david rubenstein talks dealmaking and 2014. meet the robots that help gravity in our weeklong design series. we are kicking off with a big reveal -- twitter -- surfers have enjoyed the clever musings of@gs elevator. there were comments on the goldman sachs elevator such as -- there is no way your guess is as good as mine. part of the appeal came from the mystery, who is this mystery goldman sachs employee? we know. "the new york times" reported it was not an employee at all and was never in a goldman sachs elevator. he is a 44-year-old x bond executive. he started the account is a joke. last month, he sold the book about wall street culture based on thosetweets for six figures. the goldman sachs response was that -- nice to see everyone has a sense of humor here. wall street can get on with the business of making money and that comes at a price. jpmorgan chase it would eliminate 8000 jobs at its consumer and mortgage banking units this year because falling demand for mortgage refinancing. the reductions would bring the staffing

on walking along rubenstein street. we all have russian carts and fields but given these bottles of syrup they called it was sort of like sweetened water with real cool when you well someone dropped the bottle you threw up out of all for smashed i'm also to the ground and she will swear this happened i saw it with my own eyes. the people were crawling around trying to make what they could off the ground with the words used to warm. to people feel the fear. in a vampire they bombed the day of ski warehouses the fire lasted for a few days it was awful the fire was huge the whole of living grad could see it if it was the main storage place for all the food in the city. so much that the entire storage facility was leveled to the ground zero people were eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't it was nothing else to eat some. people ate that dad brought home some glue were afraid at first but then mom boiled that healing and it turned into jelly we ate it with vineg

three of them monday was a fishmonger next to us on the rubenstein street for word while we were free to take up several kinds of study trying to ferry the world with the shoe pyramids or virtually every or crab or on display what are the would if the shops were always full of goods and only knew from the moment one day mum went and we'd sold it all the shelves were empty all. things disappeared like that in a flash. but after that they started the food rationing. this is terrible were threatened with starvation we only have one hundred twenty five grams of bread but soon we'll only have bread crumbs a famine is coming a real one. there hasn't been a single day that i felt. you leave the table still feeling as though you want to eat. mom asks me are you full i say of course i am. because i don't want to upset or. i don't think we can survive we will never eat properly again. at least we still have run mom makes flat bread from it it's not very filling but at least you feel as though you have something in your stomach for a little while at least. for the dad brought us to run that it's

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international studies and a scholar at the middle east institute also in washington we have richard rubenstein he is an author and a university professor of conflict resolution and public affairs at george mason university and in berlijn we cross to christophe horsetail he is a government consultant and publicist or magellan crosstalk roles in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it richard if i go to you first in washington you know coming out of the geneva conference there looks like it was a planned failure because no one was on the same page the u.s. went there were demanding regime change and the assad people said hey we showed up who are we going to talk to there was no one to talk to this was a planned failure. well i don't know if i would call it a plan failure but i think it was i think it was fated to fail. because it was so focused on issues of power. which we knew the parties disagreed about. the united states may have wanted regime change. or russia wanted the rebels to be called terrorists or the certainly assad regime did . and that sort of

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international studies and a scholar at the middle east institute also in washington we have richard rubenstein he is an author and a university professor of conflict resolution and public affairs at george mason university and in berlin we cross to christophe horsetail he is a government consulting.

i spoke to david rubenstein who you heart jeff zients-- people say he is great, but.ever heard anyone say a bad thing about jeff. mark zuckerberg said he was thrilled to hear of the appointment. -- what theys they think that he will be able to do is use the convening power of the nec office to bring business leaders into the room and make them stakeholders in the president cost agenda private -- president's agenda. >> let's check some top stories that we are following. president obama will ask congress for 300 million dollars to update the nation's roads and railways. he will make the request later this afternoon in a reach. the federal transportation budget is forecasted to go broke. sony will let go 1000 jobs. they will also close 20 u.s. stores as they face slowing demand for tvs and personal computers. paula deen is planning to build . restaurant next to dollywood it is the first project: dean adventures. as part of her comeback effort. she was embroiled in controversy last year over her use of racial slurs. that is a look at the top stories. food and beverage com

rubenstein endowed, part of a $7 million gift.nds nearly alone in shoring up institutions generally under the purview of the federal government, about 200 million of the 300 million away has been what he calls patriotic giving. this is a little bit of the "new article this morning. hugeubensteen is also a sponsor of the library of congress' national book festival every year that c-span covers and book tv covers. book tv, tomorrow, 48 hours of nonfiction books beginning at 8:00 a.m. on c-span 2. it's every weekend, 48 hours, nonfiction books. there's the website. book tv.org. tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. the monuments men will be joining us for a call-in program. so if you're interested, see the movie, if you're interested in the topic of the monuments men you can join us at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning and talk with of theedsel, the author original monuments men. he's got an interesting story, background is also very interesting as well. every weekend, 48 hours of american history. so you can go to c-span 3 beginning tomorrow morning at

