Okay, i think all of you know dr. Kim, who has changed the world in so many ways. But lets just take a look. A physician, an anthropologist, president of the world bank since 2012. President of dartmouth college. World Health Organization head for hiv and aids efforts. Cofounder of partners in health, 1987. One, its an honor to have you with us tonight. My thanks so much for having me. By the way, the wyoming answer. I think part of it is the absence of Tertiary Health care centers relatively speaking, right . Massachusetts would never win it as a result. This is strategy. Next time, you want to sit at the same table with dr. Kim. Three Global Crisis that you spoke about. Conflict, endemics, impasse on people being forcibly displaced. Countries and nearly every region turning inward. International and homegrown terrorism. As you thought about what you wanted to seek at the meetings, why did you pick these three crises to start with . Well, you know, one of the things that i have notice
Fronts. But give us a grade for the president and tell us why. Ou can call us at 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats and independents. 2027488002. If you want to post on twitter, its twitter. Com cspanwj. About seven of you this morning so far, and on our facebook, at facebook. Com cspan. Ari fleischer who served in the george w. Bush administration has an oped talking about the president s first year. Too many flags in trumps first quarter, he says. To grade his performance in football termsen he deserves credit for moving the ball down the field over several different drives but he also committed so many unnecessary roughness penalties along with giving up one huge fumble that he may have to give up 200 yards to score one touchdown. Ari fleischer goes on to say but often mr. Trump runs himself too hot to handle. Host again, thats some of the comments from Ari Fleischer this morning when it comes to the president s year in office. Were asking you to give us the same.
Looks back on his 20 years in congress. Served in thet house of representatives as a republican representative from florida, and he is the author of the book life in the marble palace. This is Cliff Stearns. Good morning. Guest thank you for having me. Good morning. Host what was the goal of the book . Guest the goal of the book was to show some of the flaws of democracy, the positive things in democracy, and during the Tumultuous Times i served there was so much that occurred that showed the weakness of what we were doing. My book was talking about how can we improve democracy and also remind people of the great history of western civilization and what we have in this country, and try to move forward to a rebirth of democracy. Host im interested in your thoughts on the title. Follybtitle in praise of , what are you trying to accomplish their . Guest a restless wrote a book in in pursuit of folly, highly political, but it was moving toward the protestant reformation, and talking about
To show some of the flaws of democracy, the positive things in democracy, and during the Tumultuous Times i served there was so much that occurred that showed the weakness of what we are doing. My book was talking about how can we improve democracy and also remind people of the great history of western civilization and what we have in this country, and try to move forward to a rebirth of democracy. Host im interested in your thoughts on the title what are you trying to a couple should . Guest a restless wrote a book folly,n pursuit of highly political, but it was moving toward the protestant reformation, and talking about how much reform was needed. I use that title as a backdrop to really show how important it is to reform and change the way we do things in d. C. Onef there were 1 major step congress could take to reform, what could it be . Guest we should have a balanced budget every year. He saw recently we had a continuing resolution that moved us from september 2 december, and now
Up, and has recouped a lot of losses. Beenlso a big help has stocks trading at a record. As we see stocks here at the highs of the day, and you heard scarlet mention Warren Buffett, ts a cap Archer Hathaway s tradinghathaway higher on the session, and another story on apple that we will be discussing throughout the day is a scoop by our apple reporter sake company is prepared to release a trio of smartphones this year, the largest iphone ever and an upgraded iphone x and a less ed bets of model as well less expensive model. Of thes into the theme tech outperformance we have been watching in todays session. Semi conductors have been outperforming in todays session as well as tech continues to lead gains. There are of number of Telecom Conference is taking place this week so there is of announcements and commentary from this conference is. Volume has been declining to some extent. , you can see the year to date drop and recovery in the s p 500, but volume spiked while stocks were falling