Sister is a lot more intricate and complicated than a plutocracy. Thank you for your questions. [applause] like i said before, were going to do with a book signing that will start right here. And then if you want to go on, we will be glad to sign the book. [inaudible conversations] you are watching the tv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv is television for serious readers. This weekend on booktv, indepth with a former congressman and president ial candidate who discusses his book from 12 to 3 00 p. M. Eastern. On after words, the governments desired to monitor and control the public is greater than ever before and she talks of her white house chief Information Officer theresa payton. And visit our booktv cities to her and you also see books about the millennial generation and the life of author harper lee. All of this and much more. Forty hours of nonfiction books and authors on cspan2. The tv is television for serious readers. Next, Karen Elliott ho
To cspan2 on november 19. Next, roz chast, cant we talk about something more pleasant of down with booktv at Pepperdine University to discuss her book on saudi arabia. In the book she provides an inside look at the history and culture and politics of saudi arabia, which he has covered as a reporter for 30 years. This interview is a part of booktv college series. Now joining us is Karen Elliott house. She has written a book about saudi arabia, she has reported on our country for years and years. And before we get into this on your book on saudi arabia. , how did you become publisher of the wall street journal . I went from matador, texas, population 900 to the university of texas in austin from their to the Dallas Morning News for one year covering education for their Washington Bureau and i got hired there by the wall street journal. And i was a reporter and ultimately a Foreign Editor and president of the International Operations and then publisher of the wall street journal. Host how
Guest im actually teaching a course out here in the school of Public Policy on saudi arabia, a subject about which i wrote the book, and they invited me to teach, and i have never actually taught. But it was great fun. The semester is coming to a close here pretty soon, but it was a lot of fun. Host what did you learn as a teacher there your students . Be from your students . Guest they ask things, they clearly have a, you know, a perspective i dont have since im three times their age. [laughter] so, you know, thats probably the most interesting thing, just seeing what young people are interested in and the way they look at something. Host whens the first time you went to saudi arabia . Guest 1978. When i became Diplomatic Correspondent for the wall street journal. I had never been to the middle east, and sadat had just been to jerusalem, so that was, the middle east was kind of the hottest, even more than the soviet Union Foreign policy issue. So i bought myself an excursion ticket fo
Sport news including nadal no lack of confidence as he races through the first round of the first grand slam of the year in the australian open. But we start with a situation in yemen which appears to have intensified, the country has seen frequent battles between houthis and forces loyal to hadi and we heard reports he has flown from the president ial palace we think by helicopter and the Prime Ministers convow has been attacked and gun battles on going between yemen Army Soldiers and houthi fighters who took control of sanaa and there was a short lived lived hiasis with gun battle an hour later and we will go to the editor and chief of the yemen post and can you bring us up with the situation . You have been telling us over the last couple of hours how the situation has deteriorated. I personally went and drove by to see the situation by myself and the roads were empty with gunman on the streets and my vehicle was almost shot at and its very tense right now. You cannot see troops the
So they didnt know they were used to working with this systems in must heavier gravity how these fluid would settle down and stay settled. This is thunder concern. So buzz is there playing like a piano to get everything settled; and it worked out better than they anticipated because they told us a big lie. They said, when they first land we are going to give them fourhour rest and sleep period. And i said, you go all that way and touch down on the first place other than earth, you want to get the hell on the moon as soon as you can and grab at least a handful of dirt, and when i told neil that, he laughed and said youre absolutely right. We wanted to get out host but the sleep period was large lay planning. Guest to keep the press from speculating on, theyve got problems here and this and that and playing up these stories. Thats why they used that ruse. I did a story about what you didnt know about the map walk in 2008 or township, and we put it on msnbc. Com. Two million hits. Still a