she's margaret atwood this is overheard. (inspiring music) (applause) - [evan] let's be honest is this about the ability to learn or about the experience of not having to talk at all. how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa-- you say that he had made his own bed, but you caused him to sleep in it. you saw a problem and over time took it on-- (laughter) let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you going to run for president? i think i just got an f from you actually. (applause) margaret atwood welcome. - thank you. - very nice to have you here. - lovely to be here. - so interested in this new book, congratulations on it. may i say nobody does dystopian like you do dystopian. (laughs) - is that a compliment? - oh my god it's the biggest compliment in the world. i mean the world that you've created in this book will come back to the handmaid's tale at some point here soon reminiscent to my mind of the dystopia in that book. but i love the plot of this story, i love the characters and i

margaret and nick will hang out.lk about what's going on back here in washington while everyone else is at bedminister. you know who's not there? steve bannon. we'll talk about what's happening in the west wing. we'll also be wrapping up the week with today's big picture. that's next. so that's the idea. what do you think? hate to play devil's advocate but... i kind of feel like it's a game changer. i wouldn't go that far. are you there? he's probably on mute. yeah... gary won't like it. why? because he's gary. (phone ringing) what? keep going! yeah... (laughs) (voice on phone) it's not millennial enough. there are a lot of ways to say no. thank you so much. thank you! so we're doing it. yes! start saying yes to your company's best ideas. let us help with money and know-how, so you can get business done. american express open. so you ahyou the law?ss done. we've had some complaints of... is that a fire? there's your payoff, deputy. git! velveeta shells & cheese. there's gold in them thar shells. let's take a look at

truman and margaret -- mr. truman and margaret. how are you in the key of d flat? they also have a good sense of humor relationship with the people. from the man who says nothing, to the man who always says the right thing, respectfully, harpo. marks, i ams gaucho wild about you, old piano player. this is a letter sound by harry, talks dear about several different things. you remember me but i am that guy with the lack mustache, glasses and increasing list -- increasingly baldness. he goes on to say that i just want to join the thousands who are wishing you a speedy recovery and many years of our only living ex-president. oh, i forgot, hoover is still alive. i don't think he cared much for hoover. this is after president truman has appendix and gallbladder removed, after he was out of office. anybody want to guess who the person is on the right? right here. >> bob hope. david: yes, thank you. this is harry s truman and bob hope kicking off the american red cross fundraising campaign in 1948. and this is a christmas card from the bob hope family to president truman,

we opened our eyes too late and margaret has a similar line.glad you kept in the series. >> by the time we looked up from our phones, it was too late. >> we looked up from our phones too late. >> we didn't wake up. >> what do you make of that? >> it's one of the -- it's one of my personal favorite parts of the book and statements of the book and repeated a couple times in the show in different ways and it's exactly, i mean, it kind of sums up how they got to this. margaret talks about how an institution, a regime can't actually be put in place unless it's already existing. you know what i mean? how it could happen slowly. there is another line. nothing changes instantaneously in a -- something about a bathtub, you will be boiled to death before you knew it. the concept of it's slow. it's slow. it's not all at once. >> you worked on shows that had good writing. >> yes, yes. [ laughter ] >> hi, matthew. >> pretty good. >> what's it been like? >> to have such an incredible book to draw on and refer to it, not just an explanation but beautiful pros

margaret. >> pricy disaster. jim, thank you.sident trump today pledged $1 million of his own money to disaster relief. the white house has asked for suggestions as to where that money should go. the president will be visiting houston on saturday. today,"vice president mike pence comforted victims in rockport, texas. then he got to work, rolled up his sleeves in the 90-degree heat the city, where harvey made landfall last friday. we have much more reporting from our correspondents on harvey's aftermath and ways that you can help the victims if you go to our website. go to: as bad as the flooding is in texas, it may be worse in south asia. in mumbai, india, today, 19 people were killed when a five-story building collapsed. torrential rain had weakened its foundation. in recent weeks, floods have killed more than 1,000 people in india, nepal, and bangledesh. millions have been forced from their homes. the western u.s. is being hit by another type of natural disaster, wildfires. 70 large fires are burning from california to montana.

