Cspans washington journal recently conducted interviews with president s at universities in the big ten conference. Challenges facing Higher Education. Its about 50 minutes. This week, we continue our month long series of interviews with University President s in conjunction with the cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning, cspan bus is on the campus of penn state and University Park in pennsylvania. And joining us from the bus is penn states president eric barron. Good morning, sir. Good morning. To start with, being an educator yourself and overseeing a university, what would you say are the greatest challenges that you see when it comes to the topic of Higher Education . I think there are a lot of them. No one specific topic. Access and affordability. In making sure that students fully utilize the opportunities that are presented by a campus further their success in life. I think we have challenges and innovation after years of flatter, declining budgets, there are a lot of di
Hillary clinton. There are holes in her email release. Highly educated, but under employed. Handing out resumes at the train station. A jampacked monday for your money. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart we do like to give you something positive first thing on a monday morning. Look at that. By the way today is the sixth anniversary of the bull market. The dow has gained 11,300 points. That is an extraordinary rally. Dropping 4 in february. The ninth straight month they have gone down. Apple unveils the watch later on this afternoon. The stock is that 127 right now. If it had not been split seven one, it would have been 900 a share. How about General Motors. Rallying. They are doing a 5 billion stock i back. All right. Lets get to gas. The National Average for a gallon of regular down a fraction overnight. I repeat. Down. The first we have seen in a long time. Bring in patrick. Am i jumping the gun by saying that gas spike is over . I think that is a great point. Always first to
Hillary is losing the left. Apple joins the dow. Varney company the friday edition is about to begin. Why dont we take a look at the stock price of apple. It is up 2. Why is that . It will join the Dow Jones Industrial later this month. Apple is replacing at t. The iphone is in, marbella is out. Any doubts stock dow stock fund that you may have in your 401 k anywhere will now have to buy apple. That is why apple is up. Chances are many more people will now have an indirect ownership of apple stock. We have to check the big board. It is not pretty. Holding above 18,000. The reason it is down so much is that jobs report. If there was an encouraging top line the investors think the Federal Reserve janet yellen will not be keeping Interest Rates at zero for that much longer. Lets get to gas. Still going up. Not too much overnight. 245 is the average for regular. Thirtyeight Straight Days that gas has gone straight up. New information on Hillary Clintons email. It is from a group of white h
Thank you, madam chair. On want to get gavelled on. Well, you have 28 more seconds if you wish to continue. No. I will get some credit out of you. Oh, need your credit, thats true. Now were going to complete this first panel, which started a very long time ago, seems like yesterday. And were going to do it this way. Im going to give senator whitehouse take my two minutes. Senator vitter okay . Senate inhoff, senator sessions and then ill close. Everybody has two more minutes, okay . So lets start with senator whitehouse. Ill just take a little bit of my time to respond to senator sessions suggestions that one scientist says that Climate Change isnt really happening and that there really isnt an association with storms. And i just want to put that into context. There actually is a Peer Reviewed Scientific Consensus out there about this. It is massive. It is not unanimous. Sometimes is rarely unanimous. There are eccentrics. There are outliers. There are people who have nonmainstream opi
The district takes all complaints seriously and concerns seriously. The homework assignment sparking Death Threats at a california middle school. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. Ukraine could be teetering on the brink of war according to the foreign minister of germany, warning it is just a few stems away from a military confrontation. Dozens died outside of slovyansk. Thirty pro russian activists were killed in some of the countrys most intense fighting. Four ukrainian soldiers were killed as the army tries to regain control of Eastern Ukraine. As of this morning, the government shut down the airport in donetsk, meanwhile top diplomats are meeting for a peaceful solution to the crisis. Officials from the g7 nations are discussing decreasing dependence on Energy Supplies from russia. We have the latest developments. The ukraine again government is increasing combat readiness, announcing that many demonstrators who fought here on Independenc