putin is the system that he himself created ave or any signs of god already happening no no the mark rich. mark raikkonen is. proving that liberal as it used to be for last 20 years oh oh what you see in politics it's technical shift mostly reaction on situation we still don't see as somebody who can lead somebody who can show for the image of the future like the causing the problem but at the same time in the year one of your recent articles you sad that on the one hand putin has been using brute force to rule the country but on the other hand he also. claimed no one fears the presidential administration any more brute force that no one fears isn't there a contradiction of terms no of course not because ministration is are going as a fish and a presidential of sorts is. go much for the work of ministration can do ministration as a political broker is broken we don't see any form of cording nation between the government and the presidential administration that all can also call direct that all can of all yeah which was. brought by the ministration and encouraged but didn't have any clue a

were in charge of signing off on pardons from the justice department, and there was a fellow named mark richhe embargo of iran and he fled and left the country and then waged a very long and expensive campaign including political donations and hiring president clinton's former white house counsel to get a pardon, and in the final hours of the administration he got that pardon, and you signed off on that pardon and that became a real big story, a scandal of sorts after the administration. what happened at that moment? >> yeah. you know, i'd like to think that if people that looked at the entirety of my career would think he did a good job and that doesn't mean i was perfect and that's one that i blew. >> were you under pressure? did you feel pressure to do that? >> it was interesting. it happened on the last night of the administration. i was going to be the acting attorney general, the next day we were dealing with the inauguration of friday and we were concerned about his safety along the route. the call came in and i didn't do what i should have done which was to interact with the woman on

. >> joining us on book tv is alan crawford, here is his book, how not to get rich, the financial misadventures of mark twain, richard crawford, what do you want people to learn if they pick up your book and read it? >> i wrote a and part of the book about successful people. and how if you just do what they did, then you two can be a great success in life, because having read a lot of these books, i find them all useless, even when you might have read heard of ia terrible book. in the art of money getting, he made a great fortune at this point but mark twain wrote the art of money getting while he was broke and the sales of the book enabled him to rebuild his fortune and going to be 2.0. i think it's fascinating with mark twain who is so good and so in deep of the bustling author of the time who made more money on the lecture circuit they needed as an author thought he could do anything. his great obsession and life was to make a great fortune and as a teenager before he was even mark twain had a theme for going to the amazon in cornering the cocaine market. nothing came of it, bhag is a term, i cannot

. >> joining us on booktv is alan crawford, here is his book "how not to get rich: the financial misadventures of mark twain". mr. crawford, what you want people to learn if they pick up your book and read it? >> i wrote it in part as a spoof of books about successful people. and how if you just do what they did then you too can be a great success in life because having read a lot of these books i find them all woefully useless. there is even one you might've heard of called the art of the deal, terrible book. keke barnum wrote a book called the art of money getting and he made a great fortune at this point but was like mark twain went broke. he wrote the art of money while he was broke and the sales of that book enabled him to rebuild his fortunes and go on to be pt barnum chapter 2.0. it's fascinating that mark twain was so good at so many things. best-selling author of this time. he made more money on the lecture circuit that he did even as an author, he thought he could do anything. so from childhood on his great obsession in life was to make a great fortune. as a teenager before he was even mark

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montgomery county leadership led by mark he wil elle rich hae it so that montgomery county, marylandy is a place where illegal immigration is protected at all cost even at the expense of the community and now cops and prosecutors are furious and they are taking matters into their own hands. they want these stories out there. >> tucker: god bless them for doing that because by publicizing these crimes really that's the only recourse that i think people have. mark elrich the county executive has sat for an interview with you. what was his explanation for. this he doesn't have explanations. he blames a lot. he points fingers at the federal government for allowing illegal immigrants to be in the area. he says that illegal immigration shouldn't even be considered a problem. and when posed -- when i pose questions to him about all of this, he responded to me what do you think we should do? deport all illegal immigrants and my response to him was really simple if you don't like the law us of this country, work to change them. but in the meantime enforce them and that's not what they are doi

