Ticker series, featuring prominent authors. Id like to thank everyone connect it was listener who helped to organize this evenings event. The guest of honor is done primarily of course for her Political Goals as first lady, u. S. Senator from new york in the 67th secretary of state. Shes also just published her fifth book and has several previous best sailors to her name. So added to the list of credits after Hillary Rodham clinton should certainly be accomplished author. Hard choices, her memoir about her four years as secretary of state recounts how she came to accept a cabinet position offered by her former political rival and led the effort to deny nations standing around the world. The book also reveals some of the last want cash, less battle hardened side of her not, like wimps in the public humor as come as selfdeprecating, maternal, maybe even grant maternal. Although hillary credits a small team of people for helping with the book, she carved out months on her calendar to writ
Jordan . If they do become democratic countries like egypt did briefly would that be better for us . Guest the question is not whether this is better for us or not. The ideal and the goal is a good one. The question is how do you get there and how long do you take it or what measures do you take . You mentioned egypt. Egypt was ready. Look at the United States. Were rewriting for an an election when the United States was formed to have everybody in the United States boat . Our founders didnt think so. They limited the people who could vote in an election. You say its horrible and terrible. Maybe it was maybe it wasnt that it was a decision that was made to make sure there was continuity and stability within government that was consistent with the values the government was founded upon. We cant go out and say the objective is a free election. I shouldve never been the objective. We have to work with individual situations to ultimately even though may take 100 years to get there but the
If that is a blue print for success, my first guess is following the blueprint down to the last millimeter. Christopher hiser also showed off his prototype, electric car, at pebble beach, a half Million Dollar super car. Like the tesla, it is built in Silicon Valley and runs on elect trons taking you to 0 to 60 in less than 3. 5 seconds. A graduate of carnegie melon and he has not spent a single day working for a detroit automaker. We now know him of smart news and introducing jenny wong of the charlotte observer. Thank you for being with us. You really are following teslas footprint. Is that because they did it right or because to investors and car buyers we can say its just like tesla. They did it right. If you look at tesla as a success story, they started with a vision to produce an outstanding product and then they worked within the confines of Silicon Valley and really leveraged what we do best, integration of software and hardware together and produced a car with an extremely sm
Also, the former boss of apple tells us why he thinks the United States will have to change the way taxes companies and oscarwinning actor but if the odell tauro benencio del toro tells us about slipping into the skin of pablo escobar. First, to East Jerusalem where a palestinian driver has deliberately rammed a car into a proud a crowd of pedestrians hurting several people. The tribe or went on to attack others with an iron bar before being shot dead by the holy spirit for more on this, lets bring in our jerusalem correspondent. What do we know about the attack echo . We know one person is dead. A number of people had gotten off the train and were waiting to cross the road. The dividing line in the supposedly united city, and this driver rammed into them as they were on their way across the road back to their barracks, to their base. He then kept driving until his car hit another car. When his vehicle was then his van could not go any further, he got out and took an iron bar and rent
Paris in world war ii. The book covers daily life in the 40s of occupation the underground resistance in the citys liberation by the allies. This is an hour. Good evening everyone. I think we would like to get started with tonights program. We do have cspan booktv tonight filming the talk was so we are really excited about that and we are grateful that so many people will be able to see the program this evening. To that end i just wanted to ask you please if you have questions in there will be a fairly long questionandanswer period we are going to pass the handheld microphone around so you can be heard on the podium. Therell be two of us looking for you. Indicate if you have a question we will come along and pass the mic. When you have it in your hand youll be able to ask the questions everybody in the audience will hear, so appreciate your cooperating with that request. I do want to say that its my pleasure to introduce professor and author Ronald Rosbottom who has read me recently wr