Beginning in afghanistan, the general advised President Biden against his disastrous Foreign Policy decision. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. On april 14th, 2021, President Biden announced the United States would unilaterally withdraw its military forces from afghanistan. For months before that announcement, the Intelligence Community and his senior military advisers, including both gentlemen testifying here today issued dire warnings about the withdrawals consequences. After the announcement, i, along with other republican and Democrat Members of congress urged the president to prepare for the withdrawal and its inevitable fallouts. Unfortunately, the warnings were ignored. As the withdrawal date in there. , the situation in afghanistan deteriorated as the taliban gained significant ground across the country. Yet, the binding administrations failure to plan for their withdrawal threatened the safety and security of u. S. Personnel in the country. As a result, in july
Kriti the magnificent seven driving a rebound in u. S. Stocks. Apple unveiling plans for a new inhouse ai powered chip. Monetary policy, traders reprice the ecb putting it on track to cut before the federal reserve. Christine lagarde insisting the ecb does not take cues from across the atlantic. Wall street Bank Earnings are in focus. Jp morgan, citi, wells fargo all set to report today. It is friday. Were ready for the we can but theres plenty to digest the next 24 hours. We look at the futures picture, broadly positive this side of the atlantic. Euro stoxx 50 futures higher 0. 6 . The ftse 100 seeing green on the screen this morning, higher 0. 4 . Is that pricing in the full story of the ecb cutting . Is that a positive rates story . At the end of the day, the s p story not seeing as much green on the screen, despite that massive rebound in the u. S. Tech space on particular. Usually you would see the asian or european traders hop on that trade. They are not this morning trade lets t
It is mexicos second major earthquake this month. Nieto,nt enrique pena who is attending the general us only in new york, is returning immediately. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im emma chandra. Emily im emily chang, and this is bloomberg technology. Coming up, Higher Learning courtesy of you density. They just kicked off a nano degree program. We will hear from the founder. Plus, twitters direct message on terror. The company flag 300,000 accounts that it said promotes global extremism. How effective can it be at limiting the spread of hate . We will discuss. And equifax continues to unravel. First, to the lead. A Group Representing u. S. Venture capitalists is suing the Trump Administration over his decision to delay enactment of an immigration rule impacting foreign entrepreneurs. The department of Homeland Security violated federal administrative rules when it delayed the start of the International Entrepre
Page, facebook. Com booktv. October 21, 1967, 100,000 people marched in washington to protest the vietnam war. From the booktv archives. Pulitzer prize winning journalist david maraniss, who in 2002 allowed booktv to accompany him to vietnam and madison, wisconsin for his research in the war abroad and protests at home. This is a rubber Plantation North of saigon in vietnam. Members of the armys regiment known as the black lions were ambushed here. 61 were killed, many were injured. This is the university of wisconsin in madison. 35 years ago antiwar students try to keep dow chemical from recruiting on campus. The demonstration turned violent. These stories from different parts of the world come together in a new book titled they marched into sunlight. The author is david maraniss. Great to be here. Host you write connections fascinate you more than ideology. What does that mean . Guest it means im a journalist and a historian. Im not trying to make a specific point when i start my rep
Broke the story is here live. Rage of the wave. A surfer taking on this massive wall of water when hes pummeled and sent flying. The race to save him and what hes now saying from his hospital bed. Good morning, america. Thanks for joining us this friday morning. All kinds of news breaking out on all kind of fronts and that surfer lucky to be alive. In fact, if you look at the video, this doesnt just look dangerous, it was dangerous. He broke his back in that fall. But he has an incredible attitude and says, you know what, i cant wait to get back in the water and back on my board again. I think his mom might have Something Else to say about that when she sees that video. Oh, absolutely. You know, a lot of other news to get to as well, but first we want to start out with the deep freeze and record low temperatures that could be coming to here in new york and the cold air is moving in right now. Going to get down to the 20s in new york city tonight and ginger is going to start us off with