narrative one, jules epstein, narrative two, novelist named nicole, from brooklyn. yes. with two kids. yes. in a marriage that is coming apart. yes, yes. everybody asks you about this. they do. you're messing with us, aren't you? i'm inviting you into what feels to me a really important question. in order to ask you that question i think i needed to use myself as a guinea pig. you acknowledge that nicole is to some degree you. she has the broad strokes of my life. absolutely has the broad strokes of my life. what happens to her, you mentioned kafka, we probably don't have time too much to get into exactly what-- there's always time for kafka, this is pbs. (laughing) my point is, the things that happen to nicole are so extraordinary that even if we know that she begins looking like me, we have to know that her story is fiction if you know anything about kafka, you know that her story is fiction. what i'm asking, what i'm trying to provoke in the reader is basically this. i've been writing novels for 15 years now, i know that inside a book, when i'm writing a book, when yo

people and combat those narratives? it is very smart to show the influence over the last month with the changes and leadership he is one of the few people and that is not curtailed in that same sort of way without outside influence because if he was there was even more backlash so that shows how they are coopted by establishments and recognizing batch messengers matter so maybe those that are associated with a regime may not be the best messengers for the message if you have the top cleric bin egypt one of those old this institutions so to talk to that state establishment in civil society. . . . . >> in order to address these problems. >> that's a great question. i think there is a couple of things. i talk about being nimble, the speed. this is a network to defeat a network. at the state department they have the structure to tackle it. it was an interagency body to tackle this type of propaganda. you need the manhattan project. , the earliest incarnation was a few minutes ago. now it's up to 40 plus million. , bless our

that there is alternative pathway narrative is. reno voices are influential and the voices of defectors are incredibly influential. how do we tell those stories to increase the impact? when you hear on the counter narrative the point is the idea of the backfire effect that sometimes if you think tit-for-tat if they say they caliphate's is the be careful we can get into a trap and you can reinforce the of predisposed police just to counter the narrative so it is the alternative pathway. like that thousands of young people that i met, how do you tell their stories that our authentic borer organic organic, that is the idea behind this. and a second is social media incubators that they are taking on because you cannot forget a lot of what makes influential is there to use a new media and animation in a and drama so that is one of the best bet they tried video is in the work they will do different things with their lives have said it is like under that umbrella i feet of with these competitions and matthew in now with that organic conte

narrative worked well. voices of mothers is influential, voices of defectors, their stories are influential, so these are things we know that works and we have to think about how do we tell those stories, how do we get those stories to the light of day and increase their impact? you know, when you hear a lot of work on counter narrative to one point what to make is that there's this idea of what we call backfire effect and backfire effect is that sometimes when you think to it court taught in terms of counter narrative and they say it is bountiful, no, it's not bountiful because we have to be careful because we can get into this trap of backfire to reinforce someone's predisposed belief by some to-- by sibley countering a narrative so you have to think differently to these are the stories of like malabo in the thousands of young people i have met in the region. how do you tell their stories that are authentic that are organic that are, you know that is the sort of the idea behind and how do you tell those s

effected, frank is >> whart of this is the need for the media to create a narrative, that narrative being we all hate each other in america, nothing has been resolved. we can point at certain people and say see, see, nothing changed from 1865. some people relish in that idea of hate, idea of vision. most of us, particularly my generati generation, i am a millennials, i am 32. i don't think we think about it in everyday life. i surely don't think about it as much as i think my grandparents would have or other generations would have. we are not faced with it until something specific are all waking up and all victims of white supremacist. >> armstrong: stella, you are sort of the the wild card. when you hear the few frank and shelby speak of. people bhooef they want to return them to slavery, separate water fountains, despise interracial marriages. despise the fact of the success they achieved in the american dream. when you have the, you heard expressions of the n word during charlotte county. people think that is a growing sentiment that return them to the days of slavery and segrega

