Ultimatum, saying surrender or a military assault will begin on your capital. U. S. President elect, joe biden, announcing some major cabinet nominees for the top diplomatic post, secretary of state, he has picked antony blinken, who is deputy secretary of state under president obama. He also has a French Connection he went to high school in paris and speaks the language fluently. Another notable nominee, former secretary of state, john kerry, has been chosen to lead the effort to combat climate change. For more on how biden is filling out his National Security and Foreign Policy teams, lets bring in our washington correspondent. Tell us more about the pix biden made today. Reporter there are two words at describe these six pix. One is diversity and the second is expertise. Diversity because there are, as a first in these cabinet picks, if these people are confirmed, starting with errol haynes, who will become the first woman director of National Intelligence if she is to be confirmed.
Says the transition process is now moving full speed ahead the career Civil Servants have been incredibly forthcoming at the same time the Trump Campaign continues its fight to overturn the election results. The president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani tried again wednesday at a meeting hosted by Pennsylvania State republicans the state legislature that controls this process. Its your power. Meanwhile, joe biden said he would meet with President Trump if the president asked but bidens team says a meeting isnt necessary in the coming weeks biden will announce more cabinet positions, including secretary of defense cia director and secretary of health and Human Services given how health team will moving forward but certainly as we work to get the pandemic under control democratic california congressman lou correa address speculation that biden could appoint a republican to his cabinet if. President elect biden hines a republican whose expertise is needed in his cabinet. Then by all means we shoul
Lashing today over how their companies handled 2020 election. Heck out few hours indicating a decline as we await october retail Sales Numbers out this morning at 8 30 a. M. Dow industrials down 88, nasdaq is up 14 and s p 500 lower by 14. Record day in wall street to start the week yesterday, dow finishing at its first alltime high in 9 months boosted by the positive news on modernas phase 3 vaccine trials. At the close up 471 points, nasdaq up 95, almost 1 and s p higher by 41, better than 1 . Big day for retail earnings, walmart and kohls and home depot all reporting this morning, we will have the numbers as soon as they give hit the tape. Holidays in digital world. Zoom is helping you and your family out if youre planning on a virtual turkey day, its making a buzz, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria home depot earnings hitting the tape right now and european markets are lower, cac quarante down 9, dax index lower by 25, take a look at home depot numbers, revenue above exp
19th amendment, the [inaudible] serves as a destination for discovery and inquiry and to introduce our audience to new narratives and themes in american history. We cant wait to see you again when the library opens to engage in new conversations about womens history, equality, democracy and the right to vote. [background sounds] good afternoon. My names nathan, and on behalf of humanities tennessee, i want to welcome you to the 32nd annual southern festival of books. Humanities tennessee would also like to say a special thank you to their key sponsors, the Metro National arts commission, the ingram group, tennessee arts commission, Vanderbilt University and parnas us books. Before we get started, i want to share a bit about our session. Theres these are unique times, and the book festivals also unique this year. So we we really appreciate everyone being here, and humanities tennessee carrying on with the event. If youd like to purchase a book, please use the parnas saws book link, and
Sutton, an honor to have him down. He flew in last night, right through the storm, and so were grateful that his flight made it here safely and that we are able to have this event today. Judge sutton is a judge of the u. S. Court of appeals for see six inch circuit where he has served since 2003. Nominate i by george w. Bush, former solicitor general of ohio, been in private practice, has clerked for several judges, including Justice Scalia, the subject of his new book. So, the occasion for todays event is the essential scalia. That is the new book that the judge suton edited with ed whelan, another friend of us who has been here some spoken to this chapter about another scalia book. So were all but scalia in this chapter. Jut sutton evidence his law degree from the ohio state university. He has served as chair of the federal judicial and Conference Committee on the rules of practice and procedures. The was appointed to that position by chief justice john roberts. He has taught constit