more analysis on this now with my guest sebastian prodl for, emeritus professor at the london school of economicsch from ca rles economics. fascinating speech from carles puigdemont. but it is a fudge? absolutely and that is something i'm not the only one to have expected. i thought it was going to happen. one obvious reason why it is going to be difficult to declare independence is obviously the draining away of headquarters of businesses and banks. but another reason to try and insist on the importance of the vote on the 1st of october and the need to go towards independence is that the partner in the parliament on which the government depends, the government coalition depends as has been mentioned in that report, they are very impatient already long before this speech took place. what they wa nt this speech took place. what they want was actually an immediate vote the day after the 1st of october referendum, an immediate declaration of independence. and with this fudge it is quite possible they will withdraw support. i suspect, i it is quite possible they will withdraw support. isuspect, i may

we're joined by brian class, a fellow at the london school of economics. thank you for being with us. first of all, monday could be a pivotal day in the investigation. what does this indicate that an indictment may be handed down? >> this is a very big deal. we have about a year past the election, now we are at a milestone moment in this investigation where somebody will be arrested. this is very bad news for the white house, because a trump affiliate almost certainly will be the person arrested. this is also making clear that the mueller investigation is going to go on for a long time. this is the beginning, this is not the end, they're not wrapping up, they're only launching these indictments. so we may expect more of them to come. and it is also something where we can expect some reckless tweets from the president, potentially next week, this past week there was a ramping up of attacks on hillary clinton in tandem with the fact that all of this is happening behind the scenes. this pattern of lashing out is something that we should be very careful about,

pictures i will bring in an america is professor of contemporary spanish studies at the london school of economicss. how significant a moment you think this is? it is very difficult to guess how significant it is. it could give rise to some sort of compromise, some sort of fudge. but even that will have enormous significant in that the government will not remain in place it is not going to make an immediate declaration of independence because it will lose its coalition partner. if a declaration is made, then we will expect a reaction from madrid very quickly. madrid will have two — three days to consult the senate... he looks calm, but he is between a rock and a hard place, is indeed? absolutely, he has the skirt this very difficult part between keeping his partners happy and not provoking madrid. what we have heard in the last few days, a very, very tough line from madrid. it makes it very difficult, i spoke about nuances and laying out a framework, but if madrid is saying no to independence and noted talks, it leaves very little room for manoeuvre, doesn't it? indeed. madrid had only said they a

a political blogger focusing on cameron and in london michael moore associate of the africa international affairs program at the london school of economics welcome to you or mr chandler and reforms were on the streets on sunday some of them calling for an independent and bizarre anea just how realistic is that given that decades of calls from greater autonomy haven't resulted in anything well i think the call was to say surely by majority of people in the streets yesterday that income link is legitimate i could say that it's not a realistic solution to the problem is legitimate because the government must promote the peace because the reaction from the government has been good are having to freshen it have been avoiding their organs have been arresting and detaining most of the leaders so i think it's very very good to me because the concerns of my demise written by the anglican community is very very real and i think the government is supposed to come back to dialogue and he said i think it is not need for everybody to come back on the stance of magazine which was the first demand by the younger one community when these protests broke o

of egypt and a c.c. and in london in black visiting senior fellow at the middle east center at the london school of economics a very warm welcome to all three of you let me start off with you timothy kaldis a staggering loss for the egyptian security services what do you hearing about today's events and how it unfolded or not there's a lot of conflicting reports. some people saying fourteen killed some but some think thirty something over fifty. there's also a lot of confusion about who is responsible no official claim of responsibility and the state's response so far is to say a number of security officers were killed but not to specify that number. a parliamentarian who's close to the government stuff about three claims that as many as one hundred. militants ambushed the security forces that would be a quite remarkable number of turns out to be anywhere near true that's a that's a huge gathering. of militants in one place. there she's also saying that there's many casualties but again not specifying so is a lot of confusion at the moment there isn't there hasn't been a lot of clarity on what's going on and

