with our guest jeffsell, and this is about his book called mercury rising, which is the story of john glenn john kennedy and the space race in the context of the cold war. jeff comes to us from the west wing riders group, which he founded as a speech writing business along with a strategic operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for president clinton, and he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. he also has a background in history from brown university and was a rhodes scholar and so has a master's degree in history from oxford. his previous books are on fascinating. x in and of themselves one on franklin roosevelt and his tussle with the us supreme court. the other is speaking of tussles on the conflict between robert kennedy and lyndon johnson, and so we were just talking before we went on camera. jeff is just so good at developing dramatic tension and i would say about this book, which i thoroughly enjoyed and i think i may have mentioned to him. i certainly did others that when i'm getting ready to moderate a book discussion. i assign myself so

let's see this is politics let's see if we can have -- let's go to domestic politics, john glenn the chief secretary and treasury the tax cut look unlikely given the efforts to bring inflation down, or under control at least with rising interest rates. >> basically we shut down the economy we spent a lot of money when we came out of covid we had a lot of interest to pay that has gone up as interest rates have gone up and that makes public -- once in 100 year and once in several generations the war in europe the government is here to deal with whatever circumstances are happening and we are taking the right decisions at a critical time, they have endorsed a recent assessment of the uk economy. >> clare i'm getting on but i don't think i heard anything that sounded like a plan or an idea of bringing inflation down there. >> i think this is the real trouble the underlying prices, they can't do anything about it they are trying to -- the supermarket, but there isn't much the governor can really do. the public is tarnishing the government, the labor's doing well in the poll. the former ch

jake, did hear john glenn there? did you hear john glenn there? he did you hear john glenn there?is pursuing what— on? well, andrew bailey is pursuing what i call abenomics, nnion— pursuing what i call abenomics, nnion io— pursuing what i call abenomics, nnion io ino— pursuing what i call abenomics, which is the sort— pursuing what i call abenomics, which is the sort of flawed economic principle of the inooonnn— economic principle of the inooonnn ono— economic principle of the treasury and i— economic principle of the treasury and i think i think the notion — treasury and i think i think the notion no— treasury and i think i think the problem he has— treasury and i think i think the problem he has is— treasury and i think i think the problem he has is that every nnooioiion— problem he has is that every prediction he— problem he has is that every prediction he has made is wrong. so prediction he has made is wrong. so i— prediction he has made is wrong. so i oon-i— prediction he has made is wrong. so i oon-i noni— prediction he has made is wrong. so i don't want to— prediction he ha

of an honor to to get to know john glenn a little bit and, you know, walk from the house. hart building over to the capitol to vote with him. he always walked outside. he care what the weather was. he never he never went down and took a train. he always walked outside. and i every i could, i would try to do the same thing. and so we had a good, good opportunity to get acquainted. and so that's one there are lots of others that you know that from new york. i mean, he was a genuine not only was a very senator, but he was a intellectual and know he was he'd be writing books all the time. oh, well, the rest of us were. we're trying to keep up with our hearings and he somehow or other could do it all. and he always had had great insights as to the issues were coming up in the senate. questions. senator snowe, your thoughts are on congressional term limits. well my own view on it is that it would be appropriate to to say that after a certain age, people run again, that that and i don't know what the right age is. it probably gets a little higher all the time. maybe five, maybe m

the government here in west minister i'll be joined by the chief secretary to the treasury john glenn. and for later the shadow leveling up secretary lisa mandy, after that extraordinary 24 hours and russia, we're gonna work out what it means for the conflict in ukraine with the former head of the british army general lord bannock. and we will have expert analysis on all of british intelligence christopher steele and in grand, we'll have a live update from moscow with our very own diana. we have important matters to talk about today, but we will get to that shortly. let's start with some immediate live reaction to the events in russia from the government, i'm joined now by the chief secretary for the treasury that is john glenn, good morning mr. glen. >> good morning. >> the government emergency response committee met yesterday, what is the government understanding of the situation this morning? >> it was convened by the foreign secretary this is fundamentally an internal matter for russia obviously observing an unstable situation russia but it is fundamentally an internal matter and

i am now joined by the chief secretary of the treasury, that is john glenn. good morning, mr. government emergency response cobra, met yesterday. what is the government's understanding of the situation in russia this morning? >> you are, right cobra was convened, chaired by the foreign secretary. this is fundamentally an internal matter for russia. obviously, observing it, it is obviously a very unstable situation in russia, but it is fundamentally an internal matter we were alongside our allies, the conversations being had over the last 24 hours, but obviously civilian interests are considered, they seem to have done that. but this is not a matter which we would be intervening in, we would observe and monitor the situation on an ongoing basis very carefully. >> i know the diplomatic line which is that it is an internal matter, not for us to comment on and all the rest of it, but doesn't this alter the equation in ukraine, where we have invested billions, and where we have an interest? >> we as a government have been committed from the start on supporting ukraine, and their ba

