Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Morgan brennan is in simi valley at the Reagan National library we start with jobs numbers, sending stocks surging, near session highs, up 303 on the dow, flirting with 1 gains in the session. Joining us to morning, mike santoli covering the up swing in the best of both worlds. The market was craving a good number, good news is good news no implications for the fed trying to restrain things. It is interesting, you look at the week, we did a v in psychology and the stock market, a week ago yesterday hit the alltime high, 3150 in the s p 500. We ran into ism numbers that challenged the rally u. S. Growth close to 2 . Weaver an overbought market, little shakeout. Now it seems like numbers since then restored that premise that things are Getting Better or never got that bad as we thought late summer. The question now, we return to the highs. Still have valuation r
It is my great honor to be here with t 14 my friend and someone who is a big part. Your most recent bestseller the witchhunt which is a fascinating read that tells us that we have been going through since 2015 misses a follow on to your bestseller , the russia hoax that was a number one bestseller. You are off to the races youre already number three. Its great to be with you. Thanks for having me. When i first heard the president use the term witchhunt in that tweet. And fake news that the election was rigged those that spent my professional life to recoil because they are bold phrases. But you borrowed this phrase for your book. White quick. Its very telling. What people forget about a witchhunt is there is no real which. But this overwhelming irrational desire to believe witches exist is what happened with an astonishing aware of smart people convince themselves that the president create committed the most noxious crime there is in the criminal codes. Treason. Treason is a conspiracy
And the reasons why some victims choose to not move forward through the military justice process. This is about three hours. Okay. Thank you for joining us this morning. Were going to be looking at the perspectives of the services military Justice Division chiefs regarding conviction and acquittal rates, case adjudication process, and victim declination. [ inaudible ] [ inaudible ] does the article 32 statute and its implementing rule, rule for courtmartial 405, provide an effective check for charges against which there is no probable cause . Ill start with you. So, i think for the past several years the procedural requirements have change and statutory change for the requirement for the victim to testify. And as a result, in many cases that the governments most significant evidence. In the those cases where a victim chooses to not to testify, the government is basically making its case based on the paper file. And so i will say that those changes over time have, have reduced the proce
You can find more information in your program guide. Now, heres gordon chang. Good afternoon. If i could have your attention. We are going to get started. Im susanna sheltie president of defense Form Foundation is my great honor to welcome you to our congressional defense and Foreign Policy form. Please enjoy your lunch and help yourself to anything you might need during the program. I know you all are very busy so im especially appreciative of you taking the time to be here for this very timely program. For those of attending the form for the first time, the forms began in 1980s as a way to bring expert speakers to capitol hill to discuss critical topics and bipartisan collegial atmosphere and as we promised, we have an expert speaker to address a critical topic. And very bipartisan collegial atmosphere. One thing to note there are a lot of media here so i would ask during the question answer period if you would reserve that for the Congressional Staff because of their limited time co
From all five branches of the military talk about Sexual Assault during an Advisory Committee meeting. Thank you for joining us this morning. Theill be looking at convention acquittal rates and victim declamation. Hank you [indiscernible] and its implementing rule for courtmartial provide an effective check against charges for which there is no probable cause . I think for the past several years the procedural requirements have diminished greatly, and one significant changeis the statutory to eliminate the requirement for victims that testify. Thatresult, in many cases is the most significant evidence in most cases where a victim chooses not to testify, the government is making its case based on the file. I will say that those changes over time have reduced the procedural requirements of article 32 but i still think it is a valuable check. An experienced judge advocate looking at the case and that the evidence. There is also the opportunity for the defense to present evidence, and as a