Roy dable care act and moores victory last night in Republican Senate primary. He goes to general election in december. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. 2027488002. What does it all mean . Story do you want to talk about . Both . Give us a rang this morning. The star this morning out of alabama. Senate ps strange in runoff there. Roy moore with his mother eading to the polling place in alabama yesterday, ahead of that Senate Republican primary race. Nominee to face emocrat doug jones in the december general election. Then lead story, front page of New York Times this morning, to undoans drop measure the Health Care Law short of votes, mcconnell says g. O. P. Shift to overhaul of the tax code, those are the two pages of a ng front lot of National Papers today. Let us know what you think. Fort lauderdale, line for democrats, youre up first. Caller thank you. With republicans is the only thing theyre interested is in tax cuts for is what is going on now. They are being thre
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From our studios in new york, this is charlie rose. John micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge are here. They are the the economist magazines editorinchief and its management editor. After their 2005 bestseller, the right nation, we have written a new book. It is called, the fourth revolution the global race to reinvent the state. The Current Crisis of governments in the wests they argue are part of larger changes to nation states around the world. I am pleased to have them at this table. Welcome. What brought this book about . Because of the job i do, you wander round the world seeing politicians similar to the things you do. You begin to detect something. There is the sort of contest going on to reinvent government. What is really interesting, throughout the west, you have this series of elections. Huge amount of people are going to vote for people in anger and fury. In america you have the midterms that are similarly unpopular. There is apathy. Everyone keeps thinking politics is never
Stephen levitt and Stephen Dubner with their new book called think like a freak. What i find is truly smart people, in my view, the smartest people are the ones who can explain whats going on in their thought processes. Were surrounded by people who are putitively really smart and you ask them why theyre thinking and they try. But really smart people can explain it. One of the most important things is to say i dont know, to not think you have the answers. As an academic i dont know anything. Ming mick, wooldridge, levitt and dubner when we continue. Theres a saying around here you stand behind what you say. Around here, we dont make excuses, we make commitments. And when you cant live up to them, you own up and make it right. Some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where its needed most. But i know youll still find it, when you know where to look. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our stu
Dubner with their new book called think like a freak. What i find is truly smart people, in my view, the smartest people are the ones who can explain whats going on in their thought processes. Were surrounded by people who are putitively really smart and you ask them why theyre thinking and they try. But really smart people can explain it. One of the most important things is to say i dont know, to not think you have the answers. As an academic i dont know anything. Ming mick, wooldridge, levitt and dubner when we continue. Theres a saying around here you stand behind what you say. Around here, we dont make excuses, we make commitments. And when you cant live up to them, you own up and make it right. Some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where its needed most. But i know youll still find it, when you know where to look. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this