Chinas gdp is front and center. Its a huge deal. Right now, we need to get to our first word news. Isnie chinas economy staying close to the forecast. Slowest poorlyhe expansion since 2009. That is set to off set exports. The Chinese Government wants it to grow 7 year. Thed is taking site at biggest play since the civil war. They are backed by a ring in special forces and russian airstrikes. Wave ofuld be another refugees heading west. The palestinians are giving up a wave of attacks on israelis. One israeli soldier was killed and 10 people wounded. The attacker was shot and killed in police say they shot and killed a foreigner by mistake. The Iranian Nuclear deal has now taken effect. All sides will have to start delivering on a promises they made. That means a limiting 95 of your rich enriched uranium stocks. The west is getting ready to lift economic sanctions. This may be the end of the road for a Stephen Harper after a decade in power. Canadians vote today. The poll suggests the l
Memoir, american turnaround reinventing at t and gm and the way we do business in the usa. Its a candid and unflinching look at American Business and i had a difficult time in a period that would result went through. And yet the book is also very optimistic about Corporate America and america in general. Welcome. Guest thank you, stephanie. Its nice to be your. Host he became chairman of General Motors immediately after the company filed for bankruptcy. You came out of retirement to take the job. Why did you do it . Guest i became chairman when he came out of bankruptcy. The day came out of bankruptcy. Its a good question why i took a. Because when first asked i said no, i know nothing about the car business. I can drive on. I can start one. And i was retired from at t and i was in sort of late 60s, but i kept talking to Steve Rattner it was the car czar. He kept talking about public service. I kept thinking about how my family had owned General Motors all my life. I drove one. What a
Public hospitals. The idea we just can do that with Public Education is hypocrisy. But people make the argument we shouldnt take the money out of the system but take that money and invest in the failing schools to make them better. This makes no sense because we dont use that logic in any other part of our life. If you went to a dry cleaner down the street and of every 10 shirts seven came back with a burn mark what would you do . You would stop going what is the people said you cannot stop giving us your business because we need your money to invest in new equipment to train our employees and if you take your business the way we cannot do that. What would you say . You would say now with my shirts. If were willing to take that much care with our laundry shouldnt we take at least that much care with our kids and not be willing to say lets continue to invest in the things that has failed and hope that maybe someday it might get better but meanwhile our kids are not learning how to read
Route 66, and route 66 became the destination. It was not like, dad, can we go to the beach in california, it was more like, dad, lets go down route 66, because all the fun stuff is there. Its like a big, long amusement park. Get your kicks on route 66 in albuquerque, new mexico. One of the places youll see next weekend as booktv, American History tv and cspans local content vehicles look behind the scenes at the history and literary life in albuquerque march 2nd and 3rd on cspan2 and 3. Up next on booktv, after words with this weeks guest host, Stephanie Mehta of fortune magazine. This week former ceo of at T Ed Whitacre discusses his book, american turn around. In the book he tells the story of rising through the ranks of business to lead one of the nations Largest Telecommunications companies and being called on by president obama to rescue General Motors. This program is about an hour. HosT Ed Whitacre has run two iconic american companies, at t and General Motors. He is also the a