. >> well, earlier, trevor phillips questioned john glenn, the chief secretary to the treasury as to why the government is not providing more support. >> basically, we shut down the economy. we spent a lot of money when we came out of covid, we had a lot of debt interest to pay. that has gone up, because interest rates have gone up. and that means our public finances are very challenged, to significance, once in 100 years, and once in several generations. the government is here to deal with whatever circumstances are happening, and we are taking the right decisions at a difficult time. the imf indeed endorsed a recent assessment in the uk economy. >> well the chief secretary as well, was also asked about reports that the puck -- prime minister was planning to block theorizes for public sector workers. >> what happens is we have a report of the pain review bodies, most of those have come in. then we look at those and make an assessment. obviously, in some of the disputes we have had in recent months, that led to resolution. we are pleased that several of the nhs unions agreed with the

john glenn's wife alan shepard's wife. one of my favorite books of all time is the right stuff which is the course that work about those astronauts. i wanted to read lily koppel's book to see how she had done it. i wanted to see how she had taken t this story which we all know and flipped it around and reverse and told it from the opposite perspective. so i'm reading this book very closely on the plane and very early in the book you mentioned that one of the wives was a private pilot who had longs to fly in an all-female airplane race with that started in 1920s and featured amelia earhart. that's the line that stopped me because like most of you i had never heard of air racing and an all-female air race. i had never heard of familiar racingng anything. i'd onlyy knew the story that most of this flu, she flew across the ocean so because it was 2015 and i was able to open my computer and get wi-fi on the plane and google it and i don't know what happens when you do that now but in 2015 when you googled this race all i really

so john glenn's wife alan shepard's wife and you know. one of my favorite books of all time is tom wolfe's the right stuff, which is of course that seminal work about the mercury 7. and so i wanted to read lily koppel's book to see how she had done it, which is actually a thing that authors do i wanted to see how she had taken this story which we all know. and and flipped it around in reverse and told the sort of from the opposite perspective. and so i'm reading this book very closely on the plane. and i'm very early in the book and it mentioned that one of the wives was a private pilot. who had longed fly in an all-female airplane race that had started in the 1920s 1920s and had once featured amelia earhart. and that's the line that just stopped me. because like most of you i had never heard of air racing. i had never heard of in all female air race. i'd never heard of amelia racing anything. i only knew that story that most of us knew she flew across the ocean. she was the first one to do it. and so because it was 2016 i was able to ope

whether it was john glenn rocketing into orbit, or exploring the deep sea, adventures used to be fornow, if you have enough cash, private companies will take you on the adventure of a lifetime, even if they bend rules from time to time. ceo stockton rush, who died in the explosion, said last year. >> safety is pure waste. if you want to be waste, don't get out of bed. don't get in your car. don't do anything. >> reporter: adventure travel brought in $350 billion last year, but a $250,000 ticket to the titanic is the outer fringe of the industry. the most popular forms of adventure travel are hiking and cycling. in the u.s., regulations are tight. >> you have to be certified by the mountain guide association. if you're offering raft trips, you should be doing swift water rescue. >> reporter: in the outer realms, regulation lags behind. >> welcome to the new space age. >> reporter: tech titans are charging tens or hundreds of thousands of trips to space, but the faa is prohibited by congress from regulating the safety of people on board. while a record number of permits are issued for

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chief secretary to the treasury john glenn told gb news the chancellor— treasury john glenn told gb newsand. as supporting the bank of england. me you— supporting the bank of england. me you knew.— supporting the bank of england. as you know, the— supporting the bank of england. as you know, the bank- supporting the bank of england. as you know, the bank of- supporting the bank of england. as you know, the bank of england is independent of government. we work closely with them, but they make those decisions and they've obviously increased our rates by half a% last week . i'm not here half a% last week. i'm not here to commentate. i'm to here work closely the bank england closely with the bank of england . us to be . people don't want us to be squabbling amongst ourselves. what we should be doing is having a committed and united plan to deal with high inflation in our economy . that is what in our economy. that is what we're doing in government and thatis we're doing in government and that is what the governor of the bank of england is doing with the interest rate decisions, human remains

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john mulanda. we suggested why kids continue to reject various plans of whether or not they come from africa, china or you from the pope, a. jonathan beacon printer, glenn said, um, well, i'm not in favor of peace. why not in favor of a ceasefire? that shouldn't be happening with euclid. so that should be, that is a senior sports person. for principal. you don't want to do anything that is good to do. we've a piece as far as i said, this concept, the west was a, this is what we've been waiting for. will be putting money. we've been popping the military hardwick to benefit the military industrial complex. so it's worth nothing to do with you. great. everything is good to do with what washington, london, brussels, whatever that they want to achieve. but it's mostly suddenly healthy. the actual city is that it's a few click. that's the unfortunate part of this country. from the g 20 to the g 21. india is prime minister mode. it has moved to include the african union in the group of 20 in this continued transition to a more multi polar p, a moody has written to his counterparts and the g 20 proposing for the african union to be given full membership of the