My name is wendy wasserman, marketing director at politics and prose. We are here to talk about Eliza Scidmore with diana parsell. Im curious how many have gone to see the Cherry Blossoms . How many got caught in the traffic . That was bananas, wasnt it . They are glorious, but the secret is in the neighborhoods. Thats the secret but thanks to Eliza Scidmore we have them. Before we get to the meat of the evening, i want to do some housekeeping. This is when i tell you to turn off your phones, nothing ringing or blaring or doing those things. We are happy about having cspan here, Live Streaming on youtube. I am also, some other housekeeping things. If you like what you here tonight and we know you do and happy you are here in the store, we have events every night so we have a sheet sheet of a calendar here. It is womens History Month even though we are towards the end of it and a few other housekeeping things. What will happen here, i will introduce diana for a few minutes. She is a 1wo
challenge against gerald ford. where he narrowly, narrowly, lost. just by a few again 1976. the next book i did was rendezvous with destiny. that was about the 1980 campaign. that took four years to complete. i did another book called last act which is about reagan post election years. no one had ever done a book about his post election years. when he did, there was a lot of living going on between the 13 years from the time he left the presidency in the time passed way. he flew hot air balloons he went fly fishing he did a lot of things long before he contracted alzheimer s. finally i did another book on reagan, this was about reagan rising. that period from 1976 to 1980. it was very important time for the conservative movement and american politics. you have the panama canal treaty flight. you had as tr raising as an issue you have texaco raising is an issue. you have a whole host of issues. at the time conservatives had jimmy carter to push against he was advocating a
from any who are watching. we will fill to the questions straight to me. you can also use the house tag and it will be filtered up to our application. today on the panel, we have john mueller. he is a senior research scientist at the and a senior fellow at the cato institute. we also have martha crenshaw. and also the senior fellow america at the and finally, we have christopher fettweis. and i am the moderator. and with that, i will kick it off to john mueller to start us off and you can tell us about his book and his work. great. thanks very much, brandon valeriano. the book is basically a biography of an idea. it was really pretty stupid. let me try to share my screen, hopefully successfully. this is the idea, that war, asked white eisenhower put it, war is a tragic and stupid folly. and a similar sentiment basically, it s an idea that grew over the course of the 20th century. and we now are in a position where it basically seems to have become at least semi univ
Highest level since 2006. So were going back an additional year than what we have been looking at recently. 2year is down 5. 18. The 10year note is yielding 4. 8 and the 30year has ticked a little higher at 4. 95. Meantime President Biden landing in israel early this morning and met with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Nbcs jay gray joins us this morning from tel aviv. Jay. Reporter hey, there, good morning, guys. Yeah, the president meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu as you talked about and later today with the war council. Who hell not be meeting with is his arab allies. There will be no trip to jordan. That was something that was planned there. That was considered a pretty important part of the visit in that the president had hoped to talk about tamping down concerns that are growing right now over this becoming a much wider military conflict. You know theyre already growing escalation alord the border of lebanon. There have been casualties of soldiers on both sides. Israel
Despite posting a beat on the top and bottom line. Tesla is on pace for a sixth straight day of losses, now issuing some recalls for the cybertruck over faulty accelerator pedals lets begin with Market Reaction to israels retaliatory strike on iran, jim. So far, not a lot of signals that this is going to cause a conflagration. No. I talked last night about what we need on mad money, a crescendo of selling at 10 15, we thought we had that last night the fact that we now have decided that it wasnt important not we decided that it is less relevant, so weve come back up is, again, something i dont want to see. We have to have people decide that negatives are negatives, not that an avoidance of a negative is a positive so, i want to hear more from Richard Engel about israel, but the fact is that we were down so much, and then we come in, and then were up . What are we up for why are we up . How about flat how about down a little . We dont get that. So, it makes me suspicious of this opening