After about 30 minutes. And as you probably know or may not know, this is being filmed by cspan. I think she has a very interesting and very truthful take on all sorts of issues in the region and what happens in washington and if you read any of her coverage about the iran nuclear deal, it was absolutely spot on, so we are honored to have her with us and so we will begin and they will start taping, i guess, so thank you for coming. Thank you, everyone. Good to be here and i have to say reading geneive abdos a book over the week and being interjected with a terror attack in turkey, another tack in egypt , its really brought it full circle. I think most off you have been in washington i really find sense of realism and such a real touch from the region that geneive brings into this a book. I think what i like about it is it paints a very good base picture of whats happening in the middle east. There is no nonsense no wishywashy talk about the future of the liberal democracies in the regi
Thank you becky one of the key Decision Makers now defending a decision to launch a program. The launch had now been moved in the right direction and said Market Reaction was encouraging thus far and next big question a major election in greece this weekend. Back in the United States the focus is on earnings and economic data. On the agenda heres whats happening. Quarterly results from General Electric and mcdonalds before the bell but two data points coming up at 10 00 eastern time. Existing home sales and leading economic indicators. Stock futures at this hour dow opening up 5 points higher. S p 500. Nasdaq up about a point. Now to todays top stories. Succession in audi arabwe saudi arabia. Brother to brother. These are the sons of the original king of saudi arabia. The unspoken question is what is next for saudi arabia. Is this the last brother. Yes it is. King salman. Hes a half brother. Hes 70. Hes in his 70s. Thats pretty young at this point. I know that now. When we were talking
Refugees to other countries. The United Nations estimate 2. 2 Million People have fled syria and taken up refugee in other countries. More than a third of them are in lebanon. Many are in camps such as one al jazeera visited. Reporter were at a tented settlement in lebanon. They dot the landscape along the border are syria. People live in miserable conditions and they may be safe, they no longer have to face the violence in syria but were warning of the danger to come, and that is the cold. In this region temperatures drop below zero and you can see people barely have anything. The grouped is allthe ground is all mud and the plastic sheetings do not provide shelter when the rain starts. Just look around. Just a few weeks ago there was rain and the whole area was flooded. People are worried. Theyre calling on the International Community to help them. But the International Community can only do so much. And the lebanese government can only do so much. They have to deal with their own eco
That. I was raised overseas. My father was with a. I. D. In east asia so actually grew up in asia. Really didnt spend any time in the state states until i can gea Good High School as a teenager. I think having, with that background, the idea of having a conventional career and based in the United States was little hard to imagine. With my brother, also, jon lee anderson. We both tried to figure it how we could get back overseas and stumbled into journalism as a way to do that. John lee and i get two books together, inside the league which sherman mentioned, and war zone which was an oral history from five different wars taking place around the world in the mid 1980s. And in the years since then, along with writing books, both nonfiction and novels, ive written i write primary for the New York Times magazine. Usually in war zones but almost always internationally. From the time i spent in the middle east, what comes up, when you of her have an insult conversation with somebody in the mi
That background, the idea of having a conventional career, um, and basing in the United States was a little hard to imagine and with my brother also, john lee anderson. So we both immediately tried to figure out how we could get back overseas and stumbled into journalism as a way to do that. We, john lee and i did two books together, inside the league which sherman mentioned and war zones which was a oral history from five different worlds taking place in the mid 1980s around the world. And in the years since then, ive, along with writing books, both nonfiction books and novels, ive run, i write primarily for the New York Times magazine, long feature articles. Usually in war zones, but almost always internationally. From the time ive spent in the middle east, what comes up when you ever have a really involved conversation with somebody in the middle east, invariably you go back to the decisions that were made almost a hundred years ago now. The decisions, and by most accounts the mista