who is secretary general of the palestinian national initiative and from london in black was a visiting senior fellow at the middle east center at the london school of economics welcome to you both mr barghouti what's different about this reconciliation attempt to the many that have come before that before it. made difference is that egypt is clearly throwing all its weight behind this process over the consolation providing the venue providing the political support the diplomatic support. other differences that we have seen actually things taking place. like dissolution of the administrative committee and the return of the palestinian. consensus government to taking its responsibilities and there is a clear plan which will start with meetings between fatah and hamas and then with all palestinian political groups to proceed with the implementation of the event it seems that. from one side there is an external role that is helping but on the other side i think the whole world is worried that gaza is about to explode and the conditions there are completely intolerable from human perspective from political perspective from economy perspective and there is a third

history with sebastian balfour who's a professor of contemporary spanish studies at the london school of economics told me earlier that the way the government handled the referendum effected badly on the prime minister had the vote been allowed say as a non-binding consultation bugs french government it's very likely they would have got the result they want to do and that is majority people voting against and dependants. this way it's been very counterproductive indeed and i think a lot of people who might not be convinced about independence have been swung over to it he's handled it extremely badly the use of force and and pure legality without any political approach at all. i think has been profoundly counterproductive u.s. president donald trump has resumed his war of words with north korea over its nuclear weapon and missile program on sunday he tweeted i told rex tillerson our wonderful secretary of state and he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with a little rocket man a reference to a leader kim jong un he also said we'll do what has to be done when the us president says there is no p

paul preston is a professor of contemporary spanish studies at the london school of economics.ank you. how unified is spain? we see thousands out on the street but what does that tell us? spain has been deeply divided since the civil warand in many been deeply divided since the civil war and in many respects still is. 0ver war and in many respects still is. over this issue, catalonia is divided broadly between a small majority who want autonomy and not independence and those who want independence. the rest of spain is divided between those who would like dialogue and a small minority of militants who hate catalonia and would love to see tanks rolling. we have breaking news. our europe editor has spoken to a member of the cata la n editor has spoken to a member of the catalan parliament. she says on tuesday there will be a symbolic statement that will stop short of making a unilateral independence declaration. that does not surprise me and notjust because you told me before. he has been pulling back as more evidence has been coming out about what an economic disaster a unilatera

earlier, professor paul preston, professor of spanish studies at the london school of economics, explainedack a long time and starts, it goes back even before the spanish civil war. one of the motivations of the military levels in 1936 was to crush catalan autonomy. catalonia was prosecuted during the near a0 years of the franco dictatorship, the language banned and so on. in 1955 franco died and there was a complex process of negotiation that brought about the creation of democracy in 1977. in that the catalan region, the people were cooperative and in 1979 catalonia was given autonomy. but then, then the dirty tricks. if you like, shortly afterwards the spanish government created 17 autonomies. the only ones with real cases for autonomy are catalonia and the basque country. perhaps also galicia, that is very dependent on madrid, and valencia. but the idea was to dilute catalan autonomy. the catalans went along with it and then in 2005 proposed that the statutes of autonomy be amended. this went to the court of tribunal, the tribunal of constitutional guarantees, which sat on it for five

he has a masters from london school of economics, he was a volunteer to trump campaign. >> before that carson campaign, and no one knew who he was. i think that sometimes in a campaign, people come in try to become more important than they are. lou: not in politics. >> no one knows this person in foreign policy community. i think to a certain extent he was being bra va bravado to fbis so they got him on perjury. lou: you have to ask yourself, why would a young person any person, but why would a your yog person even think of lying, i would think they would be scared stiff. >> they should be. lou: to the fbi are you kidding me. >> that is what you have to worry about with these investigations, a perjury charge, i think he is now being used, i don't think he was a big player. lou: part of the deal. ed rollins thank you, ed will be back looking over surveying all of the day's evens here. >> joining me now, former u.s. ambassador to united nations, fox news contributor, john bolton. >> good to be with you. lou: these three indictments, two were expected, one of them, paul manafort, and his

earlier i spoke to paul preston, who is a professor of contemporary spanish studies at the london school of economics us he won't be surprised if the cat lube leader, carlles puigdemont chooses not to declare independence this week. he's been pulling back as more and more evidence has been coming out about what an economic disaster a unilateral declaration of independence would be. and at the same time, the spanish government has been making very, very tentative moves towards some kind of apology. so it looks like there is the possibility of a dial o but, of course, for that to work, it would need to be a move back to the quite extensive autonomy statute that was pulled down by the present conservative party when they were in opposition, in 2010. but that has to be the goalfor opposition, in 2010. but that has to be the goal for both sides. how isolating, politically, would a self—declared independent catalonia be? i think totally. self—declared independent catalonia be? ithink totally. obviously it would be isolating from the rest of spain, it would be isolated from the european union. and within ca

