He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books every weekend on cspan2. And today we are live on the campus of the university of Southern California home of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. Today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies Publishing Industry, biographies of World Leaders and science, and well also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your calls. You can get sched
Three minutes. We are not sure thats possibility. With school out mondays community is manageable. Come tuesday supercrunch time. Expect heavy rid lock. There will be an enormous impact on hundreds of thousands of people if you ride bart or not. For the shortterm bart will not run tube trains. If they have limited Train Service we want to be prepared. The plan is the chartered buses. In a vent of a strike, bart has 20 million to pay for buses. But even at 400,000 a day that buys bart self weeks after charters, longer than the public would tolerate. Thank you. From tom we turn to caltrans headquarters in downtown oakland. Any progress . Well, i wish i could say the deal is done, its not. I just learned that the general manager went into a meeting after a long talk with bethune unit that both union they are telling me that bart has yet to put a new offer on the table. The Union Members feel so far the talks have been positive. Grace did join parts Negotiation Team at 10 00 this morning.
It is 6 00 here in london this morning. Ryan chilcote is following the ukraine tension from brussels. Caroline hyde has the details of the potential vodafone deal. Lets start with our top story. Crimeans have voted to secede from ukraine and join russia. That is according to early results of yesterdays referendum. Western governments announce the vote as a legal. European Union Foreign ministers gather in two hours to discuss sanctions against russia. Brian is in brussels. Ryan is in brussels. They will be whittling down the list of dozens of members of russias elite that it intends to subject to put these restrictions visa restrictions. Punish kremlin officials and members of russias elite who politically played a role in the russian incursion in crimea. Dissuadeis to president putin from annexing crimea. Goal is to discourage president putin from going further into the ukrainian mainland. Include theuld also heads of two statecontrolled companies. Producers largest gas and the ceo of
Quantitative easing there is still so much out there they couldnt predict what would happen. The Price Inflation which is secondary consequence of nk were in for bigis yet to trouble. Melissa big trouble he says and he is here, the host of the ron paul channel, doctor and former texas congressman ron paul. Ron, why are we in big trouble . Because we have lived beyond our means and the message now is well have to leave beneath our means and a lot of people already suffered that consequence in these last five years. Thats why the middle class is you will maker and there is a third of the smaller, a third of the workforce is unemployed or underemployed. There is a greater decrease pansy, some people are making out okay. Wall street was pretty happy but the unemployed are not very happy. So this will continue because we have not recognized that when you get when you get distortions from too much Federal Reserve inflation from the monetary system. There was to be liquidation of debt and mal
Sanctions. We have heard from kerry. We have heard suggestions from the same official saying if the u. S. Is unable to push the europeans they may impose sanctions unilaterally. That will be our top story of the day. You are following a bloomberg exclusive. All about bank of america. It looks like the Justice Department and the United States is looking for 13 billion over litigation issues that go back thehe financial crisis. Bottom line is the ceos spend 50 billion dealing with these issues. Its a lot to talk about. We have a little bit of Corporate News with kerry. In my mind. You are close to the ceo. Brand. F the beast of the it is eking out gains. That is good news. You are seeing 30 gains in sales for the first quarter. Small, beautiful niche brands. This is about control. They are going to split up the company in terms of designated control in various areas. We will talk to you about who those men are and what their backgrounds are. Its a real problem for a lot of them. How do y