Service by your cable or satellite provider. [inaudible conversations] im carla freeman, im delighted to welcome you to this evenings Foreign Policy institute conversation with author michele wucker. She has just produced her latest, excellent book, the gray rhino how to recognize and act on the obvious dangers we ignore. Its wonderful to welcome michele to sais, i am so grateful to her for putting us as a stop on her book tour. I heard about this book last fall and so have been anticipating it x its an exciting read and its an exciting read. I think she has sort of been asking the question why we ignore crises that we can see coming until they literally stampede us. I think shes got a new paradigm for speaking about risk, and im excited to hear her discuss some of her ideas this evening. This book follows two others that i read the one on haitians and dominicans that i and i had not put that together. I didnt realize when i met you last fall that you were the author of that exquisitel
Stay and answer additional questions or whatever you want to talk about. The life in the whit war of 18t for two and a half years. We dont call world war ii the war of 1941 to we dont call the civil war the world 1861 but we call it the war of 1812. Folks that support it and feel it was a positive thing called americas second war for independence. I think it was that. Its detractors call it an unnecessary war come and they think it was unnecessary. Thankfully we havent had an unnecessary war since then, right . [laughter] i call it the unknown war because no one does anything about it. My favorite president harry truman was characteristically blunt on the war of 1812 treaty, he called it the silliest damn war we ever fought. And they think it was that, too. It was a war that had we won, candidate would have been a state. And possibly we would have had a huge slave colony in mexico, maybe even cuba. Had we lost the war of 1812, we wouldve become once again a colony of britain. But after
And rift over the riff. Its one of the most recognizable rock songs of all time, but did led zeppelin steal stairway to heavens famous melody from another band . The case thats now heading to court today, tuesday, may 20th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Never has so much air guitar been played by so many dorks on one set. Wow. Possibly stolen merchandise. My entire High School Prom was a fraud. By the way, this band spirit, way to get right on it. How many decades has it been . 1969 they toured together. Its crazy. Were going to have a little more on that coming up. Also ahead, were going to take an emotional trip back. It was one year ago today, we were all in moore, oklahoma, after that devastating ef5 tornado. I recently went back to moore to find out how the people there are doing a year later, how the town is doing, and well take you there
Car crashed in front of a home. Two men were taken to hospital and one suspect is still on the loose. You have more details and make become available. An ordeal that began shortly after midnight ended just before dawn. A relieved mother sits in the back of an ambulance watching as her 18 month old daughter is checked out by paramedics. Happy to have her back in her arms six hours after she was taken from her. The 18 month old mother left her in the backseat of a running the vehicle in the parking lot of the apartment complex. Hall is there were entering the foyer of the Apartment Building a suspect walked out of the foyer and walked directly towards her car. I saw that she was screaming about her baby. The first thing i did was call the cops. Police began combing the area looking for little kimberly and the vehicle. About a mile away the came home around 3 30 a. M. And found a strange vehicle parked in his driveway. Three hours later his remains urged him to call police. Police arrived
As the markets were falling in the first hour of trading this morning, House Speaker john maynard stood up and offered support to investors and leaders for the market. Stocks stabilized and then began climbing on the speakers expression of optimism that a deal is within reach. We will take all of that up and more here tonight with bedford open geyser ceo harvey eisen and republicans who have put tax revenue on the negotiating table , and some republicans have flat out repudiated their antitax increase pledge. The author of that pledge, Grover Norquist, here and we will ask him how it is that he came to be the villain in this piece, how it feels to be the subject of attacks from both the left and some on the right and what the future holds for those republicans who break their pledges to voters. Also tonight, demonstrations for a sixth straight day in egypt. The United Nations on statehood for palestinians tomorrow and the president s Spokesman Says the white house is not concerned with