one narrative which is often classified with the slave narrative for obvious reasons is the narrativeof venture smith. it does immediately is apparent that it was not processed by anyone, that it came from one person's life and one person's mouth.h. turns out that he dictated it when he was an old man in rural connecticut. he was born and raised in west africa in a village, narrative to a third in africa which gives a rich sense of perspective. you see what i'm trying to do with thein book is here is the aristocratic and the african and putting the pieces together and ultimatelyic you this sense anyway, sense of what america was at the time and what the revolution was all about. they raised animals. he was a child of a local prince. when he was about 10 year's old an army invaded an african army invaded the village and he was taken captive but not before witnessing the torture and killing of his father who refused to tell the army where he kept his gold buried. this made a huge impression on him. he's taken with other to the coast of which is now ghana and another army attack it is ar

>> i think that's a false narrative. if you're a japanese investor or european investor you're not doing well if you just own u.s. bonds. sure, you're picking um 200 basis points or 235 basis points relative to germany and germany and japan but they have currency risk if you're a japanese investor unhedged what's happened is the dollar has drochd 7%, 8%. you need to hem the currency out. if you look at hedged ten-year yield in the united states and compare them to japanese or german yield and 30-year hedge, you're actually much worse off in the united states than you are in either germany or japan so there is no incentive for german investors or japanese investors to buy u.s. bonds. it's a naive argument to say, look, you're picking up a couple hundred basis points have you to hedge the currency so i think the flattening of the yield curve is the real deal the bond market likes the fed saying we're taking rates to 3% by the end of 2019. >> are you worried about that becoming invertd >> got to watch it not worried yet. th

it is a simple narrative but it is told in a simple narrative but it is told in a way which is reallynd actually i saw things in it on the small screen that i hadn't seen on the big screen. yes, the big—screen experience is still the primary one but it does work on the small screen, for different reasons. mark, good to see you as ever. interesting week. all our previous programmes are on the bbc iplayer, of course. enjoy your cinema going! goodbye! it is good weather for being in a one cinema tonight. still some showers around and those across eastern parts of england are probably going to retreat back to the coasts. we are looking at some showers in northern ireland, the western fringes of wales. fewer showers, though, in scotland, where temperatures are already falling quite choppy. down to —6 in rural areas. not many showers by the morning but we will see more cloud and some showers coming into northern ireland and moving over the irish sea into wales and the south—west later on. further easter crossed england it will be dry and bright with sunshine. likewise across much of scotlan

ullah: youtube can visually tell the narrative. even if their videos get taken down, they can regenerate and be put on other places. they do everything from two minute highlight reel clips to raw, authentic video, person on the street-type of video. they are attuned with visually telling the narrative, because for the young people they are de. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 how long have you been studying this digital battlefield? guest: probably too long in some ways. alwaysinteresting that i thought about what drives young people toward extremism. i grew up in rural america in a small town, and grew up intellectually curious. and lookuld see haroon at me and say, what is going on in the middle east? i would say, i don't know. i drive a truck. i play tennis in baseball. -- and baseball and i don't know. i have no idea. that planted a seed in me because i wanted to go abroad and make sense of what is happening in iran, pakistan. could this be the black box for people, like we saw the soviet union 50 years ago? i went abroad and a lot

believe the narrative goes like this shia iran seeks influence through its proxies in pursuit of a larger regional hegemon that represents a threat to any arab country particularly states with sizable sunni populations it was on that basis that saudi arabia led the war in yemen that started in two thousand and fifty that war has since turned into a stalemate a humanitarian catastrophe and like the military offensive it was supposed to bolster the saudi narrative on iran has grown less popular less credible with time from very early on from two thousand and twelve and beyond there was an insistent in the gulf media in general but in saudi media and particularly that there is a very clear plot by the iranian government. damn khomeini you have to make the gulf media in general did we not at any point concede that there are certain regions differences sectarian differences between shiite twelve areas and between the holy cities and americans went from very early on skeptical about the claims of media about the stronger relationship on alliances between the iranian government and the claim tha

