I am the Vice President of the open Society Foundation that is hosting this event. And i should say, that we are going to talk to around 45 minutes, give or take. And that we have enough time for another 45 minutes of questions. Those questions that you would like to share with eric and maya and me should be sent to questions at open Society Foundations. Org. Questions and open Society Foundations. Org party can also do this by twitter. If you really need to, you can do it via facebook. We are recording this event. It is being live cast. And it is going to be quite a show. We have someone i have known and admired for a very long time, mile wylie is with us as a discussant. She has a very long time civil rights lawyer and activist, former chair of new york cities civilian Complaint Review board. Former Corporation Counsel to his honor, william de blasio, a University Professor at the school and ongoing legal analyst for both nbc news and msnbc. And so its a great pleasure, maya to be wi
Civilians these pictures as said to be the city of step on a hot weather been a regular explosions ben smith was there earlier hes now moved into armenia and sent this update from gold us this has been a very difficult day for the people to panic at the main city and they go on a tower about air raid sirens wailing throughout sunday morning the afternoon whilst we were there was a power of incoming missiles the targets seems to be mainly infrastructure in stop. And electricity substation that we were near to was one of the targets was hit or temps were made to hit it early in the morning. France has deployed the military to search for at least 8 people missing after devastating floods almost a years worth of rain fell in 12 hours around the city of nice cars in the villages washing away roads and houses 2 of those missing are firefighters whose vehicle was carried away by water when the road collapsed to during the rescue operation rescuers are also looking for a number of people in ne
Police 5 balls of protesters in hong kong on the day a local election was due to be held. And el salvadors popular president accused of offering favors to imprison gang members in exchange for election support. And im only a heart in all your sports news Serena Williams battles past Sloane Stephens at the u. S. Open shes still on course to equal the record 24 grand slam singles title. For the 1st time since he was shot repeatedly in the back by police and left paralyzed from the waist down weve heard a message directly from jacob blake in his hospital bed his shooting in the state of wisconsin has added to the anger right across the United States over racial inequality and Police Brutality protests which are still going on for more on that in a moment 1st reynolds report on blank slate. Well as i stand back state was speaking from a hospital bed jacob blake described his constant agony 24 hours every 24 hours as pain is not. Hers to breathe or hers. Move from side to side hers eat. Bla
I would like to welcome everyone, there might be big news today in american politics, but it aint nothing compared to this, which is so much bigger insignificance, and opportunity for us to celebrate eric alterman. With his new book lying in state why president s lie and why trump is worse we are going to spend, my name is Leonard Bernardo by the way, Vice President of the open society foundations, hosting this event, i should say that we are going to talk for around 45 minutes, give or take, then we have enough time for another 45 minutes of questions, those questions that you would like to share with eric and maia and me should be sent to questions opensocietyfoun dations. Org. You can also do this via twitter and you can also if you really need to, do it via facebook. We are recording this event. Its being live cast and its going to be quite a show. We have someone i have known and admired for a very long time, maia wiley with us as a discussant. Meyer, who is been a very long time
3386 is the number to watch for that s p 500 record close. 59 minutes until the close we have a big show coming up to day the s p 500 makes yet another run at that record close bob doll will tell us why he is expecting the economic recovery to be more choppy. And why hes cautious in the short term plus, gaming the impact of the dnc. Well speak with a policy expert who says this weeks Democratic National convention could be a negative for the market even though its happening virtually. Right now, were going to focus in on the big stories were watching to day. Bob pisani is tracking to days action we have the latest on growing tensions with china. And joining us with his outlook for stocks is tony dwyer bob, start us off with the Broader Market whats going on behind the scenes and whether you think we could see that record s p 500 close today. When you get this close within less than 1 he , you usuy can get over it. Were still not there. 3386 as you heard before is the old closing high t