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From nbc news in washington, the worlds longest running news program. This is meet the press. Thats one of our key jobs, helping to restore american faith, what the stock market is all about. I have a certain vision for what this country is going to be for my kids. That gives me purpose. Optimistic yesterday, but we dont yet see an agreement. Now the pressure is on congress to produce. If they dont, what ive said is that in the senate, we should go ahead and introduce legislation that would make sure middle class taxes stay where they are and there should be an up or down vote. Everybody should have a right to vote on that. If republicans dont like it, they can vote no. But i actually think theres a majority support for making sure the middle class families are held harmless. If you go over to cliff, whats the impact on the markets which have been pretty confident now it would get done . Its hard to speculate on the market, but obviously, i think business and investors will feel more n
She played an amalgam of maybe about a woman who just got caught after 30 years [inaudible] susan something or other. Went back in the joint. So patty plays one of these women who was a terrorist and has been in jail and is up for parole hearing, and the person who has been her parole officer, played by debra winger, is interrogating her, trying to decide whether to let her go or not. I think its pretty cute. Youre going to leave humming selections from marx. And who could ask for anything more. Thank you very much. Plawps plawps block. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] block. Thank you everyone. Get home safely. Good night. Good night. For more information visit the authors web site. David mamet. Com. Up next on book tv, after afterwards with. This week, filmmaker oliver stone and peter kuzck sunday the untold history of the United States and they say the leaders must first face the countrys troubling history of drifting further away from its democratic traditions. One or bo
Bomb and it always fascinated me because i was born the year after it dropped, and a controlled and my father was republican and conservative and served in world war ii with eisenhower. So obama everything we did was in the shadow. I was curious about it. He said the story does have another origin and he went into the 1930s and hes written a book about the scientists but above all he mentioned a figure in 1944 he was bumped by the political bosses. And that led of course to the 45 decision by truman so now we begin the origin of the current idea for the documentary or movie and he wrote the script, it didnt work for me, but that story the other day he is still teaching the class and we decided to go ahead and do a documentary. Not one hour turned into a bigger, our arms were bigger than our stomachs and i think we tried for 12 Hours National Security State story from 1940s to now in the expansionary war and ended up in 2012 but we started in the series now the book we decided this is g
Thank you. Thank you for that great introduction. Welcome, everyone. Now in its 30th year. I mean, lets hear it. Mitchell kaplan. Doris goodwin and scabbard. Its so wonderful to have you here. Welcome to miami. Our premier annual cultural event. Is good to have the year. In most of the bucks about president ial. And really, it was started by the roosevelt because he is known as teddy. And so how did he start the progressive era jack what propelled him to act . And what were his successes that are still with us today . I may, indeed, teddy. He did not like to be called teddy. He lost that battle with history. Teddy roosevelt came into power at a time when the aspects of the Industrial Age have not been dealt with. There was no compensation. Women and children were exported in the factories. Huge monopolies. The gap between rich and the poor and grown wider. Sounding somewhat familiar to situations today. The digital revolution may have produced a similar kind of economic change. Even th