Continued pressure from abroad. And meeting facetoface, president obama and House Speaker john boehner sit down for a oneonone over the weekend. There are just three weeks left before the u. S. Goes over the fiscal cliff. Italian shares are down nearly 3 this morning. For the most part, it is bank stocks leading the way down. Were now down about 2. 76 on the ftse mib. Bank stocks have been hit particularly hard this morning. Earlier, we saw shares down 5. 6 . Were seeing the same thing, whether its bmps hitting session lows down nearly 6 comes amid concerns about leadership and economic reform in italy following mario montes announcement that hell resign once the budget has been passed. This move is likely to bring the country forward to elections next year. The italian Prime Minister has offered no clue as to whether or not he will run and it comes after Sylvia Berlusconi declared over the weekend he would throw his hat in the ring for the job of premier. Carolyn ross is in italy foll
Of countdown. Im anna edwards. Were going to bring you an exclusive interview later on. Richard holmes will be with us here exclusively to talk about the way that their business is performing and something a little different, a race that takes place every year here in london. Prorussian groups have hailed a large majority in favor of secession in a referendum they organized in Eastern Ukraine. The referendum was dismissed as legitimate by the government in kiev and its u. S. And european allies. Chris, thank you very much for coming to talk to us. What is your reaction, a shortterm reaction of developments over the weekend. No surprise. Those were organized and seemed to suggest for a strong voting in favor of independence. With this key is with the kremlin says and what president putin say in the next couple of days. That is what were waiting for. Thee starting was probably most critical two weeks in the whole of this crisis so far. In two weeks time we have got ukrainianles for the p
Is also the cofounder of such organizations as the National Womens political caucus and the womens media center, which focus on issues related to gender equality. Her remarks will be live monday at 1 p. M. Eastern on cspan three. Mrs. Johnson as first lady love to show off her home. The guests to the rents would often gathered here in the den and various heads of state came to visit. We do have a few things that speak to her connection to the room here. What of the things that she wanted to highlight was the native American Heritage here in the hill country and we do have a small collection of arrowheads over there. She had an eye for copper and collected various items through the years and had gifts from various friends. Mrs. Johnson gave a tour of the house in 1968 that was filmed where she featured the china that was purchased in mexico, very colorful. Spent a lotohnson of time here at the ranch. It provided a lot of respite from the turmoil of washington. First lady, lady bird john
In terms of blood, nearly 120,000 u. S. Troops paid with allies and another 20,000 were wounded. It was a dramatic dramatic conflict. To my second point, the media Lessons Learned after this conflict, its odd that this sort of idealism emerged, and this idealism trump sober pragmatism come and sort of a realistic assessment about the nature of man, the nature of the international system. We saw the league of nations form which tried to impose the domestic Structure International of domestic law internationally. We saw later in the 20s a aipac, 1928 which sought to outlaw war. Something, they could just outlaw. Within the United States, rather than sort of prepare for possibly there could be another major conflict, this is from a u. S. Army history, the war deparle urged congress to authorize the astonishment of permanent regular army, about a half a million, and threemonth the universal training system, and congress and the American People said no. Rather, not just meltdown, we tore do
Educate people some type of knowledge. Too many people while they are on the streets or sro hotels come here and stay here are literate. Ill iterate brings fear. You dont know nothing, the only thing is what you see and you dont understand it. Illiteracy is the first thing you run into. I often see how people say, i come to this city and i didnt know there was this many gay people here. This is San Francisco. Its things like this that we dont do a good job of bringing people into shelter. Let the education start there. The Library Shows people are there day and night to read. I love to walk around seeing people read rather than getting in trouble and trying to rape and rob. If we are going to be on that beacon hill, we need to know that we have to be illiterate untolerated city. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . All right. Thank you, mr. Whippel and ambassadors. Next up. Item no. 10. Tap care. Well be hearing from peter oconnel. Is there any possibility we can have whats on the lap