rich, the miss adventures, mark twain is the name of the book. thank you for being with us. >> beginning now, booktv in "primetime". you will have first from victim rights attorney carrie goldberg on litigating case of sexual harassment. and then jim mattis will recount his military career, a little bit later on the author interview program "after words", american university professor will argue that america must choose to be antiracist. also tonight they discuss the business of farming and they will discuss the book to abolish the death penalty. check your program guide for complete schedule. here is carrie goldberg on litigating sexual harassment. he . . . we live in a world where this kind of behavior is all too common. i'm sure many of you in this room have your own story. i know i do. nobody's victim is a book that gives the sufferers of these crimes they face and name and identity which for so long they have been shrouded in darkness, gaslight and not taken seriously. goldberg gives stories of that of a 15-year-old girl who was sexually ass

marking on the for the discovery. expedition in blood on the. natural riches of precious resources. and a rewarding investment. of farmland has been called ethiopia's green gold the country has an abundant supply and leases it to international harbor from giant . government after high export revenues and the corporations high profit margin. but not everyone benefits from the booming business. expansion environmental destruction starvation. the crisis for government and corporate greed. the selling out of a. dead donkey some fear no high enough. september 18th on d w. this is deja news lot of from berlin u.s. president donald trump tweets that the u.s. is locked and loaded after drone strikes damaged major oil facilities in saudi arabia american officials blame iran even though whose the rebels in yemen claim responsibility also on the show. a landmark election in tunisia counting is underway after.

marks on a crusade for. personal power. and riches. the comments of president trump now watching that of course will be the iranian delegation i'm sure they're probably watching it in the iranian mission the embassy to the united nations i say they're almost certainly watching it that that's because the iranian delegation is pretty much confined to that mission or to the united nations and those restrictions we believe applies the foreign minister zarif and to president rouhani president rouhani 24 hours from now will be addressing the u.n. general assembly so we're going to hear the iranian side of the story coming up here on wednesday. ok james bays there live at the u.n. general assembly thank you very much indeed. at the supreme courts of britain has delivered an extraordinary rebuke see the prime minister boris johnson ruling that he acted unlawfully when he suspended parliament earlier this month the decision effectively overturns the substantial and allies parliament to resume as early as tomorrow but the opposition was quick to

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rich. maybe this is the way to do it. david: you know, markays starts with the super-rich and works its way down. i think of the a.m.t., the minimum tax, which was only supposed to hit a couple dozen people in the united states before trump changed that, it was hitting about ten million people, ten million taxpayers. it starts small and it spreads like all taxes. right? >> well, unfortunately, i agree with you on that. i think that's what i alluded to earlier, which is to say the precedent that might be set by something like this establishes the grounds for some creep such that once now instead of $32 billion and up is the threshold, that gets moved down to something lower, and lower, until eventually all the things that bernie sanders wants to pay for and make free by virtue of being underwritten by the taxes collected from what was originally the super-wealthy ends up being more of the affluent and who knows where it even ends there. david: politically, where does this end? because liz warren has a very similar tax. it's based on the same id

there are more breaks in the simi valley is ground water into the rich drinking water in simi valley and office suites are 2. august mark the beginning of a roar of borealis season also known as the northern lights which will be visible in high altitude regions from canada to norway for the next 7 months now during that time charged particles from our galaxy sun excite electrons in the earth's atmosphere creating the celestial phenomenon of aurora borealis or northern lights but there isn't just one celestial phenomenon out there now to blow your mind steve is here and he's official do you or the strong thermal emissions velocity enhanced meant was 1st seen in 2016 by citizen scientists and now scientists led by researcher d.m. dials. from the university of calgary has officially confirmed that steve is not on a roll it's made up a light from across the spectrum but with slightly more in the red range that is one of the main reasons scientists say steve isn't an aurora they create these small pinkish purplish tones unlike auroras that usually display green ones not some theory suggests that sees color is due to the ener

