As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the
The economy a central issue in the cam paint but a new book by the Washington Posts bob woodward is allowing his rival to keep the coronavirus pandemic front and center amid charges that the president purposely downplayed the threat from covid19. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. He had the information. He knew how dangerous it was, but while this deadly disease ripped through our nation, he failed to do his job on purpose. Paul lets bring in columnist karl rove, Senior Adviser to president george w. Bush. So, karl, nice to see you. Thank you, paul. Paul so you wrote this week that joe biden in the home stretch is, has the edge on the election right now. How big an edge is it . Well, enough that if the election were today, he would win a clear victory. But the race also, as i said in the knecht sentence, is tightening next sentence is tightening. Democrat politicos are anxious that they could have a second election in a row in which so
49 cents today, 3346. You gotta see tesla, jeffries is alien that stock could go to 2500 a share, maybe 3000, its up 23 bucks premarket. As we keep saying, you are watching history. The open today, the dow is going to be down about 20 odd points, then we have the s p, its hit 17 new highs this year, itll be up again this morning, the nasdaq has hit 38 highs and up again first thing this morning. Blockbuster economic news, google good orders come up 11 . That is money, now politics. An audacious second night at the Republican Convention, the president parted a bank robber, then he surprised five immigrants making them instant citizens right there in the oval office. Mike pompeo appeared from jerusalem and niclas salmon said you cannot cancel me. But it was First Lady Melania Trump who stole the show at least for me. She walked down the white house and delivered a speech about growing up economy and is him and yearning to complement america. An immigrant who likes it here. I promise, you
Mr. Chairman. My fellow americans. My fellow democrats, i proudly accept the nomination of our party. [cheers and applause] this moment, this moment is one of personal pride and gratification, yet one cannot help but reflect the deep sadness we feel over the troubles and the violence which have erupted, regrettably and tragically, in the streets of this great city and for the personal injuries which have occurred. [applause] that is neubert humphrey accepting the democratic nomination for president at chicagos Conrad Hilton hotel, or democrats have gathered for their convention in the midst of the vietnam war while thousands of protesters demonstrated outside. Hubert humphrey, longtime senator and unsuccessful candidate for president , is the focus of this weeks contenders program. We are live from minnesotas history center. The documentarian of Hubert Humphreys life just finished the documentary last year. We are standing in the center of an exhibit about 1968. To start our discussion
On that. Charles, thank you. Whatever the answer, right, the markets are showing extreme optimism as we head into the final hour of trade. New vaccine hopes are adding to the mix and yes, right now, the dow is topping 28,000 by a single point. The nasdaq, back above 11,000. We are at 11,044. The s p is moving higher by 1. 33 after two straight weeks of selling. Oracle says its won its tech battle against microsoft to partner up with the chinese social media superstar tiktok but at this hour, Chinese Media saying yeah, but you didnt win the war. Top tech analyst colin gillis on whether oracle is getting snookered and Charlie Gasparino on those now crying crony capitalism. What does the latest Covid Vaccine progress mean to some of the pandemic stock superstars . The ceo and cofounder of okta is here on whether a return to work will cut into all the business hes done in the lockdown era. And the nfl is back and with it comes an explosion of gambling apps. One of the biggest digital sport