i m in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. it s an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man s strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. my name s barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. hi, barry. i m jamie. hi, jamie. nice to meet you. i meet barry in front of this little house. yep, this is it his strange inheritance. it s just 600 square feet, and it s now surrounded by a huge shopping mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. who leaves this to somebody? well, edith left it to me. edith? yep. love to learn more. okay. come on. barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shingle-mill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. there was fishing on elliot bay there, and
polls show that governor john kasich may be pulling ahead. trump made a few other tweaks to his schedule this weekend that seemed designed to tampa down emotions after violent protests a rocket at chicago on friday night, forcing the cancellation of a large rally and resulting in several arrests. millions of people have rallied across brazil, protesting against corruption and calling for the impeachment of the president. they marched along copacabana, through the center of sao paulo. brazil is suffering its worst recession in decades and dozens of lawmakers and business executives aren t embroiled in a corruption investigation. at least 34 people have been killed in an explosion in on ankara. a suspected suicide bomber blew up a car close to the prime minister s office. this comes less than a month after another suicide bomber killed dozens of soldiers in a convoy passing through the city. qaeda saylinked to al they led an attack on sunday that left at least 22 people dead in
environment at least for an hour or so. this is the story of two decades of reporting in the middle east, beginning with a stint in stint in cairo when he went after graduating college college with two suitcases and $2000 with the idea of becoming of foreign correspondent. in this book we learn about his education as a young reporter, how it went from picking up freelance work to winding up reporting for an major news. this book is much more than a memoir, he offers a analysis of the current situation in the middle east which i heard him tell diane this morning, i have never seen worse. the review called it out personal account, lucy, alarming overview of where the middle east has been and where it is heading. before i ask you to help me welcome richard, i just just want to tell you that not surprisingly he has a claim to catch at the end of the plane to catch. so we may cut this short so everyone can get their books signed. so please help me welcome richard angle [applause].
[applause] hello, everyone. welcome. what a great crowd. thank you all for coming out. i am susan coll and on behalf of our owners and entire staff, i would like to welcome you to politics & prose. you can here? are we get started, you ll hear me in the back. if this could be a good time to turn off her silence or cell phone. also after the event you don t mind helping us by folding your chairs, we would be grateful. and we have microphones on either side. just write here this evening. if you could step up with your question, that would be great because we are recording this event. you can also watch in a few days on our youtube channel. i am very pleased to welcome richard engel this evening to talk about his new book, and then all broke loose. i m guessing you recognize richard is the chief one correspondent for nbc news where he reports regularly from a variety of places, mostly in the middle east and much of the time but they fixed loading in the background. we are espe
so his goal of establishing a new world war in the middle east out of the chaos that was the old ottoman world i think he and a few others around him are still trying to do that. but he picked a big fight when he picked the fight with russia and that is limiting his project and so far the middle east is not lining up to stand behind him and rejoin the ottoman sphere of influence. he is still pushing this project and agenda but with limited success. . on that terrible day. i was not in the midwest. on that terrible day. i just don t have anything more to add to the debate. do you keep up with stanford football? yes, i do. [laughter] your name before this weekend, and i learned, i read about the kidnapping of the nbc news team and yourself in 2012. yes. and in april of last year it was effectively retracted. want to make another group look bad and so they will disguise themselves with the group come in this case it was sunnis posing as she is. is that it? if so,