Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im john allen, the president of brookings and on behalf of the institution and our partners at Service Year Alliance, i want to welcome you all to this important event today. I want to welcome those coming in over the webcast and of course we always welcome the media. This morning youll be hearing from a distinguished group of leaders and volunteers on the matter of National Service. Let me make a few brief comments to begin with. In such divided and turbulent times, we must look for ways to bridge society, to bridge the divides and to restore a sense of community. In recent years, much has been done, sadly, to burn rather than to build the bridges in our civic nation leading to a growing culture of fear and distrust, incivility, and a reflex to retreat into the safety of tribalism. Our trusted institutions and our trust in each other has taken a beating and has in fact declined and that decline makes it harder for us to solve some of the key problem
Gun violence. The Democracy Alliance Senior Advisor discusses her recent piece in the nation magazine, the Republican Partys white women problem. Roblem o. Host good morning. It is friday, september 6, 2019. Welcome to washington journal. There has been a notable update in a mission and outlook of a Major Business group, one representing some 200 Bluechip Companies that perhaps reflects the changing views in america over who corporations should be responsible to. This first hour, we will talk about that. Who should corporations be responsible to . 2027488000 is the number to call for democrats. 2027488001. E and for all others, 2027488002. You can send us a tweet at cspanwj or post comments to facebook. Com cspan. In addition to the change of the Business Roundtable outlook, perhaps the increasing crossroads between Public Policy in corporations like Johnson Johnson and Purdue Pharma over the Opioid Crisis or walmart and the gun violence privacy concerns over corporations like facebook
Company survive . Well ask the question. Facebook is the teflon stock. Bad publicity, a 5 billion fine, an antitrust probe, not to worry. As long as it makes a ton of money and it still does, the stock stays strong. Teflon indeed. 207 this morning on facebook. Meanwhile, why dont you check your 401 k . Odds are youre looking at about a 30 gain since the election of donald j. Trump. The s p, nasdaq, they are at alltime record highs and the dow will go up another, what, 60 odd points at the opening bell today. Sit back, everybody. Watch your money grow. Its fun. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart we like to get right at it these days so take another look at that. President trumps Approval Rating on the economy remains near, very very close to an alltime high, 52 . Look whos here. Fox news contributor gary kaltbaum. All right, gary, that is a big number. How do you beat that in the election of 2020 when youre a socialist . If we get to november 3rd and the markets strong and were at
This morning. Theres a lot of fog out there, mr. Clark. Itll burn off sooner, though. 50 on the temps and it does look a little warmer after a cooldown for wednesday, thursday 50 on the on the temps, a lot of activity. But north and east i mean up towards oregon also on the east side of the sierra. But for us, High Pressure is going to build in here. So today will be this. This will say friday, see me and my army of one will fix that when i have time 60, 70 and 80s on the texas back to the news now with dave clark. All right thank you. Our time is now 4 00. Happening today, San Francisco police will hold a virtual town hall meeting about Police Officers shooting and killing an armed suspect last week, authorities said that plainclothes officers were arresting a person in the Bayview District when a second person approached him. There was a confrontation and Police Officers opened fire. When that second person appeared to be pulling out a weapon. Now the police will give an update to th
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