she is starting to make studying at lady margaret school, studying at lady margaret school, studyingstudying at the same place as the pakistani prime minister. we will see what she does after three or four years studying. a career in politics, one hopes. congratulations to her. that is it. we have to go. banks, richard. goodbye. -- thanks. hello there. friday is looking a bit cooler across the board, and there'll plenty of showers around, too, some of them merging together to produce longer spells of rain, particularly across the north and the west of the uk. we start the morning off, though, with sunshine and dry in the south and eastern areas. there will be plenty of showers from the word go, particularly across scotland. some merging together to bring longer spells of rain in the north—west and eastern areas as well. a little bit of sunshine to the south. some sunshine and one or two showers for northern ireland. temperatures around 12 degrees in belfast to start the day. england and wales, most of the showers in northern and western areas. whereas for the midlands eastwards, it s

go ahead, margaret. >> jack, you are right. bill clinton was right. it's the economy, stupid, which is what is so shocking about the numbers. the president's numbers are so bad and the economy is good. imagine if the economy were bad. his numbers would be historically -- >> as you remember, bill clinton, his popularity wasn't that high when he went into r e re-election. people came to the conclusion they did not want change. i'm not crazy about the president, but i don't want change because it's the economy. >> as long as the economy is strong. >> go ahead. >> jeff, that was a really good try, but the fact of the matter is that polls do matter. the president's poll, 50% the parties get shellacked in midterm elections. this is an historic low. the problem for republicans, the drop trump is seeing is among trump supporters. not a single person said they thought trump was doing a good job who voted for hillary clinton. that means every bit of his erosion, all 15 points came among independents and republicans. that is going to be a big problem for the par

m margaret and phillip are still with us.people on twitter, first joe scarborough, who works the morning shift in this room, one, first vp to ever set up a pac. two, press secretary won't deny 2020 run. three, building contributor base, not disgraceful. more than likely. and then paul begala tonight tweeted, not saying pence has his eyes on the oval office, but his secret service code name is frank underwood. [ laughter ] so is pence talking to an audience of one, and does he just protest too much this >> that statement was to an audience of one, president trump. but the bigger picture is, there's nothing false in that story. pence does have a pac. he is raising money and doing all these things that one would be doing if he were preparing for a presidential run. they didn't report that pence was going to challenge his boss, they're just reporting if trump were perhaps not to run in 2020, pence is doing the due diligence to be in a position to run himself. >> margaret, let's be clinical about it. we opened with these poll numb

and then it was really margaret fuller's great art.the conversations all causes, no man may record. emerson's children were frequent visitors and also louisa male, when she was young was given the great privilege of making use of the study. it meant a great deal to her. so, you can imagine a very young reading plato and shakespeare study. his last international trip was 1873. there's a fire in the house and his daughter took him to egypt so the house could be rebuilt. that's what we see in the study now is the post 1873 study and lydian edith emerson, his daughter were responsible for the renovations in the house. so we came back to newhouse but his career then sort of slowed off from there. he died in 1883. that was monumental. that was a very big deal. not unexpected or tragic. but, it was with all the passing of an era kind of rhetoric that you would expect. quite different from thorough's death in 1862 which was tragic. he was only 44, nearly 45. and for the local circle of intellectuals thorough was as prominent as emerson. he did

white house correspondent margaret brennan was there. margaret. >> reporter: president trump unloaded his pruistration and defended his decision to wait two days before denouncing the hate groups behind that rally. he called it a "horrible, horrible day." >> i didn't wait long. i wanted to make sure-- unlike most politicians-- that what i said was correct, not make a quick statement. the statement i made on saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement. but you don't make statements that direct unless you know the fact. it takes a little while to get the facts. if you go back to my-- in fact, i brought it. i brought it. i brought it. >> reporter: mr. president-- >> as i said on-- remember this, saturday-- "we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence. it has no place in america." and then i went on from there. >> reporter: the president then doubled down on his assertion from saturday that both sides were to blame for the violence. >> you had a group on one side that was bad, an

