being eroded as we get from currency war a trade war and then a somewhat positive we get into a more of a hostile situation you also see that those who sit atop the institutions in which we no longer have trust where there is the large banks or the large education systems or the large corporations or indeed the media you know that those who are the talking heads when we begin to lose trust in those institutions they have to either respond with being more trustworthy or they start to attack they start to do things like let s take down you tube there it can t be because of me and my opinion being spouted every night on cable news it has to be because they re going you know they re looking at the consequences of the absence of trust people turning to other sources of news. as the cause of the lack of trust rather than that they were the ones that started giving them false information like the false information of w m d s in iraq or the false information that everything s going t
this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up united nations sends an s.o.s. to the world asking for billions of dollars to help communities destroyed by conflict. calls the ranger by name for the first time and ask for forgiveness for their sufferings plus. u.s. islands of hawaii responding to nuclear threats from north korea by dusting off a relic from the cold war. u.s. president donald trump s former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia michael flynn admitted his actions were wrong but said a senior member of trump s transition team had asked him to reach out to the russians he s a. corporate ing with the f.b.i. investigation into alleged russian meddling in last year s u.s. election a white house correspondent can really help get reports. arrive at federal court in washington michael flynn ignored shouted questions by reporters. inside moments later the former national security adviser to president donald
this is a statement on how pathetic things really are in government, they imagine themselves to be solving a great case in a quote, in the global war on terrorism. getting three kids in miami beach, stopping them from shipping ammo to afghanistan was them winning the global war on terrorism. and that literally is how it was discussed inside government. you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. and now from politics & prose bookstore in washington d.c., npr s steve inskeep provides a dual biography of andrew jackson and cherokee leader john ross in the lead-up to president jackson s signing of the indian removal act of 1830. our featured attraction, of course, this evening is the great steve inskeep who i m sure is already familiar to many of you. certainly, those of you who listen to national public radio. he s been an on-air presence there for 19 years, and for over a decade now he s been one to have hosts of morning edition, the most widely-heard
house in 2011 and left in 2016, as a special assistant to the president and senior presidential speech writer. described as the comic muse for the president, he contributedded jokes to president obama s speakers and was a lead wry writer on four white house chanter leader presentations. he was the head write are for funny or die d.c. are he s adam davidson is a staff write at the the new yorker. he has been a frequent contributeyear to to this american life. hi work appeared atlantic, harpers, gq, rolling stone and other publications. they bring us tonight mr.ly itts new book, thanks, obama, my hopey, changey white house areas. barack obama s eight years in the white house were defined by young people. in 2011, david litt became one of youngest white house speech writers in history. until leaving the white house in 2016 he wrote on topics from health care to climbed change to criminal justice reform and took the lead as president obama s go-to comedy writer. now in this r
rise to world dominance? it would have been totally unpredictable from the perspective of, say, 1600s, before america was even begun to be settled. north america was largely wilderness, very lightly settled. there were a disparity number of diverse native american cultures and all of a sudden you have an historical time, you have the world dominant civilization in terms of military power, economic power, culture, here in north america. so, often today the politically correct answer is america rows to world power because america is uniquely guilty of exploiting slave labor, guilty of committing genocide against native americans, spoiling the environment, prepping people, engaging in imperial abroad and slatiering millions. you hear that in many universitied but that s not every significant american leader has believed. those leaders have believed that the rise of the united states occurred through divine providence because they dispensation buy a higher power to uplift the who