Welcome back to miami and date to a booktvs live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. Charlie sykes, van jones gumshoe atkinson are some of the authors you will hear from today and have the opportunity to talk with. The full schedule for the day is available booktv. Org. If you dont already follow us on social media, on twitter, facebook and instagram. Faster behind the scenes videos and photos booktv is her handle. Well, how the right lost its mind is a type of charlies new book indicates of the fair today from the campus of Miamidade College. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] and, unfortunately, we are experiencing [inaudible conversations] good morning, miami. Good morning. It is the 34th annual book fair. Lets give the book fair a round of applause. [applause] i am the dean of the Honors College at Miami Dade College and is an absolute pleasure to have the chance to share today with you if we are so fortunate in our community to have this extorted it but it w
Be born in 1917, he beyond her years old. He was a gale educated spy. And one of really the founding personalities of the cia, one of the most powerful man in the cia from its founding in 1947 until his forced retirement in 1974 really a founding father of us counterintelligence. What type of issues and areas that he work in . Singleton use his position as chief of counterintelligence to create a kind of eia within the cia. Go eat out everywhere. It very influential in us policy toward israel. Created programs of surveillance, opening the mail of americans. Involved in the domestic surveillance schemes of the Nixon White House for example. Involved in the early days of mk ultra mind experiment program. A story i tell him, this was a man who made his influence felt everywhere. Very involved in us politics toward cuba. Disposition, a lot of ca officers right through a geographical Directory Division within the cia. Angleton had his fingers in many things. Was he a wellknown personality d
Exactly where january left off. With big swings and tripledigit moves. For much of the day the focus was on energy. The third consecutive day of gains, tacking on 11 in that period its best threeday gain since july of 2012. Some of the late day gain attributed to hopes overseas. The s p rose 25. As for crude, prices near 50 a barrel settling at 49. 57. Brent was also higher. Energy companies rallied alongside those increase in oil prices makesing exxon mobile and chevron the best two stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial average. Exxon mobil was the latest Big Oil Company to report its earnings. The results were sur jackie dangelis has more. Reporter while earnings per share for the Fourth Quarter were above expectations revenues were light. Analysts expressed concern. These results were flattened by legal win that they had regarding venezuela and some additional u. S. Tax giveback neither of which are a true operational earning. Were not considering this to be a defeat for exxon. We thin
Deals, looking for some specials. Well, yes. Ill go online. Ill shop all day there. But coming out here . I will say, were finding some stores are doing a lot better than others. Yes. Its very hitandmiss. Well be talking about that over the next couple of hours here. Because thats the Real Advantage of being here, bill, the shopping mall. We should mention, as youre out across the country, you are being watched. There are analysts here. There are retailers who are measuring traffic with digital devices and just taking a look at the shopping bags. I mean, this is actually where the research happens, for people trying to figure out who the winners and losers are today. We walked around the mall before the show. We met two analysts scouting around to see what was going on. Well talk about that coming up. Meantime, weve got morally going on wall street. The dow and s p in railroad territory, up 45 points on the dow. We were up 76 earlier. Nasdaq up 32. Another 13year high there, and the s
First, lets go to the nyse where sue herera is standing by. The markets improving a little bit right now. Well off of our worst levels of the trading session. Still in the red, however. The markets right now show the Dow Jones Industrial average off 71 points onts trading day. The s p 500 is down about 6 3 4. Nasdaq composite down better than 1 1 2 points. Meantime our top story, that change of leadership at securities and exchange commission. Mary shapiro is stepping down as head of the s. E. C. And president obama is designating Commission Member elise walter as her replacement. Eamon javers is in washington with the details. Reporter this is a bit of a surprise announcement. A lot of other names had been speculated over the past couple of days here on who might succeed mary shapiro over at s. E. C. But the tap goes to elise walter today. She is a sitting s. E. C. Commissioner now. That means that the president will not have to face a bruising confirmation battle up on capitol hill f