From a lot of what michelle has to say. Just to kickstart it deceiving, how did you come up with a fascinating and interesting book, radical, and where did this interesting income from . So i think the genesis of the name is an interesting one in that when it first got to d. C. It was the lowest performing and most dysfunctional School District and the entire nation. That was a pretty widely known truth. So i started doing things that were obvious for School District in that kind of state. I started closing low performing schools, moving out ineffective employees, cutting the Central Office bloated bureaucracy and have. As i was taking all these steps and measures, people started saying shes a firebrand, shes a radical, she so controversial. And i thought, really . After thinking about it for a while finally i just said you know what, its bringing some common sense to dysfunctional system makes me a radical, then im okay with that. So that sort of the embracing the concept was the idea
Rajiv has the rare gift of being able to folk coast on shop palm details. He paints a broad pictures. He listens more than he takes. He speaks to generals frankly, but so do the grunts and the other minor characters who drive the plot of any major story. This month marks the tenth anniversary of george w. Bushs invasion of iraq. Nothing written or said better explains the resulting folly than rajivs book, life in the emrad city, the green zone. And yesterday again, rajiv, gives us detail, the new book, Little America. Right now these days, a shortterm sequester to find 80 billion, but over the next decade we have to scrape up three to five trillion, which is just about what we managed to squander on an iraq war that left so many dead and so many more people who hate us. So lets start there. In the front piece of imperial city, he quotes t. E. Lawrence who advised his british superiors in 1917, do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the arabs do it tolerably than you do i
International correspondent Matthew Chance in moscow. More about the 755 mostly americans who will be leaving . Thats right. Vad mere putin made this announcement on state television here this evening. Basically saying the u. S. Diplomatic missions across russia. Remember they have an embassy in moscow, and three other consulates in other parts of the country. The staff numbers will have to be reduced by 755 people. Which is an enormous number and well over half of what we believe are employed by these various u. S. Diplomatic missions across russia. A significant step. It underlines just how angry and disappointed the kremlin is with the fact that the u. S. Sanctions bill looks like it is going through, passed convincingly by congress. President trump has indicated he will sign it. President trump is the man the kremlin believed was going to be able to turn around the relationship between russia and the United States. But hes completely been unable to do that, and this marks the point
President trump is in vietnam today as part of his continuing trip to asia. He spoke this morning to Business Executives at the Asia Pacific Economic cooperation summit. He told the ceos that the United States has not been treated fairly in international trade. The president said the u. S. Will set trade policy under the guideline of america first. So far in asia, President Trump has been getting positive reviews. He looked president ial. He didnt despite some early concerns trigger a trade war with china or a nuclear war with north korea. I spoke earlier with a source who has direct knowledge of the details of the trip. He told me the president s advisors worked hard to tone down the speech he made in south korea. I dont think were out of woods yet, not by a long shot. If you listen to what our president said, its clear were on a collision course with the regime. Thats enormously dangerous. The president said repeatedly and in the strongest terms possible that north korea must disarm.
Reporter so there is as far as you can go without provoking a war . Yep. Reporter President Trump is in da nong, vietnam as a part of his trip to acia. He spoke to Business Executives at the asiapacific Economic Cooperation sum. He told the ceos the United Nations has not been treated fairly in international trade. Now the president said the u. S. Will set trade policy under the guideline of america first. So far in asia, President Trump has been getting fairly positive reviews. Hes looked president ial and he didnt, despite some early concerns, trigger a trade war with china or a nuclear war with north korea. I spoke earlier with a source who has direct knowledge of the details of the trip. He told me the president s advisers worked lard to tone down the speech he made in south korea. I dont think were out of the woods, not by a long shot. In fact, if you listen to what our president said, its clear were on a collision course with the regime, thats enormously dangerous t. President sa