Welcome to the news grid breaking news out of kenya the Opposition Leader while loading has Just Announced that hes withdrawing from the president ial Election Rerun he says officials have failed to make reforms through a broken system which he blames for augusts Election Results being an old that leaves his bitter rival president a hurrican as the sole candidate a make or break moment spain and they are European Union are waiting with bated breath to see if catalonia as a leader will declare independence mystery surrounds whether carlos put him on will honor the process and vote for a referendum that the National Government says was illegal flawed for life to barcelona and madrid as the clock ticks down and australia and syrias world cup dream in an extra truck time ruler in sydney the visitors though certainly far away until the end they want to hazard. Special sports segment with all the celebration heartbreak and reaction and its kind of lonely away to find out its fate will also l
Emancipation proclamation. But followed by other historians on the controversy and debate. Part of four days of American History tv at 9 30 on cspan3. The president of the United States [applause] thank you. Happy new year to you. Hello, everybody. Thank you. Everybody have a seat. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the white house. I realize that the last thing you want to hear on new years eve is another speech from me. But i do need to talk about the progress being made in congress today. For the last few days, leaders of both parties are working toward an agreement that will prevent a middleclass tax hike from hitting 98 of all americans starting tomorrow. Preventing that tax hike has been my top priority. The last thing that folks like the folks appear on this stage can afford right now is to pay an extra 2,000 in taxes next year. Middleclass families cannot afford it, businesses cannot afford it, our economy cannot afford it. Today, it appears an agreement to prevent this new
And i think by any terms, he is doing great. He is a household word. Those are just two examples of people who were passionate and knowledgeable and found their way into an area that people were not following. It was extraordinarily, these are the people you should be looking to, not me. My path was weird and cannot be followed. Lets open it up to questions from the audience. When you come to the microphone, please give us your name and where you go to school. If anyone would like to come up. Here is our first inquire. He is adjusting it. Until someone gets the courage up, you mentioned nate silver. He offers the fascinating thesis that it is that talking heads on all the cable channels are the ones who are constantly predicting things that, believe it or not, have the worst prognostication records. He said that the amount of minutes you are on television are inversely proportionate to the accuracy of your predictions. I listen to your show every sunday afternoon. I want to know, i saw
Unstable. We are seeing extremism. We are seeing a major shift in this region. We are not dealing with iran in a vacuum. The decisions we make have to be decisions for the region. We are dealing with a United States that is tired of war. It has not gone well in the two big wars it conducted in the middle east. It spent trillions of dollars, a lot of mud and blood and treasure. It is very clear that the americans are more interested in nationbuilding at home. These are important context to bear in mind. Hopefully the Iranian Regime will change. Hopefully, the administration will take diplomacy very seriously. Or that sanctions really change the koran and governments mind and they change course the iranian governments mind and they change course. It is quite likely and possible that iran may go nuclear before any of these things take effect. Before sanctions, as rigorous as they are, produce a result, or before there is a democracy movement. Then, we are really left with two choices. We
Influencing machine. She sat down recently at fort university. This is an hour and 20 minutes fordham university. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Our moderator is the author of four books on cultural programming and for 15 years, he was the head of special projects at the directors guild. He frequently moderates and events around the city for bafta, the screen actors guild, the producers guild, the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences. Please welcome brian rose. [applause] next, but could not be more delighted to have Brooke Gladstone here tonight. She is the managing editor and cohost of nprs on the media and author of a highly acclaimed book the influencing machine. we will be doing a signing of her book. She has been at npr for many years, including a threeyear stint in moscow where she covered the last turbinate years of president yeltsin. I know all of you die hard groupies out there will agree there is something about brooke that pulls you in. Each week, even at 7 00 a. M.