i want to get to my panel, cnn political commentator, political commentator, margaret hoover, former white house staff member for george w. bush. contributor, michael deantonio. and matthew whitker. hello to everyone on the panel. david, you first. bannon is fired. fired at the end of a week where the president's terrible response to the events in charlottesville backfired. are we looking at an effort to change the narrative here? >> i think it's an effort to change the narrative. it was as good a time as go to come up with another big story to move on from another big story. but i do think this is more symptomatic of what a bigger failure in this trump white hous whichs that they have found out six/seven months in that presidenting is hard. these are the guys who came to the white house saying they were smarter. they were going to overturn the apple cart, get rid of the establishment and do things for the american people. and you were talking to our colleague. and he believes he can be more effective being an ally from the outside, which i'm sure is his approach, but what i read int

i want to get to my panel, cnn political commentator, political commentator, margaret hoover, contributor, michael deantonio. and matthew whitker. hello to everyone on the panel. david, you first. bannon is fired. fired at the end of a week where the president's terrible response to the events in charlottesville backfired. are we looking at an effort to change the narrative here? >> i think it's an effort to change the narrative. it was as good a time as go to come up with another big story to move on from another big story. but i do think this is more symptomatic of what a bigger failure in this trump white house, which is that they have found outsix/seven months in that presidenting is hard. th are the guys who came to the white house saying they were smarter. they were going to overturn the apple cart, get rid of the establishment and do things for the american people. and you were talk to our colleague. and he believes he can be more effective being an ally from the outside, which i'm sure is his approach, but what i read into that is it was too hard to actually govern and get things

margaret? >> i'm going to double down on missouri.publican party is clearly fascinating but we'll also get a chance to see next week how president trump, live and in person, deals with red state democrats, claire mccaskill, who may be facing one of the toughest re-election bids for the senate in the coming year. staunch clinton supporter and has talked herself of bipartisan outreach and wishes that the president would engage in more bipartisanship, whether it's tax reform, infrastructure. the state senator democrat state senator who posted on facebook, glorifying assassination attempts against sitting presidents. not okay and is under tremendous pressure from both sides to step aside. we're going to see a lot of democratic/trump politics play out of missouri. >> jeff? >> about that trip to missouri, one of the reasons we're talking about it so much, the president still has not traveled that much, doing events like this. this is what administration officials say now is the beginning of a new phase of his presidency, that's going to sta

margaret ann. i was in love with margaret ann. she was my first cousin. >> how did that happen until. >> she really cute. >> i think that's common. because we had some crushes, my kids, you know, some crushes on their cousins, did i at a certain age. >> what do you tell them, you >> i do. that. that's the only person in the world you can't march. >> i i really wanted to kiss her but i coin, on christmas we go out to their house, they lived out on a farm. >> shocking. >> it is kansas. >> and i would get really nervous when i saw her. >> you should have admitted to the fact she was a girl and -- >> , no she was really cute. no, it was margaret ann. then i got to spends the summer throughout with my two sisters and margaret ann. and we would ride sugar, the horse, with no saddle. we would ride it bear back together. >> was robert ann your first kiss? >> we never kissed. >> okay. >> so you weren't cussing cousins, you just like your cousin? >> no, i would have kissed her, but she would have run screaming from the farm. margaret ann. >

thank you, margaret.fter the ugliness of the weekend, charlottesville today celebrated the beautiful heart of heather heyer, killed in an act of domestic terrorism. david begnaud is in charlottesville. >> reporter: anthony, after a weekend of violence around charlottesville and a few tense days, it was largely peaceful here. this is where the memorial service happened. locals lined up early this morning. they were here to pay their respects. about 1,500 people filed into the paramount theater. outside, supporters with pink bats and purple shields offered protection against any white supremacist who might show up and try to cause trouble, but there ended up being no trouble. you know, heather's mother told the crowd her daughter was something of a debater. she said going to dinner with her was an ordeal, a cross between listening and then again disagreeing. but there is no disagreement around charlottesville. what happened to heather heyer was an act of hateful violence. >> they tried to kill my child to s