the idea ofed to visually telling the narrative. they're not going to sit and read a hundred page book. this is the topic until 9:00. guest: for me, i grew up in rural america. i grew up in a small town. i grew up intellectually curious. people would ask me and say what is going on in the middle east? i would say, i don't know. they would want me to explain to them. i don't know. i drive a truck. i play tennis and baseball. i don't know. i have no idea. but that planted a seed in me. i wanted to go abroad and make sense of what was going on in iraq. these are black boxes for people. almost the way we saw with the soviet union. i went abroad and i went into camps. people, whatoung made you join. what drove you to this point. understanding, we need to understand what is going on in the cinnamic. we miss out on the first part i don't wantee -- to write about this. i want to solve this. i want to put together a manhattan project to mobilize people. i met hundreds of religious leaders on the front lines. that's what i talk about in the b

this is the liberal media industry selling the narrative. do the numbers add up when the very employees of comcast are getting millions of dollars that they will inject into the economy on their own? >> we heard from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi this money would go to the ceos and top executives. and the day after this tax cut plan was passed we are finding $1,000 bonuses for hundreds of employees. if you are rachel ma doe, maybe it's not a lot of money. but think about a cable guy or someone in customer service or a secretarial position, that money will be very much appreciated right before christmas. >> leslie, good to see you, is this a christmas present for america? i know the democrats want to paint this as a disaster. they haven't seen it play out. but to deroy's point. the money going into the economy, some $200 million from at&t to employees. 100 million from comcast. may not matter to the elitist but about the americans out there? >> let's talk about the truth. the republican that at&t did this, it's not altruistic. the reason the

without the narrative, without changing that narrative we face a lot of challenges. the other piece as we think about this, what i haven't heard is rethinking how we are educating our educators, changing this narrative seems to start with how we are educating future teachers, leaders so that they embrace the concept of embracing the whole child and not just giving lip service to this idea of social, emotional, or not. i would like to see us move away from using the phrase noncognitive as if that is less important, it is a bit of both. >> we typically take a supply-side approach, focus on preparing teachers, leaders or whatnot. for this work to advance and advance in a way that better engages kids we need to shift to a demand focus and that is what we are doing in economic development. we no longer focus on supply but demand, demand of business, employers, drive the proper investments including educational sector investment was when families demand this and equally important when teachers demand his education has become such a gloomy business and people are doing thei

in the united states these sorts of feeds you often see in this part of the world we used to the narrative of angry arab there's talk of a new uprising starting what palestinians call an intifada we're not used to the narrative of the nonviolent displays of pushback but also perpetuates. kinds of stereotypes in terms of how one sees the violence on one side the palestinian side ignoring the daily violence inherent in an occupation one way it's a fragment of the media sort of over focusing on either of the potential or the actuality of palestinian or of violence but. i think the other way to think about it is you know basically does the international media the mainstream media given enough attention kind of the tween bouts of violence to the complexities of the palestinian and israeli situations and i think that. the answer is we try to. in a story that is so fiercely dispute right down to the way journalists use the word disputed terminology. in the same way that pictures images tend to drive news stories words and the way they are used framed. the situation with covering daily oppression

dr norm it's the same language the israel uses and unfortunately has dominated the narrative. another factor that can shape news coverage another way to measure is the choice of what forces the news media turned to who they put on the. palestinians and their supporters have long been the international news media and the us media in particular disproportion. not just israelis or jewish folks but also on the international experts and analysts too many of them. from the store the fires the protesting burning the american flag the israeli flag it's already begun here it is already begun and we don't know how bad it will get us through media and international media in general constantly and incessantly take in international voices over the palestinians strips agency of palestinians and being helps in the denial of the existence of palestinians this comes from not giving us a voice it comes from stripping our faith and putting it in the hands of analysts or experts that are internationals that do not live here do not experience the consequences of israeli oppression so if the presid

