let's talk about one of the corporates there industrial gas giant linde, first full year of earnings after a major merger targeting further expansion. it aims to boost efficiency and increase prices. linde ceo spoke to cnbc in an exclusive interview. >> you mentioned one number, the german production number is worrisome. i think things like trade disputes did not help. you can look at china where industrial production was already decelerating they used to run higher midsingle digits it is slowing. coronavirus will have some effect on that number as well. i can't think of a country as i go around the world where the rates are actually higher going into 2020 than 2019. what that means is we have to find growth where we can more resilient market. i think decarbonization. we have more self-help from our merger where we are able to combine technology and engineering capabilities and leverage that across the global foot print >> visibility is clouded through a couple of things like the coronavirus and trade disputes can you tell us how much trade momentum you've had since the beginning of

without any further a do please join me in welcoming michael lind and j.d. vance. [applause] >> michael is going to be available after the talk. just to reiterate if you have any questions, at that point i will speak for you. with that, why don't you start us off, marshall kosloff. >> the new class war, saving democracy from the managerial elite. let's defined terms. what is a class war? >> a class war is conflict among quasi-military classes. your parentage is associated with a particular structure of operations and we think we live in a meritocratic system but the fundamental cleavage in modern transatlantic society is educational, not a matter of after-tax income, you are more likely to get a diploma if one or both your parents had diplomas. than if both of your parents did not. i argue that in europe as well as the united states, both sides of the atlantic are similar enough to make robust generalizations. that would not have been the case 40 or 50 years ago but as europe has become multiethnic as the united states has become more secular there is some converge

the senator from this state, linds a graham was out front. i don't view that as an exoneration but them breaking their oath to the constitution and the american people. [applause] mr. steyer: look, i started a business. my parents had a deal, we'll get you through school and that's it. nothing after that. you're on your own when you graduate. i never got a penny from my parents. and i started a business, i built a business i walked away from the business and talked the giving pledge to give the bulk that i made to good causes while i'm alive and spent 10 years putting coalitions of people to fight of what i think is the unchecked corporate power in our country. let me say this. we have never lost. we can win every time. you know, i started taking on a fight against two oil companies in my home state who are trying to repeal our very progressive energy laws. and they thought that they could get their way because no one would fight them. and honestly, nobody wanted to fight them because they thought the oil companies are so rich they'll do what

in the next booktv discussion of a university of texas professor michael lind argues that is being unraveled by a new class war. good evening and welcome to the policy center. i am john walters chief operating officer and i'd like to welcome our audience here at the pennsylvania headquarters avenue and/or c-span audience to the first-ever podcast taping that is both live and marks the premiere of the second reason of the realignment posted by hudson media. we are proud of the realignment that the launch last year and i recommend especially for those of you that haven't been following it to take a look at the episode from last year particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, mike gallagher, mike durand and others. it's an excellent program partly because of the two people that put it together and their ability to bring out topics and move the argument along so we couldn't be more proud of the work they've done and we want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this year's program with michael lind to as many of you know is a prolific writer of more than a doz

we are happy to launch this year's program with michael - - michael lind. a prolific writer of more than a dozen books. michael is a professor at lyndon b. johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas. important for tonight's conversation, he is the author of the new class war. saving democracy from the managerial elite. the book was published today. so we are here at the launch. congratulations on the new book. - - whether you agree with his interpretation of western politics, his work demonstrates a serious effort to understand the causes of and the solutions to the seemingly never-ending cycle of classes and shifting coalitions. which is exactly what our realignment podcasts seems to explore. also joining us is - - who fittingly was the premier guest. - - is the author of - - [indiscernible]. he recently cofounded a venture capital firm investing in people and technologies working to solve significant challenges. also visiting fellow at aei. his book, i have a course read jd vance's book. if you haven't, you should. it's an important discu

in the next booktv discussion of a university of texas professor michael lind argues that is being unraveled by a new class

