Ahead of most of the earnings. Generally seen declines across the board in a pretty broadbased decline as well. The dow has been a performer recently, but its facing declines and other major averages today. As a result, if you take a look at the bloomberg, were looking for the worst single day for the dow in about seven weeks. The realm of same for the s p and especially the monastic as well. At least at the lives of the session for today. Just a. 5 decline, its been a while since weve seen a drop like this. If you look at the worst percentage decline in the dow, only one of them has directly to do with earnings. And that is boeing. The company delivered a Record Number of planes and earningspershare beat estimates, however, one of the things that holding it back is the fact that its that is been developing for the u. S. Air force has been delayed already is delayed again and cost rose 329 million, and sales also fell in boeings commercial division in boeing as of about 65 year to date
Officials are getting ready to discuss the upcoming negotiations. Were live at the Wilson Center in washington. The program is expected to start at any moment. Youre crazy and no one is going to come and maybe this is sort of important enough. Maybe our existential questions will bring an audience and we had the idea bringing the mexicos negotiator ken smith to come, and it was a cheeky question, and he said yes, this is extraordinary and ken said last week, i dont think i can do it. So i apologize for misleading you. It was not intentional, but we have got an absolutely fabulous panel for you nonetheless. And let me just run through very quickly from left to right, as i see it, fred burkeson, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for international economics. Thank you for being with us. Its great you agreed to provide a repost to some of the mexican perspectives near. Very welcome. And secondly francis, known to most of you here, currently a partner at white and case and previousl
Finance committee in about an hour. Well bring it to you live. Plus netflix boom ten years after launching its u. S. Streaming service. Netflix crushes earnings expectations. Not just its largest quarterly subscriber gain in history. And ecb leaving rates unchanged. Nasdaq futures pointing to a mostly flat open but dow on pace to drop for a fifth session in a row. First up, more trump cabinet picks heading to the hill for more confirmation hearings including Steven Mnuchin, president elects choice for secretary treasury to appear before Senate Finance in about an hour. Expected to be grilled on his role overseeing foreclosures while running one west which was indymac, also expected to be asked whether he agrees with weaker dollar policy, a lot to get to today. Look, i was involved with in indy mac, which he bought, people are willing to leave their homes before they leave their cars and it was the most reckless there was and they reamed me on it. And this guy went and bought indy mac a
Been involved in Court Selection process. Thanks for being our guests this week. Let me introduce lisa, congressional reporter from the Los Angeles Times, and the u. S. A. Today Supreme Court correspondent, richard. Lisa, you were up first. I think well open with attorney general Jeff Sessions big news this week, after the reports that he did in fact have some meetings with the Russian Ambassador and then of course decided to recuse himself from any potential federal investigation. I know that your group and others have called for more action beyond that. They want him to resign. Whats the difference here . Is recusal from any federal investigation enough or are there still those calling for resignation . So hes only recusing himself for a very limited purpose. And that is looking into being part of that investigation, into the 2016 campaign, before the election. Hes not recused himself for after the election. But it certainly brings into sharper focus his role as attorney general for
The cables do with leaders many of whom in place and an opportunity for someone who had been a diplomat and had lived the experience in serving in some of the countries in which the cables were written to comment on them and try to make sense and meaning of them for the public at large. Now, how long was your career in the Foreign Service and why did you want to become a Foreign Service officer, lets start with . I was hired in 1989 by the agency and i comb from the diplomacy line of work. The agencies was embolded and evolved into what ultimately cape the deputy chief of mission, the u. S. Embassy in prague which was my last assignment. But why did you want to be a Foreign Service officer . The students today that wanting to into the Foreign Service, they want to go abroad and make a difference. What motivated you . The same things that, i think, motivated my colleagues. A desire to service my country and also a desire to learn about the rest of the world, to experience foreign cultur