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Former Obama Administration National Security advisor and un ambassador susan rice discusses her life and career in american diplomacy and foreign policy. Shes interviewed by the new yorker columnist robin wright. After words is a Weekly Program with guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest works. Welcome, susan rice to after words. After thank you. Its great to be with you. It is a fascinating book. So it is a personal tale and a chronicle of your professional life and threw a wide array of crises and challenges, but lets begin with the Current Crisis that the United States faces. As you know, President Trump had a phone call with the president of ukraine in july, a whistleblower reported on it in august. It was released last week. What do you make of the whistleblowers complaint . What did i tell you, what struck you . What is so extraordinary about this is that we have now in blackandwhite in the president s own words evidence of the fact that when hes cond
Catalysts for investors on the horizon. With fed meetings this week and new tariffs set to go into effect this weekend. Joining us, ian winemore weve been paying close attention to these big trade headlines. How much is this influencing what were seeing on wall street these days i think its overstated as to how much its actually influencing wall street. I think theres two things at this point the first is that theres so much liquidity being pumped into the marketplace by central banks. They Just Announced another round of qe, even though theyre not calling it that. And youve got positioning, which is a very big deal a lot of hedge funds and active managers are lagging again some for the last ten years, and because of that, they cant afford to miss a rally you see this synthetic short base, where people are long cash, and thats why selloffs like today, youre not seeing a whole lot of followthrough, because need to hold until the end of the year. Ian is with us for the next hour we have
A podcast. All after words programs can be viewed on a website at booktv. Org. Now on book tv after words, former Obama Administration National Security advisor and un ambassador susan rice discusses her life and career in american diplomacy and foreign policy. She is interviewed by robin wright. After words is a weekly Interview Program with guest host interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. Welcome susan rice to after words. Think is so much its great to be with you. A fascinating book of personal tail and a chronicle of your professional life and through a wide rate of crises and challenges but lets begin with the Current Crisis that the United States faces. As you know President Trump had a telephone call with the president of ukraine in july, a whistleblower reported in august and was released last week, what do you make of the whistleblowers complaint, what to do tell you and what struck you. What is so extraordinary is we have an blackandwhite in the president