Monitor Nuclear Deterrents summit. [inaudible conversations] right now, were going to have a session starting now and woven its way through the conference. So, if you want to take your seats i will have david and jeff prater introduce you to our panel. Here you go. Thank you very much. All right, well, thank you very much, nancy, and we want to thank everyone still out there staying until the bitter end and to hear what i regard not only a very important and phenal panel of the day, with four speakers that i promise will not just im jeff prater, and with me to moderate the q a today is my fellow cofounder and managing director, david charrington. We stood at the center to focus on educating policy makers, most importantly, new Congressional Staff on the u. S. Strategic Nuclear Deterrent and at the time we stood up the organization, the new programs. Its expanded with our podcast and i hope youre enjoying that hosted by dr. Adam louther. Reaching not only the United States, but to our a
Why is fbi director james comey walking back comment he made in front of Congress Last week . Judge Andrew Napolitano will weigh in on all that. Did you see this . An allout brawl at a florida airport. Well tell you what Spirit Airlines did, that prompted this. Whoa. David airlines, it doesnt end. Chevron, cisco, dupont among the dows biggest drags today. The dow ending down, not so with nasdaq. Lori rothman on floor of nyse. Nasdaq at a new high. Youre watching apple. It is now officially closing david at 800 billion in market cap. Apple shares had to close above 153. 44. It did that and left some to spare. 153. 96 is the close. Shares of apple, best performer on the dow at 33 this year. So once again, 800 billion in market cap. That is staggering. Makes it the biggest compa by market cap in the entire world. Look at another sector. Airlines. United, american, delta, all up nicely today. United up almost 5 . United along with American Airlines both reported solid earnings. That gave a
Lets get big headlines from what Jeff Sessions testified before the that intelligence committee. He said there was no private meeting with russian officials at the mayflower hotel. And he said the suggestion of collusion is appalling and detestful. He also said that when he recused himself he has not been briefed on any of the russia investigation details since he has recused himself. But there was a line of questioning about his conversations with donald trump and the firing of james comey that he wouldnt answer. There is no appropriateness bucket. Its not a legal standard. Can you tell me what are these longstanding d. O. J. Rules that protect conversations made in the executive without invoking executive privilege. Im protecting the president s constitutional right for not giving it away before he has a chance to. I am telling you the truth in answering your question saying its a long anding policy of the department of justice to make sure the president has full opportunity to decid
Times in the back. It was high alert overnight, a man openly carrying a large gun. Some protesters, you see here, chasing him. He then discharged his weapon multiple times at those giving chase. The footage appears to show one man shot, then falling to the ground. This will be paused before that actual shot. Thats part of our standards. Now, police are also using, in those protests, armors vehicles, tear gas, and rubber bullets on the demonstrators, quite a scene. That unrest, a state Police Shooting of a black man, allegedly without cause, then peaceful protests met with allegedly antiblack violence. That, obviously, right now is all playing out against the backdrop of this Republican Convention now half over and trafficking in both suburban fear as well as appeals to basically the way donald trump wants people to view criminal justice. And that included last night, for example, a diverse speaking roster as well as a controversial madefortv pardon and think about it like this. State a
Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005