And Cornell University provided the booknotes. And now a few words shes a specialist in history and art and reserved her undergraduate from harvard and phd from columbia university. Shes been a recipient in the Fulbright Foundation and columbia university. The dean at the school of undergraduate studies at the school of Public Engagement for which i am extremely grateful. Shes doing an amazing job. And before i close, one of the reasons i accepted the invitations to open this event is she never gave me a job that i applied for but it was to be her driver around france visiting chateaus and castles. I dont think she took me seriously but it was great and ive disappointed you didnt take me up on the offer but nonetheless, congratulations. Its been an incredible piece. Im looking forward to reading it. Please come up. [applause] thank you, everybody and especially tim. As i explained at the time the reason that job went to somebody else is it points to a scotsman that promise to wear a ki
This hour of markets now. Connell governor christie wrapping up a news conference, so we are ready to go on markets now. Dagen you were treating last night. Connell people staring at these devices. We will talk that in a minute. Now to the market first of all before we get through any of that, Nicole Petallides, good morning. Nicole good morning, connell and taken. We started off with a very tough job this morning, less than anticipated coupled with Participation Rate, the challenges of 1977. The economy is not as good as people thought it was. The dow is in the negative territory right now. 16,014. The nasdaq higher slightly. Most of the names have down arrows, some squeezing out some gains. Take a look at intercepts, pharma up 300 . On a Liver Disease drug, tacking on further gains. Back to you. Dagen the jobs report last month was terrible. People were expected the fewest number we have seen in less than three years. The Unemployment Rate did fall to lowest since october, 2008. That
School was happy place. Reporter its a Program Designed to give kids a head start in life but a half century after it began some people are questioning whether it should continue. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy Chris Christie is doing serious damage control and 24 hours after a bridge scandal threatened to derail his promising political career the normally contentious governor held a press Conference Thursday apologizing saying the buck stops with him but christie said he did not have any knowledge of the scheme to close lanes on the busy George Washington bridge and learned of the top aids political vandetta wednesday morning and fired two for their roles but it doesnt end with his apology and the u. S. Attorney a job christie once held announced a federal investigation is now underway and erica has more and erica we may learn more about the different roles people played in the scandal today. Absolutely, that is right, new Jersey Assembly will release
That down first trading day and expect us to turn around. What is the real story on this economy . Is it on the upswing . Or was that a jobs number foreshadowing were in for a rough patch. Some warning we got ahead of ourselves and things could be dicey. Well try to separate the fact from the fiction. Yes, we will. Youre welcome, america. And it turns out that if you shop at target, your private information may be more of a target than we knew before. That stock is lower today as we learn the Security Breach is much wider, the information even more personal. Up to, is this possible, 110 Million People affected, email, street addresses, names and phone numbers all hacked. Is enough being done to make sure this doesnt happen again at any stores . Were going to cover this incredibly important story coming up for you. Take a look across the major indexes. At the moment the dow is off 40 points or a quarter of 1 . The nasdaq is trying to buck the trend. It is just slightly positive adding a
Taxes all that continues. Meetings between the gang offing eight and white house negotiators broke down. All that and more coming up on the kudlow report beginning right now. Good evening, everyone im larry kudlow. This is the cut low report. You heard my interpretation of todays speeches. John kerry talked tough in a stroke and brilliant speech. President obama on the other hand seemed to walk it back. Lets go cnbc john harwood. Hes live in washington for us this evening. First of all, thank you, john and second of all, good evening. What can you tell us . Reporter i dont think president obama was walking back those remarks from john kerry. They had different missions. We saw an acceleration of a momentum for a military strike on syria. John kerry came out saying the u. S. Had evidence that syria had weapons to kill 1400 people. President obama tried reassure the American People that any u. S. Response would not be open ended like the war in iraq. Without considering any open ended co