Stock hitting what . An alltime high ahead of its investor day next week, despite all the obstacles that face its parks and movie businesses weve got those details. Look at disney run and later the director of National Intelligence says china is the greatest threat to the United States and wall street may be getting stuff in the middle of the war of words we will explain as power lunch begins right now thank you, ty. Record highs across the board including the russell small cap two 2000 lets go to dom chu. The composite index is still up on the yeartodate basis offer the last few months, the gap or difference between the dow and s p has stayed relatively constant. Still, though, the s p up 14, the dow up 5 to 6 on that yeartodate basis looking at other trends in the markets today, look at shares of caterpillar. One of the bigbigg egebiggest ie biggest contributor. Caterpillar shares up 4. 5 we put a gold star up there as well one of the other things that were watching right now is what
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A cease fire in ethiopia is to grey region where hundreds of died and thousands are fleeing into saddam. Welcome to the program, the u. S. President elect joe biden has called Donald Trumps refusal to concede the president ial election as an embarrassment. But biden says nothing will stop the transfer of power in january, and thats despite the trumpet, ministrations reportedly refusing to assist the president elects transition team. Allan fisher has more from washington d. C. Well, donald trump is keeping a low profile. Joe biden is putting himself front and center. This was an event to discuss the Affordable Care act. But the president elect questions on other topics and he had a message to the man he will replace. And his refusal to accept the result. I just think its an embarrassment. Great, frankly. The only thing that how can we say this tax . I think it will help the president s legacy. I think that i know from my discussions with foreign leaders of us for that they are hopeful t
We hear arguments number 18, roe against wade. Quite often our most famous decisions are the ones the court took that are quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically have vielgsy what it means to live in society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans new series landmark cases. Tonight and the next 11 weeks were going to be looking at cases that developing the development. Its also interesting because it all came about after two Founding Fathers who developed differing views how the country should be governed. We have guests to help us understand the story. A Yale University luprofoaw pro and hes the author of several books including americas constitution, a biography. To start were going to listen to the current chief justice talking about the importance of this case. And then after we hear his point of view well like to hear from both of you on why this case is
She is a historian of race and migration in the United States , specializing in asianAmerican History. Chinese must go. Fmaps the tangled relationship between local racial violence, and u. S. Imperial ambitions. Williams earned her b. A. From Brown University and phd in history from stanford. I believe he just spoke at sanford this afternoon. Thank you, beth, for coming and speaking this evening with us. David has worked as a social worker in San Franciscos chinatown with atrisk youth before starting his business in 1981 in exporting Consumer Products to mexico. He sold his business in 2003 and retired at the end of 2005. So now we get to work with david all the time, which is really lovely. David has a passion for building communities, social change, and improvements, Youth Education , the arts. He actively participates in the following nonprofit. The chineseamerican community fund, the dance troupe, the academy of chinese performing arts, so many places. I think the center for asiana