. >> mark rutenberg from press associates. >> thank you for talking with us, rich. irrespective of who wins the nomination next year, has the afl-cio and your political committee started laying plans for what labour's effort is going to be? >> absolutely. we started a year ago. we started a year ago and it will be -- and 2018 we went to the biggest member to member program we have ever had and i will pull out a few actuals for you so i don't it up. we knocked on two and 43 million doors. we distributed 5 million flyers. we have sent out a quarter million texts, highlighted text, 4 million pieces of mail. we did it digital ad campaign. we launched our largest ever media campaign engaging peoples of color in african-american and nations in 20 different media markets in and this time it will be even more so. we started last year pushing our members to talk to their members on a regular basis about issues that are important to them. so we have been successful. our affiliates have talked to their members and the members are confronting candidates. that sounds wrong. they

of the. 10 mark also understands the importance of maintaining good relations with the territory to destroy teach equally important and rich in natural resources. as the competition for those resources intensifies denmark aims to maintain its security presence there. many danes believe that the government's current policies on greenland benefits both sides. that is where i would argue that it is difficult to find a better deal if you are looking at the world from a greenlandic perspective and being. with denmark and i would doubt that if your partner up with china or anyone else that there will be no favors in return. china keeps a close eye on developments in the arctic from its embassy in reykjavik iceland the ambassador says that the world has nothing to fear from beijing's trade policy. yes the chinese government has no intention of a competing with the u.s. side for war the influence we regard is based on its merits and also we have a strong wish to develop a good the relationship with all the countries. as world powers compete for position and influence in greenland to anyone people are standing up for their rights w

mark granny" tofu. ground pork or beef, cubes of bean curd, in a rich, deeply nuanced, fiery but intensely satisfying sauce garlic shoots, ground sichuan peppercorns, and msg. this dish, done right, has got it all. oh, that's so good. it's a perfect balance of stuff going on in here. i just love, love, love this dish. >> eric: actually, the spiciness makes me already, like, um, feeling that i am drunk kind of. you know? >> go: really? >> eric: yeah. i'm like -- >> anthony: you high, man? you look high. >> eric: i am. but i like it. >> go: yeah. >> anthony: and if you ever go, like, have a hangover, and you will, my friend, you will -- um, this will scare the evil right out. >> eric: it's prepping me for a drinking night. >> anthony: the glory of france -- >> eric: shut up. >> anthony: -- is on your shoulders. [ go laughs ] >> anthony: and green peppercorn fish, served in a simmering vat of seasoned fish broth, laced heavily with fresh and dried green sichuan peppercorns, and finished off with a heavy pour of boiling hot vegetable oil. >> go: i think this is the most numb you are gonna feel. >> eric: that's

and they were going there and tagging muslimships and bringing their riches back to the colonies .so governors were states letters of mark to pirates and when they came back to the colonies with their money they were reintegrated into those colonies. england shut down that piracy about 1700 and afterwards the spanish accession which ended in 1713, piracy became roaring back and that's the rdtype of piracy most of you no doubt are familiar with, that's when blackbeard was on the scene. i find it funny blackbeard is the most outsized pirates there is, it's the one most people have heard about but he was only a pirate for a year and a half.he didn't have a particularly successful career and when he died they cut off his head and hung it on the balustrade of the ship that the english kernel took it back to williamsburg. the book has a lot of hanging it but it also really is a book about american history that uses pirates as a backbone to tell that story. and i had a lot of funwriting the book and researching it . >> we have pirates and i've got bank robbers. so other than vampires you got for the mainstays of things that hav

mark his 250th birthday if we talk with an unreliable historian. author and home board expert. in 30 minutes on d w. natural riches are precious resources and. time to remove warning investment. farmland has been called ethiopia's green gold the country has an abundant supply of leases it to international law for giants and the government is after high exploration of the corporation's high profit margin. but not everyone benefits. from the business. going to crash a plane our mental destruction starvation plane going out of the country. don't use for. chunks of time i take on d w. good. player . play. this is news live from but violence returns to the streets of hong kong police fire water cannons and tear gas as some protesters threw petrol bombs and 6 via to barricades that was off the pro-democracy demonstrators defied the police back to march through the city. and drone attacks for saudi arabia to cut off its crude oil production the world's largest oil processing the scene as he was sits ablaze by the assault well the rebels from yemen have claimed responsibility but they do.

