The happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. I want to give you a version of what ive been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. Will present this room as a las vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us led headed thinkers turned into gold tone scholars and teachers picture a process of something that works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes class mates once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little because money came to yale to study with harlem are a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that racked up group of students in american studies. clapping not a cold or exactly but we did become friends, puzzling over readings, yawning over brilliant, but sometim
if he s on tv, i m lying. i had a stroke, he never let me forget that. john fett terman takes everything to an extreme and those extreme positions hurt us all. just how much information the justice department wants particularly about information with the trump party. we likely have a recession in the u.s. everything is going up except our income. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. hello, it s wednesday, october 26th. 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. u.s. election day now less than two weeks away. democrats are on the defensive, desperate to keep their ever so slim majority. arizona georgia, nevada could alter the balance of power. voters know this. the mid-terms of 2018 had the highest early voter turnout. these are the issues, americans want the federal government to address inflation and unemployment. crime is also a top concern. economic issues are getting a heavy play in pennsylvania where the country s
ready to face-off. cnn is live in pennsylvania for the debate showdown between john fetterman and dr. mehmet oz. also tonight, president biden is warning russia that it would be a serious mistake to use a tactical nuclear weapon, vladimir putin raising new fears about his war plans as moscow doubles down on its disputed claim that ukraine is planning to deploy a dirty bomb. and corporate america turns on kanye west for his antis-semitic remarks. we ll take a closer look at the impact as adidas and the gap cut ties with the controversial rapper also known as yay. welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. let s get straight to the midterm countdown right now. we re just, what, two weeks, two weeks out from election day. candidates in a slew of pivotal contests preparing to clash in high stakes debates tonight with millions of voters already casting their ballots early. cnn congressional correspondent jes
Ebook and 5 off lit fest merchandise. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. T if theres time at the end for a q a session with the author, we ask you to use the microphone locateed to your right. Before we begin todays program, we ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off yourdi cameras flashes. Please welcome associate professor at the university of chicago and todays interviewer, jean daley. [applause] hi, thank you. I am here with david daley, no relationing, who is the no relation, who is the editorinchief of salon and has published this new book. Theres been some controversy on how to say the title, but i think im just going to say rat fd. So thats quite a story. You tell us a bit about how you came to write the story. Absolutely, thank you. What really interested me was my own confusion over what happened in 2012. You have a president who was reelected with 332 electoral votes by 206, wins the popular vote by some 3. 5 million, the democrats take 25 of
Mojave desert, about 42 Million People every year visit the city for its many casinos, shows and restaurants. With the help of our Cox Communications cable partners, for the next two hours well learn about the history of the city and tap into the literary scene here with local authors. We begin our special feature with its former mayor, Oscar Goodman. Mayor goodman, how did you become a lawyer for the mob . Oh. The refuted mob, of course. All by accident. Its the most amazing thing in the world. I came out to las vegas with my beautiful wife in 1964 and, basically, i would take anything after i passed the bar that would walk in the door. I had a motto in my office where theres a fee, theres a remedy. And carolyn was, believe it or not, one of the first card counters even they they didnt call them that at that time. And my dad sent us 25 a week for pleasure. We couldnt use it for rent, for gasoline, it had to be for pleasure. So we went out to a place called the charcoal room at the Hac