Townd to do antiimmigration rallies. Their immigration plans. Train spotting, a watch group keeping a close look at the rails and its oil cargoes. Philippe petit talks about the feat that stunned the world. We begin with two important stories tonight from conflict zones in the middle east. Both have america and the worlds attention. The u. S. Air strikes in iraq and the war between israel and hamas where the latest truce collapsed triggering more rockets missiles and death. And in gaza city it is saturday morning. Well get to that story in a moment. But first iraq. Drones and fighter jets targeted Islamic State fighters. The pentagon said bombs took out mortar positions and a rebel convoy. U. S. Airplanes cannot fly over iraq United States just too dangerous. The ban applies to all u. S. Registered planes and a kurdish leader has cleared up the issue of the dam in mosul. It has fallen into the control of the Islamic State group. If it fails it could send a wall of water all the way to
The previous editor at the times was but until barely made an effort to hire more women, with a different point to the view am probably was tough to work for and a tough journalist but that is natural in a newsroom summit is very disturbing the way it happened and that it has been that all. Host what about the new brown . Guest not for me. I had a wonderful time she started at the 10 and a fair then invited me to be her Political Correspondent vitiated know about american politics. So i was able to cover with president ial character. But we had no wonderful brian. Then we had a wonderful time there also. We got so comfortable with doing big pieces was worldbeaters one time she called me up and said i want you to do the pope i said i am not leaving catholic. [laughter] i am not even catholic. I said i would rather do menopause i could just see her eyes rolled in her head because she just delivered a baby that was the last thing she was thinking about was the end of fertility but she rec
Welcome deborah rhode, author of what women want. When this book first crossed our desks several months ago, it really granded our attention, and it has a great title, timely subject. We were intrigued and reached out to her to ask her if she would come and share her work at keplers, and were so pleased she said, yes. Shes written a very important book on a very important subject. Personally having come of page posttitle ix, im both astonished and dismayed at the lack of progress for women in america. By every possible measure, women continue to lag behind their male counterparts. In what women want, rhodes into topics that effect the lives of women. Please welcome the direct director of the Stanford Center on legal profession, deborah rhode. [applause] im enormously pleased to be here and even more pleased that youre here. Woodley allen said woody allen said that 90 of life was showing up, and, of course, it matters what you show up for. So glad [inaudible] no. Im. Im sorry. Do you ne
Over here, and then we we will go to hear. Thank you for being a voice for the conservative movement, and a young voice. Question, with your knowledge and steady, what do you see that 2014 election 2014 election being white and the 2016 president ial election . You know, my focus is really on issues. My focus is not really on candidates or whether we will win or not or candidates of one side or the other so i am not sure. I have hope. I know what the feelings are i just dont have enough brain capacity with everything i cover to really pay that close of attention. I am hopeful but i think it we will take some work and i hope that they do not drop the ball so to speak. We are on the 2yard line. I apologize for not having the details, but it is not my focus. Thank you so much for being here. We appreciate everything you do. You are so articulate and knowledgeable. Thank you. I appreciate that. An issue, fast and furious. Do you have an update on what is happening . For the past year and a
Master on how to get things to happen. Her grandfather was, is the legendary bob strauss who probably was one of the legends of politics in america. Before i asked mark to kick it before i ask mark to kick it off, a book is out that i just watched called the death and life of american journalism. The book is dedicated to bill moyers. There is a quote at the beginning that says this is a crisis for journalism that is also a crisis for american democracy. You are experiencing it now. Thank you. Great to be here. I have met so many wonderful people already in this room. Thank you to tom for encouraging me to come, and to you for being here. Im afraid i might have been oversold a little bit in the sense that i cannot tell you what the future of news is. I guess i would challenge anyone in this world to say what the future of news is. It is in flux. There is a thinker about journalism, clay sherkie, who wrote a blog post several years ago in which he says memorably, compared the phase were