Readers. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is john allen, president of the Brookings Institution and it is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating andre perrys release of his new book know your price, valuing black lives, across brookingss roughly 104 year history brookings has taken powerful positions on issues of race, equality and civil rights. These issues stand at the top of brookings qualities and i have made this president ial priority, certainly for the institution. Brookings not only made an obligation to study these issues but it is also the responsibility of the organization as well, to examine the intersection of race and policy not just because we are an organization deeply committed to the public good but also because we are an organization based in washington dc, the nations capital. As much as washington is a city of politics it is also a city of great diversity, of the roughly 700,000 residents the call the city home, one need only wa
Host will you for your politics is anyone. I think marsha left would be the easiest way to summon up. P. J. i was a leftwinger but, i did not make enough sense to actually be a communist or anything like that. Host when did the transformation occur. P. J. it was gradual. There is a book coming out, i just about this. Its coming out from the Hoover Institution is backing this. It is called why i turned right. This is to rebut a bunch of us who went right. It is a long story in a motel it will give you the short version. I was a radical left. Very much in favor of some sort of socialist thing in america. I got a job. And i get the job paying 150 a week. I was a messenger in new york. That was a lot of money as far as i was concerned. I was living down in the lower east side. I was very broke. I get paid every two weeks. I was really looking forward to that 300 bucks. And so was my landlord mistake. In my drug dealer. Among other people. I got my first paycheck and i got down to 178 or so
Journal is reporting that spending on political advertisements is projected to hit a new high in 2020 surging 3600000000 above the most recent president ial Campaign Year and how high you ask 9900000000 according to group am the Worlds Largest Advertising Media company so a close to 700000. 00 americans will soon be without Food Assistance just to save the federal government a buck or 2 Political Parties and their gilded corporate sponsors are more than happy to waste close to 10 1000000000. 00 on campaign commercials. That works out to a little over 14000. 00 per person who is now without boot stamps but guess what that 9900000000. 00 might be on the low end of estimates group global president of Business Intelligence brian weezer told the media that quote our understanding is that in the typical campaign 60 percent of funds raised may be deployed in the media spending consequently we recognize that the current political cycle could lead to higher levels of spending than we currently
Book. As we were trying to fill we were stopped this my cameraman being school teacher. Looks like. By their life martin to nationals World News Center in moscow this wednesday is kevin. Thank you for your company as a guide you through what were talking about here tonight in russia starting with the race for the white house in the States Michael bloomberg has announced hes ending his run for democratic 2020 president ial nominee after suffering a wipeout in super tuesday voting the millionaire a billionaire rather lets not sell him and former new york mayor is now throwing his support behind joe biden who made that stunning comeback in the biggest contest of the primary season former Vice President biden want. 10 out of the 14 states that voted yesterday in the end or the progressive Bernie Sanders claimed 4 including the big one in california thats the state with the most delegates up for grabs following super tuesday is voting biden is no the clear Democratic Front runner than in wh
Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hard tour, im stephen sackur. Brexit represents a political gamble played for the highest of steaks. If it leaves the eu without a deal, there will be significant economic disruption. Even the most ardent brexit years acknowledge that. But they believe the potential rewards justify the risks. Its a calculated that on britains future which comes naturally to my guest today. Stuart wheeler, the successful businessman and lifelong gambler who backed commitment to brexit with plenty of his own cash. As his money given him undue influence over britains future . Stuart wheeler, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Would be fair to characterise you as a lifelong risk taker . Yes, it would. And what motivated you, from a very early age, to want to take so many risks . The first risk i took, i was very, very young, was at a point to point. Is that a horse race . A horse race. I backed the second, one shilling of even money and it obliged so that was