The modern world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. Its easy to say, as i do in my book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ourselves as natural adventurers, risktakers, entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. . I am a believer in american exceptionalism. But as marines like to say, it has to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and . And how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when timeed wholly in that making things when we were extracting them from the earth. We invented almost everything about america. We have constantly reinvented almost everything as we deemed it necessary, including our institutions, our customs, our laws. Above all, our definition of who is american and
Changed the course of world war ii. She will bespeaking tonight about her new book , the great secret, the classified world war ii that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us. Thank you and i want to thank the museum for inviting me to be with you tonight. Alas, its virtually but im here at my desk. Myfirst zoom presentation so bear with me everyone. Im thinking right now i should have a little bit of wine but anyway here we go. Lets start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. Men occasionally stumble across it to most of them themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel Stuart Francis alexander, our hero is not long off. In fact, you refused to leave the scene of a military disaster even though churchill warned him to. He stayed and investigated and as a result he recognized a never before seen symptoms of dying sailors that might have lifesaving implications for others inthe future. This is the story of one intrep
Hearing from you, loyal viewer and the latest poll on twitter. We are going to hear from you on this wednesday, september 23 this is Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc got a little music to get you going. Good morning welcome to wherever you may be watching here is how your money are setting up their day nicely in the green. At least for the dow futures futures up 186 up a little less all of this coming off the dow snapping a threeday losing streak the dow and s p snapping fourday losing streaks. The big cap names you know amazon close up nearly 6 . Our Parent Company comcast, 3 , facebook 3 . Nasdaq 100 up 5 from the mondays low to yesterdays close. So traders making a little money. A day or a swing trader is a 5 move in trading sessions outside of tech, the sector star, Consumer Discretionary up 2. 7 . The only real decliner of note was tesla. Also down 4 after falling 5 from a battery day bust failing to invest on lower expectations despite radicily better batteries after an extended h
Later, David Mcintosh joins us to discuss his organizations strategy for campaign 2020. Trump during the impeachment inquiry. Host what was last year an anonymous New York Times oped by a purported white house senior staffer is now a fullfledged book just published, the author citing further concern, alarm, and consternation about President Trumps term in office saying he deserves to be fired. We start with excerpts from the Washington Post article and what they are publishing today. Democrats, use 2027488000. Epublicans, it is 2027488001 and independents, 2027488002. You can send us a text, make sure you put your name and where you are texting from. That is 2027488003. On twitter, we are cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. The article in the Washington Post, washingtonpost. Com where you can read it for yourself. The headline book by anonymous, describes trump as cruel, inapt, and a danger to the nation. Trump Administration Officials masseered resigning en last year, but rejec
Biodiversity of vast range of plants and animals live in the forest habitats in fact 80 percent of the worlds to rest till species inhabit them since time immemorial they also have provided us with animals to hunt for to eat and wood to burn and build but now the worlds forests are under massive pressure from logging agriculture and pollution thats our topic today on made the forest lets start in germany where forest is face problems ranging from erosion to drought to storms and flooding and insect pests around the country was the tables are falling and the forestry business in some places is on the ropes changing conditions are proving a major challenge for Many Small Companies who live off the forest. Martin hustled by his a forester who tends to 140 hectares of woods in northeastern germany mostly conifers with some deciduous species conditions have been exceptionally dry for several years now and the trees are suffering dozens of pits have been dug to monitor soil quality and moist