Hi kathie. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. I enjoyed your book. Thank you. I would like to start this interview by talking a little bit about you. I also would like the audience to hear the story which honestly which really offended me. Which is in your introduction. You got a note from a professor claiming he would never be a political scientist. Can you say little bit about that . Speech i put that in the book because when i was in college i struggled with what i wanted to major in. I wanted about going into science, humanities or social science. And i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting comment engaging in urgent for me. My First Political science course we read all of the great political philosophers from plato on up. They were all asking the question, what is justice . What is Good Government . How can you organize a government and organize society to make life better for people. Particularly to make justice. So, i end
Shes on the stand right now. Shes actually being grilled by one of trumps lawyers, susan necheles. Shes been a Backseat Player so far. Its apparent that today was her big day. Stormy daniels is on cross after hours of testifying to some of the things donald trump and his allies, enablers have spent Tens Of Thousands of dollars trying to hide and suppress. Stormy daniels went through all of the painstaking details of her 2006 Sexual Encounter with donald trump down to the pattern that she remembers seeing in the trumps hotel room. Many objections sustained. Stormy daniels described reluctantly agreeing to have dinner with donald trump, thinking it could be good for her career. At one point during their time together, she said she asked herself, quote, how did i misread this so badly to get here . Thats when it became intimate. Sitting ten feet away from the expresident , Stormy Daniels said that donald trump would call her sometimes, two to three times a week. From nbc news reporting fr
Anderson cooper back in 2018. Lets take a quick listen to what she said so you. Signed and released a statement. It said im not denying this affair because i was paid and hush money. Im denying it because it never happened thats a lie. Yes. If it was untruthful why did you sign it because they made it sound like i had no choice. But the exact sentence used was they can make your life hell in many different ways. Now, donald trump will have a different view, has expressed a different view of what happened between him and Stormy Daniels. Lets just remind ourselves of some of the comments that donald trump has made about Stormy Daniels i have no idea who these women are. Have no idea. I have no idea. The stories are total fiction there 100 made up they never happened. They never would happen, never met this person, these people, i dont know who they are i dont know who they are now whether they had sex are not in 2006 is not directly relevant to the crimes charged here, but it could be ve
1097. Down by pretty flat on the day, but down significantly today which has had a big impact on those gold players particularly a lot of the mining stocks around the region. Weve got oil and gas in china down around 2. 5 . The shanghai composite is down 1. 4 at the moment. The hang seng index down by more than 2 . Japan went on lunch break down by 0. 75 . Around the rest of the region quite a lot of selling. Have a quick look at some of the movers we are watching today. Significant weakness coming through this morning in some of the hong kong stocks. Gomei electrical down. Analysts thinking it paid too much. Hong kong exchanges having its biggest fall since july 8. Still some weakness coming through from casino stocks. Sans china down 3. 3 . A lot more weakness coming through in asia. Commodity prices really starting to impact the nation. Rishaad getting a closer look at what is going on with commodities youve been looking at youve been visiting china. Youve been looking at these meta
Jeffrey studies a complexity science, the science of emergence networks which is also the subject of his new book scale. We, of course, are celebrating tonight and you will be discussing it. It has received already wonderful reviews from journals like nature, all the way to authors like abraham for coffee. It studies the hidden laws that organize all of our systems from living organisms to cities and not only is his work a visionary and insightful but its beautifully written. Im excited to hear more from jeffrey tonight. Before i let him take over, a quick word about how we will run things. We will have a talk and presentation from jeffrey and a short q a and will have a signing in the back of the room where books are also available for purchase. Thank you again for being with us tonight. Please join me in welcoming jeffrey west. [applause] thank you all for coming on a beautiful night in seattle. I was warned that there might be more spotty audience because of the beautiful weather. I