All the tourists have returned doing what they do walking slowly down the Sidewalk Right in front of you even though some of the seats are wet the subway is still packed and i know new York Citys coming back good Morning And Welcome to Morning Joe. It is tuesday, september 14th. And i think Jimmy Fallon has really captured new York City. Oh, yeah. No doubt, willie. So first of all, i like Bill De Blasio. Come on p. I love Bill De Blasio. Sorry. And the jets, the Punch Line is always, willie, and, of course, a line lifted there from marty scorsese. Its a great special on netflix. Pretend its a city. Just walk around and pretend its a city like people actually go to work here. Love that it is. Listen, there is moisture on the seats in the subway. I can report. Theres strange smells emanating from those platforms. Its really happening. Its really coming back. Late Summer Humidity brings up some of those scents and reminds you of the greatness of new York City. Cant wait. Were coming next
[ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. this morning we re holding a confirmation hearing on alexander acosta to serve as secretary of labor. we will have an opening statement. then we will introduce our witness. we are delighted to have senator rubio. senator cruz is coming. after our witness testimony, senators will each have two five-minute rounds of questions. just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple reinvented the mobile phone. just ten years ago. a micro blogging company named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale globally. amazon released something called kindle. all that in 2007, just ten years ago. the same year ibm began to build a computer called watson that within a few years defeated human contestants in the jeopardy tv show and in 2007 the cost of sequencing a genome started falling from $100 million in 2001 to $1,000 in 2015 and a new book
be sure to watch c-span s washington journal. live at 7:00 eastern on saturday morning. sunday night on q and a, a conversation with thomas soul, who recently retired from the column he wrote for 25 years. unlike today s left, i never felt i had to avoid being what people with different views thought. so during all of my years as a marxist, i read everything the political spectrum. there is a book on burke i first read when i was an undergraduate at harvard. i treasure that book. i can tell even then. i understood that there were reasons why people have different views. it is not just a question of being on the side against the forces of evil. i think the new administration in washington has some very good people, better than most of than most recent administrations have had. the only question is if the in washington has some very good president will listen to them, and we will not know until more time has passed. sunday night at 8:00 eastern. now, we will show
history and when edward sent me the dawn of victory it was pristine. i have never said that about a man new script. i get paid to help dekrurbgtconstruct people s writing. it was a fantastic telling of a story that is often overlooked. it is so under rated and edward dust a magnificent job of doing justice to an incredible phase of the civil war the make it or break it point. as he will share with us it is the breaking point that leads to the end. without further ado i would like to introduce my friend mr. edward alexander. edward: thank you very much for that kind introduction, chris, and to all my colleagues at emerging civil war for putting on a fantastic symposium that i hope everyone has enjoyed so far. it is a privilege to talk to this group and thanks to all of you. we would not be here just talking we might be here talking to an empty room but it is great to have such a wonderful turnout to explore the great attacks of the civil war. i believe and this will be a ver
the report will put american lives at risk. the white house knows, in fact secretary of state john kerry was urging dianne feinstein to reconsider the timing of this release because it puts americans at risk across the globe. the president still supporting transparency. josh earnest, press secretary, had this to say. really admitting that there is risk to americans with its release. there are some indications that there is, that the release of the report could lead to greater risk that is posed to u.s. facilities and individuals all around the world. so the administration has taken the prudent steps to ensure that the proper security cautions are in place at u.s. facilities around the globe. 100% unnecessary for everyone to do this. if you want to put out an explosive book, if leon panetta who went to bat when he was head of the c.i.a. said you cannot do this, stop targeting the c.i.a. you re not going to arrest these people, not going to prosecute these people, finally t