Into searing fiction. Woodruff and, migrants from the middle east and north africa push to enter europe thousands march into serbia after borders reopen. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff they cheered the closing bell on wall street today, out of relief that the day was over. The major u. S. Indexes fell 3. 5 4 , driven by market chaos in china. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 588 points to close near 15,870. The nasdaq fell nearly 180 points, and the s p 500 dropped 77. U. S. Oil prices also dropped sharply again, closing near 38 a barrel. Well take you through this dizzying day after the news summary. North and south korea
Woodruff and, migrants from the middle east and north africa push to enter europe thousands march into serbia after borders reopen. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff they cheered the closing bell on wall street today, out of relief that the day was over. The major u. S. Indexes fell 3. 5 4 , driven by market chaos in china. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 588 points to close near 15,870. The nasdaq fell nearly 180 points, and the s p 500 dropped 77. U. S. Oil prices also dropped sharply again, closing near 38 a barrel. Well take you through this dizzying day after the news summary. North and south korea pulled back today fro
Intelligence agency has released its bay of pigs draft history that they locked up for 30 years. On what grounds . Well, when you read it, you find out the grounds. The historian who wrote it and drafted it said, after more than 20 years it appears that fear of supposing the agencys dirty linen rather than any significant security information is what prompts continued denial of requests for release of these records. Thats the norm in the bureaucracy. Your amendments broke this loose, the cia historian wrote on the backs, well, shucks, recent 2016 changes in the fr d freedom of information act requires to us release some drafts. You did it by statute. Thats the congresss role. You can do it to the classification system. And i recommend the detailed list of recommendations in the back of this extraordinary report, the moynihancomebest report, for how you can do that. You can build in costbenefit into the originating classification decision. You can build in assessments of whats the real
If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call us at 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zone, 202 7488001. You can also send us your thoughts on twitter. You can leave a comment on our facebook page. This fight between president elect donald trump and the labor unions started after what appeared to be a victory last week. He had negotiated a deal with a factory in indiana to keep jobs from moving to mexico. That deal became controversial after these comments from a union leader in indiana. Here is the story in the cannotgton. washington post. The story says that chuck jones, the president of united fuel workers, which represents carrier employees have felt optimistic when donald trump announced he had reached a deal until thee 1100 jobs union leader heard that only 730 of the projected jobs wednesday and 550 Union Members would lose their livelihoods after all. Jones hoped donald trump would explain himself. When he got up there, and for whatever reason he
Im the director of the program here at the center for the new American Security. A washington, d. C. Based nonpartisan and bipartisan think tank committed to crafting policies to help u. S. Decisionmakers. We have a most profound challenge confronting the United States in thy great power as an increasingly assertive and powerful china. Todays special event would be documentarian peter navarro, it is entitled crouching tiger what it means for the world and we are delighted to have not only am here today but also to distinguish fellows. We will hear from each of them after the main presentation. First let me say a few words to be framed the debate in the context of todays event. This is december 7 as a reminder of both strategic surprise and how the rising power might seek an expansion of its control throughout asia even at the expense of the power war. The concern today is that the reemerged naturalistic and increasingly revisionist china was bent on establishing the influence and under