How bright he was. I knew he would be a big contributor. It was not until after the convention that it was clear he was on a fast track. As a road in the book, i was working for john edwards. It did not work out well. I was working for obama. The contrast between the two was profound. Smart guy. He wanted the cliff notes. He wanted to do what he needed to do. Obama want to to drill three and four levels deep. From the first time i met him, he or he was a guy that thought winning elections was not the most important thing. Its what you do when you win. What you do to move the community or country forward. I saw national skills. The convention was sort of the line of demarcation. Did you see in him at that time a man that might be president . Everybody steps forward and says oh, i saw him. Rahm emanuel says that. Dont hook him to a lie detector on that one. [laughter] i met barack in 1992 when a friend of mine who was in liberal politics in chicago called me and said he was one of the mo
Site. Your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out and submit it to the festival committee. Mr. Mccutcheon and mr. Mark will be signing books immediately after this presentation, copies are also available at the politics and prose tent at the festival here. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event and we want to keep it that way it does help the book festival if you buy a book here. The more books we sell for our events the more publishers will want to send their authors to speak with us, and purchasing books from politics and prose benefits the local economy, supports jobs and the book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in the position to do so, please purchase a book. Mr. Mccutcheon is the coauthor of the 2012 and 2014 editions of National Journals almanac of american politics and was coeditor of Congressional Quarterlys politics in america 2010. Mr. Mark is a former Senior Editor at politico and political
Curbing its nuclear ambitions. Once the dollars start pouring in what is to keep them from cashing in and Going Nuclear anyway. Both sides we also have michael o. Hand live here as well. Thanks to both of you for joining us. What do you think . A better deal . On balance this is a better deal dismantling the sanctions resume. They will not be dismantling a single centrifuge. It will not be shipping a single kilogram of iranian and will not be dismantling its plutonium producing heavy water reactor. That would give it a plutonium path. We could have done better. Melissa that is an argument we have heard from a lot of science. Do you disagree . I disagree, although i think that the point to specific invalid. We have to make sure our longterm deal does dismantle most centrifuges, prevents the plutonium produced in reactor from ever being completed and get some of the low enriched uranium out. But we have to acknowledge the 20 is now apparently going to be rendered inert or unusable. That
Curbing its nuclear ambitions. Ce the dollars start pouring in what is to keep them from cashing in and Going Nuclear anyway. Both ses we also have michael o. Hand live here as well. Thanks to both of you for joining us. What do you think . A better deal . On balance this is a better deal dismantling the sanctions resume. They will not be dismantling a single centrifuge. It will not be shipping a single kilogram of iranian and will not be dismantling its plutonium producing heavy water reactor. That would give it a plutonium path. We could have done betr. Melissa that is an argument we have heard from a lot of science. Do you disagree . I disagree, although i think that the point to specific invalid. We have to make sure our longterm deal does dismantle most centrifuges, prevents the plutonium produced in reactor from evebeing completed and get some of the low enriched uranium out. But we have to acknowledge the 20 is now apparently going to be rendered inert or unusae. That is a good
Belmont, between him and horse biggest prize. Today, sunday, may 18, 2014. Ay, sunday, may 18th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in and welcome to today on a sunday morning. Im erica hill. And im lester holt. If you have a ticket to the Belmont Stakes you are sitting pretty because we may get a triple crown. You said your fatherinlaw got tickets . He fought four tickets right before the race just in case and it actually worked . It was so much fun to watch yesterday. It was exciting. My kids and i went into the bar area of the restaurant. My eightmonthold is like is California Chrome going to win this race . Thats how excited everybody was. At least your eightmonthold wasnt racing to the bar. [ laughter ] youve got to train them early. Im just impressed that harper knows house to say California Chrome. She enunciated it perfectly. She knew. We begin with our top story which is the new concern about the point of the spread of the m