The a watch Katie Mcfarland with her book revolution trump, washington, and we the people stop sunday night 9 00 p. M. Eastern on after words on booktv. The u. S. Chief Technology Officer talked about Artificial Intelligence and competition from china, hosted by the Hudson Institute this is about 50 minutes. [inaudible background conversations] [inaudible background conversations] welcome everyone to our meeting on ai and advanced Quantum Information Sciences, quantum computing etc. Im pleased to have an opportunity to welcome michael kratsios, who has a thoroughly intimidating title of chief Technology Officer of the United States. I think weve come to the right place to engage this important subject. The administration has ttaken a very energetic position in trying to advance the stateoftheart and above the applications of Artificial Intelligence and the Quantum Information Sciences to our nondefense applications, there is a parallel effort of substantial scale in the department of d
After eating sevenmonth lows. Theproducers can halt recent slump. The latest trade data from china. The numbers will show how deeply the trade war is biting. Lets see how things are shaping up for asian markets. The s p went after through the largest recovery since december of 2018, we are seeing some modest gains in asia. Nikkei futures down, seeing the new zealand stocks up 0. 5 this is after new zealand, india, and thailand surprised with Interest Rate cuts. We are watching for a slew of Economic Data the big one is the china trade data, expecting exports and imports to decline. We saw some week pmi data before. Also, philippines Second Quarter gdp data will be coming out, it grew faster in the Second Quarter. Expecting japan currentaccount surplus data, expected to widen. We will also watching for singapore retail sales. Paul lets check in on the first word news. War isescalating trade seen pushing the economy toward a first recession in a decade. Larry summers says the risk in the
Donald Trump Campaign was in touch with russian officials who wanted to defeat Hillary Clinton. He revealed a former policy adviser has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contact with russian operatives. George papadopoulos is cooperating with prosecutors. Former campaign managerPaul Manafort and an aid charged with money laundering. And congressional tax writers considering a phase in for tax cuts. According to those familiar with the matter, they looked at a schedule that would slash Business Rates from 35 to 20 by 2022. The tax bill is that the be released tomorrow. And in spain, the Independence Movement in catalunya trying to find a way forward. Its a leader took off for belgium without telling senior party officials. They say he plans to seek asylum there. Majored has strengthened control of the Catalan Government and the Prime Minister has called for regional elections. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 coun
Eastern, here on cspan2. Thursday a talk on security challenges in the middle east. Former president of the American University in cairo Lisa Anderson delivered remarks at the center for strategic and international studies. That is live at 10 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. In both iraq and afghanistan, i helped both countries with their constitutions being sort of facilitator of agreement on key issues among afghans. The influence is considerable and has the government anxious to meet with you. Sunday night on q a. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan, iraq and the United Nations discusses this journey. We saw the extremist and how we corrected it toward the end of the period i was there by the surge and reaching out to the sunnis and building up iraqi forces and establishing a government to bring about security and violence was down. But unfortunately we left and the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers. A discussion on the book, the smartest places on earth, looks at innovatio
And europe revitalized their economy when manufacturing jobs moved overseas. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Morning, everyone. Hoping you are well. I am delighted to be here. This is being web cast and we will be taking questions later and they can cstart coming in now. It is my privilege to kick off the very a suspicious. This new book, the smartest places on earth, is just out and if i say so you should all rush to pick out a copy and i think we have come out beyond the back. On the way out, please do that. Also, it finds two experienced economic observers focusing not on the standards of the usual spin cycle but some of us think at brookings there are elements of national wellbeing. I find this a welcome corrective to the disembodied economic debates we specialize on here in washington. Yet none of this gets at the most auspicious aspect, the fact that antoine and fred have actual good news to deliver, imagine that. Good news. I think it is absolutely true, thoughtful, subtle brand