This is nbc nightly news with Brian Williams reporting tonight from havana. And good evening from havana cuba where earlier today just 14 hours after the president talked about his opening to cuba during his state of the Union Address last night, we arrived here today with the first senior american official to visit this nation in decades. We flew here along with the u. S. Assistant secretary of state Roberta Jacobson on a commercial flight, American Airlines in fact. When she set foot on cuban soil for normalization talks, it changed a lot of history in just a day. And with the lights of havana harbor in the backdrop for us tonight, its where we begin with our chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell covering it all with us. Good evening, brian. The cuban people clearly want this to work. But for the president s new opening to become reality, both sides have to overcome decades of mistrust. She is the highest ranking u. S. Diplomat to go to cuba in 38 years, leaving miami f
Sparked by the financial crash of 2008 continues to impact the Business Practices of wall street and the lives of americans on main street. This edition examines the seismic shock of the economic collapse on American Families and what many of them believed were their most unshakable investment vehicles their homes and their 401 k Retirement Savings plans. We begin today with the culture of wall street and the role that it played in the crash. If you had to pick someone to write the autopsy report on the wall street financial collapse in 2008, you couldnt do any better than Michael Lewis. He is one of the countrys preeminent nonfiction writers with a knack for turning complicated, mindnumbing material into fascinating yarns. He wrote his first best seller, liars poker, about his experiences as a young wall street bond trader when he was still in his 20s. Another lewis best seller called the big short inside the doomsday machine was published in march 2010. It explains how some of wall s
Street have foreclosed over the last year. And yours over here . Mine will be number 17. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im steve kroft. The socalled Great Recession sparked by the financial crash of 2008 continues to impact the Business Practices of wall street and the lives of americans on main street. This edition examines the seismic shock of the economic collapse on American Families and what many of them believed were their most unshakable investment vehicles their homes and their 401 k Retirement Savings plans. We begin today with the culture of wall street and the role that it played in the crash. If you had to pick someone to write the autopsy report on the wall street financial collapse in 2008, you couldnt do any better than Michael Lewis. He is one of the countrys preeminent nonfiction writers with a knack for turning complicated, mindnumbing material into fascinating yarns. He wrote his first best seller, liars poker, about his experiences as a young wall street bond trader
Street have foreclosed over the last year. And yours over here . Mine will be number 17. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im steve kroft. The socalled Great Recession sparked by the financial crash of 2008 continues to impact the Business Practices of wall street and the lives of americans on main street. This edition examines the seismic shock of the economic collapse on American Families and what many of them believed were their most unshakable investment vehicles their homes and their 401 k Retirement Savings plans. We begin today with the culture of wall street and the role that it played in the crash. If you had to pick someone to write the autopsy report on the wall street financial collapse in 2008, you couldnt do any better than Michael Lewis. He is one of the countrys preeminent nonfiction writers with a knack for turning complicated, mindnumbing material into fascinating yarns. He wrote his first best seller, liars poker, about his experiences as a young wall street bond trader
Subtropical climate but the fact that the subtropical climate happens to be in the country that actually occupies the most territory in the arctic region is rather an almost as well. Never before has Olympic Games been held in the region in such close proximity to a conflict zone. Never before, although more about this conflict zone never before has Olympic Games been held na conflict, in such close proximity to conflict zone in which was, in fact the site effectively to civil wars in the country that is holding the games. One of which effectively russia lost in the mid 1990s with chechnya and one of which was one, the zone in the northern caucasus they are referring to where my esteemed colleagues will talk at greater length about the challenges you know, when mr. Putin went down to Guatemala City in 2007 it was a period of relative relative quiet since i would say in the area. Chechnya have been somewhat stabilized, and the frequency of violence in the other republics, the northern c