Editor david enrich talking about his book, the spider network. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are delighted that you are participating in the 11th annual savannah book festival presented by georgia power. David and nancy sin terror, the Sheehan Family foundation and mark and pat [inaudible] many thanks to jack and mary romanos for this glorious venue, the Trinity Baptist church. Wed also like to extend thanks to our individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. In fact, 90 of the revenue for the savannah book festival comes from donors just like you, so thank you. We are very excited to have a savannah book festival app available this year. Please look in your program for information on downloading it to your phone. Before we get started, please let me go over a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediately following this presentation, our speaker, david enrich, will be signing festivalpurchased copies of his book in telfair sq
And by being heard. We have about 25 minutes left. I can keep talking, but there are usually a lot of questions. [laughter] so im going to go ahead and take questions if you have them. If there arent any, i will keep going. Celeste, over here. Far back. Oh, i see you. Here. [laughter] a couple years ago you came to savannah, and you did a ted talk, and it was one of the best ever. Thank you. Thirteen million views, ladies and gentlemen. [laughter] [applause] tell us, if you would, something you learned doing a ted talk. Next time get a haircut and put on makeup. [laughter] [applause] that is what i learned. [laughter] other people will be watching this. Brush your hair. [laughter] yes. Oh, wait, they want me to here and here. Theyre going to bring you a microphone. [inaudible] okay. You talked a lot about the challenges to great conversations, but you didnt say anything specific about how to have great conversations. Well, thats because i wrote a book about it. [laughter] and it took m
In europe things are in the red. The dax and cac are down 0. 6 . The ftse off by 0. 8 . Knitly, sto ly in italy, stocks are down about a percent. Right now the dollar is up against the euro which is trading at 1. 0874. Down against the yen. And crude oil has been weakening even as the dollar had been struggling with issues. Wpi down abo wti down by 1. 43 . Have we shown the tenyear . No. I would show the tenyear. 2. 40. I will do a story in a second talking about fed speak again. Who cares about the fed anymore, theyre irrelevant, not at 2. 40. 2. 40. We were on our way again. We were on our way again theoretically to 2. 60, 2. 70, 3 . What does that say . Does that say 1 gdp number in the First Quarter stays at 1 . None of these things in the trump agenda come on time . Or big as expected . Are they delayed . Does trump care lite mean tax reform light . Or do we even get the taxes . So these ive never been in congress, i never will be. But theres a lot of kabuki dance. I understand th
Numbers that might be interesting, contributions from people, and he said see if there are particularly any from castro and cuba from mcgovern, but they were looking for anything obrien might have used to embarrass him. Heres one of the interesting things about watergate. So much credence is given to the fact that how could they be so stupid and foolish . Well, they were just that stupid and foolish. And they cant believe it z s ieekognu but 5 2 it was apparent, readily apparent, within you know, immediately. First you look at what necessary did at the ellsburg breakin. It was stupid and bungled as what happened at the watergate. It was james bond stuff, where they thought how could you walk in with an army of people to do what cat burglars normally do if youre working for a Foreign Espionage operation . When you discussed with mcgruder before his before his grand jury testimony, you talked to him. Some people used the word coached him. Did he tell you what happened . Absolutely. Absol
Prisoner dying of a heart attack 40 minutes into the idea ordeal. Then, senator Patrick Leahy blocks military aid to egypt while denouncing the sentencing of 683 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to death in what he called a sham trial. Nobody, nobody can justify this. It does not show democracy. It shows a dictatorship run amok. We will go to cairo to speak with democracy now correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous and to a member of the Muslim Brotherhood living in exile in england. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. An oklahoma death row prisoner has died of a heart attack after a botched execution tuesday night. Clayton lockett was injected elite with lethal drugs. Doctors halted the killing 13 minutes and when discovering he was still conscious and trying to speak. Dr. Say he suffered a ruptured vein interrupting the flow of the drugs. He died of a heart attack when the drugs had spread through his bo