So lovely to get a chance to interview you on a book i found a fantastic. I read it voraciously i think in one long sitting and found it absolutely fascinating. And my first question to you is how in the world we able to write this so quickly . You reference things that just happened in april, may and the book just came out. Guest thank you so much. Great to speak with you. Im glad you enjoyed the book. It was a bit of a frenzy, writing this book. I usually take about five years to write books. Thats been my average. I published a new book about every seven years. I give myself a little break, but 54 years. This book, i just wanted to get it out as quickly as possible. Though i couple of chapters in the book that are focused on what we should expect if there is a crisis in the United States, if theres an economic crisis or a major security crisis and i felt so passionately that there needed to be some political Disaster Preparedness among progressives that i just wrote at the speed i f
Restructuring and lowering guidance. Shares of valeant are down sharply this after an earnings miss and sharply lower guidance. Well give you the latest on the stress theyre feeling over at valeant. And the viacom saga continues. A hearing is taking place right now in massachusetts. Weve got the details. But first up, futures rising a day after comments from janet yellen propelled the s p to its highest level of the year. The fed chair expressing optimism about the economy and said she sees rate hikes ahead but gave no timetable for a tightening. If incoming data are consistent with labor Market Conditions strengthening and inflation making progress toward our 2 objective, as i expect, further gradual increases in the federal funds rate are likely to be appropriate and most conducive to meeting and maintaining those objectives. She did call the jobs number concerning, disappointing, raising questions. Feds going to wrestle with it and drop that phrase in the months ahead. Right. Well,
Unfit to lead our country, certainly at this time. I think she is unfit. She does not have what it takes. You will go through four more years. I call her obama light. Think of what i said. They are scamming us with cyber. We are living in a cyber world. Here she is all screwed up with her emails. She does not know what the hell is going on. Who would be so stupid to do what she did with her emails . I mean, who would be so stupid . We are going to turn this country around. We are going to do things that are going to make you proud of your president , but more importantly, so proud of your country again. I deal with all these countries. I have so many deals. They laughed. They laugh at us. They say, what is going on . They dont believe it. Even the people from china this morning. Youll see, i think it will be on cnn. They will say, mr. Trump is right. They cannot believe what they get away with. I have the largest bank in the world from china, the largest bank in the world, massive bank
Clear and precise and to get the pentagon to react in in doing so before it is too late. It to succeed to make that offset strategy real so it is more satisfying. You are up. Give us another perspective. And that terminology of spoiler alert with that budget request to throw cold water on it. And the perspective of the budget that came over recently. And what we will have with the new administration in place. The reality is and looking at the house of representatives of the of budget of 30 billion debate with the defense hawks and speaker ryan to see that budget expressed in oco which is roughly 23 billion higher. So even with the budget deal have not seen the debate to go beyond more than 10 or 20 year 30 million despite having the majority to put in for that last budget request the us senate announced a hearing or a budget that is essentially for them. We have a of a great discussion of the architecture of deep and important thinking that they probably will not have Appropriations Bi
A private Funeral Service will be held friday for former first Lady Nancy Reagan who died yesterday. Mrs. Reagan will lie in repose wednesday and thursday at the reagan president ial library in simi valley california and be buried next to her husband on the grounds of library. President obama ordered flags flown at halfstaff to honor the former first lady. Nancy reagan was 94. As campaign 2016 continues preprimaries and one caucus is taking place in several states tomorrow. The special focus on michigan and mississippi. Join us beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan for live coverage of the Election Results candidate speeches and fewer reactions. Taking on the road to the white house on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. President obamas Homeland Security adviser said the white house will begin releasing annual numbers of People Killed in u. S. Drone strikes in an effort to dispel what it says is misinformation about civilian casualties. Lisa monaco announced the policy during a spee