The last million. Europes displaced persons from world war to the cold war. Im joel rosenthal, Prime Minister of Carnegie Council for ethics and international affairs. For those of us in the carnegie family of institutions, we have a special affection for david. His biography of Andrew Carnegie published in 2006 was a lifechanging event for us. Through davids work, weve come to know Andrew Carnegie in all of his humanity and complexity, and theres one lesson from the book that really stayed with me and has animated my work at the Carnegie Council, and that is the as david would put it cashtys carnegies cockeyed optimism was not entirely misplaced. For all the madness we see in the world, progress based on reason and a cando spirit is, indeed, possible. That idea keeps me going, and this occasion gives me the opportunity to say thank you, david. In addition to the carnegie biography, davids previous books include prizewinning biographies of joseph p. Kennedy and William Randolph hearst.
it s backed off a bit, but if you look at the tech heavy nasdaq, it is off 4% and plunging. john: debbie dingle standing by with her thoughts on how this could affect her party s midterm chances. but first, to jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn this hour and rather ironic the president has a celebration of the economy this afternoon. how are they reacting to the cpi report? either the white house expected numbers a whole lot better than this or someone in the scheduling office had an unfortunate oversight and getting an earful. it is ironic they are hosting a bunch of democratic lawmakers here today to mark the signing, last month s signing of the inflation reduction act just as those new numbers come out showing inflation, core inflation shot up last month 6.3% in august, up from 5.9% in july. and that is a key metric that the fed watches very closely and these numbers are more than the 6.1% that economists predicted, the next set of rate hikes will likely be quite a
another countdown, five days until the senate s scheduled august recess, about a week for democrats to stick to leader chuck schumer s stated goal of passing a monumental health care and climate bill, including key components of president biden s legislative agenda. just a week. now schumer could always slide his schedule to give democrats more time, time to figure out if he actually has the votes that he needs because we still don t know where kyrsten sinema stands. she s been silent on the issue so far. our best insight to her thinking comes from joe manchin, far from a guarantee. manchin says there is lots for sinema to like. she has a lot in this bill. she s the one who negotiated basically and no one changed the medicare negotiations. and they thought that wasn t. and she got involved and that was great. i support that. she s been very adamant and clear on no tax increases. i take that very seriously. i feel the same way. so i m hoping that when she reviews and sees it
privilege, i think as we talk about what these conversations could be between pat cipollone s attorneys and the doj, that grand jury, i should say, what is covered by executive privilege? just remind us here. what conversations could potentially be covered. what we know is that pat cipollone and others have claimed executive privilege to allow them basically to avoid answering questions about conver conversations, private conversations they claim they had with donald trump leading up to and including on january 6. we know with respect to the january 6 committee that pat cipollone, although he appeared before that committee, that he used executive privilege oftentimes to avoid answering specific questions. and this is going to test, quite frankly, whether that privilege holds now that we know that there is a grand jury, a criminal investigation taking place with respect to donald trump. these conversations that pat cipollone s attorneys are having with the doj presumably des
As Jessica Schumer-Rowles’ children Colin and Adelaide picked up hand drills to tap trees Sunday at the Pennsylvania Maple Festival, she said the event was becoming a tradition for their