My name is Wayne Winegarden am a senior fellow with the Pacific Research institute. For those who aware pride, were a think tank advance free market policy across a number of areas health care, education we have a whole new free cities project. You can learn about all of these and more at pacific dot org. Okay. I just mentioned today really honored to have with us a New York Times bestselling author and as she to say, a recovering invest ment banker, a carol roth. And we will also welcome your questions. So please any questions you have for carol about fantastic book please and to those in the chat box and were going to try to get to those at toward the end of our are our together and carol you know youve written really what is an incredibly its an important book its provocative its also especially the title its terrifying and you will own nothing but the book is you really just also correct me if im wrong the point of the book is youre trying to help people be aware of these trends an
The wet roadway for a crash that killed one person when a vehicle flipped. The wind and rain had trees whipping around during the heaviest downpour this afternoon. As we look at downtown San Francisco, if we could pull that up, we do know that the sky there you go, you see right there still heavy with the thick storm clouds. What to expect through the night, meteorologist drew tuma is standing by. Yeah. And were going see another round of rain move in the overnight hours, starting to see that moisture approach our coastline even right now. Live doppler 7 showing you we have green on the screen. A couple of areas even in the bay area seeing light showers, mainly in the hills. You zoom in a little closer on live doppler 7, in the east bay hills, along parts of the peninsula, light showers at this hour. What were watching, theres a line of rain approaching your re eureka and even yukiah. We have a couple of lightning strikes being detected. So a thunder shower is not out of the question.
Correspondent daniel new howser and congressional reporter pitterson, later anthony from the center for strategic and International Talk about the Foreign Policy challenges that are facing in 2018. Social media. But voters, wed, should make it a priority that basic knowledge pertaining to our government. Amy says it helps. I have learned so much from the social media. I can adjust my opinion to include new facts. Ive change my mind is some because of conversations with people online. One more from saul. A lot of people do not care about the research, it hurts, they end up spreading false information. That is a sampling of the discussion on our facebook page. Here is a poll. Different wording, but same idea, this is from surveymonkey from october, asked whether social media does more to help, promote democracy and free speech or does more to hurt it. 51 surveyed in the late october poll said it did more to her democracy, 45 said it did more to help. Large majorities among hispanics and
Hart this path through the challenges ahead in 2018, the president setting the agenda some tweets. With this was the tweet just after 7 00 this morning talking about iran. The people of iran are acting iranian regime. All the money president obama oolishly gave them went into terrorism and their pockets. Eople have little food, big inflation. The u. S. Is watching. A lot to unpack there. Iranian protest, do you agree with the president s read there of why the protests are happening . Guest i think we need to be ery careful, a lot of the protests do seem to be a reaction to economics, it is not lacking food or is a opportunities, it failure to do reform, to provide jobs and income people need and want. It is the fact inflation, as president pointed out deprived savings, their opportunities, it is a very oung country, where young people have stated unemployment of population that may be higher. These are critical factors. Are certainly many liberal that want more socie society, that are
Continuing through 2018, we mark the 50th anniversary of americas war in vietnam. In 1960 seven, hundreds of thousands of troops were on the ground in vietnam, while at home voices became more vocal. There was a large cohort of the baby boomer generation that the culture during the summer of love. To learn about these events, we now turn to to todays guest, book 1967,ks and his the year of fire and ice. Mr. Brooks is an internationally recognized author with 14 books on history. s passion for these areas of research and dates back to his childhood when the Brooks Family visited gettysburg in europe. In addition, dr. Brooks is a professor and received an undergraduate degree in history from Lasalle University and earned his masters and doctors of education degree from the university of pennsylvania. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome victor brooks. [applause] victor thank you so much for coming today. I am very honored that all of you could take from your schedules to listen to me. A