Television companies, support cspan 2 is a public service. Hello. We are here to talk with david and in cleveland about his new book, gods of deception. David, lets start out with something who was elder this . That is a great question, just before i answer, it thank you, matt. Thank you and your edgartown books for having me. And having us at st. Andrews parish. Its a wonderful space and its wonderful to be here. My family is a great lover of marthas vineyard, so its a pleasure to be with you. Thank you. Alger hiss is an enigma inside an enigma. He is the great, i suppose you would have to say, the great iago of the 20th century. People have been trying to figure out who alger hiss really was, not just if he was guilty or innocent. To start, alger hiss was convicted in 1950 of spying for the soviet union. He was convicted of lying about knowing his accuser and when he knew him, this whitaker chambers. He was convicted for perjury about passing Top Secret State Department documents to
Son wheels to fly. Its super exciting to us. Plus, a cyclist is chased by a tower of terror. And a real life lizard man. I havent seen that before. Move over miley cyrus. Theres a new tongue in town. You think this gets the ladies . I dont know. Maybe. What goes up, must come down. Near istanbul in turkey, a popular tourist destination. One report translated said that this guy was at some sort of motor bike event and crawling up this Mountain Side to get a better view. Somehow got himself stuck on this ledge. This guy trying to very daintily, very carefully get himself off this rocky and seemingly wet crag area. I think that we may be tricked by some of the camera angles, but i think thats probably a steep rock face that doesnt have a lot of footing for him to walk on. Yeah. This guy is only 30 years old. His name is sirdar camdidi. Youre about to see how steep it actually is. Keep watching. Oh, look. Oh, no oh quite a fall. Falls down. Goes down the waterfall. Crushes into this big ro
Chief White House Correspondent john roberts with us what turned out to be on the record off the record day at the white house. Got to hate with that happens. Bret, good evening to you. The white house insisted the revised trade deals negotiating with some our biggest trading partner also be a big benefit to workers and farmers and ranchers and businesses. Something happened today thathat added a whole new level of uncertainty as to whether the u. S. Can get a new trade deal with canada. It wasnt quite an International Incident but the timing couldnt have been worse. Canadian Newspaper Publishing off the record comments President Trump made to bloomberg about nafta. I gave an interview yesterday to bloomberg business. And i said off the record. And i made a statement about canada, which is fine. Because i love canada. But they have taken advantage of our country for many years. Aaccording to the star newspaper the president said he wont compromise with canada. Any deal would be totally
Have electricity. Im in atlanta im George Howell in atlanta. Newsroom starts right now. 4 00 a. M. , the lights are back on in new york. This after a blackout that left parts of the biggest city to plunge into the darkness. The outage was marked out for hours in some of the most popular tourist districts. The con ed Utility Company said at the peak of the blackout around 73,000 customers had no electricity. That included Madison Square garden where Jennifer Lopez was just starting her concert. It had to be weird for concert goers and tourists and residents. It was a dramatic night that could have been a lot worse. Heres how it unfolded. We are getting preliminary reports is a transmission problem. Con ed in new york city is working to address it now. We hope to have news soon on when power will be restored. I was on the sixth floor. We lost power very quickly and my understanding is that theres a wire underneath our building 101 west end that caused the transformer to explode. Timing w