in conjunction with our friends and allies to support the reforms underway. and i intend to call president jane taine and i sounds too cheap to speak and to our commitment, to walk together with them on the path of reform. of course, there is more work to be done and we will continue to work with the government on dairy farm and reckons the legation affairs. including, taking further steps to address the concerns of ethnic minority groups, making sure that there is a free and fair by election and making all the releases from prison unconditional and making sure that all remaining political detainees are also released. but this is a momentous day for the diverse people of burma. and we will continue to support them in their affairs and to encourage the government to take bold steps that build the kind of free and prosperous nation that i heard from everyone i met with. they desire to see. we believe that that future is achievable and we look forward to being a partner in a fri
but what we ve celebrated over the last 15 years with some of the biggest names across the board, 15 years running. we re going to take a look back, also take a look forward, and do it with some of the best and most powerful on this planet, beginning first and foremost with a guy who knows a thing or two about keeping people satisfied. he and his company have been doing that for a lot longer than just 15 years. i m very happy to have with me now as we kick off our self-congratulatory 15-year pat on the back, the man who doesn t send me a thank you card, even though i m successful for the success he s had, i m talking about mcdonald s ceo jim skinner. congratulations on your anniversary. thank you very much. by the way, did i miss the quarter pounders? they re here. you have to do your job first. understood. that s fair enough. you know, it s interesting, because you have done well in the economic environment that s been anything but, and a lot of folks tell me that s
from interviewers, buyers of the book, e-mail in my e-mail account at the times. what surprised you the most about your reporting and the investigation that you both did to come out with this book? we all know that there have been a lot of books about the financial crisis. many of them recount the events during the crisis in the heat of the panic of 2008. some of them go back a little bit further in time to describe some of the groundwork that was laid to create the crisis. but josh and i decided to go back much farther, into the early 90s, to really tell the tale. because a debacle this large really didn t happen overnight. and unlike some of the books conclusions, other books conclusions that it was nobody s fault, sort of a series of events that could not be helped, we really believe that there were actual parties involved laying the groundwork. but as far as what has been most surprising to me in this exercise is the number of paradoxes that emerge from this story. t
lame stream media s criticism of what we say in an interview if we believe it. don t let them in a 24 hour news cycle let them change our position. and it seemed pretty clearly newt gingrich s position was paul ryan s plan would be social engineering because he didn t like it. i believe he changed his policy base the media dinged him on it. don t let the lame stream media dictate what the position is about. i will need a translation. the top of the hour, 6:00 on the east coast. good morning, welcome to morning joe, thursday, may 19th, we re here enwashington. here with us, msnbc political analyst, pat buchanan and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, kelly o donnell. good to have you we have willie geist who has mike barnicle next to him in new york. what s he wearing? i don t know. very respectable. ann must be in town. i love this palin clip for a couple different reasons. fascinate, she starts out with a full throttle defense of newt gingrich, right? right.
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