. >> margaret brennan with an extraordinary day at trump tower. thank you, margaret. soon as the president finished speaking social media exploded. former k.k.k. leader david duke wrote, thank you, mr. president, for your honesty and courage to tell the truth. others were not so complimentary. paul ryan tweeted, white supremacy is repulsive. this bigotry is counterto all this country stands for. >> florida republican senator marco rubio said, you can't allow white supremacists to share only part of the blame. >> california democratic have said it all before >>> this is the cbs "overnight news." >>> the president said there was blame and violence on both sides. we wanted to get a fact check on what happened in charlottesville. so we are calling on our reporter, paula reid who was on the scene, for cbs news on saturday. how well armed were both sides? paula? >> reporter: pretty much every white supremacist demonstrator i saw had some sort of weapon. either a helmet, a shield, a firearm, a baton. as for the counterprotesters, i would say most of them were unarmed. many o

margaret atwood, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.just referred to your prolific and diverse output over many years. but you've just done something you've never done before. you've taken on adapting shakespeare. and you've always said shakespeare is pretty much your favourite author. so how daunting was that? very, very daunting. first of all you knew that you were going to get a lot of people saying that you shouldn't do it, and you can't improve on shakespeare, etc. and second because i took on the tempest. and that has a whole slew of problems of its own. the brief was very broad. so it was, choose a play and do whatever, as long as it's a novel. and i mean, you've created this wonderfully sort of imaginative new take, where it's sort of set in a prison. prospero becomes a guy who is sort of a theatre manager who was thwarted in his career and then goes back to the prison to produce a drama. there's a play within a play. there's a lot of music and dance. it's pretty extraordinary because it's so imaginative and yet, as you say, all

. >> but, margaret, the, some of -- president trump's allies in the past are not so happy.

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margaret: the devil is in the details. part of the reason there has been this patient's extended or the feeling that it has been important to work with the administration is to try to get some of these things done in terms of tax reform and tax cuts and also more broadly on issues like infrastructure. you are seeing gary cohn's, steve mnuchin, some of the top names that have been trying to work with corporate america and the business community in terms of rallying around the policies to pursue and how to pursue them. this is a new challenge, going forward. david: thank you so much, bloomberg's senior white house reporter from washington. what are the implications for ceos when they are deciding whether to speak out against the president or not? today, i spoke with former u.s. treasury secretary larry summers. whoy: there were some ceos fear the president's retaliation against their company, if they resign. that is why i advised a number of ceos who asked me, not to join president trump's councils because i told them i thin

with her friend margaret.e's anything i can tell you about margaret, it's that she loves to party and she loves her dog. [ laughter ] i started looking at margaret's dog's profile. [ laughter ] and then i accidentally liked one of margaret's dog's photos. and i was like, oh, no. are they going to trace this all the way back to me? [ laughter ] so i unliked it. but then i remembered that if you like something and you unlike it they can see that you liked it and you unliked it. so i decided i'm just going to like it. because if i'm going to go out i'm going to go out like a g. and then i realized i'd been sitting on the toilet for two hours. [ laughter ] [ applause ] that's it for me, guys. thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's how gs do it. that was very funny. i want to apologize to matt damon. we did run out of time for him. thanks to our guests. "nightline" is next. thank you very much. that was very funny. good night. thanks for watching. ♪ >>> this is "nightline." >> tonight, troll storm. a r

margaret: yes -- larry: yes.ember that he could read the telephone book and they would scream and applaud. these are the top people who believe anything he says and will disregard whatever facts exist to contradict whatever he said and he did misrepresent so many different things in that rant of his. as forest charlottesville is concerned, of course we are sensitive about what happened. donald trump cannot leave well enough alone. he just keeps digging when you are supposed to stop digging if you are in a whole. he can't leave it alone because he knows it is a major problem. he knows he created it for toself and he is determined blame it on somebody else and last night, it was the news media and his adoring fans bought it and applauded and will continue to do so. julie: what can donald trump possibly do that will make these people go we take exception to what he has done? larry: that is a great question. i'm not sure. i think for the real core of the trump backers, he can do absolutely nothing. he could ask them

