Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. To make it to the top in the world of ballet requires notjust extraordinary talent, but immense reserves of physical and mental determination. So imagine how much more it takes if your childhood is torn apart by civil war, hunger and homelessness. Todays guest, Michaela Deprince, has made a remarkablejourney from horrific suffering in sierra leone to accolades in the world of international dance. How on earth did she make it happen . Michaela deprince, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thank you. Its almost a cliche to talk about people who have made remarkable journeys, but you really have. And i want to know today, as you sit here with me as an internationally acclaimed ballerina, how connected do you feel to that little girl who was born and brought up in the first few years of her life in sierra leone . I dont feel as connected as i used to be to her. I do have those days where i still have those horrible nightmares about my past in sierra leon
Latest from capitol hill. Reporter Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein arrived on capitol hill to brief house members on the president s decision top fire fbi director james comey. Heed a least he at least implied that the memo was part of the Decision Making process. Or the decision confirming process. Reporter rosenstein admitted the president was going to fire comey regardless. But wrote a memo outlining reasons for his dismissile. He told lawmakers i wrote it, i believe it, i stand by it. Rosenstein also shot down reports that comey asked for more resources to conduct the fbi investigation into allege Trump Campaign connections with russia. He has no evidence that comey asked for any further resources. Reporter lawmakers on both sides agreed. Former fbi director Robert Mueller is a good choice to lead the investigation. Mueller is a pro. Reporter and there is bipartisan backing on there was great consensus that going after the russians for interfering with our election is a nonp
Hello, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute, thank you for joining us today. We are going to dive right in to talk about the new book everybody lies. The subtitle for about 15 to 20 minutes after that, we will sit down and have a conversation at Columbia University at 5 30 then we will look at the book but hes produced and have the opportunity to defend himself and then we will take questions from the audience and follow the same procedure. Do you want to go first . Thanks for the introduction and for inviting me to this panel. The book everybody lies is about five years of research ive been doing. So i will describe what it is. For the last 80 years, if you want to know what people want, why people do the things they do and what people are going to do, you have basically one main approach. You ask them if you can talk to the survey said they will go out and ask people questions. And there is a problem in this approach which is people tend to lie to surveys to make t
Of Columbia University and harry and will viciously attack seth and the book he has produced yourself will get the opportunity to defend himself. There we will take some questions from the audience and follow that same procedure. All right. Seth . Thank you dan for the introduction. And for inviting me. And this is a book everybody lies. It is about five years of research i have been doing. So i will describe what it is. And for the last 80 years if you want to know, what people want, why people did the things they do, what people are going to do, you basically one main approach. You asked them. You conduct a randomized survey. So you go out and ask people questions. And there is a main problem with this approach which is that people tend to lie to surveys to make themselves look good. So if you ask people immediately before an election, are you planning to vote . The overwhelming majority of americans in the survey will say sure, i am going to vote in the election. They do not want to
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