What does that mean that it isnt seen as an opportunity that it is perhaps even something troubling why is that the case and why is it still the case if its true its all yeah yeah i mean it is like the case that and more people in the east and float for at the age of 30 and we have to. Turn into for germany poland right when tyson. Yes and by the way shouldnt ask why do east germans wrote about b. Should why could the a g become popular in this part of germany rance a bit of a question your answer to that question is very very many answers one to me in a nutshell well so one quarter of the east german people have left many academics this is one reason we didnt have the movement of the 1968 in east germany and i think the most important thing is we are missing as strong or this is a Civil Society its not as strong as in west germany so we really really. Need this but we also need more people like in the media or we need more and more is german perspectives because there is this fact tha
History and biography is sponsored by wells fargo. God day i am a Andrea Mitchell from nsnbc and welcome is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 20th anniversary of a National Book festival present by library of congress. And we are thrilled to have today our office David Rubenstein who has produced author a new book and new book is how to lead. And it is an extraordinary combination of conversations on leadership and the qualities that make people believers especially these very special people. These unique individuals that david has assembled in his book. David rubenstein, welcome youre a lawyer. Youre former white house founder of the World Largest private equity firm youre a history buff restored Washington Monument you saved of the National Zoo Pandas brought magna carta and having saying nothing of a Television Show in bloomberg, and on pbs how do you do it all tell us about your leadership. Well, i didnt feel i was as good a leader as people i interviewed so in the book i tal
Conspiracies. Im off its good to have you with us we start tonight in belle ruse and some dramatic developments in the mystery about what has happened to leading opposition figure Maria Kolesnik over kolesnik over went missing on monday sparking intense speculation about her whereabouts seen authorities released these pictures they say that they detained kolesnik while she was trying to escape across the border into ukraine now into opposition members who were with her in that car i have spoken now providing some dramatic new detail us. Are for the details im joined now by resnick aman a journalist in the capital minsk she has more on that is good to have you on the program so what did these associates of kolesnik over what did they say what happened. Well the. Executive secretary and the press secretary they told the story of how they were. Forced to go to the crane and they told that my area of where it was also for us to go she resisted to go and on the yellowstone Ukrainian Border
Ground. In the fact that this square in front of Government House in minsk is empty now in the rain is no indication that these protests are losing their dynamism their momentum from the beginning this has been very diffuse protests spread across and then spread across the whole country and people have been coming out for events in the evenings going back to work and theyve really made a conscious decision not to set up a central part of the government then surround and clear arresting people even from where im standing now i can see people walking with flags on the side of the road drivers beeping their horns in support of those protesters so its a very fast moving very diffuse situation here but things looking good for president. You get a sense of people theyve lost their fear of challenging the government out in the open i think that something will be very difficult for the regime here to dial back even if these protests words die out there are stories of policemen who are just ref
Accidental admiral . Guest what a great question at a certain level all of our lives, you can choose to steer a particular course but the sea will come, the wind will come and you will go in a different direction. It comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral just finishing up at us Southern Command in charge of all military activities south of the United States and i was very hopeful in going to the pacific as commander of us Pacific Command which is a senior position, robert gates, called me up and said forget about the specific we are going to send you to nato so i became the first and thus far the only admiral, supreme allied commander in nato and it was an accident that did that. From the nato perspective i was be accidental admiral who became the supreme allied commander. Host the navy was an accident as well. Guest somewhat. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father fought in korea and vietnam. I grew up in that environment and went to Quantico High Scho