Good evening everyone. Welcome to the page turners im the curator and host some of you may recognize this series when it was 6 miles to the west. We are really glad you could be here. We started here last may and we are pleased to be here. Monday night in new york so even on monday night and new york theres other 10000 places you could be the way takes for granted that you chose to be here. Thank you very much and the presence you get at the end of your efforts you meet that wonderful author we are also joined by our friends cspan book tv if you look at the page turners twitter or Facebook Page youll see when this will air. We are not life which is a good thing. And then we will have the q a to be part of the conversation and then please shape your thoughts in the form of a question. If you cannot do that we will politely move on to the next person who has done so to those that can put their thoughts into the shape of a question. The book came out last tuesday and you have the opportun
West butes humor me for the purposes of this event. We are really, really glad you could be here. We started here last may and we are very, very pleased to be here with our friends. Its a monday night in new york, a beautiful spring day in the late winter. And we know that even on a monday night in new york there are 10000 other places you could be. Nobody involved with puttingng this together or is in it takes for granted that you chose to be here. Thank you very much in the presence you get at the end of your efforts is in meeting with that wonderful author. And of course that is tim. We are also joined by cspan book tv they are taking good care of us. If you look at the page turners twitter or facebook page, i will postce when this is actually going to air. We are not live, which is probably a good thing. It should air sometime i would think in the early actual spring. Im going to tell you a little bit about the series, talk about the book and then bring tim out. We are going to tal
Next week getting results from walmart and jcpenney then kicking into high gear barreling toward black friday. Is there a giant moment of truth for the consumer. Everybody says about the healthy of the consumer. Never underestimate the u. S. Consumer want to spend doesnt mean they should be spending they have jobs thats great as long as the stock market goes higher every day whether people have a dollar or not in it they will spend money because they feel the economy is doing better thats the calculus i make with the alltime high in the stock market i think the consumer continues to spend doesnt mean some of the stocks are going higher but the consumer will spend. If you want to play the stocks, i think in the next thursday a name like nordstroms which had great trading ranges over the last couple of years, yes its bounced off the low but you have a huge Short Interest, reasonable valuation and we find ourselves time and time again in in environment these big Short Interest retailers t
And Central Africa in recent years. And it has rocks, us, the whole region defined into, to him. And he is one to a doubling down on the power grant addressing tens of thousands of support which is gathered in the can 2 days, gathering his testimony, to your commitments and to your determination to change needs. Yeah, to bank is unlimited buying automation from we stand for cuz its all what you need to reinstate the country. Democratically elected president mohammed, but new sharon has suffered so much these here has taken responsibility. It wasnt just the military who took power, but the people who took power, what we have now, and here is true democracy people was have enough one to one week to stand down. And one that has a plan for military intervention if nisa series as a deadline passed me, she is military lead is doug. In fact, a major is faced with the threat of intervention that has to be coming clearer through the action of neighboring countries. And therefore, our air space
Times know about the drones, i guess. [laughter] i think we can say that. No, i think, i think journalists have done their work in developing a lot of information about what our National Security apparatus thinks, how its motivated and how its acting. I think thats true. But what we, but we have not had a fundamental policy discussion in the country that we need to have. And i think and i think we can define that along many different lines. But for me the key issue is, um, if we look at whats going on in pakistan, for instance, you know, we have the cia engaged on a traditional, in a traditional theater of war in what historically have been viewed as military tactics over a sustained period of many years involving hundreds of strikes with clear military objectives. And is that a correct use of an Intelligence Service . I think thats a very fundamental question, and weve got the same issue with respect to yeaman, i think yemen, i think, potentially other places. So this is the cia growi