Goods this time from the eu. The big political story of the day, congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez going after the Border Patrol during a visit to a migrant detention facility. Wait until you hear the shocking claims she is making about conditions there and you will also hear how Border Agents are responding. There is a lot going on this morning. Varney company starts right now. David nike pulling a special fourth of july sneaker featuring an early American Flag after Colin Kaepernick got involved in the whole situation. He reportedly told nike that the early American Flag on the shoe is offensive because of its connection to an era of slavery. Joining us is market watcher john layfield. John, is nike going too far with Political Correctness . Im not sure here. Like i kind of feel for nike here because they are trying to stay apolitical as crazy as that seems. They just pulled a product in china because the japanese designer had some ties to the hong kong protest as far as support.
Delegate i would say two hours, maam, 90 minutes would be sufficient, i think. So i would move it to against 9 00 a. M. To 10 30 a. M. Chair mcardle ok. Delegate microphone 1. I have a motion to amend the amendments to it if i understand what he is doing, he is one thing is a time certain for the debate to include the president ial candidates, including mr. Termott. Chair mcardle i am going to announce that the winner of the debate straw poll was clint russell. [laughter] come with 52 . 342 votes. Larry gave her give him a run of his money was 47 and 305 votes. Thank you so much to both of you. Congratulations for being on the stage. [laughter] it takes a lot of guts to face this delegation. I also want to say that we have a couple of really special guests in the audience. We have maj teray and Lili Williams who are both amazing Second Amendment advocates. Thank you both [applause] we are going to take a very short break. At 8 10, we will be back to see clint debate vivek. Lets make it
Hey everyone. Lets get sound on this microphone. Good evening. Oh, no, not yet. Yes. Yes. [cheers and applause] chair mcardle welcome back. We are a couple of minutes behind schedule. MyVivek Ramaswamy is here. [applause] he knows how much you value your time for that he would like to talk to you a few minutes before the debate so that we can really dig into the debate. It will be a short but spicy talk and i think we should let him do it. Vivek ramaswamy is an American Business leader, New York Times bestselling author and 2024 republican president ial candidate born and raised in Cincinnati Ohio after wattended harvard for college where he was known for it and a libertarian rapper. He cast his first vote for president in 2004 for the libertarian nominee, michael bednarik, a fact that he was criticized heavily for doing the republican primary. He often quoted hayek and mises on the campaign trail and his signature issue with shutting down the revelatory state. [applause]tiple companie
Live now to the floor of the United States senate. They are back from their summer recess and our live coverage picks up right here right now on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black , will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal and sovereign god, the earth in its fullness belongs to you. Teach us to live by your prece precepts and follow your plans. Guide our lawmakers in the challenging decisions they face. May they build up rather than tear down using their powers to keep dreams from becoming nightmares. Give them the wisdom to know that history will judge them by whether they act with courage or cowardess. Lord, lead our senators in their efforts to guide our citizens to the better angels of our nature. May our lawmakers make the commitment to stand for right, though the heavens fall. And, lord, we pray for those affected by Hurricane Harvey and for those bracing for hurricane irma. We pray in your merci
The bay bridge, not looking bad. 10 minutes to downtown. San mateo bridge, between hayward and foster city, 18 minutes, looking good in both directions. Uber is starting the work week without a president. Jeff jones has quit the top post after a sixmonth stay. Why he was at odds with the companys culture. 36 increase in mobile sales. Reporter jeff jones, the number two man at uber has been employed for half a year. Now hes leaving. According to recode, jones is resigning because of the multiple controversies at the ride sharing company. In the last month alone, two scandals, a female engineer shared a Sexual Harassment at uber, and traffic calfnick lighting into a uber driver. Some people dont like to take responsibility [ expletive ]. Reporter they reprimanded uber for putting cars on the road without an adequate permit. It is not clear where jones, a former chief market officer of target, plans to go next. Uber released this short statement we want to thank jeff for his six months at