rich! it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. ( ticking ) >> cooper: mark bradford is widelyidered one of the most important and influential artists in america today. as we first reported this spring, his abstract canvases, which often deal with complex social and political issues, hang in major museums around the world, and on the walls of big collectors and some small ones, like me. bradford's art may look like paintings, but there's hardly any paint on them. they're made out of layers and layers of paper, which he tears, glues, power-washes and sands, in a style all his own. when he began making art in his 30s, bradford couldn't afford expensive paint, so he started experimenting with endpapers, that are used for styling hair. he got the idea while working as a hair stylist in his mom's beauty shop in south los angeles. he was broke, struggling, and didn't sell his first painting until he was nearly 40. i heard a story that when you sold your first artwork in 2001, you called up your mom. do you remember what you said to her? >> bradford: i said, "girl, i think i found a w

percentup the vase chad rich clarida said the conser is in excellent shapehe ing the economy along but he said risks remain. >> we clearly have a swelling global economy, the oecd marked do global outlook. iviously the u.s.-chi relationship isortant but there is a broader slowdown. a slowdown in global capital spending andanacturing appear also disinflanary force. >> now names bullard, the the president of the st. louis fed says the manufacturing sector appears to be in recession part of the reason why he w wted a deeper half percent cut at th meeting. >> but the call that caught our attention is not one usually heard from a fed official. in warning had to do with coworking spaces companies like wework and the risk they pose to the economy. steve liesman explains. >> boston fed president eric rosengren explaining his ecision to vgainst the rate cut this week. said the big concern is interest rates too low too rung canoo le to financial instability and bubbles in asset prices created by those low rates. and rosengren signalled out a business model used wy wek as a possible source of future losses and the boston fed president said low rates can encourage excessive risk

mark. [ applause ]]. >> mayor breed: i've got to say mayor shaf thinks it is san francisco and is surprised that the rich man is shining bright with the sun. every now and then the sun shines on the west side of san francisco. i can't help but go back to my time i spent in san francisco. i wasn't probably as well behaved as some of the kids are here today. in middle school, i was a handful. in fact, i'd always have to go to our girls' counselor's office and say it wasn't me this time. the thing about the teachers and principal, they never gave up on me. they supported, encouraged, listened to me. school was my sanctuary. coming from a community -- i lived in public housing. there was a lot of challenges in my community. i was so blessed to have incredible teachers, counselors and principals. i played french horn at franklin ben and i wasn't that bad at it. the opportunity to be a part of an incredible community was what inspired me to want to also give back. because i wanted to make sure that every young person in this city had an opportunity to succeed and to do whatever they want to do in life. there a

rich! it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. >>welcome back will lots to talk about in the sports world tonight take as take the second with marke was going on with bay area sports night. >>every go are all ready to go on bay area sports night 7 o'clock. talking wrapping up the nfl weekend first question though grant of the 49 ers for real. >>the 40 niners to be the past what 3, 4 seasons, yes, there absolutely for real. the bengals a good team know yeah but did they barely beat them, no, i smacked the field and they bloom out like they should and they've shown us crop below has shown us in particular. this is a formidable team in the nfl and if you're going to be a good team. you have. >>tough to beat the bad teams are race, not keep it close it also be breaking down the win also be talking about joe staley's injury was the team going to be doing next and also look at raiders chiefs. >>how that game completely changed in just one quarter bay area sports night 7 o'clock on kron on and so back to you get in j r i would be the 2nd quarter. >>all right, thank you very much mark. well in take a live look outside. whether beautiful

