Recent book insane clown met iab in depth, your most recent book insane clown president dispatches from the 2016 circus. You write about donald trump, quote, no ordinary conman, he is way above average, the american political system is his easiest mark ever. That was early in the campaign. That was in march 2016. It was around the time he was sewing up the republican nomination and the purpose of that article, this is a compilation of articles to try to explain the trump phenomenon to people who were for the first time having to take it seriously and come to grips that this was happening. I took a different approach to trump and tried to listen to what his supporters were saying and focus on what he was doing. My take on him that he was a Brilliant Media manipulator who was perfectly suited to play on the weaknesses of the american political media and that turned out to be true. I wish i had stuck to my guns. Later on in the book i didnt believe he would be president. Host the day afte
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. I am lucky. One of those rare instances where a little boys dreams came true. Bud selig was the 9th commissioner and many said he was the most influential. On saturday, at the age of 80, he stepped down. He grew up in milwaukee where he rooted for the new york yankees. In 1970, at age 35, he bought the seattle pilots in Bankruptcy Court and moved the team to milwaukee. He called this his greatest proudest accomplishment. As commissioner he revolutionized the economics a grew revenue to 8 billion, playoff expansion and interplay. And also faced a number of challenges. Steroid use among some of the best players cast a wide shadow on the game. On sunday, bud selig and i spoke at Yankee Stadium. Heres that conversation. There are a lot of things we could do on sunday morning but to talk to you about baseball in this setting, in this stadium with snow on the ground. Ive been to the Yankee Stadium a lot since 1949, old yankees, new yan
Im lucky. One of those rare instances where a little boys dreams came true. Major league baseballs ninth commissioner, many say he was the most influential. On saturday he stepped down after 23 years on the job. He grew up in milwaukee where he rooted for the yankees. At age 70 he bought the pilots in Bankruptcy Court and moved the team to milwaukee. He calls this his proudest accomplishment. He expanded interleague play. He face aid number of challenges. Among some of the best players cast a wide shadow on the game. On sunday he spoke at Yankee Stadium. Here is that conversation. There are a lot of things we could do on sunday morning fwout talk to you about baseball in this setting, this stadium with snow on the ground. Ive been to Yankee Stadium a lot, ever since 1949. Never been here when there is snow covering the field. So this is a first. Growing up in milwaukee, you were a yankee fan. I was. Very strange, in 1945 the Milwaukee Brewers had an outfielder by the name of her shall
College athlete and then went on to play in the nfl and has strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently that we have problems out there as mr. Miller pointed out that need to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the action of a regional director of the National Labor board who suggested these athletes are employees and therefore could, if they chose, vote to join a union. So we explored some of the possible downsides of that issue. We heard from witnesses here that talked about how would this deal with class attendance and practice times, attending games, how many games, what about walkon players, or universities that are public and dont fall under the National Labors act and a host of potential problems. I appreciate the testimony of the witness today as we start to explore that. I dont think there is a person on this committee that doesnt agree we need to address the issues we talked about. The question is is unionization of som
Treasury secretary by president clinton but he declined. That headline from the New Hampshire a union leader. We will see you tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Here on the washington journal. Until then, have a good day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] here is what is coming up on the cspan network. Live at noon on cspan, a discussion on the challenges in the middle east and United States Foreign Policy. Speakers at the Woodrow Wilson center in could robert maley, ron cspan 2, julius will speak about International Telecommunications policy. Live at 12 30 on our companion network cspan 2. And election news this morning, alan west house conceded to powder murphy, putting an end to one of the most expensive house races and the country. The Washington Post writes that after all of the votes were tallied, murphy held a slight lead but his margin was not Strong Enough to trigger an official recount. The republican pressed