From washington. Gerri, with the declines we start with you. Reporter thats right, jobless claims rising for the first time in 16 weeks. Stocks certainly didnt like it. The number above expectations and also above last week numbers. Also now these total numbers of claims in 18 weeks since those lockdowns started total 52 million. That is a third of the American Labor force. So you see these numbers disappointing. One bright spot, continuing claims. Tracking total number of unemployed workers receiving benefits, came in 870,000 less than expected. That is a bright spot. Even so all three major averages trading down. Nasdaq down more than two. Tectum blink big time. Apple, amazon trading lower. Microsoft had a good report yesterday but out with disappointing guidance still headed down. They say people are going into cyclical and value names. I will believe it when i see it on an ongoing basis. Tesla, planning to join the s p 500. That is ironic that stock being traded there. Gold, tesla,
Allied troops was very small. Discipline was quite admirable. Say, among the soviet troops less so, i would say, among the soviet troops coming from the east. That was part of the price and the pain of victory. Host lets go back to calls and hear from lorenz in st. Paul, minnesota. Caller thank you for the opportunity. Ill try to be quick. Two comments. One, i always admired eisenhower for having to pull in citizens from the town near the concentration camps so that they could witness what the nazis nazi regime did but thats not my question. My question is, studying world war ii is so impactful for studying where we are today from a political, military, and social perspective. You can comment on that particularly as it relates to the politics involved in making both the atomic and Hydrogen Bombs post world war. Thank you for the opportunity and i look forward to hearing your comments. Guest thanks for the call, lawrence. Yeah, the consequences of world war ii are extraordinary socially
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A Staten Island warehouse Christian Smalls and he had been pushing other workers been working with them trying to form a union and at the same time they had also been speaking out about the lack of Health Protections at this particular warehouse they had planned a walk out couple mondays ago and then they fired Christian Smalls that was the 1st part of the story that had come out in the media how did they contact you about a story that you did they they did because i talked about Christian Smalls getting fired for wanting to form a union amazon or at least a p. R. Person i guess who was working for amazon since me an email and says hey mr cousins you have a lot of misinformation in your segment here would you mind retracting this and here is the correct information now the correct information was nothing but quotes from amazon executives. And the next day im about to do this segment just say listen i have a say dont want to get sued here so here is what amazon has said in response but
Rolling in. I want to spend most of our time talking about policy, but we are in such strange times. I thought we could ask some questions about how your job is actually unfolding before we get into the meaty stuff. Lets start with the broader context. You have got decades of experience at the u. N. You worked in the u. S. Previously, in conflict zones. Looking back in those errors, what has changed since when you started out . Amb. Pierce wow, that is a big question. Not much has changed, actually. That sounds a bit dull and it sounds like diplomats are stuck in the last century. But fundamentally, diplomacy is about human relations. It is about influencing people and explaining your point of view. Stayedkills have unchanged since the ancient greeks. How you do that can change, obviously, and we are seeing in the covid crisis a lot more work being done through other means. But fundamentally, it has been ou about understanding the other side. It is about explaining that to your own sid