I had personal reasons for being interested in bill cosby, but as a journalist i was also fascinated by him as sort of a figure in our cultural and social history. Not only as a pioneer, somebody who opened doors again and again, really the first comedian to not be labeled just a negro comedian. The first star of africanamerican star of primetime television. Pioneer of childrens television, with his early guest appearances on sesame street and the electric company, and then fat albert. Most successful, if you all remember advertising, pitchman in the country, in the 70s and 80s, jello ads and cocacola and ford and so forth and that was before the cosby show. But then, as you all know, in the last after a career where he did not bring race and politics into his comedy, and onwas criticized for that, in the last ten years he has become very outspoken and controversial for strong stances he has taken in the black community that he sees as destructive. I wanted to know, where did this come
Princeton professor alan krueger will be joining us. He has argued all year long the u. S. Has to address income inequality. Will that change in 2015 . Here they look at top stories is morning. A breakthrough in the search for the missing air asia passenger jet. Debris has reportedly been found. Indonesias navy has spotted debris that says may be an emergency exit door. At least six bodies have been found. The air asia plane disappeared while flying from central indonesia to singapore. Stocks are falling around the world this morning. Futures indicate u. S. Stocks will be lower at the open. Energy stocks are leaving the decline. The price of oil fell again to a fiveyear low. Tom petri of petri partners has devised u. S. And saudi arabia on oil. Heres his advice for president obama. The white house will view this as a plus for the u. S. Economy and therefore they will let those sources run as well. The row question would be will they approve the keystone pipeline, will they move forward
Plummet plummeted. And the dollar turned around. Weak data out of the u. S. Earlier this morning. All kinds of moving pieces. One stock bucking the trend behind us at the New York Stock Exchange, go daddy. The stock prices last night above the expected range and traded for the first time today with a symbol gddy. The investors liking it as much as their racy commercials. Should investors go for go daddy even at these levels . You had a rather eventful morning. They took over the New York Stock Exchange. There was a huge crowd. You even had Danica Patrick doing pushups on the floor. Picture that. Doing pushups on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. At the same time we were talking to the ceo. I will bring you some of those comments. Well check out the post. It has managed to hold its gains, 30 gain. Walmart inserting itself into a political controversy asking the governor of arkansas to veto a religious freedom bill. The governor sending the bill back to be rewritten. Well get to
Than half of the to do thousand jobs projected in the last months of 2013. The drop of more then 350,000 americans who simply stopped looking. The labor force which is a patient right now with 62. 18 and a number that the economy previously had not seen since the middle of the carter presidency but the white house predictably still refuses to present bad news. This is what jay carney said earlier today. He said our statement in reaction to the monthly jobs report as the secretary of labor. Our view has always been where job creation exceeds expectations and or where it comes in below expectation that we continue to see progress in the economy but we have more work to do. Lori the smallest gain in small years and many years losing 60,000 jobs with construction also losing another 12,000 positions. Now tuesday scandal facing the white house for the firstever identifies the to libyan groups that were designated as terrorist. The state department designated the leaders of those groups as g
Than half of the to do thousand jobs projected in the last months of013. The drop of more then 350,000 americans who simply stopped looking. The labor force which is a patient right now with 62. 18 and a number that the economy previously had not seen since the middle of the carter presidency but the white house predictably still refuses to present bad news. This is what jay carney said earlier today. He said our statement in reaction to the monthly jobs report as the secretary of labor. Our view has always been where j creation exceeds expectations and or where it comes in below expectation that we continue to see progress in the economy but we have more work to do. Lori the smallest gain in small years and many years losing 60,000 jobs with construcion also losing another 12,000 positions. Now tuesday scandal facing the white house for the firstever identifies the to libyan groups that were designated as terrorist. The state department designated the leaders of those groups as global