margaret, what did you want to come in with? >> i was just going to say that, you know, i think first of all president obama is not the president anymore. president trump is. and the situation has changed somewhat dramatically in just the intervening six months in terms of what we now know or believe about north korea's capability and how far along they are. and so for a long time the conventional wisdom has been even as the u.s. tries to prepare for a set of not very good options, it's important just not to inflame the situation. and president trump has taken a different tack. he's still sort of poking the stick a little bit, that's what's making a lot of people very uncomfortable. what the world is trying to figure out who is his message to. is he signaling to china to try to get china to do more. is he signaling to north korea to say you're such a tough guy, you're not a tough guy, calling his bluff? is he signaling to the base at home saying i promised i was going to be tough and do things differently? maybe he's doing all t

margaret brennan is in studio 57. she was at trump tower yesterday trying to get a question to the president and he was lobbing one back at you. margaret, good morning. >> good morning. well, president trump's caught all the senior officials by surprise as he put himself in the politically complicated opinion of appearing to defend the alt-right, a coalition of conservative and fringe groups. >> i think there's blame on both sides. >> reporter: in a tense exchange with reporters a president trump lashed out, doubling down on his initial ee kwiv cal statement that both sides were to blame for charlottesville violence. >> you had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to say that. >> reporter: growing increasingly combat ichb we the press, mr. trump appeared to defend the group that organized the white rally. >> i've condemned neo-nazis. i've condemned a lot of groups. but not all of those groups were neo-nazi, believe me. not all of them were

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margaret brennan's at the table. that's wcbs, grass you're here. >> good morning. >> we begin with tropical storm harvey. harvey made land fall for a second time in southwest louisiana overnight. it's hammering much of the region with extreme weather right now. severe flash flooding hit port arthur texas after hours of heav is cut off by flooding and people there are going into survival mode. >> east texas and louisiana are seeing the worst of harvey. houston could actually see the sun today after days of record rainfall, but louisiana may see another eight to 12 inches of rain over the next two days. >> we begin the coverage with michelle miller who is along the louisiana/texas border. east of. beaumont. >> reporter: good morning, we are in orange, texas. about 23 miles east of where harvey made land fall. and it's treacherous here. we're on an island essentially at this gas station. and the roads just off of i-10 are inundated with a foot to a foot and a half of water. and this entire area, you see all of these car

scarlet: thank you to both our guests, margaret and marty. coming up, not the renegotiation talks kicking off today in washington. reading the discussion getting heated, but it is overshadowed by the collapse of the president's two business councils. we will bring you the latest on the renegotiation efforts. from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ scarlet: "what'd you miss?" the collapse of business councils, including tax reform, and for searcher and antiregulation .scarlet: i'm . kevin brady prepared to deliver a speech on tax reform. kevin, give us a sense of how the mood is in california right now as people prepared to speak on tax, but obviously the headlines on what is happening with what is going on in washington and donald trump's remarks take center stage. sahil: it is supposed to be a quiet month where the republicans look at the legislative agenda, the top of which is a piece of tax legislation, but this is not quite a goading -- quite going to plan. this has been overshadowed by president trump's uproar over his remarks in charlotte

margaret, you had a great story yesterday about the guy who is now the chief of staff. the retired general john kelly, who is trying to get order into the white house, but you had something that was very present from the your reporting in your piece. put it on the screen. trump has made it cleefr, howev clear, however, he ignores advice on tweets. since joining the social media platform in 2009 he sent over 35,000 of them. that is an interesting kind of dynamic here, that, you know, john kelly is going to control what he can control. and i think -- you know, he's -- he's defining the mission. the mission, don't go there on the president's tweet. >> i think it's a little of both. you have seen the president restrained in some foreign policy areas in his tweets over the course of the last week. maybe a coincidence. we'll know after two, three, four weeks. you know. but our reporting told us on a couple of really hot button issues, venezuela, russia, north korea, the new chief of staff and the team, you know, between the national security staff, the president's dialed back