a part of the problem, the response we have had, we >> she lectured at the london school of economics, which was about the same time as another notable, historic event, my foreignthe service. this was a tumultuous time in the u.k. with the economy in bad shape. labour government was struggling from vote to vote in the house of commons. of1979, the election margaret thatcher changed everything. i wonder what lessons janet took from being in the u.k. during that time. one for the q&a, perhaps, or maybe even dinner party conversation. as chair of the federal reserve, she has been a beacon of stability and model of authority. we could not have a more esteemed or qualified speaker tonight. that is enough from me. i am going to pass it onto tom oakley as i finish. thank you again for coming. please enjoy this evening. thank you. [applause] tom: thank you again for coming. you have read little history of the national economist club. our claim to fame is ben stein, who was in the famous movie "ferris bueller's day off." this is how i index everyone according to their age, whether they have se

he is the emeritus professor of spanish studies at the london school of economics. face as we we re of economics. watching your face as we were watching those scenes was interesting. you know a lot about the history of catalonia and i get the history of catalonia and i get the feeling you are astonished at what has unfolded. astonished and yet it was political that it would happen because it was an unstoppable force meeting and immovable object. there was no way that either side we re there was no way that either side were going to give way. any dialogue would involve, on the spanish side, deepening the process of autonomy, and any dialogue on the side of the separatists, the catalan government, was about independence or nothing, so was about independence or nothing, so the two objects have met now and what is astonishing is that we didn't really think about what this might mean. i think the intervention by the spanish government will have repercussions that we are only guessing at. let me hold you there because there is condemnation across the european union of the

how do you feel personally, you work at the london school of economics, you can probably see the benefitsity ready from the spanish police, how would that change your opinion? i think now you're moving away from my expertise, which is my personal preference. i was against independence. but the arguments against independence, i lost my argument now because of what we've seenin argument now because of what we've seen in the last few weeks, police brutality, lack of powers between the judiciary, brutality, lack of powers between thejudiciary, the head of state that should dissent everyone and there was no mention by the king about brutality and people being attended in hospital. that should have been his first point. on that point about the king, if there was a mediator to come in ordinarily it would probably be the king but he really he has tied himself to the madrid government. he has discounted himself immediately by simply judging the catalan government which is not following the rules and he just put himself on the side of the madrid government. i think the eu needs to intervene, we've

with me is sebastian balfour, emeritus professor at the london school of economics and an analyst of. hopefully, he believes, he has placated those in his coalition that wa nted placated those in his coalition that wanted some kind of reference to independence made clear and spelled—out, at the same time he has kept madrid at bay. is he basically, longer term, upsetting both parties and not able to satisfy anybody? absolutely. we don't know the extent to which the coup that the left independence party is willing to continue fudging or postponing the issue, they wanted it done almost immediately after the referendum. that is on the one hand. 0n the other hand, going by president, the rajoy government has been very hard—headed rajoy government has been very ha rd—headed about rajoy government has been very hard—headed about punishing or certainly taken to court, or threatening arrest and so on and so forth. he might, following that logic, you might consider the words used in puigdemont today as seditious and move against him. it could be that this is something independence movement is

i went to the london school of economics. and then i went to harvard university. llowed by a phd in political science. this trajectory from a set of questions that really have answers to an interest in some of the unanswerable questions, which come from the humanities. i embrace both of those strands. >> how long have you been at the college? >> 25 years. not there this year? sabbatical. i am currently a scholar in residence. it is a think tank in washington that is enabling me to work on my books. >> what do you teach? >> i teach a whole range of courses. i have an interest in a variety of fields. course i love called the politics of virtual realities. that covers the main courses. >> what is your view with your -- what is the view of your relationship with students? students.my i think i am seen as an honest .roker i have been very happy because i do teaching, i do research and teaching,ut with the i am absolutely sure i've made some kind of a difference in the world. there is nothing like opening up somebody's mind to new possibilities. >> did the students prote

