Michael korda, former editorinchief of simon shuster. His latest book is called alone britain, churchill, and dunkirk defeat into victory. Thats where the title comes from, its necessary for years, its necessary alone. And alone is precisely the point. The british got the army off but as churchill said, we got the men but they have to leave their luggage. They got off, most without their rifles because they were ordered to throw them overboard by the naval officers and most without the boots, but we got off 2,000 men of the british core of the army without which we could defend ourselves. We could not have resisted the germans had they invaded without them. Rose continue with nancy koehn, historian at the Harvard Business school, her latest book is called forged in crisis the power of courageous leadership in turbulent times. I was in the midst of a great crises when i started on lincoln. I got ill, had cancer a couple of times, my husband walked out on me, my father dropped dead, so p
The indictments of former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort and his deputy rick gates. News,cal analyst for nbc he cowrote todays paper. It is titled upstairs at home with the tv on, i am pleased to have him back on this program. , the president ts was up early in anticipation of these indictments coming down. Whatibe for the viewers the day was like for president trump. You said, the day began early in the morning. The president knew, like all of us, but there was a strong likelihood the first indictments related to the mueller russia probe would come down on monday morning. The president turned on the tv did not havently any inside information about what was happening. He was waiting to see what would us. En with all of he got increasingly frustrated with what he was seeing. He didnt like the fact that Paul Manafort and rick gates were being so closely identified in the media as Trump Campaign officials, even though the allegednts spelled out misdeeds before they worked for trumps campa
National captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [cap good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Im jim knotts, the president and c. E. O. Of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and ill be our master of ceremonies for today. It is my pleasure to be the to welcome you to the ceremony atans day the wall. Before we begin, i would like to recognize all of the gold star have with uss we here today. Wives,hers, fathers, siblings, spouses, nieces, andews, and the sons daughters. All those who have experienced knowoss of a loved one and all too well the sacrifices that our military families make. And finally, to those still theirg for the return of loved ones, who are listed as missing. Thank you for joining us. [applause] id also like to take a moment the wall volunteers. Theyre the folks you see in the jackets. And the staff of the vietnam for all Memorial Fund they do year around to honor veterans and preserve the memorial. They truly pu
[background chatter] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I am jim knotts, the president and ceo of the veterans vietnam fund, and i will be the master of ceremonies today. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the annual veterans day ceremony at the wall. Before we begin the formal program, i would like to recognize all of the goldstar family members we have with us today. The mothers, fathers, wives, siblings, spouses, nieces,. Ephews, and sons and daughters all of those who have experienced the loss of a loved one and no all too well the sacrifices that our military families make. Waitinglly, to those for the return of their loved ones who are listed as missing, thank you for joining us. [applause] jim knotts i would also like to take a moment to thank the wall volunteers. They are in the yellow jackets. And the staff from the Memorial Fund that they do all year round. They truly put everything they have to making the experience of every visitor at the wall as meaningful as it can be
Be sure to watch washington journal live at 7 a. M. Eastern on wednesday morning. Join the discussion. President trump made a comment about the 1. 1 trillion spending bill deal to fund the government at a rose arden ceremony earlier today. Heres a look. In our new budget, it has been a very hot week for the budget because, as you know, we have to go through a long and rigorous process, but we have ended years of painful cuts to our military and just achieved a 21 billion increase in dispense defense spending [applause]. We didnt do any touting like the democrats did, by the way. Not only did we achieve this massive and badly needed increase in defense, we did so without having to put in place an equal increase in nondefense spending breaking the socalled, parody rule, that was breaking our budget and degrading our military. That is not happening anymore. That i can tell you with surety. [applause] youre going to have the money we need, and equipment we need. There will never be a time,