Away from the alltime record high, there you have it the worlds most valuable company, apple the stock is up again, the worlds most innovative dynamic seller, amazon the stock is up again. The market, that is digested a lot of Bank Earnings already, goldman did very well in the dow is looking at 80point gain and look at the nasdaq up about 26, 27point again, i see a lot of green this wednesday morning. Heres the headline dueling townhouse tomorrow night instead of a second debate, mr. Trump working with nbc, joe biden working with abc, obvious question why not reinstate the debate, the Electoral Commission really blew it by insisting on virtual. Did you see Speaker Pelosi getting rattled on cnn, in primetime will blitzer asked her what was wrong with the president 1. 8 trillion stimulus plan, why not pick up the phone, call the president and make a deal. She became very flustered and accused blitzer and his colleagues of being an apologist for republicans. Have you ever watched online
Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families
Watch. Give us your reaction to what were hearing from bob woodward. Despite what you heard on that tape, they began to move the operation of government, they ultimately mobilized private industry to have ventilators, at one time there was a real fear we would have a shortage of those. Going to have a vaccine faster than anytime in the history of the world. Maria your reaction to this pause in the Covid Vaccine at astrazeneca. Well, you know, this is one of the reasons why Clinical Trials are done. This is an indication theyre being done safely. Maria we will see another stimulus package, mark . I do believe well see that. If we would just listen to the American People and meet those needs like the president of the United States is doing. Maria do you believe we see more guilty pleas in addition to kevin klein smith . The challenge has always been who ordered the kill shot, so to speak. So clearly, there was a conspiracy here. This wasnt just dreamt up by a good old fbi agent that was
We dont know who the architect was who did that expansion and who built the bell tower. Tragically, latrobe had already died at that time. He had died in new orleans. And i imagine there might be some historians in the room. And if anyone is interested in helping us solve the mystery, we would love to know. The bell tower is very beautiful addition to the church and inside the bell tower, it houses a bell that was forged by paul reveres son, joseph revere. Stamped on it, it says 1822 boston revere. Its not the only revere bell that came to washington, but it is the only one that is still in its place and being youd for its oernlg purpose. Its interesting, too, to think about this building. This is the only building on Lafayette Square that goes back to the era that it goes back to, that is still being used for the purpose for which it was built more than 200 years later. And im very happy to say that we are open most days of the week and we welcome anybody who likes to come in and just
How easily i could be turned into a twodimensional cartoon. In walks my dad, and i said,es oh, welcome, mr. Ent. He said, thank you, mr. President. Rubinstein oh, it must have been something. Woman would you fix your tie, please . Rubinstein well, people wouldnt recogni, me if my tie was fixt ok. [woman chuckles] st leave it this way. All right. I dont consider myself a journalist, and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have aa ay job of runninivate equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that mas somebody tick . Rubinstein youre now both former president s,d, um, uh, whats the difference between being a former president and president . Now, one day, you have the nuclear codes,yo you can send Nuclear Bombs off, everody is working for you, and the next day, when you leave office, you have no power. What was the trans . [audience chuckles] bu hit em with the song. Clinton nobody plays a song wh