Measure it. Get this its a positive poll which is amazing given his challenges. Its like reading at the outset but its the press giving the bridal shower. You know that the people who want to make hay in washington are going to try to use your adult son as a cajole against you. How do you feel about that and what do you have to say to those people . Im not concerned about any accusation. Its used to get to me. I think its kind of foul play but look it is what it is and he is a grown man. He is the smartest man i know with pure intellectual capacity and as long as he is good, we are good. Its a father and her stand at and i admire that. Greg its not good. As long as your son is smart who cares if he is a crackhead party boy who leaves a trail of destruction everywhere he goes . The lab can solve a rubiks cube in his boxers while juggling two lap dancers. Is this a new colbert that of the fawning therapist . He looks makes Stuart Smalley sound like the iron sheik. With what is President
Live at 2 30 p. M. Here on cspan. Edison was a plant scientist as well as interested in other sciences. He knew that it did not freeze in fort myers. A lot of the interest that he had here in this area was aced on his love of plants. 1920s, the United States was relying on foreign rubber. We were heading into war. The decided that the plant material and the process should be done in this country. They were traveling all over the world and collecting plants. They had hundreds of people all over this country collecting plant. They were sending it back here to fort myers, to his laboratory, to find the source of plant materials that could produce robert efficiently. Laboratory was put here because of that reason. They could grow the plants onsite and in duty preliminary research on site. It was an exciting process. The laboratory was interesting because at that line in American History, there was no patent chemicals. Plants or part of the reason why this lab was so important was that it c
Unstable. We are seeing extremism. We are seeing a major shift in this region. We are not dealing with iran in a vacuum. The decisions we make have to be decisions for the region. We are dealing with a United States that is tired of war. It has not gone well in the two big wars it conducted in the middle east. It spent trillions of dollars, a lot of mud and blood and treasure. It is very clear that the americans are more interested in nationbuilding at home. These are important context to bear in mind. Hopefully the Iranian Regime will change. Hopefully, the administration will take diplomacy very seriously. Or that sanctions really change the koran and governments mind and they change course the iranian governments mind and they change course. It is quite likely and possible that iran may go nuclear before any of these things take effect. Before sanctions, as rigorous as they are, produce a result, or before there is a democracy movement. Then, we are really left with two choices. We
Influencing machine. She sat down recently at fort university. This is an hour and 20 minutes fordham university. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Our moderator is the author of four books on cultural programming and for 15 years, he was the head of special projects at the directors guild. He frequently moderates and events around the city for bafta, the screen actors guild, the producers guild, the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences. Please welcome brian rose. [applause] next, but could not be more delighted to have Brooke Gladstone here tonight. She is the managing editor and cohost of nprs on the media and author of a highly acclaimed book the influencing machine. we will be doing a signing of her book. She has been at npr for many years, including a threeyear stint in moscow where she covered the last turbinate years of president yeltsin. I know all of you die hard groupies out there will agree there is something about brooke that pulls you in. Each week, even at 7 00 a. M.
Microphone, please give us your name and where you go to school. If anyone would like to come up. Here is our first inquire. He is adjusting it. Until someone gets the courage up, you mentioned nate silver. He offers the fascinating thesis that it is that talking heads on all the cable channels are the ones who are constantly predicting things that, believe it or not, have the worst prognostication records. He said that the amount of minutes you are on television are inversely proportionate to the accuracy of your predictions. I listen to your show every sunday afternoon. I want to know, i saw on your web site that you went through an independent bookseller. I am wondering about the role of amazon in the book industry and how it is hurting it. Actually, norton bought the book. They wanted it. I was delighted that they did. We were proceeding along very well. It is owned by time warner, and they came in and said by the way, we own all rights to it. We can do what we want with it without