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host: margaret is calling from iowa. she is a democrat. caller: i would like to know why trump is making so much trouble in washington by changing all these people and bringing his family into it and everything when his son is getting into some much trouble. i would like to know what they are going to do to straighten out washington. host: we are looking at pictures from the president's press availability the other day. you can see a banca trump -- ivanka trump on one side of the table and jared kushner on the other side. caller: i don't think he should have any family in there, pe riod. i don't even think he should be in the white house . host: john is calling from herndon, virginia on the line for democrats. want to tell all these callers, north korea is fake news. when the media is telling everything about people who voted for donald trump, this is what they were talking about. host: what makes you think anything related to north korea with the president's reaction to it, the reaction from rex tillerson, the reaction from the defense ch

i want margaret to react to that. margaret, what do you think? he said a lot of people just don't like donald trump. what do you put that? >> donald trump didn't get elected because of likability. he got elected because of 78,000 voters in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin and what we know is that republicans even though they don't like the tweeting, they don't think the behavior in the oval office is presidential, they don't particularly like him as a person or think his demeanor is befitting of the presidency, still supported him in really large numbers. high 80s, 90% voted for him. now only 59% support him. that is a massive crack in his support. >> what is it? >> i told you last week. i told you in the lgbt transgender military officials came out in strong support from republicans against that ban and against the president, we were beginning to see cracks in the pillar. part of this, the russia sanctions. overwhelmingly passed a bill against russia against the president's wishes. >> i gave you credit for it at the top of the last show. i w

people don't know about margaret hamilton.. >> which is why movies like that are so important. >> right. >> why do you think there's a lack of female representation? >> why? >> to come into technology, you need a couple of things. you need to know the people doing it which is telling the truth stories. lovelace is the yoj nall creator of algorithms. no one knows a woman created. this we've got to get there into their schools. nine out of ten parents want coding in school. let's have code boot camps and other things. we're on a tour right now. this week we're in san francisco, all over the country. we have over 600,000 jobs open in the unist they're fun. you know, we want more people in tech and we've got get rid of the biases that make people feel uncomfortable and leave the industry. >> it appears that sun gar pichai agrees. he said portions of this memo vie oh late our code of conduct. to suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work makes it not okay. >> when i with end t

we will take a question from margaret over here. thank you. margaret: thank you. margaret hayes, currently at georgetown university teaching security issues in latin america. we will be talking a lot about this this semester. two questions -- you mentioned supportectivos and the for the violence and so forth in the street, but is the economic problem, downturn not also affecting some of these people and how secure is the support of these groups? second question refers to actually a presentation made at another think tank here in washington. and hypothesizing that perhaps there might occur a coup within the military, rejection by some of the officers of the direction going. what are the prospects there? i understand an awful lot of these folks have been promoted well above their rank. what are the prospects the military might turn against this administration? eric: all four of them are very important questions. let's deal with these in the time remaining. carlos, let's start with you. give us an update first. and then your view on sanctions. julio, we will come to

here's margaret brennan. >> there needs to be radical changes take place at the white house itself. >> reporter: harsh criticism from a prominent member of the president's own party, tennessee senator, bob corker. >> the president has not yet-- has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. >> reporter: and this from another republican, tim scott of south carolina: >> what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority. that moral authority is compromised. >> reporter: while the president has avoided cameras for the past two days, he has not been silent. today on twitter, he swiftly condemned the barcelona attack and suggested his followers, "study what general pershing of the united states did to terrorists when caught." a reference to a debunked urban legend mr. trump told during the campaign about american general john pershing's alleged slaughter of muslim soldiers in the philippines. >> what they did was, they cut open two pigs and they dumped the bullets into the pigs. and t

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