Will jump right in. No interest in giving a speech before so we are just going to start asking questions. Here we go, and just in time for thanksgiving. A book to help you deal with people with whom you disagree. [laughter] so, intro and questions. Please send yours up. They dont have to be related to adjusjust about. Here we go. My name is melissa, welcome to the Commonwealth Club hosting of scott adams. In his new book and he dives into the epidemic of mental shortcuts that he believes is making us proud to be leaving and bad ideas. Available for people stereotyping and avoiding self reflection when relationships end. We are excited to have him with us tonight to discuss his new book and whatever else you would like to ask him he said nothing is offlimits. Please welcome scott adams. [applause] it is a word that i invented because i noticed when i was on twitter the debate and every once in a while somebody would make a good comment and i would think i dont agree with that, but its w
On social media, on twitter, cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good friday morning, you can start calling now with your view of the state of the u. S. Economy. It was one of the topics President Trump chose to talk about yesterday during a surprise visit with u. S. Troops in afghanistan. [video clip] miles to be here tonight for one simple reason, to tell you in person that this thanksgiving is a special thanksgiving. We are doing so well. Our country is the strongest economically it has ever been. We have the greatest economy anywhere in the world, so it is nice to know you are fighting for something doing well as opposed to something that was not doing well a number of years ago. Stockmarkets reached the highest level ever in the history of the exchanges, all 3. If you look, all 3. It is incredible, it is incredible what is happening. Days. K it is close to 130 to me, that doesnt mean alltime record, it means jobs. It means 401ks. People come up to me with their
Five. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. New trouble with china tonight. President trump just hours ago signing two bills in support of hong kongs prodemocracy protesters. The president has been walking a tight rope on this rebellion as he embraces his friendship with chinas communist president xi. Today we take you inside the fight for freedom. Reporter into the heart of a growing rebellion. Through the gates of a Major College campus, littered with trash, barricaded with chairs. And a makeshift check point for all who dare enter hong kongs uprising. You want to look in my bag . Reporter as we move through the college quarters, the air is thick with the steal of beer. But they arent drinking it, theyre pouring it out. And everywhere we turn, it becomes clear what the bottles are used we walked into a bombmaking factory. Turning beer bottles into molotov cocktails to use against police. Have you been testing them over here . Yes. This is actually my first time. Reporter their prac
Tomorrow and. Reporter its a scene that has become all too familiar with americans across the country, children forced to evacuate because of the danger inside. This time it happened just after 7 30 one morning in Santa Clarita, albert suburb of los angeles. Within two minutes, 7 40, our first units arrived on the scene and encountered in the clot area of the school multiple victims with gunshot wounds. Reporter a total of six people were found with gunshot wounds. Detectives have reviewed the video at the scene, which clearly shows the subject in the quad withdrawing a handgun from his backpack, shoot and in five people and then shoot himself in the head. I heard two or three shots and then i just saw everyone running out. Reporter we are also hearing from students who helped their injured classmates. Addressed her when she was shot in her side and afterwards i dressed it when she thought she had been told shaw and her shoulder as well. My young niece is at the holy cross. I heard fro
Of audience of one donald trump, television, and the fracturing of america, and he is also a chief Television Critic for the New York Times. Thank you for joining us. I want to begin with this moment from President Trumps first Cabinet Meeting on january 10, 2018. Listen to what he says as the cameramen and reporters enter the cabinet room. [video clip] pres. Trump welcome back to the studio. You heard the president say, welcome back to the studio. What do you make of that . Guest im sorry, i was not sure if it was a question. It is very revealing, in the New York Times, one of the political reporters reported early in the administration that President Trump, who was not only a reality show, but a figure in many ways created by television throughout his advised his staffers to view each day of his ofinistration as an episode a reality show and which he defeat his enemies. I think very much the mindset of showas a production, as a of actual reallife locations as a set, that has not left