Strengthening into a category 2 storm. Well hear from the chief hurricane spags from noaa with the very latest on the mega storms coming up. But lets start with various stories that investors are paying close attention to. President trumps comments on the debt ceiling, the future of the fed, tax reform. Eamon javers still there at the white house and Steve Liesman has a look at gary cohms future and ylan mui has been monitoring the opposition thats growing to tax reform eamon, let start with you. I know they will kick you in that room. Whats the story just saw the press conferenced, very international focused press conference you saw the two leaders talking about the dispute between the israelis and palestinians, the dispute between qatar and the rest of the Gulf Community and dispute between north korea an rest of the world. The president expressing some cautious optimism about all of those disputes being resolved at some point in the future but no real specific tangible signs of prog
Worth mentioning. 1848 is this wonderful moment where people like Thaddeus Stevens, Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Steven are all young, rising whigs who are supporting taylor and working together. It was stevens who was one of the confederate peace commissioners lincoln is dealing with in the end. When we thing of the civil war in military terms, we talk about the mexican war as a precursor, a prelude, but the congress that lincoln served in has Horace Greely and Alexander Stevens and sidelines waiting to enter. This is part of lincolns story. Its a preview for him of what is to come. You know, i dont imagine that tony kushner or Steven Spielberg could have worked all this background in somehow to the movie. Im not complaining they didnt, but all this background is important to understand what is really going on. And the details matter. They know the details matter. If you look back at the Lincoln Movie, youll realize the purpose of the scene in the kitchen is to give lincoln credit fo
Theres a scene on the day of the vote where Fernando Wood is waving papers saying i have affidavits. Thats not 19th century congress. Thats what you realize when you see a movie like lincoln. Or think about mr. Smith goes to washington, almost all of what we think we know about past politics comes from movies. And popular culture, and we absorb it so much, we think its real. Thats why its so important to try to sort it out. I dont want to be one of those scholar squirrels that gore vidal used to make fun of, but thats what i have been doing, digging around in the script and pointing out the small differences, but ultimately, they matter. As much as i think youre right, the Lincoln Movie will produce good things, when we teach it, teachers need to be aware of how it departs from what we know about the record. Greg. You need to wait for the microphone. Sorry, how does it skew in terms of younger audiences . Because my experience, which could be which is only anecdotal, when i poll my que
Climactic scene on the floor of the house on the day of the vote, january 1st, 1865, they have james spader and john hay running to the white house to get the note from lincoln. None of that happened. The note, we think, is real, though we dont have the original of it. Its a recollection from james ashley, but James Spaders character, william bilbo, was in new york at the time, at the st. Nicolas hotel. The lobbyists were in new york in the final weeks of the fight working the press. The race scene is just a hollywood chase scene. Its no different than the airport race scene in argo and i have no problem with that, like i said, but key moments in this story are altered. And theyre altered for dramatic reasons. We need to understand that if were going to teach it and appreciate it. I call it fiction and i dont mean it as an insult, but i do think people need to appreciate the difference betweenviction and the record. The record is far more complicated. I think its just as interesting, b
Could replace man. In disasters, the robot olympics. President obama and the first family now in mid flight, leaving washington behind for two and a half weeks for a vacation in hawaii. Before leaving, president obama spoke to reporters about a variety of issues. The nsa spy scandal, the troubled Health Care Rollout and the Nuclear Talks with iran. Mike viqueria is with me. Interesting exchanges with reporters today. There are john. The president had the tone of putting 2013 in the rear view. But he also insists that 2014, things are looking up. With calls for reform coming from the courts and some of his own advisors, president obama defended the nsas collection of millions of phone records. But for the first time he left the door open for a different configuration. Whatever might be outweighed about concerns on the potential abuse. If thats the case, there may be another way of skinning the cat. Asked whether a plea deal could be gotten from edward snowden, president obama chose his