so that was an interesting narrative. other narratives are around polling, which some including a cnn poll shows this tax bill was 55% disapproved by the public. another piece of advice. why don't we wait until this time next year and see what the benefits are in terms of gdp, in terms of jobs and all of those things. let's see how the 2018 elections go. if this is a referendum on how the economy is doing as a result of the tax bill, democrats shouldn't be as confident as they are right now turning over the house and the senate. >> neil: we should know from experience that they take awhile to sort out. we should know that revelations like not keeping your doctor and that your premiums would be affordable didn't pan out. didn't get near the scrutiny that out of the gate this tax cut is getting apparently dooming the middle class and pretty much everyone below to nothing at all. >> always look back at this one piece of analysis, neil, just adding on to what you said, this is from pugh. it's from last month. pugh research fo

chapter, i think, if i may say so, the narrative tale. - oh, you may say it. - no, i mean, it wasn't this way, i mean, just discovering from his notebooks and the notebooks of his friends, the narrative tale of how they all went and did this, this didn't just pop up, this is amazing. - so back on the notebooks, i wanna talk a little bit about the process here, so you're a biographer of consequential figures, some modern and some historical. the process of writing a major biography of a consequential figure, obviously changes based on when they lived, and what material is available. now, we've said actually, weirdly, although you might think it would be harder to write a biographer of leonardo da vinci than steve jobs, steve jobs being a contemporary figure, and the assumption is that there's all kinds of primary source material available, you actually have the opposite view! - right, well, when steve jobs, i got so much time to talk to him, so if he's telling me about the original ipad, he'll talk about how he did what's called the chamfers and curves, to lift, i mean, he'd go on for

watching it on a smaller screen you really admire the narrative...ld in a way which is really complex and really crystalline. and actually i saw things in it on the small screen that i hadn't seen on the big screen. yes, the big—screen experience is still the primary one but it does work on the small screen, for different reasons. mark, good to see you as ever. interesting week. thank you very much. quick reminder before we go you can find more film news and reviews online. bbc. co. uk/markkermode. and all our previous programmes are on the bbc iplayer, of course. that is it for this week, though, enjoy your cinema going. bye bye. good evening. if you are going to bed and wondering what is going to happen tomorrow, a contrast. that is north and west. some heavy rain in scotla nd north and west. some heavy rain in scotland and wales. a chilly start in eastern areas. temperatures below freezing. patchy fog first thing in the morning. through the day, the rain goes south and east quickly. behind that, patchy fog in higher ground. brightness in scotland

form the narrative art of photograph the in between of photos how does a group of photos come together as how to use the space between photos to alight emotional responses from the audience and bring innovation and create bodies of work that narratively function the way that photos do san francisco as the commission came out and you visited me and one of their prerestricts was to find an art with enough work to fill a large says that a quad down the hallway downstairs and we hung that quad to feel like a train station that constant sensation from all different directions some of the major characteristic of the landscape festivities the blur of the train their 70 miles per hour and they're not perfect as opposed to to what landscape will look like it creates a dichotomy for people insides the train not just the story of the subject it is not just the visual design the composition juxtapositioning, etc. not just all autobiography boo-hoo it creates pictures with meaning within them and then some of the portraits feel awkward some of them feel welcoming and the person that mime making the

one narrative which is often classified for obvious reasons. as the narrative of venture smith. it was not processed by anyone. it came from one person's life and mouth. he was born and raised in west africa in a village called duke and dara. it gives you a really rich sense of perspective. what i'm trying to do with this book here is the british show. here is the african intro. you're putting these puzzle pieces together and ultimately then you have the sense anyway kaleidoscopic sense of what it was at the time. he is a board in a cattle camp which is a where they have he was of the child of a local prince. they invaded the village. he was taken captive but not before witnessing the torture and killing of his father. he is taken with others to the coast of what is now ghana and there is another army. he is transferred to them. and it is a town where it was one of the towns where there was the slaves. he was held there. it happened that the ship that was in her at this time called the charming susanna was from newport rhode island. with 86 other slaves and he lucked out in one