and lind, 50—60 mph and you have snow across the hills and it is really atrocious conditions out thereto of the bad weather will transfer to northern england and also with north sea coast through early tuesday so a decent spell of very wintry weather. may be 50 or 60 mph gusts but elsewhere the weather will be improving and infected by the time we get to the afternoon, the gales by the evening, it will fall and temperatures on tuesday will be about ten in the south and the north, more of that as well. this is the forecast for wednesday. high—pressure across the uk which means settled conditions and also a chilly start to the wednesday as well. let's summarise, we are in for a windy start for the week, some showers and hill snow, blizzards as well and scotland. but for midweek dryer and much milder. this is bbc news, the headlines. british police have shot dead a man during a terrorist—related incident in south london. two people were stabbed by the attacker. the man, who's been named as 20—year—old sudesh amman, had been released from prison within the past two weeks. officers say he h

and florida >>his wife daisy and daughters abigail and adam lind were released from travis air force base after spending 2 weeks in quarantine shuttled by bus to san francisco stopped 21. sam's weight getting a little longer unclear where the family got dropped off. finally the moment they had all been waiting for. reunited as a family of 4 at last to now air back has it fast be gather as a family. >>glad to see to family. >>their ordeal began on january 23th 2 days after daisy and the girls arrived in the chinese city of wuhan to spend time with her family i woke up and i received a message on my phone is ago now seeking to block them. >>they spent days cooped up in daisy's parents home under lockdown in a city afraid to leave the apartment. a 5 year-old abigail keeping her baby sister entertained putting on a brave face despite the fear. well a scary about it. the state department began evacuating americans out of wuhan but because daisy isn't a us citizen, the family wasn't sure she'd be able to leave. yes, only like a lonely passed the act cost him right >>i'm grateful to be back

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and florida >>his wife daisy and daughters abigail and adam lind were released from travis air force base after spending 2 weeks in quarantine shuttled by bus to san francisco stopped 21. sam's weight getting a little longer unclear where the family got dropped off. finally the moment they had all been waiting for. reunited as a family of 4 at last to now air back has it go. >>the fast together as a family. >>glad to see family. >>their ordeal began on january 23th 2 days after daisy and the girls arrived in the chinese city of wuhan to spend time with her family i woke up and i received a message from iphones now seeking block >>what. they spent days cooped up in daisy's parents home under lockdown in a city afraid to leave the apartment. 5 year-old abigail keeping her baby sister entertained putting on a brave face despite the fear. well a scary about it a high school on the state department began evacuating americans out of wuhan but because daisy isn't a us citizen, the family wasn't sure she'd be able to leave. yes thing only like a long way past cost him 5 fell out when i'm gra

at the air force base on four's j r stone has more >>daisy roth and her daughters, abigail d adam lind. our 3 of a 178 people now in northern california who are flown in fr launch idol wednesday, 3 of the many who ve been quarantined all the ile her husband samuel is in wisconsin where hey live waiting anxiously to see his family there is a lot of. >>apprehension and anxiety around. can they get on th airplane and once we were confirmed to be able get on the rplane. how are we going to get to the airport >>we've crossed all of hose challenges samuel receed these pictures from his wife showing the group at travis air force basewhere theywill be corn team for the next 14 food. iapers here's baby >>baby wipes and all these thingswere supplied in a hotel that's on the air force base samuels saysas we get releaseto his family's >>he will travel to california to be with that. >>it's not that i want my family to bethere for 2 weeks but i want tofully comply with whatever precaions are necessary toensure that my family as well but also that we're not bringing the disease into the community and

very you know the best oil field and have a geologic advantage over somebody else or you know there's linde limited spectrum spectrum and broadband so there's only so many people that can go through an information network you know that's changing obviously with the with the internet but you know so you have all these sort of natural monopolies in the economy and if we 1st off don't understand that which it seems like there's a lot there's a lot of lack of you know there's sort of this simplistic free markets so we need to understand how natural competitive advantage forms to begin with and try to figure out distribution issues around that but then on top of that you already had these natural monopolies forming but now with extremely cheap credit you get this this problem where they just get more and more cheap money to defend more and more of their moat whether it's taking out more competition or taking out politicians to take out their competition so and i think that's the bigger problem so but no one seems to want to focus on the credit issue you know so if they don't then we now at least

