52. 74. Creeping up to 53 here are the big stories were watching roku will make its public debut on the nasdaq. Roku priced shares at 14 each thats the top end of the expected range it has a market cap of 1. 3 billion. Rok lush roku wi tra under roku. Roku founder and Ceo Anthony Wood will be on squawk box this morning and rovio, the maker of angry birds video games will price later today. The Senate Intelligence committee calling on facebook, twitter and alphabet to testify at a hearing on russias role in the 2016 election. The hearing is november 1st. Alphabet and facebook have not said if they will attend Mark Zuckerberg hitting back at President Trump who claimed yesterday that the social Media Company was always antitrump. Zuckerberg posting on facebook, trump says facebook is against him. Well, liberals say we helped trump. Both sides are upset about the ideas and content they dont like thats what running a flat form for all ideas looks like zuckerberg said he regrets comments he
Both engines of the u. S. Economy running at full steam. As for the stock market, were seeing a mixed picture. Ny gain would be a record the s p and nasdaq are seeing some weakness here, individual stocks seeing weakness, having to do with earnings. 3 . Ave pepsi, sales down the shares are pairing their decline. Earnings beat estimates. Sales are weaker. Digging more into that and our stock of the hour segment. One of the worst performers in the s p 500 has paired some of its decline. That company posting sales that missed estimates as well. The ceo is making more optimistic comments. And office depot fell 78 . This is a preliminary view as the Company Looks to make an acquisition. It is going to buy congee column compucom. We are also watching the situation in puerto rico, in the wake that puerto ricos debt would be wiped out even as his budget chief says those, should not be taken literally. Here in the bond insurers seen in steep decline. Cells themselves self plunged. Record low he
May our lawmakers focus on your glory and not their own. Inspire them with your presence so that their lives will reflect your mercy and truth. Lord, give them the wisdom to trust your plans and to desire for you to do as you please for our nation and world. Forgive us when we depend primarily on our strength and ability to meet lifes challenges, forgetting that you are able and eager to help us. God, our deliverer, we bless your name from this time forth and forever more. Thank you, for your merciful kindness that is new each day. We pray in your precious name, amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell during the obama years, many of the hardworking men and women of america
The nico rob what nica raguan government. The topic at todays class is the iran contra scandal, sometimes called the irancontra affair. There are various names people attach to it, but it is most commonly known as the irancontra scandal or affair. I give the dates of 1984 to 1987 because the events that the scandal comprised really took off in 1984, even though you can see their roots earlier than the Reagan Administrations Foreign Policy, even earlier than 1984 in Ronald Reagans first term as president. I will explain the developments shortly, but they really took off in 1984. I will explain. They go through until mid 1987. This is a photograph from ingressional hearings about 1987. Anybody know who that colorless . Oliver north. Oliver north. A uniform because he was on active duty in the marine corps, even though many people noted at the time he did go tofore this time work wearing his uniform. He wore a business suit and a type of the most part because even though he was on active
Rose welcome to the program. We begin this evening with two members of the House Intelligence Committee, dem krad kem krat adam schiffnd republican peter king. They got a sense of why this is is such an important matter and why it deserves investigation. The breathed of the russian attack on our democracy, the fact that the fbi has an Ongoing Investigation to determine whether there was coordination between the Trump Campaign and the russians. As well as the directors, both of their willingness to establish that there is no evidence to support the president s claim that he was wiretapped by his predecessor. Any one of those things i think on a normal day would be quite a revelation but there was a lot packed in today. And i think ultimately the most important thing is it gave a good glimpse at why this is so serious. And why we ought to do Everything Possible to do a thorough investigation and conduct it in a nonpartisan way. We continue with Matthew Rosenberg of the New York Times and