Awardwinning books include the dead and those about to die, september the and deadly sky. John is a curators professor for military history at the Missouri University of science and technology. He recently finished a oneyear visiting professorship at the u. S. Naval academy in annapolis and served as a guest commentator i and a History Channel documentary on dday. The latest book by air and fortitude is the first installment of a twopart history o of the u. S. Army durig world war ii. Fire and fortitude, the tragedy and triumphs of the soldiers from pearl harbor to the battles and the islands. Based on Extensive Research from government archives and academic collections, fire and fortitude is a riveting narrative with a masterful historian profound insight. Please help me welcome our future author st. Louis hometown boy, john mcmanus. [applause] thank you, jessica, i appreciate it. The whole Library Staff and i would like to thank my publicist for helping make this possible and my exec
Has called on u. S. Lawmakers to permanently reauthorize the National Security Agency Domestic Surveillance Program the request was made in a letter sent to congress on thursday signed by the former National Intelligence director dan coats his appeal also revealed that the controversial Call Detail Records Program would actually been suspended after collecting more information than was legally allowed to the spying program falls under a section of the usa freedom act which is set to expire in december as kellam open reports next. The Trump White House is speaking up about a high profile n. S. A. Program that allows the recording of americans phone calls and personal messages dan coats the outgoing director of National Intelligence is urging congress to reauthorize the law before it expires at the end of the year now dan coats has confirmed that the n. S. A. Has put the program on hold however he says its necessary to have the ability to get the Program Going again if needed as Technolo
Jonathan lets get you to the weekend. Live from new york city, good morning, good morning from our audience worldwide, we are closing out the week and heading towards the weekend, looking for four weeks of gains on the s p 500 with a sprinkle of fed speak. Kashkari, daily, and for the really committed, sunday at chairman powell commencement speech. Lisa im sure everyone around this table is very committed and some are double dipping this week. Yesterday, fed speak was kind of the same, higher for longer to gain confidence. I want to bring you to raphael bostic. If things dont go that way, im not locked into policy but if they go that way, he could see a cut by the end of the year. Annmarie i love how that is the most dovish thing you can get, but this week has shown us that there is a difference between relief and surprise. The data that we got was relieved. Surprised was the First Quarter. This week was relief, the market maybe starts to see buying and it backs off with fed speakers w
Period. In china he was born with a feudal empire which hasnt really changed for 2000 years. When he left, when he died it was a major power. A member of the u. N. Security council with satellites, with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and nuclear weapons. Cspan how long have you spent in china . Guest i first went to china 90 and 77. I open their office and then i have been back for periods of up to a couple of months pretty regularly. Almost every year for the last decade or so, less often in the previous 10 years. Cspan this is a big low, close to 800 pages. Guest its not supposed to seem like that. Cspan is their new material in there . Guest oh yeah three of the is there has not been a new tiger field mouse for 20 years. The last one, the last major biography was in 1980 and over the last 20 years, so much has emerged. Facts, documents, memoirs by people who were around mao. Huge areas which we didnt really understand our winter stood wrongly are now much more clear. Its possib
Journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i had a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody take tick . You are clearly one of the worlds most Successful Technology investors and businessmen. Let me ask you about a fund you are raising, a division fund. It is supposed to be a fund of 100 billion . Masayoshi yes. David that would be the biggest fund ever raised. Did people tell you you were crazy . Masayoshi some people said. [laughter] david you had a meeting with the deputy crown prince of saudi arabia, who is now the crown prince. In one hourand convinced him to invest 45 billion. 45 minutes, 45 billion. [laughter] david i apologize. Masayoshi 1 billion per minute. [laughter] david what could you have said that was so persuasive . Masayoshi i said, you came to tokyo as the first man, i want to give you a gift. , a 1 to give you a gift trilli