quickly, how are you feeling? how are all of you feeling now? well, i will start. we ll go from there. it s beautiful. i never felt as proud in my life. i think i m proud as egyptian. i m proud as american. i m proud as a human being. yasmin? exhilarated. exhilarated? absolutely. just standing there in the living room watching cnn on tv and wishing with every fiber of my body that i was in cairo even though i m not egyptian. but for that moment we were all egyptian. exactly. and it just unbelievable. ali? same thing. you are going through the history and the making of history, watching history unfold before your eyes. you cannot think it s real. but it s real. okay. it s amazing. so we have libya, syria, egypt represented here. yes. you re watching the situation happening in algeria.
addresses. his new book is my fellow americans. david frum was a speech writer for george w. bush and has written two state of the union addresses for the former president. gentlemen, its great to have you here. thank you so much. our pleasure. describe to us what is likely happening in the white house tonight. what are the speech writers doing? this is the last night of a month s long process. they are probably on their 20th draft. they re making change after change, and they re probably checking every word. because when you write one of these state of the unions, it s not only supposed to sound good, but each word costs money. if something is a priority instead of the priority, that s a billion dollar difference. are they exhausted? exhilarated? well, different white houses have different styles. the bush white house, where the trains ran very tightly on time, i think a little more tightly on time than the clinton white house, right now this would be a time for rehearsing
we re pulling from 60 inch pipes, hudson river water, all the way underneath battery park city. underneath 9a into the chamber, a two 60-inch pipe that necks down to 48 and 32. shepard: look how big these are. for real! it is just as you can see, a massive, massive water works project under ground here. this has to work for the next 100 years. shepard: from the basement we take a lift up the side of one world trade. our destination, what they call the top of the house. we re 31 floors, top of the house. shepard: how do you feel about this. this is where i get exhilarated. the city thinks about itself in terms of skyscrapers and when i stand up here and realize we re only on 31 and the tower is going to 104. it will be an
it was a shouting match when it failed to pass in the summer. 160 republicans voted for it today. those who didn t say they re worried about the $7 billion price tag. the senate is still working on its own version of the bill so it s not a law yet. rise of freedom. our cameras have been following workers who are rebuilding ground zero for months. if you haven t seen it lately, you haven t seen it. i recently got a look at some amazing progress they re making at what will be the new one world trade center. the tallest building in this country. this is where i really get exhilarated. i mean, the city thinks of itself in terms of skyscrapers. when i stand up here and realize we re only on 31 and this tower is going to 104, this is going to be an incredible building. 104 stories and now at 31, we ll have the full story for
inner circle of advisers. or how mad he remains at his own attorney general and his deputy attorney general. or that he said what he said about alec baldwin this week. he seems to be angrier at him than putin. can you believe this white house exodus. look at how isolated the president appears. can you believe the mess jared kushner is in. can you believe president trump wants him out of the west wing? can you believe what the chief of staff john kelly is saying right now. can you believe how many white house controversies are flying under the radar. conflicts of interest and cabinet controversy and steppy business arrangement, and suspicious stock trades and so on. and whether you are shocked at all of this or saddened, exhilarated or exhausted or confused or over joyed or apathetic, can you believe this white house? seriously, can you believe it? i m joined by the panel. bill crystal, susan glasser and