in the books last chapter which is a conversation, twin mmi so, i raised the question of why he didn't change his impossibly difficult name at that time. i did change my first name can not my last name when i became a citizen a few years after that, for years after mckay said he was confident that in america people can become american without masking their ethnic identity. america is the only country where someone named zbigniew brzezinski can make a name for himself without changing his name. >> you can watch this and other programs on line at the tv.org. >> next on booktv, daniel stashower recalls the plot to assassinate abraham lincoln in figure 1861, prior to lincoln's and migration ceremony. the plot was discovered by detective allen pinkerton, was to be executed in baltimore as lincoln stopped in the city en route to washington, d.c. this is about 40 minutes. >> thank you. thank you for coming out. it's a real pleasure to be here in illinois, especially because this is really where the wheels of the story started turning, both figuratively and literally. the book is the star to a

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charlie gasparino joins us now with sheila mullen, senior bond reporter at mmi to discuss this. >> notenior bond reporter, i would say one of the experts looking at the bond market. i've known you for a long time. what is interesting about a story you broke last week about a huge shift in russian treasury assets out of the u.s. into some sort of third party fund. explain it to us in a minute. i've been hearing from the banks that the banks are saying if this thing heats up, this ukraine crisis to the point where we have to freeze their assets, then stuff is really going to start happening. the markets are going to turn down. is this a preliminary step to russia saying we think you will freeze our assets? >> well, they had the money at the new york fed. >> right. >> sorry, $105 billion at the new york fed and they moved money overseas. >> right. >> they moved money away from u.s. sanctions. now the u.s. sanctioned i believe 11 individuals. e.u. has sanctioned 21 individuals some with connections to russia. some with connections to crimea. >> right. >> bussians need that money in case th

accordingly so we can move forward and again with his efforts with advanced manufacturing, with the mmi, the manufacturing initiative, there's great promise there. that gives you very sharp focus on specific needs of manufacturing, developing those sources of intellect, human infrastructure, work forest development that will give us cutting edge technology. i strongly support the nnmi initiative in the budget that the president had introduced last year. i think it shows us to be in an advanced sort of thinking and giving manufacturing a shot in the arm. our best days in manufacturing lie ahead. we need to invest so as to make that possible and this budget does that. so thank you very much and i look fwrd to many more discussions on the budget as we go fword in the ensuing weaks. >> thank you for being such a letter on these issues. as i was about to turn around to the speaker and sign off, i realized i'd left off a major piece of the infrastructure. we have a major drought in california. and we know -- mr. garamendi: and we know that for california to address this issue in the future, w

in the books last chapter which is a conversation, twin mmi so, i raised the question of why he didn't change his impossibly difficult name at that time. i did change my first name can not my last name when i became a citizen a few years after that, for years after mckay said he was confident that in america people can become american without masking their ethnic identity. america is the only country where someone named zbigniew brzezinski can make a name for himself without changing his name. >> you can watch this and other programs on line at the tv.org. >> next on