border. dickerson: the economy and inflation. monthly jobs numbers remain strong, but higher prices are already impacting the holiday shopping season. carter evans has what you need to know. and, on the road. cbs steve hartman has the story of how a small act of kindness changed a community forever. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from new york. dickerson: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. i m john dickerson in for norah. tonight, president biden warns the world that we are closer to a nuclear conflict than at any point since the cuban missile crisis in 1962. the white house advised there is no new information that russia is planning an imminent nuclear attack on ukraine, but the president s remarks demonstrate that the u.s. is taking vladimir putin s threats seriously, especially as events continue to turn against him in ukraine. russia s military continues to lose ground, and russia is l
And we were on the last draft of the beach that have been closely held. I took it up to him and you obviously obviously knew this speech inside out. I will never forget this. It was very corny but a experience for me. I gave you the speech and you didnt say anything for a moment moment of any set i just want to push the envelope as far as i can on human rights and womens rights. [applause] i was so struck by that. This is the corny part. I was so glad to be in america and to have a first lady who is going to go into what was kind of the diplomatic minefield at that time and make this assertion. You went on to say after that that womens issues and womens rights are the Unfinished Business of the world. Im just wondering where do you think things stand now . Listen that speech which you worked so hard on an Madeline Albright was with us and she provided great feedback as we were going to the drafts, was so important to me personally because i thought the United States needed to leave on
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
Assad then were looking at a war in the middle east that is going to cross borders and potentially threaten the larger region and beyond. The latest figures ive seen is that there are more than a thousand fighters on behalf of extremist groups in syria comment from just europe. And with open borders, no visa restrictions, somebody wrote in france or germany or britain or the netherlands were ever will be able to come home and will be able to travel. So this has been vocations far beyond what if anything we think we can and should do to try to stave off a total collapse of the maliki government. I would just add one other note. If you look at where we are in the region, the conflict in syria, which right now is still a stalemate, but i thought this control in large parts of the country. But there is many hundreds of thousands of refugees in jordan, lebanon, turkey erratic and you have the tensions that are pervasive throughout the region be really fat on fire in iraq right now. It could
Give you the readers a bit of a peek behind the curtain because the headlines certainly tell some of the story but not all of the story. Its more difficult to even get information about the socalled trendlines. I wanted to combine both in the hardest part for me about writing this book was that it was believe it or not three times longer when i first finished it. I wanted to put every funny story, every bizarre meal i mean whatever i could remember and wanted to share and the publisher did say you have got to cut twothirds of this book. And so i worked hard to keep the combination of seriousness because obviously theres a lot of that but also the human side. Not just me but what i saw and learned as i traveled around the world. You have never been shy about your opinions but it does seem to me you are free to speak your mind these days. I think thats true from some of their reactions that ive had over the last few days. [laughter] i say in the book that maybe its just the wonderful wea