Graham. The coowner and with my wife and behalf of the entire staff i would like to wem you. A few notes it would be a good time to turn off your cellphone or anything that might go beep. When we get to the q and a part of the session try to make your way to the microphones. We are recording for our Youtube Channel and cspan tv is here. Finally, when we get to the end of the program, before you come up to have your books signed our staff would appreciate it if you fold up the chairs you are sitting in and lean them against something that will not topple over. I am delighted to be detrointroducing evan thomas. He is a wonderfully fluid writer and engaging and someone who has enjoyed two remarkable careers. One living in the presence as an accomplished journalist and the other living in the past as a firstrate historian. In journalism he spent ten years with Time Magazine moving to news week staying for 20 years. He was Washington Bureau chief and assisting managing editor and editor at
I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. [david reading onscreen text] appreciate it. Welcome to the Financial Capital of the world. All right, well. Man just to work, yeah. Right. All right. We are at your favorite restaurant in omaha, gorats. Why do you like it so much . Is it the food, or the price, or the combination of both . Warren its the food, and the price, and the heritage. I four generations of the gorat family were involved here. Pal gorat and i went to Grammar School together, and so ive known the people over the years. The steaks are great, you know, the prices are right, so. I had lunch here earlier today, it was very good, and it wasnt that expensive, and i quite enjoyed it. Lot cheaper than new york, washington. A lot. Thats why i buy people lunch here, then they can buy me the lunch in new york. Thats a good deal, a good arbitrage. You grew up in omaha, but then you moved to washington when you
And alongside mark barton in london. We are discussing the horrific attack in manchester. Mark at least 22 people were killed in this suicide bombing at a pop concert filled with children. 59 others have been injured in the attack carried out by one man who died after, detonating an explosive device. The blast happened at 10 35 p. M. Police are treating it as a terrorist attack and eyewitness accounts described shrapnel wounds consistent with a nail bomb. It is the worst attack on british soil since the london bombings in 2005. This comes two months after a lone assailant left five people dead outside the houses of parliament. Children were among the victims. The assault does come during the middle of a general Election Campaign. The parties say they will suspend activities. Right now, Prime Minister may is chairing ameeting of the governments emergency committee, which brings together ministers and security officials. We have heard some comments from various dignitaries abroad, Angela
Could you move slightly . Good evening everybody and thank you all so much for coming out tonight. Im one of the coowners of politics and prose. We hope by the end of this event you will not be stuck in a snowstorm and we are confident that you will get out okay but we are delighted to have all of you here. Before we get started just a few housekeeping reminders if you have a noisemaking device and can silence it now we would be grateful for that. The way that this will work is that our guests will be in conversation for a bit and then they will be happy to take questions from the audience. We do have a microphone set of criteria we would love it if you make it to the microphone. There will be a signing at the table if you would be kind enough to fold up your chairs and put them at the side to expedite the signing and it will also make our staff degree happy at the end of a long day so we would appreciate that. And then i also want to say this is the first week of events and we have an
Word. We will get response from planned parenthoods dawn laguens. Then to trumps war on the press. Pres. Trump as you know, i have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. Amy as the Trump Administration pushes socalled alternative facts to counter reality, we will speak with the nations Mark Hertsgaard and filmmaker Brian Knappenberger, director of nobody speak hulk hogan, gawker, and trials of a free press. And as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee narrowly approves the nomination of exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state, we speak to former Vice President al gore. Financed the has climate denial. Every year they say they have stopped, and then when the funding reports come out at the end of the year, we find out they have continued. I think what exxonmobil has done is deeply unethical. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President tru