Big thanks, fred, for your shirt inspection sort introduction. I think you did a good job without getting too carried away. Thank you to the city club for the opportunity to be with all of you today. Did has been a longtime friend, supporter, and i did not know this was your luncheon. Thank you for having me here. , rightere six years ago before i became speaker. I came to your indication, to an economic speech where i called on the president s to fire his economic team. They did not like that. They savaged me after the. I think i was right. Here is six years later, no longer the speaker of the house after spending some 25 years. As i told the students at notre dame, notre dame gave Vice President biden and i an award. And you know that is a let word. In english, it means rejoice. Exactly what i have done every day since i left. [laughter] people stop me and think im going to go back into the government. I had a cab driver wondering if i was running for the senate last year. Oh, no, no
Hes previously been editorinchief and American Heritage magazine. Several books including two novels in a book of poetry. Hes written for films including coney island. Thank you for coming and enjoy. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to word. What a nice store. Thank you for having me. This is the books publication date. Soap or the last few weeks, ive been and what a writer friend of mine called the law before the wall. Im pleased and honored to have the debut of not only in brooklyn, but in greenpoint. Brooklyn has made technological wonders. But perhaps the most impressive is the hero of my book. I mean the uss monitor. The single most influential warship ever felt and was born about 400 yards away from here. We tend to think of the civil war. People think of gettysburg, shiloh. Its unlikely anyone will remember the navy. Accounted for only 5 of the Union Manpower and losses for the entire four years of the war were often surpass in a single day of fighting on land. But ther
Here although it is chilly outside if you are just stepping out. For many of us it will be a dry start and a sparkly one with a Weather Front coming in from the south west introducing some rain later on. I will have more in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story facebooks procedures for Vetting Content on its pages have been strongly criticised, after a bbc investigation found it was failing to remove inappropriate and sexualised images of children. The chair of the Commons Media Committee, Damian Collins, has said it casts grave doubts on the effectiveness of facebooks systems. Our correspondent Angus Crawford reports. The rules are simple. Facebook says it removes nudity or sexually suggestive content. But our investigation last year found paedophiles using secret groups to swa p paedophiles using secret groups to swap obscene images of children. We informed the police, and this man was sent to prison for four years. Facebook told us it had improved its systems, so we put th
Will she make history tonight or will donald trump pull off an upset in the race for the white house after one of the most divisive campaigns in modern u. S. History . When mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best. They are not sending you. They are not sending you. They are sending people that have lots of problems and they are bringing those problems. They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists, and some, i assumeme, are good people. E. Amy andnd voters are not just deciding the president ial race. The u. S. Senate is up for grabs and possibly the house. We will be live for the next five hours in this democracy now special, bringing you Election Results from around the country and voices you wowont hear anywhere else. All that and more, coming up. ,is is democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and , peace, and the presidency. Juan polls have just closed in georgia, indiana, kentucky, south carolina, vermont,t, and virginia. We a are likelely ju
Of our police chief sean whent. Reporter oakland mayor libby schaaf. The decision to resign was the chiefs. Reporter said it. The chiefs decision to resign was his decision. Reporter five separate times. It was a personal decision. Reporter she could have said it 5,000 times. Again, all of the decisions that were made in this matter were the chiefs. Reporter and still, no one with believe her. Not the reporters, not the politicians, not even her own allies. No, i dont buy the spin. No, i dont. Ha. I dont. Thats why i am extremely frustrated. I just dont buy that he just chose to pack up his bag and leave. Reporter in three years, under sean whent, shootings and murders went down by 39 . Community leaders say chief whent was effective and transparent. Chief whent was a real good listener and would follow through on everything that he promised to do so reporter some believe a recent Police Scandal might have led to his departure. Some officers were accused of having sex with a minor. It