My name is and im a past president of the National Press club. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch or to follow along on twitter. Using the press club live. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here
It was founded in 1927 in fourth avenues will grow from union square, and it gradually dwindled until 92 years, the sole survivor, it is run by the original family who founded it. We are running 400 events a year nearly and still have used books after all this time. We are excited to be hosting Andrew Morantz, author of the new book antisocial online extremists, technoutopians, and the hijacking of the american conversation, online extremists, techno utopians and the hijacking of the american conversation. He has written for the new yorker since 2011 and also appeared in harpers, new york magazine, mother jones, the New York Times among others and contributed to the new yorker radio hour and radio lab. Joining him his fellow new yorker staff writer Vinson Cunningham, the magazines theater critic. His byline has been in New York Times magazine, excuse me, and book review, the all and mc sweeneys internet tendencies. He is currently teaching a writing course. I couldnt be more excited to
For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here tonight to tell us about one of them, one of those epic stories is steve vogel. A former reporter for the Washington Post whose book, betrayal in berlin the true story of the cold wars most
Goldman sachs talking up a Strong Economy for 2020. Jpmorgan talking up another market rally next year. And our longterm guest is again talking about a market melt up. Look what we have right now. We will open the dow slightly lower, maybe 40 points down, but the s p is going to go up a fraction and the nasdaq is going to go up about a quarter of 1 percent. Now this, the down side of Americas Energy independence. We are producing so much oil and gas that chevron has had to write down its shale assets to the tune of 10 billion dollars. We are energy independent, that is good, and gas is cheap and getting cheaper, and thats very good, yes, it is, another trump win. Big show as usual. Varney company is about to begin. Im not sure about that animation right there. It is kind of wrong, but i believe weve got a sound bite for you. Are we going to play that one . Yes. There was and never has been any evidence of collusion, and yet this campaign and the president S Administration has been domi
Hello, welcome to bbc news. The conservatives will pledge not to raise the rate of income tax, National Insurance or vat when they publish their election manifesto this afternoon. Borisjohnson has also said he wants to bring his brexit deal back to the commons before christmas, if the conservatives are returned to power. Our Political Correspondent, nick eardley reports. What would he do with power . This afternoon, borisjohnson will unveil the conservative manifesto. His basic message deliver brexit and move onto domestic priorities. He will pledge that the bill that will deliver brexit will be brought back to parliament before christmas if he wins the election. That, he says, would allow the country to move on. So what will the conservatives do on the home front . They will pledge today not to raise rates of income tax, National Insurance, or vat. Thatll make it harder for the government to raise money, but the tories are still pledging to spend. Mrjohnson has already promised money