Please stand and be recognized if you could from any other era. [applause] we have an Incredible Group of friends with us tonight. Cspan is here filming tonights event. I want you all to be on your best behavior. Cspan is forever. Paul, stand one more time. [applause] and ted is here with our friends from california. He has been involved with the Summer Teacher Institute and now the guy on the site for all things specific. Graduating from the university of missouri after which he served four years in u. S. Army during the vietnam war as a platoon leader of the 101st airborne division. Then graduated from the georgetown law center. I met him on History Channel shoot. I thought he was already pretty famous. I wasnt i thought he was 200 percent nice to me then he had to be. He is an expert in his field he make sure you become an expert in the field. Hes a compelling speaker but also one of the nicest people anyone has ever met and thats the best thing of all. Tonight he will be speaking a
Good evening, everyone. Im robert citino, executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy here at the National World War Ii Museum. Thank you. Thank you to the museum for hiring me. I appreciate that. Every two weeks i appreciate it. Im also the samuel Senior Historian at the museum which is perhaps my proudest boast. Welcome to another installment of our meet the authors heres here at the museum where we bring you the best new world war ii literature and the men and women who write and create it. For i have just two nights, a man who needs no introduction, let me carry out the tradition of the National World War Ii Museum at all all of public programming. Are there by any chance any world war ii veterans or homefront workers in the audience tonight . There we go. All right. I knew there were two right up front. [applause] and to say we thank you for your service is an understatement of the century. In the veterans of any other service or any other era please sta
You can catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good monday morning to you. We can start calling in as show you President Trump yesterday as he was leaving new jersey on his way back to the white house, he spoke about the impacts of tariffs and the status of the u. S. China trade war. [video clip] nothingfs have caused or in my opinion, very little. We have important prices all the way through july and they are down 1. 8 so the import prices have gone down. China is eating the tariffs because of monetary manipulation and they are pouring a lot of money into their country because they dont want to lose jobs. They are losing they lost over 2 million jobs in a short period of time and they want to make a deal. We will see what happens, but they definitely want to make a deal. Host that was the president on the tarmac headed back to washington, d. C. We will take a look at his twitter page today and let you know what he has