Medea. Its great to speak with you. Im glad you enjoyed the book. It was a bit of a frenzy to write this book. I usually take about five years to write books. Thats been my average. I publish a new book about every seven years. I give myself a little break between but five full years. This book, i just i just wanted to get it out others quickly as possible. Theres a there are a couple of chapters in the book focused on what we should expect if theres a crisis in the United States, if theres an economic crisis or a major security crisis and i felt so passionately that there needed to be some political Disaster Preparedness among progressives that i just wrote it and i worked with a publisher that was really committed to getting it out quickly, too, because the Publishing Industry can be quite slow. Usually you finish the book and then it sort of creeps along the production process and these stages for another four months, and in this case everybody just worked so hard to get it out in r
This is overheard. audience applauding deray mckesson, welcome. Its good to be here. Thank you very much for being here. So, we sit here today on january the 13th, one week from the Trump Presidency beginning officially. How are you feeling . You know, it is sad in so many ways, and so much of the energy of the next four years will be spent withstanding an administration and trying to maintain the progress that we have made so far. Im hopeful that over the next four years that we dont lose our sense of promise and hope whene think about what resistance looks like. In my profession, the journalism business, the saying that has become commonplace is, give him a chance, but hold him accountable. Are you prepared to give him a chance . I dont know what a chance looks like when he is so openly racist and bigoted and islamophobic. I dont know what giving him a chance looks like. I do know that there are people who are ready to hold him accountable and ready to withstand the administration an
Funding. And twitter Ceos Jack Dorsey purchasing more stock. Are investors buying it . As we said some big earnings from the likes of apple and facebook. We have the fed meeting two days. We have the jobs number. The french Elections Come up this weekend, jim. Everybody is looking at seasonality trying to figure out what may means for stocks. What are your thoughts . Well, for years i always felt that you do not want to be in tech because were about to go into the summer slowdown for europe. Actually, europe is much stronger this year and i no longer feel like theres a sell in may problem with tech. We know that sell in may doesnt work. Its 5050. But there was a basis for it and the basis for it was most companies in europe just shut down for july and august. So you have to anticipate that. Thats not going to happen. Instead, it might be the other way. I think europe leads us right here. Meanwhile, guys, obviously, big week in congress. David, i know youre going to tackle some of the i
Building bombers on the assembly line, today theyre building rail cars, improving traffic and creating jobs where they live. Thats just the start. We passed the nations largest housing initiative. We have the highest graduation rate. Thank you, i know have the distinct honor welcoming to the stage someone who has always stayed true to his ideas and values and learned to adapt to a changed political landscape. Hes stayed a proud progressive. Former democratic leader, cap chairman of the board and my friend, senator tom daschle. Please join me in welcoming him to the stage. [ applause ] thank you very much. For that kind of introduction. I know better to compete with clearing tables. Let me say what a fantastic day this has been. We have heard inspiring speeches. We have heard some thoughtful conversations. And we gather at an important time. A time when i think our country is facing one of the most challenging moments in all of our history. A time when the pillars of our very democratic
Prosperity was kind enough in the weeks before i came to actually bombard the telephones, fill the mailboxes, talking about the fact that i was going to come up and visit. I have no doubt that a whole heck of a lot of you dont know what its like to have afp go after you but its a fairly common occurrence in a place like montana. I showed up anyway. By the end of the meeting, they acknowledged that 40 of the people that walked through the hospital doors didnt have health insurance. They recognize if they lost that rural hospital, that community was soon to follow. They saw past the rhetoric and understood that not only could expansion improve the health of the friends and neighbors. But at the endst day, it would save that rural hospital which also saves that rural community. Their support and then that visit gave their local republican legislator the confidence to defy her party leadership. To defy the coke brothers and actually support the measure and every vote matters. Every single