own republican party of putting together a dossier of what he called totally made up claims linking him to russia. in a series of tweets the president elect described those behind the allegations as sleazebags . from washington, nick bryant reports. there are storylines that could easily come from a cold war spy thriller and plot twists involving sex allegations and potential russian blackmail that even the tv series house of cards might baulk at. but this is reality, not a show, and the first episode of trump the presidency airs in just one week s time. at trump tower, he has been commending his nominees, many of whom who have been fiercely critical this week of russia. i could have said do this, do that, i don t want to do that. i want them to be themselves. before dawn came a gale force twitter storm: footage has emerged of christopher steele, the former mi6 officer who produced the dossier at an event at cambridge university. he is now in hiding, apparently fearing f
have you always been a reader? yes, i have always been a reader. science fiction has always been ply favorite followed by the political thriller genre. does it help you in your work here? it it helps me unwind. there is a lot of reading to be done here but it is all bills and reports and non-fiction. one is the redistribution by the university of chicago professor who dives into the incentives that show americans not to work too hard. the other is the scandal of money by george guilder. he is from wealth and poverty. it deals with the federal reserve is right now making the wealthier people better off but the policies over the last six years in particular have kind of hurt the average guy. .. this week on q&a, robert kaplan. mr. kaplan discusses his book, in europe s shadow: two cold wars and a 30-year journey through romania and beyond. c-span: you start in the proto logging by talking about books prologue by talking about books. why? guest: because i th
books about them to explain their past. those books be due to other books. often very obscure ones. we travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. the relationship between travel and good books is inextricable brian:. why a book about romania? robert: i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. brian: 1973? robert: my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. i stayed in youth hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. weaverey taught me reading that all these countries were the same. what i found in 1973 was at they were all extremely different from each other because even communism could not erase their ethnic histories, geographies, cultures. really start not my session with romania. that happened later. it happened in 1981. in the fall. i was getting out of the israeli defense forces. i was in jerusalem. , a seeminglyk obs
those books be due to other books. often very obscure ones. we travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. the relationship between travel and good books is inextricable. brian: why a book about romania? robert: i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. brian: 1973? robert: my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. i stayed in youth hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. that journey taught me that all these countries were the same. what i found in 1973 was at they were all extremely different from each other because even communism could not erase their ethnic histories, geographies, cultures. that trip did not really start my session with romania. that happened later. it happened in 1981. in the fall. i was getting out of the israeli defense forces. i was in jerusalem. i found a book, a seemingly obscure book by a cana
announcer: tonight on the communicators, we will examine the communications act with two of its chief authors will stop jack fields and senator edward markey. the two will discuss whether the act is outdated and whether it should be rewritten. words like google and hulu are popular today, but they were not there before the app. moved not only our own country but the world from analog to digital and our goal was to take away the lines of demarcation that prevented competition. the competitive forces, it created the investment that was able to bring us to this world debate. announcer: watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. next q&a coming up with robert kaplan. then, the washington journal. andill talk about the life legacy of nancy reagan, who died yesterday at the age of 94. announcer: this week, robert kaplan. mr. kaplan discusses his book, in europe s shadow: two cold wars and a thirty-year journey through romania and beyond. brian: robert