You ruined it. We had a moment. He did not expense your epsom salt no he did not youre a good guy, guy do people say hi guy, guy you just did. Japan has called for an emergency meeting of the u. N. Security council u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is calling on china and russia to take direct action against the north. There has not been much action in the u. S. Fought chores. The dow is indicated higher again. Futures indicate up 9. 5 points now. S p fought choutures down 2 1 2s the nasdaq down 11 lets look at the currency markets. The dollar coming up the dollar was lower versus the yen after the north Korea Missile Launch news first hit. You can see this morning that at least at this hour the dollar is up against the yen at 111. 20 down against the euro. Lets look at the asian markets. Overnight the nikkei still closed up
Morning because this was scheduled for 7 00 in the morning but good afternoon this is the National Press club by help to guide the Headliners Committee and on behalf of those 3,000 members and jetblue of 12 will go view here today. Before we get into introductions of our speakers i have not done this before i chair the Headliners Committee for the past couple years and i never really talked about the process with the news maker or a headliner and it seems like before the hurricanes and earthquakes the National Disaster was the hope your a crisis Opioid Crisis and we think it would be important this week while congress is dealing with the budget so how can you take on this disaster so how does this work . That was our sense when we started the process to the National Union of Health Care Workers because he wanted people who were dealing with Mental Health and somebody in congress that could talk about the other side of the korean because at the same time it wasnt that long ago we heard
Of a like to say good morning because this was scheduled for 7 00 in the morning but good afternoon this is the National Press club by help to guide the Headliners Committee and on behalf of those 3,000 members and jetblue of 12 will go view here today. Before we get into introductions of our speakers i have not done this before i chair the Headliners Committee for the past couple years and i never really talked about the process with the news maker or a headliner and it seems like before the hurricanes and earthquakes the National Disaster was the hope your a crisis Opioid Crisis and we think it would be important this week while congress is dealing with the budget so how can you take on this disaster so how does this work . That was our sense when we started the process to the National Union of Health Care Workers because he wanted people who were dealing with Mental Health and somebody in congress that could talk about the other side of the korean because at the same time it wasnt t