and we did a lot of organizing around this reconstructing narrative business. and inpart because i was still in the middle of the matrix that was doing this , i had this sense that we had rewritten the narrative, but nobody knew it. outside of specific arenas. because there was no accessible overview that presented the totalization that we had come up with. and it made it accessible in plain language forordinary full . so with useful insouciance, i set out to write the history of the united states, not new york but the whole of us of a. i enlisted my colleague ted burroughs, a graduate student with whom i've done along on this, short is in my way. the american revolution. and we set out to do this in a narrative style with footnotes and arguing and explaining the debates and discussions and we are at loggerheads, etc.. and we worked on this for several years and had many hundreds of pages and it looked like we had gotten out of the 17th century which we had not. because we were telling the story and the perspective of the european imperial expansion, capitalism

narrative, narrative of a narrative. we constructed documentaries in acts, something most documentarians had not been doing. on commercial television you had a lot of documentaries that were like nbc white paper, abc -- i forget with the series is called. they were mostly surveys. they were not actual stories really had characters you can follow. -- where you had characters you can follow. that was an element that was emphasized at gbh. i know at american experience because as we were talking before, you want to hear from as many people as possible as close to the subject as possible and construct it very carefully to have a story arc. what happened next? what happened after that? >> let's point out then public television is a real innovator of this character driven story model that now the standard expectation for documentary. >> i think so. i don't want to take credit for it as i did not invent the narrative style. it was something that was wgbhced wholeheartedly by and they gave all of us the resources to figure it ou

the reality is that that narrative was certainly overblown.haryl: rossello told us that narrative had something to do with the serious fiscal crisis puerto rico has been fighting in recent years. some saw zika, he says, as a way to get precious funds from u.s. taxpayers. of $1.6 billion tax dollars the u.s. devoted to the zika fight, the cdc says more than $47 million was sent to puerto rico. gov. rossello: i think it was a narrative that was trying to build up also that we can get some additional funding for puerto rico. the reality is, i think it came back to bite us, because if you establish that narrative -- sharyl: you lost tourism. gov. rossello: we lost tourism. sharyl: in all, it's estimated puerto rico lost $100 million in hotel room revenue in 2016 due to the zika scare. another $100 million when you factor in lost food, beverage, and excursions. rodrigo masses leads a nonprofit association of puerto rico's manufacturers and service industries. rodrigo: i personally don't know anyone with zika. and i don't know anyone who knows someb

shifting narratives coming out of real twin yemen t.v. channels identical in name ideologically opposed in nature humanitarian effects overshadowing geo political costs and a saudi charm offensive that seems to be working and there's a lot to the yemen story on and more than the media on either side have given you know you know. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers tarakan off tarak according to the washington post's calculations in his first three hundred eighteen days in the white house donald trump has tweeted about fake news one hundred fifty five times that's roughly once every forty eight hours and it turns out he is not the only american who sees the u.s. news media that way clearly not richard on media trust by points out as nearly half of americans forty four percent say that the media for. stories about donald trump if you talk to trump supporters that figure rises to seventy seven percent and more than two thirds of americans sixty nine percent say that the media tend to

have been here for a total of 11 years i did not quite heavy device through which i could weave a narrative because we had such a short amount of time here , so the major events in american history i could not connect our family history so i had to ask what we can do to allow me to fully express myself in the context of american history and we had stumbled upon this divisive economic, so the rust belt in buffalo new york. my family's westward migration, my mother ended up with a position at biotech startup in seattle took seattle was booming with technology, microsoft at that time was a large company. still is, but at that time it had a scorching growth rates, so connecting all of that over 11 years into this essay gave me a perspective on american history that i didn't have before and i got this from a notable historian and it served me well pure going forward, however, the gold rush of the internet was hugely a lorene in seattle and san francisco at the time and i had been lucky enough to participate in the gold rush at least as a early employee at some companies and then as a founder of