being critical of puerto rico with brian class, a fellow and comparative politics at the london school of economics. thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> certainly this president has been criticized widely for tweets, but this -- this is almost surreal that you have an island in crisis, people suffering, we have four reporters on the ground that have been reporting on that and the resourcefulness of the people pulling together to try to help each other out through these tremendously horrible times and suddenly the president doesn't like that puerto rico is saying, please help us, please hurry, and he puts down this may, we just saw, he puts down the people, he says they're not doing enough to help themselves, they're expecting people to come help them, it is almost surreal that that was the response of the u.s. president to an island that is suffering so. >> yes. it was disgusting. we have 1.8 million americans who don't have clean drinking water right now, and the president from his golf club, the second weekend in a row since the storm hit, is attacking the mayor who is wading through

brian class teaches comparative politics at the london school of economics, joins us from our london bureau. thank you for talking with us. >> good morning. >> steve bannon is alive and well and ready to take on the republican establishment, those that have not fallen in line -- or love -- with mr. trump. he will also bring in anti-establishment candidates in the primary. is steve bannon still a powerful force here? >> he's relevant. certainly. he will make a big headache for the republicans. we need to remember who steve bannon is. he boasted his media platform breitbart is the platform for the alt-right, which includes neo-nazis, white nationalists and klans men marching through charlottesville. he's give a platform to people in the republican party but have abhorrent views that stand against american values. he'll make a headache for the mitch mcconnells of the world and may make him more the democrats control parts of congress because taking on vulnerable republicans will make it easier for democrats to pick up seats and taking on safe seats for the republicans, people like mitch

he's a professor of political science and senior fellow of the middle east cents at the london school of economics welcome to you thanks for being with us let's pick up on what charles just ended his report on. i did that there might have been one side of the kurdish peshmerga fighters who actually colluded he put it as he put it with the iraqi army to make sure they had a very easy advance in into cook that's the reality isn't it the kurdish peshmerga within that region within kirkuk that they're not you know i sit all day they follow different political factions. well it's a reality that the kurdish parties are now never united they were never united in any time of the history of course they agreed on certain things but but they have they were not united and i think the iraqi government with the pressure of the iranian government and so lay money mannish to part of the. peshmerga that belong to the p u k. but the attic union of course which is the opposition party opposition party and a party that belongs to the late mr talabani and it seems that these. collaborated and accepted the solution pre

in madrid well sebastian balfour is amoret us professor of contemporary spanish studies london school of economics and wonderfully joins me here now in the studio thanks very much for coming in to our ages there at let's just talk about this position the spanish government tony they're saying that maybe that shot themselves in the foot how badly have they handled handled this whole situation and in some respects people talking all over social media about the brutality almost has made people want to take a stand in catalonia that might not have even voted before absolutely i mean in a counterfactual situation had the vote been allowed say as. a non-binding consultation by the spanish government it's very likely they would have got the result they wanted and that is majority of people voting against independence this way it's been very counterproductive indeed and i think a lot of people who might not be convinced about independence have been swung over to it and there's no way of proving this obviously because the vast majority of those who gone to the polls are those who are going to vote independ

joining me now is fawaz gerges, professor of international relations at the london school of economicswe've been talking so long about the terrible threat that is poses both to the stability of syria and iraq, never mind in terms of the violence and terrible treatment of civilians in raqqa. are we now celebrating a success? should we now celebrating a success? should we be celebrating a success?” we now celebrating a success? should we be celebrating a success? i think the story is much more complex than that. we are seeing the beginning of the dismantling of the territorial state that is, what has happened in mosul, the second largest iraqi city and raqqa is both symbolically and operationally big loss for isis, major, major blow. but the reality is, as we have discovered over the yea rs, is, as we have discovered over the years, both al-qaeda and isis have the capacity for self—renewal. that is my take on it, even though that isis is fatally injured, it has the capacity to mutate into an underground insurgency and a classical terrorist organisation in the next year or so. so you cut

hollander earned a phd in sociology from princeton university in 1963 and ba from the london school of economics in 1959. the professor emeritus of sociology and the university of massachusetts amherst and center associate of the davis center for russian and eurasian studies at harvard university. he's a member of the advisory council on the victims of communism memorial foundation. iand with that label handed over to you. .. >> has a lot in common and i would like to draw your attention how it differs from it and i will cite occasionally. major similarity of the two books that both have concern with political misjudgment of western intellectuals and people who review the book also focus on the similarity that they have both about the misjudgment of western political intellectuals and this, indeed, has been a long-standing preoccupation and also it's somewhat controversial point as to what proportion of western intellectuals could be characterized as leftist or prosoviet or procommunist and some people criticize me for overgeneralizing and i always point out and i repeat it in this book too that

