Radio. Alongside lisa abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. Tom keene will be back with us on wednesday. Erasing the mornings losses. Monday morning, we are faced with vaccine news. Some other news as well. We are pushing things forward every monday, it seems. Lisa although it seems like the market didnt respond so much to that news. There seems to be a lot of positivity baked in. So my people who came on this show were saying if there is any pullback, which there were likely be which there will. Ikely be, buy that dip that seems to be the feeling as we bleed higher towards the end of the year. Jonathan this morning, but theyre not out this morning, requestplanning to approval for this vaccine. What we have to think about is what would the anchor expectations on the policy side and on the data side. Later this week, the chiasm claims, payrolls the ism claims, payrolls. Do people start to get worried about the nearterm future . We hear from secretary mnuchin and chair powell this week. A bit o
There as far as the core cause of that blaze, but we can be thankful that at least back here at home our winds have subsided but still very breezy down there in Southern California. Much the office of yesterday morning at the same time we are calm across the bay, a nice view out there from berkeley which nearby murrah, yesterday remember at this time were talking about plays that crews were getting the upper hand on a calm conditions across the bay area very nice to see that your temperatures theyre cooler than they were yesterday morning. All these factors really adding up this morning to good news for those of us here in our own backyard of course were going to be keeping updated and ill have more information on that blaze in Southern California in just a minute as we make our way outside this morning do expect temperatures to be cool. But later on today, were actually a bit warmer than yesterday back up into the 80s for more areas, a warm up but calm start to the weekend talking mor
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So we have a very modest subject america. And we have some people that know a lot about it. So i why dont we just start on my far right with the cochair or the chair or the new orleans book festival. Your cochair always be cochair never chair. So walter in your observation of all the people you have written about. And all the other people youve youve read about over the years who would you say is the greatest american weve ever had. Benjam, look i mean besides david present company excluded. It changes depending on the moments of history, but at this moment Benjamin Franklin as a person we need most the person who knew most how to unify different viewpoints who could see across different disciplines to see the patterns who understood the basic underlying values of what it meant to be an american who helped bring the colonies together, but also understood how to do a realistic balance of power diplomacy, which were doing very badly. I think with the ukraine situation where were trying w