Passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson and empire of the summer moon, a finalist for the National Book critics circle award. Sam spent most of his career as a journalist including national correspondence, Senior Editor with time, executive editor of texas monthly. Delighted to have you here this evening to discuss your latest book hymns of the republic, the story the final years of the American Civil War and to my immediate right is donald miller, the author of several New York Times bestsellers including masters of the air, americas bomber always who filed the air war against nazi germany, which is being developed as a miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and tom hanks, the closest i have ever gotten to meeting those guys. He previously worked as a consultant for the hbo series pacific and contributed to several episodes of american experience. Doctor miller received a phd from the university of maryland. We say lafayette. Where he don is the john Harry Mccracken in lafayette
Call you sam. S. C gwynne is a graduate of princeton, Johns Hopkins where he and a masters degree in writing, he is the author of rebel yell the violence, passion, and redemption of Stonewall Jackson and empire of the summer moon, a finalist for the National Book critics circle award. Sam spent most of his career as a journalist including national correspondence, Senior Editor with time, executive editor of texas monthly. Delighted to have you here this evening to discuss your latest book hymns of the republic, the story the final years of the American Civil War and to my immediate right is donald miller, the author of several New York Times bestsellers including masters of the air, americas bomber always who filed the air war against nazi germany, which is being developed as a miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and tom hanks, the closest i have ever gotten to meeting those guys. He previously worked as a consultant for the hbo series pacific and contributed to several episodes of
so let s now get down to business and we begin with the bank of england and the warning that interest rates could go up by as much as half a percentage point at its next rates meeting. that s according to the bank s governor, andrew bailey. he was speaking to financial leaders in london last night and pledged to do whatever it takes to get inflation under control. we will have to act forcefully. in simple terms it means a 50 basis point increase will be among the choices on the table when we next meet. but it is not locked in. and anyone who predicts that we will do that is doing that based on their own view. we do not pronounce rate decisions for one very simple reason, and pc decisions are based on deliberation at the time on nine people focused on retaining inflation to the 2% target sustainability. well, injust over an hour s time we will get the latest inflation figures for the uk. prices have already been rising at the fastest rate in a0 years at 9.1%. joining me now is
The colombian president. Does anybody have any questions . I am shocked. [ laughter ] reporter the president taking questions on controversies. From a New York Times report alleging President Trump asked his former fbi director james comey to stand out on an investigation into Michael Flynns ties to russia. No. No. Next question. Reporter to what the president thought a special counsel appointed to the fbi investigation into alleged collusion between russia and the trump 2016 campaign. There is no collusion between myself and my campaign i think it divides the country. Reporter attorney general Rob Rosenstein briefed the senate on the firing of james comey with plans to treat house members friday. Democrats say the special counsel is a good first step. Backup i think there will be a need for a broader investigation. There will be discussion who is the next fbi director. Reporter the president saying today he is close to naming the next fbi director in the top contender is former democr
You can see that system that has produced the tornadic activity in the planes. We never get the real core but we get enough of it were temperatures continue to warm up. With that in mind we start with mostly clear skies. There could be some fog for an hour or two but i think sunny and warm with temperatures in the 70s and 80s. Happy friday, sal. We finally got here. Things are okay for the most part out there. Lets take a look at the commute on the tracy triangle and the rest of the commute. It doesnt look bad. You can see traffic is moving pretty well as you drive through the tracy area with no major slowdowns. The traffic continues to look good getting up to the area. You can also see traffic on 880. It does look good. 880 north and southbound at the coliseum is moving this morning. The her but no major problems. Also at the bay bridge toll plaza, it looks good. Traffic is moving along relatively well. There have been some problems in san jose. A woman riding a motorcycle in san jose