Good evening, everybody. Im bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife, lissa muscatine, and on behalf of her but here welcome your think you very much for coming. We are very y pleased to have pl richter with us here this evening. Paul and i crossed paths a lot when i was a journalist with the Washington Post covering the pentagon and he was reporting for the Los Angeles Times based in washington. Over several decades paul wrote about National Security and Foreign Policyy on both the pentagon and then the state department beat come and heal other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose of reporting in this city on National Security affairs and in his new book, the ambassadors, he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlighting the valuable roles played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out four in particular, ryan crocker, robe
Immigrants for i. D. Theft and later in the show trucks been boasting about his new u. S. In c. A trade deal but a major loophole gives american oil and gas firms a leg up when doing business of all dont go anywhere americas war starts right now. Wall street is in party mode now that joe biden is the front runner in the democratic race because they know that if he gets the nomination they have nothing to worry about do they fear and that ferran cousins from trial lawyer magazine to talk about this whats your take on this it was like party on wall street there they were popping champagne corks and this you know it was just so obvious that they love this guy because they know hes not going to change anything for right right we we went through days and days of just the stock market tang. In king because of covert 19 and then suddenly joe biden 1st gets the endorsements from club a charm booted judge and at that point the Health Care Stocks on monday of last week took off super tuesday hap
Starts here. That tradition that military tradition, and its usually important. So one thing i do, when i do military history, as i theres a modern phrase, im not a fan of the phrase, because it gets misconstrued. It is too impersonal, it makes you forget that there are real men real women, who are wearing these boots, who are off doing things, to be able to keep us safe. Right. We need to remember that. So every time we fight about it, we have the boots, here to remind us of those people. And like i said its been a long time, 250 years since we fought this war with these guys, with george with a continental army. We need to honor their sacrifice. We need a new tier. You all voted for independence, and so we cant yell god save us anymore. But in 1775 will yield hustle. The 18th century way. We yelled hip hazza. Company dismissed. Hello everybody good evening, welcome to tonights presentation. Also special bus tonight, they would like to acknowledge that this is simpson circle, that is
The russell looking at a 100 point drop. Volume has picked up today. Volume in the dow, s p and nasdaq positive versus yesterday. A little bit more activity in the selling on the first day of the Second Quarter. We have all three Industry Groups down. When you look at the decliners versus advancers, it is in double digits. Romaine on a day like this, anytime we have a big down day, i would like to see who the gainers are, the winners, names like balaton, teledock health. Teledoc a lot of the consumer staples, target, kellogg, moving higher 1 or 2 , kroger up more than 1 . I want to bring back into the conversation jim polson, still with us. Appreciate you being here. Lets move from equities and look more broadly at some of the other Asset Classes. When we look at the treasury market today, i relatively tamped down day come a relatively tamped down day. On the long end, seeing the 30year hold around 1. 27 . When you look at the treasury market, what signal is it telling you . James i th
Lives presentation. I would like first to find the program sponsor, the law firm, for their generous support, not this year but for several years now. It is this kind of Corporate Support along with matt from so many of you as individuals that enables the great lives series to thrive. So i would like to ask our good friends from the law firm stand so we can acknowledge them. [applause] also, a special group tonight that i would like to knowledge, that is the simpson circle, a group composed of former Mary Washington members. They are here tonight and we would like to have them stand so we can acknowledge them. In introducing tonight speaker, dr. Joanne freeman, i would like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her phd from the university. Thats right, uva. [laughter] in any case, not long after receiving that degree, she was recognized already as one of the nations top young historians. She has subsequently has achieved widesprea