And welcome to the society for historians of American Foreign relations 2019 conference on this, the longest day of the year. Hopefully this panel will not be the longest panel of the year. Im aaron. I teach u. S. Military history and Foreign Policy the university of texas at austin. Im pleased to be chairing this panel today on the deep state. Joining me here to talk about i think this quite important topic are three fantastic historians, all of whom study politics and power in American History. Professor beverly of yale university. Professor dirk bonker of duke university. And professor Michael J Allen of northwestern university. Im going to set the stage with four or five minutes of introductory remarks and will introduce each panelist visually before they speak. Just 15, 20 minutes apiece and then we will open the floor to discussion in this roundtable. So we are here today to talk about the origins and the effects of this thing we call the deep state. It is important to say at the
Losses in tech. The s p is looking at the best year, potentially here in two decades. Deirdre bolton kicks us off. She is at the New York Stock Exchange whether thedre . Thats a great question, blake. You mentioned the s p 500 is on track to havehe year since 1997. Todays red on screens doone foe year. The groups putting most pressure on the markets right now are ones that outperformed last week. Really sent stocks to all new highs for the christmas rally. They include info tech, consumer discretionary, also communication stocks. Youre seeing that pattern as individual stocks too. Some of the biggest winners of the year are lower today. Here are some top three weve been following. Apple, microsoft, visa. They are all stand out stocks for 2019. Apple, we have to highlight. It is the best performing stock on the dow for the year. It is up 82 . The gains pushed companys market cap back above the 1 trilliondollar mark. Analysts talking a lot about wearables. They are beating forecasts. By
Knife. I dont know what it was. And thats when i started to run out through a side door, together with all the people in the dining room. I came back in, grabbed the coffee table that was on the floor, hit him in his faith, and thats when he came back outside after me. He told me, hey, yao, ill get you. Were covering both of these horrific attacks. Cnns Brynn Gingras is in muncie, new york, and lucy kafanov is outside the church just west of ft. Worth, texas. Lucy, walk us through exactly what happened during the shooting. Ryan, it happened so quickly, less than 24 hours ago, the gunman dressed in dark clothing walked into the church, he sat down in a back pew, he then gets up and appears to have an interaction with one of the Church Members before pulling out a long gun and opening fire. Two armed volunteers respond swiftly, taking him down. The whole thing captured on camera, because those services were live streamed. And i should warn our viewers, the footage is incredibly disturbin
Worsening homeless crisis. So many folks are fleeing california, that the population growth there is at the slowest rate since 1900. Key developments tonight on the battle to fund Border Security, from the Trump Administration planning a court fight to seize private land in texas for its wall, to House Democrats demanding answers over the death of immigrants in u. S. Custody. Im Jackie Deangelis in for Elizabeth Macdonald tonight. The evening edit starts right now. Jackie a big gift for investors this holiday. China coming out and saying theyre cutting back tariffs on 389 billion worth of import. That is starting january 1st. Hillary vaughn in d. C. With the latest. Hillary . Reporter jackie, china is chopping tariffs on frozen pork and 800 other products to kick off the new year. The pork cut on u. S. Pig exports to china is really early Christmas Gift for u. S. Pig farmers who capitalize on chinas big pig demand. Who until now have been dealing with high taxes on u. S. Pork exports.
Supporting evidence, thats how the nixon precedent had it, the articles of impeachment there focused on water date but then it brought in some other things, and here are the most important thing is not just ukraine but the president s reaction to ukraine. When he is engaged in unprecedented obstruction, no president in our history has ever done this, saying. Brennan what do you mean . Unilaterally, i declare the entire investigation illegitimate. Nixon contemplated it and even he backed down and if this president can do it, this is a central argument in my book, every president can do it, whether it was obama before or the president Elizabeth Warren or person my sanders or whoever, impeachment is so central to our checks and balances and what he is doing is a fundamental threat to our constitution. Brennan what do impeachment articles look like . What is a prudent selection . Yes, so in the book i lay out three articles, one is abuse of power, that he, the president was trying to cheat