a visiting professor at lse says the meetings this week — a volatile time that we live in.week — a volatile time that we live inlj look at these meetings as part of that. the korean meeting is not explicitly about trade, it is about the summit with north korea's leaders next month so this is about stage management and management around that. the germany and china one is about trade and about geopolitics. china is the largest trading partner that germany has and it's a relatively new development, only in the last two years that that has happened so in many ways germany has happened so in many ways germany has pivoted from the us to china on that front and it makes strategic sense. china is also the largest export market of germany. not many western countries can say that and there is still a bit of a deficit as far as the relationship is concerned but it's more of an even keel, so that relationship is not trade war, but it's how we can take it to the next level. interesting you say that germany is looking to pivot towards china but what about china pivoting towards germany a

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they mourn their lses and dig deep a figure out a way to keep going and do what they do. you wrote about elizabeth edwards. someone we talked about on the show today. there are sex scandals and campaign violations back in the news, which is how she came up today on our program. >> guest: yep. >> host: but i think you're one of the few people that talks about her as a human being. and when we talk about women gutted in our politics, we talk about hill -- hillary. we don't talk about elizabeth edwards. do you want to talk about her. >> guest: yes. i worked for elizabeth and her husband together. and she was remarkable because, you know, she had lived through -- she had lost a son, right. like the worst possible thing that can happen to a person. and managed to find a way how to bring joy back into her life. and that's how she thought about it. and the thing with elizabeth was she was brilliant. and ambitious in an unusual way. she like knew a lot about policy. knew a lot about the world around her. where she really thought the real ambition was like on a relatively small sc

>> it's based on a much broader set of interviews than anybody lse. brian: in 1984 steven ambrose discovered the vast document sources available in the library in kansas. however in 2010 the library reported that ambrose had apparently fabricate add number of interviews with the former president and inserted unsubstaniated quotations in his text. >> so much of his work is based in the printed record and i have looked at those documents and many more that have been declassified. it does appear that there are some questions about the interviews. and it's a puzzle. because of course he didn't make up any quotations because he had abundant records. t is an issue. steven ambrose did a great deal good for not just eisenhower studies but world war ii. his role in helping to stand up the world war ii museum is a huge contribution to american public life. i don't want to overstate the importance of this, but for eisenhower scholars the question has been raised. brian: what was available to you that wasn't available to any other scholar so far? mr. hitchcock: w

they are in a tough spot right now, given the economic data omentum they are witnessing, the lack of lseary impu now some political instability. italy really matters, the third-largest economy in the eurozone. the political landscape is going to be a concern for the ecb, and it looks like it is not going to be able to complete on their normalization or any steps toward normalization program. i think we will continue to see people move out of the euro and higher some of these flight to quality type of instruments that provide good carry. is there a point where an italian bond prices keep falling to a level that makes them attractive? we saw what was happening four --rs ago with the greek is there a point where you can actually bring to they are what is going on with italy? i know they are two different patches of fish. charlie: they are. we have only backed up 100 basis points in a 10 year spread. we are around 230 basis points over german bunds. arguably there is still quite a bit of room to run. what is interesting is this has been somewhat contained to fix income markets. we have not s

let's speak to ian black — who is a visiting senior fellow at the lse middle east centre.he israeli—palestinian conflict and the peace process. what is the atmosphere like in israel, we took pictures of skirmishes along the border with israel, what is the mood where you are? the thing to keep in mind is there is a parallel reality going on between israeli dues and palestinians. things are pretty calm, a lot of trafficjams as security gets ready for this but people are going about their business and are satisfied, saying this is a good thing, maybe it's a bit nerve—racking on a security level but for the most part this is wonderfulfor israel and level but for the most part this is wonderful for israel and everyone goes about their business. at the same time you have to realise there is activity going on which is not limited to jerusalem on is activity going on which is not limited tojerusalem on the palestinian side because this is seen as palestinian side because this is seen as such a provocative, provocation but also really a turning point of hopelessness for the palesti

brand bollydocks, hello tomorrow >> you may say something else, and it may send it off to something lse. >> siri comes up with some stuff -- there's no place in the known universe where that is something someone is saying. it's something so obvious, a 3-year-old would want more information. >> why are they saying secretly recorded it's just listening? >> it's supposed to be listening for this word, the wake word, which in this case is alexa or echo -- >> is this where you always tell me i'm not woke? >> totally unrelated >> he's so woke. >> i never used the word woke. >> you used it yesterday >> did i >> that's not from siri? >> no, throwing shade and being woke >> don't you throw shade to people not have google doing this -- i have a google home thing. >> i have those things, but never hooked them up >> my kids know how to use them, use them as phones they'll scream call so and so. you have no idea it's going. you could have all these conversations going on >> if you give people permission, if you have relatives, they can drop in on you, you hear a chime -- >> you don't have to answer