Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. When i walked into a hearing room and the secretary of defense and i get a chance to question Donald Rumsfeld about the war, i said this is unique. I may not be doing this forever. Rose so better make the best of it right thats right. I better i better not enjoy it i better luxuriate in it. Its a great privilege. Being a senator is a great privilege, charlie. And it taught me being alive was a great privilege. I write about that. Xd i was sort of more open in this book than id like to be. Sort of let it all hang out. Rose what was the hardest thing for you to write about . Well, the hardest thing to write about is facing my own mortality. The hardest thing to write about is wondering notwithstanding all my bravado and all my assertiveness if i was going to make it. Rose do you think you could have handled death . Im not looking forward to the experience but i think i can and from what w
Her lessons from winning a legal battle against Pacific Gas Electric in california when they polluted her citys water supply. Millions of americans are on the edge of a hunger cliff as republicans push for cuts to food stamps and Unemployment Benefits. Politics . Whats that . Example. Ve you an Ronald Reagan campaigning in 1980 and complaining about welfare queens. Race on doesnt mention its surface. We will speak with professor Ian Haney Lopez, author of the new book, dog whistle politics how coded racial appeals have reinvented racism wrecked the middle class. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. More than 200 south sudanese civilians have drowned in the white now river while attending to flee violence. An Army Spokesperson told afp as many as 300 people died in the accident on an overloaded ferry including children. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced by the conflict in south sudan. Talks between t
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. When i walked into a hearing room and the secretary of defense and i get a chance to question Donald Rumsfeld about the war, i said this is unique. I may not be doing this forever. Rose so better make the best of it right thats right. I better i better not enjoy it, i better luxuriate in it. Its a great privilege. Being a senator is a great privilege, charlie. And it taught me being alive was a great privilege. I write about that. Xd i was sort of more open in this book than id like to be. Sort of let it all hang out. Rose what was the hardest thing for you to write about . Well, the hardest thing to write about is facing my own mortality. The hardest thing to write about is wondering notwithstanding all my bravado and all my assertiveness if i was going to make it. Rose do you think you could have handled death . Im not looking forward to the experience but i think i can and from what
I want to thank red river theater for this terrific venue he, the want to thank gibson for turning out. You may have noticed when you walk in that he has books in the lobby. Joe will stick around the sun some afterwards. Ill be will take advantage of that. Also want to thank joe for coming a little bit off the main circuit but publishers but you want to come to concord. Of course she also can this the old friends. That is one of the things that happens when you work as a reporter. You need a lot of people, and this difference for a long time. So, of want to say just in the introduction of think probably in you read a little bit about this and the moderate, but by way of introduction talk a little bit about my experience with her. That bomb that at some point during that time to decide the issue wanted to leave them on. And nice up from the st. Petersburg time. Of thing anyway strobe light show did. She had a great loyalty. Such a wonderful time as a reporter. We were accused reporters
Formation is still urgent so that we can begin to make decisions necessary to protect iraq without outside forces moving to fill the vacuum. Those forces are already engaged in combat against them. The wall street journal reports warplanes have struck targets, killing 50, injuring more than a hundred civilians while targeting strongholds in the area. Employing more than a dozen officers who advised the iraqi army on intelligence and help mobilize 2000 militiamen from southern iraq. We will be talking with the pentagon official in officials here in moments about why this president would send 300 military advisers into a region that is rapidly deteriorating into an allout sectarian war among enemies. And a big primary day for the Republican Party. Thad cochran beating back a challenge from Chris Mcdaniel who has still to concede the election. As you know, there were literally dozens of this reported across the state. Not our job to make together the sanctity of the vote that will be a pa