he had a criminal record of working for a coupon when i lived in chicago has jacob rubenstein.he is the button man for the mob. they ask you to believe he had no known connection cannot did he merely felt bad about mrs. kennedy's flight. in fact, if you go to youtube, you can see actual footage of jack ruby told down the hallway and reporter shouts out jack, jack, how could this have? if at the stevenson were vice president cummins never would've happened. what do you mean? sorties they? look at the man in here now. the man at the top of the mets lyndon. senator barry goldwater note was lyndon johnson. robert kennedy knew it was lyndon johnson. robert kennedy sent an emissary, an artist whose a friend. one of the first openly men in america. she goes to the soviet union, give him a message from the kennedys. they say we know jack kennedy -- john kennedy was killed by domestic conspiracy. two, they said dallas was the perfect place for the crime and three, the elevation of lyndon johnson is unfortunate a grievous problem. robert kennedy tells his assistant, i know exactly what h

the center's chairman david rubenstein is donating $50 million as the project's lead gift. >>> a traffic mess for some driver drivers today after a car skidded off of a maryland road into the creek. what we are learning about that vehicle tonight. >>> and a maryland mother whose son died of an overdose shares her story with us. this is chris gordon in annapolis, and why she came here today hoping to save lives. >> and meet virginia's newest million nashgs 4." >>> knew at 4:00, powder mill road and belchfield is open after an accident that ended with a car in the creek. police tell us that the wrecked vehicle was stolen and the driver is not in police custody at the time. the police were called to the scene of the accident at 10:00 this morning, and they told us that the driver lost control of the vehicle and skidded off of the road, and there are no reports of any injuries. >> take a look at a this just released police surveillance video of a bank robber who rode a bike to the bank. they say that loudoun county sheriff's office say that he robbed a bank in sterling plaza at 12:45 tuesday

rubenstein senior fellow and director of the program on energy security and climate change at the council on foreign relations. he was previously nonresident science and technology fellow at the foreign-policy studies at brookings and the director of the federatifederati on of american scientists are teaching security projects. he is the author of the power surge, energy opportunity in the battle for america's future. on nuclear terrorism and the future of arms control. he received a bachelor of science with honors from queens university in kingston in mathematical physics and his ph.d. is from the university of london. treat please join me and walk coming our authors. [applause] >> our format this evening is going to be a little different than usual. i'm going to start by asking a few questions and then we will turn it over to the audience. michael, elizabeth it's nice to have both of this evening. i would like to start by setting the stage for us. why did you read write this particular book a book that looks at china's quest for resources so broadly from the minerals to food and energy

cristina alesci had a chance to sit down with david rubenstein. markets cannot be ignored by investors. markets, this is in the misleading phrase. 85% of the people on the globe live in the emerging markets. of the gdp of the world, 55% of the gdp of the world is the emerging markets. you cannot ignore them because they're small little countries. these are gigantic economic powerhouses like china. there was deal be ups and downs and the fluctuations might be greater but the greatest growth will be in emerging markets. if you avoid them, you will be left with little areas to avoid. i think india has great potential, brazil is an attractive place. south africa, nigeria, others in sub-saharan africa. these are countries of great potentials and their growth rates will not only be high so we have very little private equity penetration. the private equity penetration in sub-saharan africa is one 20th of the u.s. and therefore less competition. accommodation of factors, high growth rates, glowing -- growing this helps., i would not say put it in all of t

we will speak to david rubenstein, founder of the carlyle group.0 cet. >>> some of the other stories we're looking at today, as well, president obama will meet privately with house speaker john boehner at the white house. it's the first time they've done so since december 2012. neither side will say what they're going to discuss, but the meeting comes after a year when congress and the president couldn't agree on much. it will salso comes a week befo president obama's budget proposal. >>> a record snowfall resulted in more than $1.5 billion in insured losses so far. that makes this winter one of the top five costliest since 1980. losses included collapsed roofs, broken pipes from freezing and car accidents. despite the brutal weather, investors say numbers are well within what investors are planned for this year. >>> ukraine's interim president says the country has delayed forms its new government until thursday. the original deadline was for today. ukraine's currency weakened in today's trade as investors worried about the potential of an eu/imf b

business, itw's industrial packaging business and of course, as you all saw with our ceo david rubensteintunities. just in the mcdonald's results this morning you saw the strength of the global markets and their results. we see the same opportunities. europe emerging markets and particularly china. we invested over a billion dollars both in china and in europe last year, because we see the same kinds of opportunities. pockets of growth, sometimes masked by an overarching view that things aren't so good and for us, that's a great time to invest. >> is it safe to say -- i was kidding. those were yours. >> those are ours. >> i stole them right from what i was reading, those weren't mine although i agree, i think you're short smart. in europe, is it safe to say suddenly spain looks better to you than france? because spain has been through more and are they actually doing some things structurally with trying to deal with the labor issue? >> it is in fact a great place to invest right now. >> really? >> we're seeing the uk and germany move into real strength to strength. italy and spain through