Democrats call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents call 2027488002. Regis on social media on reach us on social media, on twitter cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. More on the new report from bloomberg news. It says that americans are officially freaking out. For those lying awake at night worrying about health care, the economy, and the overall feeling of divide between you and your neighbors, at least one source of comfort, your neighbors may be lying awake to the two thirds report beingor 62 stressed out about the future of the nation according to the American Psychological Association Survey in august and released on wednesday. The worry about the state of the union tops longstanding stressors such as money, work, and cuts across political proclivities. We are talking to you and getting your thoughts. Let us know if you are feeling stressed out about the future of the country. Here to tell us more about the evans, the ceo of the American Psychological association. He i
Puerto rico for about a year and a half. The debt crisis, the public alsoh issue, the grid, and their consideration of statehood, independence, voting. So, basically, i have been developing our puerto rico beat for two years. And of course, when Hurricane Irma and maria a hit, it was no question. I was going to go down and see what happened. So, yeah. Host ok, and you describe the situation in puerto rico as in environmental catastrophe. How much does this have to do with situations before the landfall of hurricanes irma and murray at, and how much is due to the storms . Guest the important thing to understand about mariko, infrastructure, debt, those things were crippling the island the storms. People were saying, any storm would bring the great down. Any storm would cause problems with debris and trash. There is justfor trash. The roads are already bad in the mountains and hospitals were already closing. Mostly depends on diesel fuel for its energy and anything that could disrupt sup
Will be our guest on the bus. Starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Now, federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator testifies at a Senate Hearing committee on the federal response to the hurricanes that recently hit the u. S. Territories. This hearing has come to order. On the one hand, it is nice to see senator carper acting as my Ranking Member. But the circumstances are unfortunate, to say the least. Senator mccaskills husband is in the icu. Senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We want to send her thoughts and send them our thoughts and prayers. I just mentioned, he had a massive heart attack, i think it was an internal did did you later that may have say defibrilator that may have saved his life. There is still blockages to worry about it additional surgery that needs to be done. To what the chairman said, keep them in our thoughts. Thank you. I want to thank our witnesses, not only for being here and your testimony, for what you are about to answer in terms of our questions
We have done it before. This is just another totalitarian threat purely threat. In eated the fascists with our of muslim allies, specially like the jordanians, defeatptians, we can them physically, as we are doing already in syria and iraq, but also ideologically. Delegitimize that message of jihad. Host some have referred to it as a whack a mole strategy, and we are seeing it now in niger, where they are moving from one area to another. Years havelast 16 been whack a mole, but what we saw with the arrival of the new commander in chief is we have seen this phrase, new radical islam. Killing terrorists is great, but at the end of the day, if you kill a terrorist and 20 People Volunteer to replace him, it is an endless cycle. So we have to work with our muslim partners to build village of mise two delegitimize jihadism. Host is is the president s policy as well . Guest i think you will see echoes if you look at least beaches he has given. Because he talked about the evil of the enemy. In
That way in your book . Mr. Chernow when i started working on the book i read it to i ran into a friend who said to me, how can you write a great biography of someone who wrote a great autobiography . That stopped me in my tracks and i thought about that comment for many days. Then i realized that it actually helped to define the direction of my book because i realized that what my job was to do as a biographer was to zero in on the silences and the evasions. It is not really a biography. It is not really an autobiography. It covers the mexican war and the civil war. I ended up zeroing in on those things that grant did not want to talk about, particularly his lifelong struggle with alcoholism and his repeated his repeated business failures. Host i want to start out concentrating on the end of his life. I believe it was 1883 he was a twoterm president and he slipped on the ice. You also tell that story. What is it . Mr. Chernow a cascading story cascading series of crises that happened