What was your thinking on that . How did you choose what not to include . Guest well, i feel like there are so many books out there that have kind of the negative and the nasty and the scoresettling and, one, thats not who i am as a person, but two, i wanted people to get the different side and a different perspective. And, frankly, after two and a half years in the white house and another almost year on the campaign of my experience working for the president was a very positive one. I loved my job, i liked the people that i worked with. That doesnt mean we didnt have difficult days and that there werent moments that id love to block out for the rest of my life. But overall, i really believed in what we were doing, and i enjoyed working for the president , and i actually liked my colleagues. And so i wanted a book that reflected that and reflected my experience, and that was what i tried to capture in those 12 chapters. Host lots of interesting stuff in here. One thing that caught my e
German chancellor Angela Merkel meets with russian president Vladimir Putin in moscow the true leaders have several significant points of just fuse box can they find Common Ground on the middle east and the rising tensions in the region. Im sorry great welcome to the program the commander of irans revolutionary god is excepted full responsibility for the downing of a ukrainian passenger jet on wednesday iran says the firing of the missile at the plane was a mistake and its blaming human error after the plane flew near a sensitive military site 176 people were killed in the crash to run had previously denied claims from the u. S. And canada that it was responsible. An explosion in the sky this mobile phone footage was one factor that led western countries to suspect in the reunion missile attack on the ukrainian passenger plane finally after days of vehement denial irans military admitted its guilt with armed forces on the highest level of alert the Ukrainian International Airlines Flig
Economic expansion going. He is speaking at a fed is listening event at the headquarters in washington d. C. Where they make the decision whether to cut Interest Rates or not. Powell says the inflation is running close to or just and 2 target range. Some members of the fomc that the inflation under that target is a big deal. More people are making more money, yes, but that is not enough money there to put inflation pressures in this economy. That is a signal that the fed may undershoot Inflation Expectations again. And the chairman believes that the tools that are being used right now are effective on the economy. Although he does worry that the u. S. Economy as well as world economies are facing challenges like low growth, low inflation low Interest Rates. The reason he says low Interest Rates because in this speech he is concerned that the lower federal funds rate does not leave a lot a lot of room if tht downturn comes to support the economy. Now the fed is getting input at these ev
Just turned 4 pm welcome to the program. Making history donald trump has become the 1st sitting u. S. President to enter north korea and the north korean media and trump himself dubbed the meeting an amazing event the reaction back home was far more muted if not outright critical. Vague talk about talks while kim continues to develop Nuclear Warheads and missiles seems like this gigantic p. R. Stunt in trenches unembellished his authoritarian rule without any real meaningful strategy for denuclearization out president shouldnt be squandering american influence on photo ops and exchanging love letters with a ruthless dictator instead we should be dealing with north korea through a principle diplomacy that promotes yes Security Defense how allies and uphold human rights i have no problem with him sitting down with kim june in north korea or anyplace else but whats going to happen tomorrow and the next day if were going to bring peace to this world we need to move forward diplomatically a
Ways to media come, along with these Television Companies support cspan two as a public service. My name is joe vogel, im a state delegate here representing the great city of gave herberg and it is my pleasure to introduce all of you to the city of gain berg. I am so thrilled this morning to be introducing ari shapiro as he presents his book the best strangers in the world, stories from a life when i first saw this book will be presented to the book festival in before i was giving the honor of introducing the session, i took note of the book. I screenshotted the cover of it, to add it to my reading list. Not only because i am an occasional listener of all Things Considered, but also because of my own interest in listening to strangers. For as long as i can remember, i have been fascinated by strangers. The very idea of a stranger, right, what is a stranger . Its pretty wild. While others shy away from meeting, speaking, with an listening to strangers, like ari, i aint always do the opp