Chip reid makes the introduction introduction. Reporter they are graceful, smart, and very unusual. You would really have to go to outer space to come up with someone more different from us than this. Reporter they say this is like being kissed by an alien. And they are right. Ahead on sunday morning. Wow pauley we will be hearing from carlos ghosn this morning, the man behind the caper thats captivated the world, just how did the accused auto executive make good on his escape from japan . Charlie dagata has many, many questions. My only hope of being able to defend myself, get out of the country. Facing charges of financial misconduct, former nissan chairman carlos ghosn claims he had no chance of a fair trial in japan. So what does it say to the people who speculate he smuggled himself out of the country in a box . Everybodys talking about the box. Good for them, good for them, yeah, but i am the only one who knows exactly what happened. Later on sunday morning, carlos ghosn speaks o
A bad jobs program is that a good reason to have a deal its see when you wish upon the star program because you know weve entered a kind of period in our history which is a era of Wishful Thinking and i think the truth of the matter is unfortunately were not going to run while disney world the u. S. Military suburbia the interstate highway system. And our great metroplex cities on any combination of all to fuel and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricate the quitman for all these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to happen under and unfortunately. This is the country has not figured that out including a lot of pretty intelligent people and people with good intentions you know wed love to keep running our stuff the way were running it now by other means its just really unlikely to happen you know this combines
Be combined one is Climate Change denial the green part and one is that governments can possibly do anything positive the new deal part so these are 2 areas that the predominant Political Forces like to tell us are socialist or theyre impossible or we dont have the money for them so all the branding on this is horrible is there a way to present this that would be more palatable because clearly infrastructure needs to be upgraded that thats something that i need to do somebody needs to do it but and its crumbling how is that going to happen and clearly what Sea Levels Rising and with asif occasion of the oceans and with all the other problems that come with the toxicity of industrialization there is a problem in the climate how to brand this in a better way maybe why do you think branding is a Green New Deal is a bad idea the new deal was a vast a successful idea and one of the problems i think that weve had in america is not having aspirational programs that we had in the past that act
Lori robinson was a Lieutenant Colonel when she first came to brookings in 2001 and we had the great pleasure spending a year with her in her new career military education which is like more of an education asset brookings to the military fellows than for them but created a friendship and sort of a fan club. Brookings that continued over the years as she rose through the ranks. A lot of you know her story and well talk about her story this morning before we also get into some of her observations on Strategic Issues before the country and then have time for your thoughts and questions as well. And also im very happy that this is happening during Christmas Season because in Holiday Season more john i feel like ive got my Christmas Wish in getting the chance to welcome Lori Robinson back. Her story since were like enough to cspan coverage today, for those of you who want to watch its a wonderful life and may not want the Jimmy Stewart version, you get just as good a version with general r
Retaliation. If they retaliate, talk sanctions against iraq. Gold, still in and out of a sevenyear high. A lot lower than it had been. Oil barely positive. For a while, brent, that was well over 70 a barrel. But it is not translating to big gains here. Then we have treasury yield actually backing up a little bit after it was, getting lower and lower on sort of a flight to quality, that doesnt seem necessary. The dow as i indicated down about 63 points. We had been down close to 300 points. What is remarkable about all of this, folks, sometimes we see things in the prism of the financial community. I like what it shows people who bet with their own money think of what this is going. Theyre not always prescient and right. Theyre far from accurate period. In the middle of this moment, what some are calling potential world war 3 00, sort of a muted, sort of a shrugged shoulder reaction. Why is that . Latest from blake burman at the white house. Hay. Hey, blake. Reporter over here at the wh