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mark cuban. bernie sanders unveiling a new plan to target what he calls income inequality. the best way to do that force the richpay more in taxes so we can crunch that down to size. ken fisher will join us. the billionaire investor is not a fan, just because he is a billionaire is not the issue. the fact that the rich have a lot of lawyers, attorneys, accountants they can find ways around anything like that. they also can move, get out of town. it might boomerang on you. mark cuban, what do you make of that, what bernie is trying to do, elizabeth warren paying wealth packses? >> i said i don't mind paying taxes. after military service it is honor to pay taxes. how will they spend it. bernie and elizabeth warren will max out how this much they charge how much we pay but what are they going to do with it? with the proposals they haven't prioritized. there is finite money they can collect. what is most important? single-payer? paying off medical debt? paying off student loans? is it long-term care. you can't pay for all of it, what i have yet to see from any of them. neil: you eventually run out of money. you can'

rich! it only gets better when you switch and save with geico. >>> bonnie-jill laflin here at the xfinity sports desk. barring a late postseason run, today markedhe start of the final month of bruce bochy's hall of fame managerial career. and what better team to do it against than a team he began his coaching career with, nearly 30 years ago. giants and padres. giants honoring bochy with a new sign out on the left field wall as the start of their thank you bochy campaign. top of six, already down 4-2. three-run shot to right. his second of the day. 7-2, padres. but cool moment in the seventh. pablo sandoval in the pinch-hit gets a standing o in what could be his final at bat as a giant. he is scheduled for tommy john on thursday. he grounds out, but fans still cheering as he heads to the dugout. giants lose, 7-4. >> his last at-bat this year. i don't know what's going to happen next year. but last at-bat here with me as manager. that's all i said. hey, it's been a joy. but it's good to give him one more bat. obviously, we're hoping to get a base hit there. i think he saw how much he's loved here, and with the crowd. i mean, what a great ovation

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rich trace the struggle of a crown when the beginning with henry bolingbrook deposing richard ii. there are the classical histories, which tell how julius caesar loses power, and how brutus and mark antony contend for it. there are the great tragedies which tell the story of hamlet, macbeth, and lear, each a king or a prince who loses power. taking this all in, i wondered whether shakespeare can teach something to those of us who work in and around congress. after all, shakespeare was one of our greatest thinkers. when he talks about politics, we may want to pay close attention. i submit that there is indeed much that shakespeare can teach us, but first, i want to whet your appetite with a mystery. why is the greatest shakespeare library in the world, the folger, located not in london or stratford, but in washington, d.c.? it is essentially on the capitol hill campus. if you came over from the house side, you may have walked right past it. so, two questions. first, again, why is the folger library here? second, why does it matter? why is it important that the world's greatest shakespeare library is in washington, d.c.? and i should note, the wonderful shakespeare theater downtown

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rich you will pay for it all. >> you seen that with blue check mark twitter. they go online.cuts. they won't talk about jobs created because of it. they won't talk about people pulled off food stamps, not dependent on government. they won't talk about the sound bites. no one in media will hold them in check. there is no accountable. that is why you have the radical ideas. if you contest them, you're a racist. i think you maybe saw the aoc response to that, there was a lady put out this incredible ad, who went through, the cambodian genocide, two million people killed. disaster that is socialism and communism. that they're all espousing. and this cambodian woman, she is racist. it is not the answer for everything. it is become the left-wing political easy button. we can say, hey, i don't like the way the numbers work, racist. math, you've seen it. racist. it is really sad. it is creating division. really not addressing a problem. racism is a real problem. it is just not the answer to every problem. that is what it has become. i think people have seen it. i think the american p

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we mark the somber an versry -- anniversary with grief for all the slaves whose god-given freedoms were so brutally denied. we reflect gratefully on the tremendous rich contributions that generations of african americans have made to this nation despite this violence and adversity and we give thanks that true american values slam the door on this unjust part of our nation's history and continue to prevail today. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, department of state, kelly craft of kentucky to be representative of the united states of america to the sessions of the general assembly. mr. mcconnell: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: are we in a quorum, madam president? the presiding officer: we are. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. t