timeframe of when the degeneration will take place, but it is a well-known fact that he will be completely lindars. > it took some time to descend into fire and sulfur. >> in december of 2017, the fda approved gene therapy for his specific condition. we went and spoke to a doctor shortly after it was approved. >> maverick was six years old when i met him. this family had struggled with getting a diagnosis and were excited to hear there was a treatment. it is a gene replacement therapy whereby we're delivering a normal healthy copy of the rpg-65 genes to patients who have two detective copies. this medication is a virus which has been modified. it's only job is to deliver genetic material. we deliver this virus with a fine needle underneath the retina. then, we have a healthy copy of the missing gene. into the cells that normally make it. unfortunately, the cells that absorb the light are constantly generating and there gets to be a point when there simply are not enough cells to function, even if we were to deliver the gene back. so it makes a lot of sense to treat patients earlier when they ha

followed by university of texas professor michael lind who argues that democracies are being unraveledclass war. enjoy book tv this week and every weekend on c-span2. >> c-span your unfiltered view of government. crated by cable in 1979 and brought to you today for your television provider. here is that discussion with agi director yuval levin at politics and prose bookstore in washington dc. >> good evening. i want to thank you for coming to politics and prose, my name is alan and a part of the events team where we host close to a thousand events a year. for a full list of everything that is confirmed for the next three months visit our website at politics -- pros .com or pickup an event calendar. before we get started today i'd like to ask everyone to silence your cell phones. when it is time for the q&a i ask you to come up to this microphone right h

he was arrested yesrday after his dna was lind to a assault cold case in albuquerque. in 1997 and that allowed the mound yopolice to find a dna match to theircase over 10 now faces assault charges in both cases. 2 suspected gang members were arrested in santa rosa after a fiht that happened at west avenue before e police got there. 2 people drove off in a gray dodge pickup and officers found that vehicle a short time later. and they also found. thisn the pickup and thethey arrested pablo perez and enriquehernandez show. >>custody after a woman was stabbed and another assaulted along the embarcadero offers a long ta with a witness and has more noon the condition of the victims. san francisco police arrested this man accused of attacking 2 women along san francisco's embarcadero saturday police ay the crimes happened in the morning, the rst just before 07:00am police responded to peer 19 where one woman was stbed by a manho got away on a bike visiting the city. she saw the t to get to the tourist only speak russi, but says she was relying on with her sent to clear 23 tha

. >> senator lind jay graham, senator kennedy of louisiana and i just want to go back to the fall.nd november and this is what they said then about what would be troublesome, or probably impeachable and we compare that to what we know today. let's watch. >> you are reminded if more come out you could support impeachment? >> sure. show me something that's a crime. if you could show me that trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo outside the phone call that would be very disturbing. >> what i am telling you is if it can be demonstrated that the president asked for and had the requisite state of mind, the president asked for an investigation of a political rival that's over the line. >> okay. >> but if he asked for an investigation of possible corruption by someone who happens to be a political rival, that's not over the line. >> so over the line does that mean impeachable? >> yeah. probably. >> now how do you reconcile that with not only the vote that's coming wednesday but the vote that happened yesterday that if you don't get the evidence, you don't get the witnesses to deter

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. >>> for more, joining us on the phone is bret nillis, the chairman of the lind county democratic party. it's just over 50,000 registered democrats about two hours outside of des moines. thank you for being here. did you have problems in your district? >> good morning. no, in my precinct, i was caucus chair, i didn't have any problems with the app. it seemed to work fine for me. but within our county, we ask all of the 86 precinct chairs to bring all their material back to a centralized location so that we can verify that everybody got their results sent in and we did have numerous people with issues using the app and then also being hung up on the phone for extended period of time. >> so tell us about this app here because it's our understanding there were concerns about this going back days, even weeks. complaints about reporting back and forth. is that the key here? if there were concerns prior, why did the parties stick with the app? >> that i can't explain. we had trouble trying to get people set up with the app when it first started rolling out a couple of weeks ago. and then as i