he has a jd from harvard and undergraduate degree from harvard and a master's from the london school of economics. with that, let's get started. i first wanted to ask you a question about how's the job and is there anything that you found surprising or was different than you anticipated? >> well, first let me start by thanking you david for the opportunity to be here and thank you to the heritage foundation for this event and thanks to all of you for coming and your interest in this and i look forward to later having an opportunity to address your questions. i've been in the job about 14 months as you have said. it's been a wonderful learning experience for me to learn more about finra but what has been especially interesting for me has been as you mentioned listening tour to learn a lot about our stakeholders and members in particular to hear their thoughts which i know we'll be talking more about as we proceed. and to hear their support in many ways for self regulation and for a model of self regulation and interest and engaging with us as we pursue the finra. >> as i mentioned, we have differe

[laughter] >> didn't they teach that in london school of economics? stuart: not that i recall.aught free speech actually. thanks very much, indeed. we will cover the executive order signing 11:15 this morning. live on this program. how about this one? this hurts me. oxford university, i did not go to oxford, i went to london school of economics, oxford is banning christians from addressing new incoming students, bam, can't talk to them. free speech under attack at one of the most elites schools in the world. my take on that just three minutes away. . . . . my "business" was going nowhere... so i built this kickin' new website with godaddy. building a website in under an hour is easy! 68% of people... ...who have built their website using gocentral, did it in... ...under an hour, and you can too. type in your business or idea. pick your favourite design. personalize it with beautiful images. and...you're done! and now business is booming. harriet, it's a double stitch not a cross stitch! build a better website - in under an hour. free to try. no credit card required. gocentral f

who is secretary general of the palestinian national initiative and from london in black was a visiting senior fellow at the middle east center at the london school of economics welcome to you both mr barghouti what's different about this reconciliation attempt to the many that have come before that before it. moved differences that egypt is clearly throwing all its weight behind this process over the conciliation providing the venue of idea of the political support the diplomatic support. other differences that we have seen actual things taking place. like dissolution of the administrative commission committee and the return of the palestinian. consensus government to taking its responsibilities and there is a clear plan which will start with meetings between fatah and hamas and then with all palestinian political groups to proceed with the implementation of the agreement it seems that. from one side there is an external role that is helping but from the other side i think the whole world is worried that gaza is about to explode and that the conditions there are completely intolerable from human perspective from political perspective from economy perspective

london. vonnie: in new york, i am vonnie quinn. this year's nobel prize for economics goes to richard thaler , the university of chicago booth schoolbusiness professor, for shutting light on how human weaknesses and biases can impact behavior and ultimately markets. co-authored the bestseller "nudge" with caps on sunstein ass bloomberg view. he joins us on the phone. congratulations, professor thaler. richard: thank you very much. vonnie: what is the most interesting phenomenon of daily life that you would apply behavioral economics philosophy to? richard: i think the miniscule volatility of the stock market -- not that i have been a clinician it, but it is certainly puzzling, and puzzles -- not that i had planned nation for it, but it is certainly puzzling, and puzzles attract my attention. vonnie: the stock market is going higher. do you have a behavioral explanation for this or anything that would help the federal reserve in its decision-making? know, i guess you i would use sherlock holmes' strategy of listening to dogs not barking. we seem to be living in the ,iskiest moment in our lives and yet the stock market seems napping

paul preston, professor of contemporary spanish studies, at the london school of economics is with meu for coming. we know there have been some voices in catalonia wanting independence i a long we m m aspirin]— it goes back even before the starts, it goes back even before the spanish civil war. one of the motivations of the military levels in 1936 was to crush catalan autonomy. colonial was prosecuted during the near a0 years of the franco dictatorship, the language band and so on. in 1955 franco died and there was a complex process of negotiation that brought about the creation of democracy in 1977. in that the catalan region, the people we re that the catalan region, the people were fifigfi in 1979 g that the catalan region, the people were efi "12 if ! only real