[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, please find a comfortable seat and before we begin i need to tell you that theyll be a book signing afterwards and its outside on table h and all the authors will be there with their books and let me introduce the speakers for today. The first speaker will be darrell pinckney, and then i dont know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. Yasmine el rashidi, the bottle of egypt, and important pieces for the new york review and lastly on my right, masha gessen who has written several books about russia, including the man without a mace, totalitariaism. We will be talking about immigration, theres so many different ways to address it. We will start with darryl. Oh, god, i cant ad lib so i will do something to read sorry. I dont know anything about immigration. You live with an immigrant, my boyfriend said but i think of you as englishman in new york just passing through, yes, im an immigrant
57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, this morning the anticipation in washington is palpable when fired fbi director James Comey Testifies before the senate committee. The key question will be did President Trump try to interfere in a criminal investigation. In an advance release of his openi ing statement, comey said mr. Trump demanded his loyalty and comey claims the president described the Russian Investigation as a cloud impairing his administration and asked what comey could do to lift the cloud. Weijia jiang is in washington with more. Weijia, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. James comey is said to have zero agenda when he testifies today and hes looking to provide a useful narrative during the questioning. But even his Opening Statement in his own words leaves plenty open to interpretation. In seven pages of opening remarks, former fbi director james comey reported numerous and uncomfortable interactions with
To stay after brexit. Haidi send in Senate Republicans launching a new health care bill. Anywhere. Uyers chinas most acquisitive dealmakers under scrutiny after 2016 overseas spending. Dont miss some of the big interviews coming up. We will talk to hong kongs incoming chief executive, carrie lam 10 minutes from now. Later, we will be joined by David Rubenstein, Carlyle Groups chief executive. Lets start off with the look at some of these companies doing a lot of business are broad, particularly last year. It got the attention of regulators. Lets bring up this chart and see what the reaction was by hna , fosun, and wanda. 10 billion of overseas acquisitions. Toulators stepping up scrutiny of these prolific buyers. Will there be any sanctions impose . Some people suggesting they may well be. The selloff of some of these Companies Taking place. On thursday. We have that and lots more as we limp towards the end of the trading week. Thats right. If you look at those four companies, accounti
If it closes up higher again today that will be eight days in a row of gains thats the first time the nasdaq would have done that since february of 2015 got a whole lot of earnings coming out that will very likely influence where we trade today look at the dollar dropping to a tenmonth low against a basket of currencies the euro rising above 1. 15 for the First Time Since maze of 2016 look overnight in asia the nikkei down by 0. 6 . Markets in china were higher with the hang seng up 0. 2 the shanghai up by 0. 3 . In europe, in the early trade, you will see dax is weaker down by a half percentage point. The cac is down by a third of a percentage point markets flat in london with the ftse sitting just fractionally higher lets get you through the big corporate story of the morning netflix shares soaring to new highs. The company added 5. 2 million new streaming customers in the Second Quarter thats 2 million more than wall street predicted most new subscribers came from foreign markets. T
Against the humanity of Chinese Government taking large numbers of practitioners and stealing their organs and selling for profit. For more than a decade of time the Chinese Government has been trying to try hard to push this persecution against theoutside the border of china. Rose pat rated huge role in the city of San Francisco to help to extend this persecution into this city. Im not here to talk about those packs personal political opinions aboutim talking about the biddings hate crimes taking place on the street of San Francisco. Im talking about the incidence and discrimination events taking place in our local society because of the effort of rose pat. So rose pat stewart is totally against the values which the city of San Francisco stands for. I know youre not congress. I know youre not the state department. China is far its on the other side of the Pacific Ocean but here in this case, its not a geographical instance of thats important. Its important the value of San Francisco.