With a certain trepidation. But what it is, the a memoir, first of all is a memoir, first of all. Its a little bit of a memoir of my travels in russia. Weve gone through 20 years together, so its a memoir of the last 20 years since the soviet union fell apart. Its a history of the oil industry, but its also a history of russia these past 20 years, the initial collapse in the 1990s and then the gradual recovery the decade after. So we end up with the russia that we see today after this long cycle, the Russian Oil Industry has gone through the same cycle. Its a biography, its a multiple biography of o number of a number of people, but in particular of the clan that emerged in the 1990s in the city of st. Peat user berg petersburg and came to moscow in the year 2000, and you could sum up the last 20 years of russian history by saying this is the revenge of st. Petersburg over moscow as the clans from st. Petersburg take over and are very largely without much exaggeration are in command. T
Man leverett argue a change in policy toward the government of iran is necessary. Thats at 9 a. M. Eastern. At 3 p. M. , Williams Rhodes explores the financial challenges facing europe and asia. Watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. For a complete schedule, visit booktv. Org. Next, from politics prose bookstore in washington, d. C. , Thane Gustafson looks at how russias unstable economic and political systems could impact the countrys oil output with 12 of the worlds oil supply coming from rush b shah, he also explores what this could mean for the global economy. This is a little under an hour. A pleasure to see you all here tonight. As we know, happinesses is a relative thing, and i began the day this morning in the dentists chair having a crown put in, and here by tonight im at politics prose. So im a very happy man having gone from one extreme to the other. So its a special pleasure to welcome you all here tonight and, gosh, standing room only. So this is marvelo
Thank you everyone for being here. I see friends and family, colleagues. Library of congress and staff, influential to put book together. I am nervous. So i will just say thank you so much again for being here. So yeah, Frederick Douglas in d. C. Fred lick douglas moved to emancipation hall. We will not get much past the talking points. We do not scratch the surface of who douglas was as a grand father and a newspaper. So i try tried to get into that. And to get into the element. And of his life in the book. And as he talked about kind of a revelation to help me to put the book together. I will share this is assign for the douglas historic site. 16th and w street. Southeast. And it is a roughandtumble corner. So i worked in the united planting organization 1649 good hope road. And basically was a poverty worker and i worked in social services. Would i take the metro there and i would walk from the metro station and mlk. W street and make a left. And earlier in the morning. Not too much
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The president now . No. I dont, no i dont have nothing to say to him. Lets remember, general john kelly deployed his considerable stature to back trump and frame this as fight between a serious president and loud, lying member of congress. Then the tape surfaced showing it was kelly who had his facts wrong and today miss johnsons remarks it show you you can take congresswoman out of the picture and still have word of grieving mother contradicting the word of president. A president who has broken records for his misleading and false statements in office. General kelly, it is not too late for you. You can correct this record so we can all move on. But asking people to move on without correcting the record isnt moving on at all. In fact it is contrary to the
accountability required. No person is above checks and balances. Joining me, joint call from cbc urging General Kelly to apologize for blatant lies about congresswoman johnson. First niger. Former terror Intelligence Officer and longt