Mississippi in the 18th century. Enjoy book tv this week and every weekend on cspan2. My name is karen greenberg. Thank you so much for joining us here at the center on National Security at fordham law. Were delighted to be bringing you this afternoons conversation. With me today is chris whipple, Award Winning author, journalist, documentary maker. His new book is the spy masters. Can you see it . How the cia director shaped history and the future. And well talk a lot about this book today. First, i just want to say, thank you, chris, thank you for joining us. A pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. This is actually a wonderful read. When i started it, i was sort of like, oh, no, this is going to be too much information, i wont be able to take it in. Its fantastic. Its based on, in addition to your own knowledge and research, its based on over 70 interviews and youve interviewed, among those, the leading directors of the cia. Living directors of the cia. Except for the current on
Redirected to the website and the next Virtual Event and you can learn more of the upcoming Virtual Events as well as showing up on comcast so let me briefly introduce our speakers for tonight. Susan huff lose the Research Seismologist at the Us Geological survey in pasadena. Serving as an editor and contributor for many journals and contributing editor to the magazine and board of directors of the Seismological Society of america as well as a Southern California quake center and the author of five books including henry history here tonight he covers Climate Change and innovation is needed to overcome it. For ten years he wrote about Research Findings with a weekly column and the author of the great quake about the 1964 alaskan earthquake. So now i will turn the screen over to our speakers and enjoy the talk. Thank you. Way to be here. Thank you for being here. Im excited about this even event, living in a Virtual World right now along with everybody else, but it has long been my favor
My name is Katie Willard and im part of the event staff here at politics and prose. Before we begin, i would like to go over a few quick announcements. First, please silence your cellphones and other noise making devices. Not only is it courteous to the author, but we are also on cspan tonight. So you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. Secondly, during our question and answer portion, in the interest of our video and audio recording, if you could come up to the microphone right here by the white pillar. That wave, we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. And lastly, once everything is done, if you could please pull up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight, i am pleased to introduce jared cohen to politics and prose. Cohen is the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet ink as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. He has written sever
Market including jobs of the trumpet ministration are doing we will soon be in record territory all they want to discuss is couvade 90 you know for one side agree mr president lets discuss the u. S. Economy and our friends on wall street in fact just last week the Federal Reserve released its legal latest triennial study into consumer and Household Finances and according to Mint Press News the report found that quote millionaires and billionaires hold a remarkable 79. 2 percent of the United States Household Wealth 2 and then only 11. 9 percent of american households have at least 1000000. 00 in wealth to their name only 11 only 12 percent roughly but but what about wall street us that that magical mystical place that realm of power here in the United States well truth is wall street means. Very little to most americans as a political political reports that the reality is that the wealthiest one percent of americans own 50 percent of the value of stocks held by individual households an
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