zonef the bases, west wind in whe daisy robin her daughters 5 year-o abigail on 10 month old adam lind will wait out the next 2 weeks free diapers there's baby od. >>baby wipes and allthese thgs were supplied in a hotel that's on the air forc base their father samuel rob sending hem love and support from wisconsin cnting down the days until he can bring his family home it's not that i want my family be there for 2 week but i want to fullycomply with whatever precautions arenecessary to ensure that my family as well, but also that we're t bringing the disease into the community. the cdc says the rocks and other of accura and families are being told to keep a safe distance from one anoth and not sharetems like toys. so far health officials say no one on ba is showing symptoms of the rona virus but away from the military base are 2 other passengers from wednesday's 11 hour flight a mother and her small child who the cdc says came down with a fever and is being monitored in an area hospital children have fever. >>for a number of different reasons ansothe child is being evaluated this point

>>daisy roth and her daughters, abigail and adam lind. our 3 of a 178 people now in northern california who are flown in from launch idol wednesday, 3 of the many who have been quarantined all the while her husband samuel is in wisconsin where they live waiting anxiously to see his family the is a lot of it. >>apprehension and anxiety around. can theyet on the airplane and once we we confirmed to be able to get on the airplane are we going to get to the airport and. >>we've crossed all of those challenges same you'll receive these pictures from his wife showing the group at travis air force base where they will be corn team for the next 14 days brought diapers there's babyfood baby wipes and all these things were supplied in a hotel that's on the air force base samuels says as we get closer to his family's release. he will travel to california to be with that. >>it's not that i want my family to be there for 2 weeks but i want to fully comply with whatever precautions are necessary to ensure that my family as well, but so that we're not b

of his legacy in terms of presidential leadership, and that it doesn't really matter who's sitting lind the desk in that office. they're still looking up and washington is still watching them on their job, so to speak. >> the current presidents and first ladies can walk out on this truman balcony, look due south, and see the washington monument. to me it's different obviously from the lincoln memorial that has the statue of the physical lincoln sitting there, the jefferson memorial with jefferson standing there. why does washington get an on lusk and why is not there a great statue? >> they tried, but it floepd pretty horrendously. that might have been part of it. horatio greeno was actually commissioned by congress to do a massive sculpture of george washington. the original intent was to put it in the capitol roe tunda, it was going to be in the main level of the floor. and what he created was -- it's sort of like a half naked george washington. he's wearing a towinga. he looks more like zeus. and by the time he finished it and it got to the united states in 1841, sensibilities about

is sad at 23 timesforward that's not cheap while i think lowes can see a turnaround, they are way lind in terms of home depot. there is a lot they have to fix. >> stephanie is with us much of the morning. brian, thank you for coming. >> looking at a 32% drop of the dow. yesterday, we were at like 100 in the middle of the day, when someone says who runs the section of the cdc focusing on respiratory disease and they say it is not a matter of if but when, we watched the markets reacting >> and the comments of saying we have to get used to quarantine and school issues. for a while, we are hearing from others that it is contained here the part of the cdc says get ready for community spread i wish he'd take it back and hope it doesn't. >> i would like to see more kits. >> we can't do it. >> you can't buy the as beings on amazon. >> i have been stocking up on water, canned soup and frozen stuff. we have to feed the kids if we are stuck at home. i don't think it is going to happen but if it happens >> if it happens five blocks from here, the whole city shuts down >> i have to read this they w

included gop superpac america first and vice president pence, rick perry, mike pompeo, bill barr, lind lindsey graham, devin nunes and his staffer and john solomon who disappeared from fox news and attorneys joe zee jgeneva and victoria toensig and he's prepared to review and explain relevant phone records and text messages and other records in connection with these activities text and phone calls that is evidence assuming you want materials for an actual trial and all of this brings up some other news i can tell you tonight. in this hour we will have an exclusive interview with lev parnas. about these new allegations. another sign that a lot of this is still very much alive while the senate picks up a pretty fast schedule to try to make it not alive for much longer. and that is not all. because foreign policy grinds on in the trump administration, here is brand-new footage, secretary of state mike pompeo today meeting with ukrainian president zelensky assuring the president that the u.s. still has his back even as more evidence emerges by the day of trump's scheme to leverage this rel