Your headlines with. Tamsin pep. Thank you and good afternoon from the newsroom. At 12 01, its trail has dropped leaflets in gaza warning residents to move for their own safety and to distance themselves from Hamas Terrorists who they say are using civilians as human shields. 1. 1 million residents have been told to move to the south within the next 24 hours for their own safety. The united naļ¬ons their own safety. The United Nations says such a move is impossible without devastating humanitarian consequences. The humanitarian consequences. The first minister of scotland and humza yousaf has posted a video on social media today from his mother in law. A retired nurse whos in gaza. Everybody from whos in gaza. Everybody from gazais whos in gaza. Everybody from gaza is moving towards where we are. Are. 1 Million People, no food , no 1 Million People, no food, no water, and still theyre bombing them as they leave. Where are we them as they leave. Where are we going to put them . But my
Program this purports to be tom friedman. [laughing] tom ace young but it still looks like hes accelerating in reverse in that photo. Tom has spent his life getting out into the world doing the research and speaking to people and every station of life, in every walk of life, and around the planet. The result is something quite different from the cynicism and snark and aggression we encounters often today in todays media universe. What we get instead is a pair of rarities, insight and wisdom. They are the products of real reporting and serious reflection. A themselves, all too rare. Those qualities can be found in his previous bestselling books and youes can find them again in toms latest. Thank you bring late. When the editor in chief of bloomberg and the former editor of the economist wrote his review of his book for the New York Times he rightly observed it is hard to think of any other journalist who has explained as many complicated subjects to so many people. Among the central sub
There you just heard the u. S. President donald trump make the announcement that the United States will leave the paris climate accord. We have a team of reporters around the world. You can adjust car live at the white house. Lets start with nathan. Trump has some pretty critical comments about the deal itself saying it was unfair, a bad deal for the United States. He also had something to say about china. Where do we start. What a speech. It is an America First speech and the strongest weve seen from President Trump so far. I think it can be encapsulated in one line, i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris and youre absolutely right, laying into countries like china, saying that china could continue increasing its admissions for another 13 years until 2030 while the u. S. Has to bring down its emissions. Basically saying the same about india, it can build hundreds of coal fired power plants over the life of the agreement while the u. S. Cant. He called it a ma
On behalf of everybody at p and p and the staff here at sixth i welcome. You know we and pnp have been doing jointly sponsored author talks for a number of years. As much as we would have liked to have had you at our store on connecticut avenue, you just all would not have fit. So we really are very excited to be able to use this spacious and very beautiful and comfortable setting for author talks like the one this evening. And what a treat to have Thomas Friedman with us. And im sure youre familiar with his columns of the New York Times in his books. Note how great explain on just about everything he is. You can cut through the complexity of something and write about them as clearly as tom can. He says that the start of his new book that he went into journalism in part because he loves translating from english to english. And that has been evident in his work. When he focuses on in his new book, thank you for being late. Our several portions that he singled out as defining the world t
James who wouldnt vote for anything even when it was a good deal that had been negotiated just because it was voting to raise the debt ceiling or it was mr. Mccarthy make it a little better. James how are those folks you know them very well, going to respond when a deal gets cut to get to 60 or whatever 70 good. Do you think now that there is unified republican control, those guys are going to come along . Do you think youre still going to have a dozen, two dozen members who just are going to want perfect be the enemy of the good . Mr. Mccarthy do you know our conference . Were a microcosm of society. Members are all different. I think structure dictates behavior. There was a perfect structure where you had a Different Party in the presidency. You had a senate that was slower. You could do those things. And if you you utilized the Freedom Caucus to do that. It made the House Republicans weaker because you had to negotiate with nancy pelosi. If we stuck together, then were always strong