Fascinating book. I promise you this is a book where youre going to set and read and go look at the time because you cant put it down and if you havent gotten a copy yet check your website to find your local bookseller or you can go to the official bookseller of the jcc national literary consortium which is a cappella books and i promise you wont have 1 million questions. I have 1 million questions and youre going to have some to you look at the bottom of the Screen Youll see theres a q a section. Put all your questions for walter there and towards the end we willtry to get to all of them. Lets get on with the main event and a little about our honored guest. Walter isaacson is a professor of history at tulane and hes been seeing ceo of the Aspen Institute and editor of time. Hes authored many incredible books including leonardo da vinci, innovator, steve jobs, Einsteins Life and universe, Benjamin Franklin and american life and kissinger, i am biography and Hes Coauthor of six friends
Can watch their programs anytime at booktv. Org. Good evening and welcome, im Cnn Correspondent holly firfer and im honored to be part of this whole book best in your Living Room so on behalf of the Mj Tca here in atlanta and the national jcc literary consortium welcome. We are in for such a fascinating evening tonight. With international bestselling author Walter Isaacson. Are going to talk about his latest book the Code Breaker Jennifer doudna,Gene Editing, and the future of the human race. This is an unbelievably fascinating book. I promise you this is a book where youre going to set and read and go look at the time because you cant put it down and if you havent gotten a copy yet check your website to find your local bookseller or you can go to the official bookseller of the jcc national literary consortium which is a cappella books and i promise you wont have 1 million questions. I have 1 million questions and youre going to have some to you look at the bottom of the Screen Youll s
it s 6am and this fighter base on the coast of taiwan is already a hive of activity. on the apron, mirage 2000 fighter jets from taiwan s rapid reaction squadrons, theirjob to meet any incoming threats to taiwan s airspace. these taiwanese fighter jets being scrambled behind me here are heading out into the taiwan strait to confront chinese aircraft that are coming across the strait and probing taiwan s airspace. this is now happening multiple times every day. these pictures are from chinese television, showing their fighterjets, and that down below is the coast of taiwan. just over the horizon, there is another game of cat and mouse. this man puts up a long antenna to eavesdrop radio chatter that s the chinese navy talking to the taiwanese navy, saying, your territorial waters, that you claim, do not exist, that the people s republic of china is the only legitimate government of china and taiwan is an inseparable part of china. they tell us the taiwan strait is peaceful,
at the end of the tunnel, and by that, i mean not in a negative way, it s sort of. ..getting control of my life again. and then very, very sad emotions because it s the end of an era and it s. i also feel sad and emotional for all my team here, some of which, in fact, most of which i deem as family. and some of them, we ve grown up together, basically. so very, very mixed emotions. and the last the last week, i know i am going to be a wreck. why? why are you shutting down? because you could fill every table here for the foreseeable future. everybody wants to come and eat here if they can afford it. so why shut it? yeah, i mean, the business is successful and it s. ..it is going well. reservations are very good especially since i announced that we re closing, it s gone crazy. but there are many reasons. i mean, first of all, i m getting on a bit. i m 63 and i m thinking, what next? do i want to sign up to another lease? the lease is coming to an end. so it made me refle
life in the camps is hard. rations have been cut to $8 a month, employment is prohibited and crime is rife. man shouts, whistling five rohingya gangs now operate in the camps and they re killing hundreds of their fellow refugees. at 1:30 am, we get reports of another murder. entry to the camps is forbidden at night, but our team isjust outside and have made contact with the victim s family. his name was muhammad yusuf. nobi hossein is a rohingya drug gang that uses the camps to traffic methamphetamines from myanmar to bangladesh. as muhammad s family wait for the body to be released, they tell us the gruesome details of how he was killed. with the gangs stalking the camps, it s too dangerous for refugees to speak openly about the violence. but this man has agreed to meet a secret location. mohammed taher was a community leader in kutupalong s camp 16. two years ago, gangs started smuggling drugs through his area. taher was blindfolded and taken to another location. on the fin