Even sure President Trump has veto power over his tweets. No, donald, dont do it, youre crazy. Youre not the boss of me [ laughter ] President Trump had lunch with Vice President mike pence today at his golf club in new jersey. They would have played golf, but pence thinks getting it in the hole is a sin. [ light laughter ] [ applause ] in an interview, tuesday, white house adviser Steven Miller called President Trump the best orator in that office in generations. When reached for comments, trump said, wow, he say very nice things, he good and me good. Me orator. President trumps inauguration singer, whose sister is transgender, recently called the president s ban on transgender people in the military a disappointment. Well sounds like someone is not getting invited to sing at his impeachment. [ laughter and applause ] missed opportunity. [ cheers and applause ] a Japanese Company has created a new highend Fidget Spinner that they say can spin for more than 12 minutes. Beating the prev
Of congress, thank you david, the chairman of the festival, and we are going to have a little chat here just, a couple of old friends along with 1 million other new acquaintances here in the hall. Michael and i go way back and lets just start out talking youre an art history major at princeton, right, and then you go off to wall street and you do really, really well, michael, you could have been rich. [laughter] i mean, you could have your own plane at this point instead you went into the book business, tell us how that came about. So you know joe and i were classmates. This is an opportunity for joel toow express resentments he fee. Thats right. [laughter] yes. This is the project joel and michael. The fact that that, yeah. So the question is why i quit wall street . So i didnt know i i what i wand to do with my life, when i got out, you know, i didnt have any plan. It didnt occur to me. I think partly because of how i grew up. I grew up in new whar lanes where nobodyny really did any
Weve had 24 hours to chew over it, and now the battle really begins over the gop tax bill the draining swamp, uhuh. The swamp creatures are starting to move. The big Sticking Point could be a really tough sell for some republicans. The deduction of state and local taxes. President trumps twitter account deactivated by a departing employee, but twitter statements are now raising more questions than they have answered power lunch starts a little late but right now tyler, youre the braveheart of tv. Were getting those ten seconds back, baby are you with me . I am. Freedom im Brian Sullivan stocks are steady on this jobs day. The dow hit another record high earlier. The dow on track for an eighth straight week of gains, as tyler highlighted. Apple one of the big winners its big in the dow. Get this, investors have now made a 57 return on apple in just a year. Some of your big single stock stories today, starbucks rallying despite an outlook cut because Ceo Kevin Johnson telling us, cnbc, h
As a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite providers. Now on book tv we are live with bestselling author Michael Lewis. Mister lewis has written many books including liars poker, moneyball, the big short and most recently the undoing project, a friendship that changed our minds. Michael lewis, you are the author of more than a dozen bestselling books, what makes a good story in your mind, what do you look for . There is no formula. The question you just asked me, ive never really asked myself exactly. What lead me to want to write a book, you have to have a level of passion about it. Itsfinding usually, what it is , its finding an interesting person in an interesting situation that will allow me to work in an interesting idea. B. I feel like i just had to do this if i dont do it wont get done and it should be done because the story should be dealt with. In terms of like you asked me to go to lack a class of Journali
Exactly what leads me to want to write a book because their pain in the to do. Its finding if i look back on it is finding an interesting person in a situation that will allow me to explore interesting ideas. What almost always happens is i have lots of little projects stumbling along, magazine pieces of things im investigating. Become so interesting that i think wow, such a good story, have an obligation to tell it. Thats when it becomes a book. In terms of if you asked me to go to a class of students and give them a formula to how to write a good story, i went on how to begin. Host when did you decide you wanted to make be an arthur. My career path is something on the bottom of the tv screen that says to not try this at home. Is an art history major what i first wanted to do was be an art historian. I stumbled out of college and linda by accident on wall street. I got that job very accidentally without a great deal of intention. While i was working on my princeton thesis. It was effe