why are they driving this narrative. spokesman, sarah sanders said this is not happening. >> we have gone from fake news to fake firing, david. what part of there's no intention to fire mueller does the left not get. i think really they are desperate right now. they are desperate with their message because all we hear is identity politics. they are desperate with the fact that they don't want any of the good news coming out of this administration to make the headlines. look at what the economy is doing. look at what the companies -- what the lower tax cuts will be able to reinvest in their companies and their employees, giving out bonuses. they don't want to talk about the good that is coming up. but what they are also doing is deflecting from all of the bias that we have heard within the fbi administration,. >> david: i have known you for years, you are good on messaging, you understanding what works, what doesn't. there is a huge story today. does mueller or the firing or predicted firing, whatever you want to call it,

one of the central narratives of this race had been fake news and liberal media putting forth a narrative that was untrue about roy moore. was that not repudiated in alabama? does this affect the president going forward? >> the exit polls were reflective of pro trump voters. high 90s that people who voted for moore -- >> and they didn't believe the allegations. >> it played into the narrative, absolutely. >> for the african-american voters who came out in the droves, again, showing that they will not be swayed by that kind of narrative -- >> he was a bad candidate. at the end of the day -- >> beyond that, it's beyond that. there is something happening with liberals. there is something happening with the left. you had people staying home, but we had people showing up. this was a imiracle. what happened tonight was not supposed to happen. you saw women and black women pulling alabama into the 21st century. it was amazing. >> jones did not talk about donald trump in his victory speech or roy moore. he did not talk about steve bannon. >> this entire race has been about dignity and respect. th

remember obama administration narrative from cia, al qaeda's decimated. one of the things they told us for years is al qaeda has 50 to 100 fighters. this number remained constant for six years straight. >> i've heard that a lot. >> and here, without even having the bin laden documents, i'm reading international security system force, which has now become resolute support, they're launching attacks and issues press releases on al qaeda members who have been kill canned in afghanistan. one particular raid killed 50 guys. the question is there now zero to 50? we see this all the time. we compile this information. we map where these raids took place. so this is what's going on outside of the bin laden files. low and behold in october 2015 -- and the other thing the defense department intelligence said was al qaeda's confined to northeast afghanistan, minimal presence outside of there. this is up to 2015 when we conducted a raid in kandahar province in southeastern afghanistan. they killed around 200 al qaeda fighters. in this one raid alone >> so that's negat

the american narrative is being re-evaluated. history is not written by the victors.it's written by the victims. and during the course of time, if that history allows for those who were disenfranchised or confined or discriminated against or powerless to rise up within that society, in those positions of power they begin to re-evaluate that narrative. women over the last 50, 60 years have experienced unprecedented wealth and education and upward mobility. 60% of college enrollment today is women. 40% is male. so, there's new female power clash that has emerged and they are re-evaluating the social norms that we used to turn away from, tush a blind eye to and they are saying we will step forward and begin to rewrite this narrative going to the future. the problem, because it's a double-edged sword is if it becomes so large and credibility to suspicion. and that's the greatest concern that i see happening with all of this. >> dr. carson? >> well, you know, things between men and women have been going on since there were men and women, you know. in terms of whether it's,

guest: they can visually tell the narrative. even if their videos get taken down, they can regenerate and be put on other places. they do everything from two minute highlight reel clips to video on the street type of video. they are attuned with visually telling the narrative, because for the young people they are trying to reach out to, they will not read a 100 page book but will watch a three minute video. host: haroon ullah is the author of the book that is the topic until 9:00. we invite our viewers to call in with your questions and comments. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 how long have you been studying this digital battlefield? guest: probably too long in some ways. alwaysinteresting that i thought about what drives young people toward extremism. i grew up in rural america in a small town, and grew up intellectually curious. and lookuld see haroon at me and say, what is going on in the middle east? i would say, i don't know. i drive a truck. i play tennis in baseball.

