as the title suggests his pro-files is a prominent political career such as whittaker chambers, ronald reagan and consider hitchens among many others and prose into into the ports that let these men from the last to the right. rick perlstein author of the invisible bridge celebrates oppenheimer for the exceptional wisdom, discernment and your edition in this book. hayling oppenheimer as a political -- for the ages. an excelling portrayal of personal torment and cause to its subjects in the transitional struggle. and insightful narrative that -- it inspires soul-searching among political believers of every stripe. the daniel oppenheimer. [applause] >> thank you for being here today. this is really exciting and want to thank politics and prose. i think it's a right of passage for political writers in particular to do with reading here. it's exciting for me. before i get started just want to say one or two more things. one is to my wife jessica who is here today, who is sort of a part of the book in more ways than i can articulate. i tried to get at it a little bit innate knowledge meant

the first is whittaker chambers who is this structure born in 1901 on april fools' day 1901. he was a communist writer a communist fiction writer in the way 20s and early 30s. he was tapped bye bye the underground to be a spy. he ran a number of spy rings in new york and d.c.. towards the end of the 30s he had a real profound crisis, broke with the party came out the other side and worked on the magazine. he wrote a lot of anti-communist material and he wrote this autobiography called witness about his journey with william f. buckley. the conservative magazine in 1950s chambers was tapped to be one of its founding editors and was a big influence on bob we and on generations of conservatives. the next one is a guy named james byrne and was raised in a very affluent family in a wealthy suburb of chicago went to princeton went to england on the scholarship came back to new york in 1929 and thought that he was going to be, have a job that would later be and why you and that is going to to devote his life to writing about philosophy he was kind of a product in the 1920s in that se

whittaker was over two inches. mount tam, the watershed, i've seen three, three-and-a-half inches.gurnville coming up on two and a half inches. so consistent, steady rain. more on the way tonight and tomorrow. the flood watch remains in effect for basically the entire bay area through sunday, through sunday in the evening. at any point we've got these storms and we could see some urban and small stream flooding. up at gurnville we've got that flood warning for the russian river which pretty much transpires when the river should go above or at flood stage. the forecast models have that on saturday morning, or saturday kind of midmorning. and then the flash flood warning down in pen grove, that goes away in the next couple of hours. it's raining hard now and hammering your afternoon commute. just coming into work it was messy, and that's an off commute time. there's red lines. you know that's bad. red lines all over the bay area. look at oakland, san ramon. those yellow areas representing rainfall rates half inch an hour, .7 of an inch an hour. it's really coming down hard. as we hea

jonathan: martin whittaker, thank you for joining us.of hours away from the market open, matt miller, you got the market movers? matt: i want to look at a couple of movers. one of them, stephanie suggest we check out apple before they go in front of congress. they are up a little less than 1% in the premarket. more interest in you take a look at apple year to date, they are down still 8%. over theok at apple full previous 12 months, they are down about 25%. rough time. had a apple investors of had a rough time it. you can see the one-year chart, they have lost substantial, a couple of hundred billion dollars in market cap. take a look at dollar tree. they came out with earnings that missed on sales slightly, missed on earnings slightly. and their first-quarter forecast was a range in which the top end is with the street is looking for. investors don't like that, shares are down about 6% in the premarket. but they are pretty unchanged if you look year to date or over the full year. sun edison is a very different story. the medicine is fac