Billion on amazon during the lockdown. The stock is up 169 per share. Facebook, another pandemic winner. 2. 4 billion people used facebook or one of its apps every day. That is global clout. The stock is up 16. Now, google, that is the exception to the stock price rally. They reported a firstever decline in quarterly revenue with the economy lockdown, advertisers slowed their spending. That stock is down 16 bucks. Overall, stocks are going up this morning. I see green for the dow, green for the s p and especially a lot of green for the nasdaq, up 111 points. No deal on stimulus. Democrats and republicans negotiated last night. Neither side emerged optimistic. Politico reports that offers were exchanged. The white house wants a fourmonth extension of jobless benefits. The democrats want much longer. Perhaps a deal is still possible. Here comes the hurricane. Look at that cone. Probably not going to be a good beach weather up and down the eastern seaboard this weekend. What does that do
Work. I wanted to start with something that is an introduction to the book at going to quote you. He said most of us have a personal connection to the work that we do. And a reset outcome you set out to discover your family. And that on our families but our Puerto Ricans. I think that is true for those of us who were born into as will those of us were born you. I would like to talk about the discovery of a family. Can you tell me about that . Guest well, mine was a Small Nuclear family. I was born here in new york. Living in washington heights. My mother was from puerto rico and my father was cuban. I was the only child. There was a small but hardworking you know, and my father was very procastro. We would have meetings, he would have like 10 or 15 people on saturday nights, my mother would make coffee and they would talk to don. It was exciting for me because i would hear all these exciting conversations about politics, latin America Castor which people havent heard about but was all
Other leaders and think about leaders and also to look at Anglo American relations, the aristocracy. Here is a photo of her when she was married to lord randolph and churchill was born in 1874. She was born in 1854. There you see Young Winston with his loving mother. Look at how he is dressed. What an embarrassing portrait for a statesman, right . [laughter] well, churchill wrote in his autobiography that he was a troubled boy in the sense that he caused trouble for others. He said, i was called a troublesome boy. There he is, about 14. You see that scowl. Wow. Does he look like that . [laughter] look at those two. [laughter] 50 years difference, but boy they look alike, dont they . You can see the resemblance between the two, the young teenager and the statesman that stood up to hitler. Ok, that pugnacious, troublesome boy, who grew up to be a statesman who gave trouble to people like hitler. Well, churchills mom, the letters she would write to Winston Churchill. This is what she wrot
Theyre imagining more field grains because theyve been importing them from Eastern Europe so the banking. Mr. Isaacson mrs. Carter . Mrs. Carter i wasnt there. President carter we were with the elders, the hasbeen politicians. [laughter] Nelson Mendela mandela was the founder. A former secretary general of the United Nations, kofi annan the former president of thailand, the former president of finland. Former president of mexico and former president of brazil and so forth. Thats our 11 members but also the chief negotiator for the United Nations for about 20 years, he was one trying to bring peace to the area. So we meet every six weeks or so and decide where we can go. We dont have to accommodate voters so we can pick and choose. Mr. Isaacson where did you go in the middle east on your last trip . President carter we went to the middle east, we went to gaza the Carter Center has had an office there. For several years. We still are working on bringing peace to israel. We are still work
The fisa court and how they could improve that but courts generally. I think the down side of courts generally is they are not often well equipped to handle classified cases. Aside from standing issues, the process of handling classified materials, stamped with clearances is a challenge with the courts and they have shown timidity when taking on the government and they defer to the government or rather than challenge the government or look for the least intrusive for the rights with Civil Liberties. So make a pitch for the krif liberties oversight board, we complement the judicial. We can meet with the nsa and cia and fbi informally and confer with congress informally without rules of evidence and standing requirements and have a review not limited to lelt review, although we did a legal review in the and i was pleased the Second Circuit adopted our legal analysis and we can do policy review and make recommendations to the president and to congress, not only on whether something is con