watching it on a smaller screen you really admire the narrative...ple narrative but it is told in a way which is really complex and really crystalline. and actually i saw things in it on the small screen that i hadn't seen on the big screen. yes, the big—screen experience is still the primary one but it does work on the small screen, for different reasons. mark, good to see you as ever. interesting week. thank you very much. quick reminder before we go you can find more film news and reviews online bbc. co. uk/markkermode. and all our previous programmes are on the bbc iplayer, of course. that is it for this week, though, enjoy your cinema going. bye bye. good evening. it's been a misty, murky, grey day out there. across many parts of the country. this was the view in cumbria. we had similar views across many parts. tomorrow should promise a bit more in the way of sunshine. we've still got some cloud and drizzle towards the south which should clear away over the next few hours. clearer skies and light winds, so quite a chilly night. the dicey to stre

he is maintaining putin's narrative, and that narrative is we should all get along. the question -- but this brings us back to papadopoulos real quick. when this conversation started with him, as he was bragging about what they wanted to do getting hillary clinton's e-mails, you once again have to come back to that question we always ask in the u.s. intelligence committee -- why? what is the motivating factor that all of these players wanted with russia? what is it that they get from russia that is going to be given to them, whether it's financial, ideological, or personal that made them go through and go from an ambition to conspiracy? >> right. rick, very quickly, back to the gop, and how will this new information revealed by the united states, papadopoulos really kind of shared this information with the australian diplomat, to australian intelligence and back to the u.s., prompting this investigation -- how is that going to change the gop strategy in its efforts to discredit mueller's team now? >> well, look, they're going to say that the coffee boy gets drunk at

protect your narrative and the people that are protecting you ok i mean i'm not on television because of my pretty face ok i'm on television for a very different reason but when i look at the cable stations i think that it's more they can read the teleprompter probably better than i can because i'm off a lot of even after all these years i mean that's what it is i mean it's advocacy and it least you know and this n.b.c. is open about it and i respect that and fox is open about and i respect that but everybody else you know they like to pretend that they're journalists they're not i mean it's claptrap really what they're going after go ahead charles and peter go to let me go to charles with one thing i would say is that where i get my news in addition to you know your channel and other places one of the best sources for news i like is your own hedge yeah and that's a that's an independent. channel for news that does a really good job of getting out ahead of the curve not only within our. providing you access to source documents another one is free republic dot com both do the same thin

>> buck: creates a total narrative shift. the other vulcans going into the midterms say we do stuff, we have points on the board giving the american people back when he come the economy. we want to work with democrats. we would like to find some way to do more good stuff like tax cuts, like tax reform for the american people. democrats run around screaming about russia and collusion and impeachment in all of that, that's not going to get anybody who was a persuadable voter or anyone who was on the fence to vote for them in the midterms. it forces democrats in the early stages, i think he said it was corrective fall apart if they try to work with republicans. they can get more agenda items through. >> kennedy: infrastructure is an area where for libertarians like kat and i, gives us the vapors. you end up spending so much money which we simply don't have right now, but the idea of spending free money is so intoxicating for democrats. how can your party possibly resist the president reaching out with a giant infrastructure plan

narrative we should be thinking about. and usual foreign affairs that has been hitting the headlines in sweden after coming to the help of those in need. let's just let it all or asterisk very patient. fertile. while we're talking we don't just another patient in the street and the crowd is signaling to. the people saying hi our vehicle asked us to stop and point you to the man lying on the ground. to turn. no but he had had an epileptic attack planned all he could to give him first aid. we waited for a local ambulance to common and handed the patient over to our colleagues. some people took speakers of us without hesitation one girl from the house and you took a picture not with us again we do it our ambulance was a little slow to see the. head of the twenty eighteen feet for world cup in russia he has spoken to the italian coach of spot moscow he shared his views on football philosophy and his experience of living in the russian capital you can hear that it wasn't going up what you thought those were the better. stuff th

