His comic strip has attained the status of a Great American institution. Four 45 years he has spared no public figure or illconceived policy in a unique satiric approach to political commentary. He stands alongside such legendary cartoonist such as our next panelist, jeweled pfeifer jules feiffer. Jules feiffer brilliantly probing iconoclastic cartoons for 42 years, author of 35 books, he has written novels plays, movie scripts and an acclaimed biography. He received a george polk award way back in 1961. He said to the other men that that was the first major award that he had received. It took our colleagues another 25 years to recognize this man with a pulitzer prize. His work has cut across multiple our next guest, django gold has had work cut across multiple art forms. She has gone to Guantanamo Bay drawn Guantanamo Bay, and rebels in syria. The guardian has recognized her as Hieronymus Bosch and Cirque Du Soleil and i would also add friends is going and lenny bruce to the mix. Djan
Jules five for brilliantly probing iconoclastic cartoons for 42 years. Author of 35 books. He has written plays, movie scripts, and in autobiography. He received a george will george polk award way back in 1961. He said to the other men that that was the first major award that he had received. It took our colleagues another 25 years to recognize this man with a pulitzer prize. His work has cut across multiple our next guest, django gold has had work cut across multiple art forms. She has gone drawn Guantanamo Bay, and rebels in syria. The guardian has recognized her as Hieronymus Bosch and Cirque Du Soleil and i would also add friends is going and lenny bruce to the mix. Django gold will not be with us, he got stuck in chicago with bad weather. Our moderator is a distinguished journalist, and all i will say about him is that he wrote an article in 1971 that mentioned a interested a man named steve jobs and computers. I want to remind everybody please, if you have not already, please tu
Good morning, we begin with that desperate raid gone wrong. American journalist luke somers killed during a last minute rescue attempt. Held by al qaeda in yemen for more than a year. His captors promised to kill him this weekend. U. S. Special forces swooped in, but they were discovered at the last moment. And abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross has the details. The president gave the okay after intelligence reports said they were going to execute the 33yearold luke somers. It was a highrisk mission to begin with. Launched under an almost full moon from a u. S. Air base around 1 00 a. M. Local time. It was a very dangerous and complicated mission. But like always in these efforts, there is theres risk. Reporter some 40 commanders from the elite s. E. A. L. Team 6 landed six miles away from the al qaeda hideout to avoid being detected by the aircraft noise. The team made its way on foot to within 100 yards of the objective when a u. S. Counterterror source tells abc news
We bring you the results. Welcome to countdown. I am mark orton. Mark barton. We bring you the conversation you will not want to miss. Caroline it is a decisive week for greece and the greek minister begins with a visit to merkel. It is the second meeting in five days between the leaders. They failed to reach a deal last week at the european leader summit. 4 mark we will go to berlin shortly. The big story is taking place and there is a week of National Mourning. Five decades guiding the city. Tell us a bit about the the reaction to the mood. The news of his death is difficult to process for many. He was in Critical Condition for several days. The government kept the nation updated and was preparing for the eventuality. Until last night, young and old showed affection for the founding father. Many gathered at the hospital. Social media had an outpouring of condolences and tributes came from around the world. They knowledge the huge loss. The minister called him one of the greatest lead
Enough recognition as a metric for a failure. Maybe that was part of it. Its urged to implement this amazing vision and the slowness of society relative to his own life lock. On the recognition side, i think we should never use the recognition we get as a measure of success, ever. I think its a big mistake. If you do this, you the true innovators are the true recognizers. Recognition itself in my opinion is plainly the wrong metric. As is money. The real question for me is always, how much do you affect peoples lives to the better in the future. In that case, its fair to say that he was probably ahead of his time. He was the first. He invented whole bunch of things to use everyday. All things we share have massively influenced people. It massively influenced people. He put things out that people would pick up. If he was around today, i would say hey, you have a symposium in your honor. Another story occurs to me that your comment brought up one of my sort of weird illnesses that i coll