Thank you for coming. That is the pink newspaper thats really good. I present bc radio. Ive done a show for the World Service ive made fifty inventions that shaped the modern economy. And how numbers lead us astray and sometimes help us to understand the world. I also have a podcast with a gentleman called michael lewis. Called Cautionary Tales its all about things going wrong sometimes and tragic ways and sometimes in amusing ways. In between all of that i try to write a few bucks. The second thing i want to say is thank you to the Rancho Mirage festival to jamie and the rest of the festival. A round of applause for jamie please. Jamie emailed me probably 18 months ago and suggested i fly across the world from Oxford England to come to Rancho Mirage. Its a huge journey for me. Thank you very much to all of you. I feel fortunate to be here. [applause]. I said i wasnt a fan of long preambles. Clearly im a total hypocrite. Let me talk about this book of mine. I dont if you can see the sl
You and ive been on several cnn panels throughout the election but you know i really came from a small town in florida and for those of you who eat strawberries its the world strawberry cat to the capitol it was important to me to write a book that just explored my roots but how i see this election through the prism i grew up in, not through the confines of the cnn news are here in washington where i service rnc spokesperson but this prism of a smalltown girl and the movement that i recognized early on when i endorse President Trump to be the president. Three months after he declared his candidacy eyes im on the horizon with a few others and one of my colleagues recognize the movement as well although he recognized the leftwing party. Host lets talk about van jones who are few people in the book to make appearances and in some ways surprising. Van jones was part of the Obama Administration and let people conservative and at one point thought of him as the bogeyman but what was your exp
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Figures in iraq. Weve just heard from various sources from the largest political bloc within parliament that there has been an attempt on the life of the cleric shia cleric coveralls father his compound in the holy city of najaf was apparently attacked by an armed drone overnight in that city you know we dont know if there were any injuries or casualties in his in that compound and we dont know who could have been responsible for that attack but we have heard from various sources saying that there was an attempt on his life that is because there are some other the shia cleric in najaf now this happened after many of those demonstrators who were attacked just behind me here. In the square overnight they were demanding protection from Government Forces and there were no effort there was no Government Security to protect these protesters and that is when most other us souther called on has military wing of his party to come to the rescue of these protesters that is what theyve been tellin
The University Community is very thrilled. There was a water on one hot off. We are very actually i think the great thing and i think great show that we can do. Right at. The breakers here is what can be done but we have our back were going to get it back taken during the obama. We got a back up and right away very happy. Story told was between north korea and the u. S. Show no sign of easing with pyongyang saying denuclearization is now off the table north koreas ambassador to the United Nations says washingtons efforts for ongoing dialogue was solely for its own domestic agenda the comments came after a 6 year pm countries condemned pyongyang last week for its 13 missile launches since may talks on denuclearization have been largely deadlocked since a summit between donald trump and kim jong un failed in february. The u. S. Defense secretary says he cant label a deadly shooting on a u. S. Naval base as terrorism on friday Saudi National mohammed decide some ronnie shot dead 3 of his