that you have with that is they are off the original narrative that donald trump as candidate trump was colluding with the russians to throw the election. what we found out is that the election was actually -- the conspiracy was between the dnc, hillary clinton and the f.b.i. to prevent trump from becoming president trump. the witch hunt narrative, when he says that they have expanded their investigation, that's exactly the problem. they aren't investigating the trump campaign anymore. they are going off willy-nilly anywhere they can and that's what happens with special counsel investigations can't keep focus. rod rosenstein is not keeping them focused. the people on the team have an agenda. it was to bring down president trump. that didn't work really well so now they are expanding and getting things like lying to the f.b.i. so what they do is bring in a person, you grill them for hours one day, grill them for hours the next day and the next thing you have inconsistencies and becomes a lie to the f.b.i. i don't know why that's a crime necessarily but it is a crime and that's how th

there is a powerful narrative going on across the united states. i've been experiencing this for a generation but there is a strong narrative in the conversations you had with families were they disappearing or hopeful? >> really good question. i felt like what i heard was fundamentally optimistic. one family in particular. he was planning on starting a a masters degree next september. a lot of work was going into the upward mobility and she was so intense on keeping her credit score i. they are linked in my mind people that were experiencing trouble with credit and one had declared bankruptcy and the other part of that they were both nonetheless working towards a better life and sarah in particular said life is not only about the money, like my life is going well, my kids are good, my husband is dead to become good, life is fulfilling and satisfying and work as well we just never look at these numbers and think about that. that's one of the pieces that was powerful. she said that his own, the trade-off of two budget effectively and be on top of he

erik: this narrative is a strong one. ken: which narrative? erik: the qualcomm narrative.u think shareholders will be persuaded by these arguments? ken: i would not be involved with the transaction if i didn't. believe the transaction itself is self-evident estimates positives. erik: you love talking about the deals you are involved in. i will ask you about one more, recognizing it is a sensitive issue. that is aramco. the saudi's have said they are on the record as saying they expect this deal to happen in the fourth quarter of 2018. leslie that there for a moment. the question is, how important is the oil price, the level of the oil price to the decisions you as an advisor and the saudi's as the client make about the transaction? ken: on this when i will actually say i cannot talk about it. there is enough -- there are certain things that were not talk about. i apologize. erik: i ask, you answer if you can. the conventional wisdom is your firm and firms like yours, boutiques, independent investment banks were some of the biggest winners out of bank regulation. it leaves

this coherent alternative narrative that end up solving the mystery i'd been going for all along. >> so i have about a million more questions for these guys but i want to open it up in case anybody here has some questions for them. so, if you have a question and you want to couple the mic up here, you're welcome to. it's your chance to be on booktv. no one wants to give that up. you have a question, sir? >> sure. i have a question for mr. blum. i think part of the your book's appeal or shock value was the fact that these were all-american boys in the u.s. military doing armed bank republicry but that didn't come as any surprise to mitchell uncle's unit in korea -- before he went to korea, 111th 111th airborne had all the private ubels taken from from enlisted troopers and only commissioned officers can keep them because they'd been going on a bank-robbing spree, knowing they were going korea next. >> what's your question for mr. blum? >> so, the question i have about the book, after reading it, i is about you and your family and why nobody in your family ever, from what i read in the

well, today he pushed back on the doom and gloom narrative. quote, remember, republicans are 5-0, this is trump. the media refuses to mention. this i said gillespie and moore would lose, and they did. i also predicted i would win. republicans will do well in

, false narrative that this is a war of religion. i mean, this is really a conflict that involves -- chris: but tweets are antimuslim, muslim violence. he was making it. >> those who adhere to this ideology are really irreligious criminals that use perverted, what the president called wicked interpretation of religion in an effort to recruit young oppressional people to their cause, toment -- to foment hatred and we have to break the cycle, hatred, violence, we are defeating daesh in caliphate -- chris: isis. >> isis, 95% of territory that was controlled by them has been taken back and the other thing the president said to do is to cut off financing and defeat wicked ideology and we are working with allies and partners across the world and especially majority muslim countries to do this in unprecedented days. chris: it's been widely reported that the president is going to declare this week that jerusalem is the capital of israel although he's not going move to embassy. between that and the antimuslim videos that he retweeted, aren't