Benjamin, cofounder of code pink. Lovely to get the chance to interview you on a book i found fantastic. I read voraciously i think in one long sitting and found it absolutely fascinating. My first question to you is how in the world were you able to write this so quickly because you reference things that just happen in april and may and the book just came out. Thank you so much. Its great to speak with you and im glad that you enjoyed the book. It was a bit of a frenzy writing this book. I usually take about five years to write a book. That has been my average. By publishing a book about every seven years i give myself a little break up a fight for years. This book, i just wanted to get it out as quickly as possible. There are a couple of chapters in the book that are focused on what we should expect if there is a crisis in the United States, if there is an economic crisis were a major security crisis. And i felt so passionately that there needed to be some political Disaster Prepared
We begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. P and th r is goip is going to f carolina they ap they are nthey are this time. I cannot support this nomination. The historic showdown is looming over Supreme Court nomination of neal gorsuch. Never a partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee and well not start this week. President trump calling Vladimir Putin to offer his condolences in the wake of a deadly subway bombing. They identified the likely suspect. The suspected chemical weapons attack in syria, at least 58 people are reported to have been killed. Search for survivors in colombia is growing more desperate following a deadly mudslide. Time is clearly running out. Severe weather is battering the southern u. S. The damage is extensive with washed out roads and downed power lines. Heart stopping rescue. A supervisor jumped to the rescue after someone fell on the subway tracks. All that. The recovered Tom Brady Jersey was stolen again. Sort of. By gronk
The cac in france up by better than 1 . Ftse higher as well, 0. 7 . Crude oil prices raiding near sevenmonth highs. Check this out up another 1 to 49. 07. Getting back to 50 a barrel. The gains that came yesterday, showed that u. S. Crude stocks dropped by 5. 1 million barrels. Double than what was expected. Well get the eia figures later today. Lets get you to other big stories. St. Louis fed president jim bullard saying june rate hike isnt set in stone. Arguing that labor data suggests its time to pull the trigger. Obviously, weve tried to be dat datadependent. I dont think theres any reason to prejudge the june meeting. We can wait until we get to the meeting and judge the data there. I think on the issue of press conferences we have made many moves over the years without press conferences so i think we could make a move without a press conference in it this circumstance. As for the risk of brexit and the chance that the uk could vote the uk vote could give the fed some pause, bulla
So ambassador Melanne Verveer is founder of the seneca woman, and executive director of georgetown womens peace and security. In 2009 president obama appointed her as the first ever United States ambassador at large for global womens issues. She is cofounder of vital voices come an International Nonprofit that invest in emerging Women Leaders. Kim azzarelli is also a founder of the seneca women and is cofounder and chair of the cornell law schools Avon Global Center for women and justice. She is a legal corporate and Philanthropic Advisor and has held senior positions in Companies Including newsweek, babies, Goldman Sachs and avon. Moderating this evening we are very pleased and very excited to introduce jill abramson, lecture at harvard and former executive editor of the New York Times, and quite icon in journalism. She spent the last 17 years in the most senior editorial positions at the New York Times where she was the first woman to serve as Washington Bureau chief managing editor
The first, monday, september 26, on the campus of Wright State University in dayton, ohio. The second debate on a sunday, october 9th, 2016. At Washington University in st. Louis, missouri, and the third and final debate on wednesday. One Vice President ial debate on tuesday, october 4th, 2016, in farmville, virginia. Joining us on the phone this cochair of the commission on president ial debates. Ty for being here. Pleasure. What led to these four universities . Well, in the 2728 years we have been doing this, we do the year before the debates, we send out to all the colleges and universities in the country in effect a request for bid. We indicate to them what they have to do, what they have to produce. So many hotel rooms within a certain area because of the reporters there, and then we get in bids elm originally narrow what we lad for this year or next year, down to 16 schools. And then we have a team of technological people, camera people, lighting people, et cetera, who go out, so