To see you there. We are pleased to have cspan spoke to be here today we ask that anyone participating, please step up too this microphone so your question can be recorded. Afterward, he will be signing books appear at the front. We have copies for sale in the back. I would like to thank you all for buying books from harvard bookstore. Awardwinning authors possible and we truly appreciate your support. Finally, how is your cell phones before the talk begins. Im delighted to introduce the speaker, the executive editor, devoted to this discussion of hard National Security and general counsel of the institute. Prior to this, the office of general counsel of the National Security agency. Benjamin is a senior fellow in the brookings institutions. He cofounded it. Hes the author of law and long work and future of silence as well as a good dripping writer at the atlantic. Jack goldsmith is a professor at harvard law school. Assistant attorney general, office of Legal Counsel from 2003 274 in
Joe biden was, and now they know that that is not true. I dont think he can hide totally. Its a very odd campaign, and you can kind of understand why. Do you think trump is president ial or not is a question for the voters and not a question for jack smith and a incredibly biased jury in washington d. C. What i dont like is when politicians mess with this country, and and theyre messing with this country by letting debt spiral out of control. You have to deal with this. Every time we send washington, d. C. A buck, theyre spending 1. 20. We have now raised the size of Government Spending by 50 approximately in five years. That is an absolute sin. It never ends, and its going to get worse going forward. Im gonna show you how to move. Come, mr. Deejay stuart rihanna. Lauren rihanna. You said it right, you just stressed the h. Stuart all right. 1 00 1 11 00 eastern time, it is thursday, august 3rd. Check those markets. Were 90 minutes into the trading session, the dows down 120, nasdaq dow
Voting, we have to weigh those risks. Absolutely. And at least the agreement in front of me limits the risk. It is a completely unlimited risk. You may be right. They wont do that. What if youre wrong. What if in fact they will. There is a hard line as you pointed out in teheran. They are licking their chops to see this agreements falling apart. I think from all of the elements in iran they want this agreement because it is so good for them economically and it strengthens their position in the middle east. Doesnt do anything to stop them from supporting and in fact it helps them support their proxies throughout the region more than now. I want to agree with you that i cant predict whatll happen. I cant predict with certainty anymore than anybody can whatll happen if Congress Rejects the agreement. I can just say from what i have seen this morning and based on what i saw come out of lozan in april, this disagreement has more risk for the u. S. And more reward for iran than i hoped it wo
The United Nations spokesman and says more than 54,000 people have fled their homes because of the military operation to take mousul. That represent an increase of 6600 people from friday. Three quarters of displaced. Eople are sheltered in camps and 2016 is on track to be the hottest year ever. Measurements began in the 19th century. Whether agencies say that the average global to pitcher this year is 2. 1 degrees. High above the level of the industrial revolution. It was boosted by the el nino weather patterns. , andl news, 24 hours a day more than 120 countries, im Courtney Collins and this is bloomberg. Scarlet we are 30 minutes from the close of trading. We are live in new york, im scarlet fu. Julie and im julie hyman. Stocks going higher extending the popular bets. Scarlet the question is, whatd you miss . President obama will be holding a News Conference before leaving on his last foreign trip as commander in chief. He will have explaining to do, because this was intended as a v
His reaction. But first lets get you caught up on the market. The dow hitting a high this morning. Global bonds have been selling off. Rates going up. Tech stocks still under pressure yet again. Morgan brennan has more on that from the Nasdaq Market site for us. Thats right, so the good news is we are pairing some of the earlier loss we saw for the nasdaq composite, however still underperforming the dow and the s p the big cap nasdaq 100 fairing even worse, down about three quarters of a percent right now. You mentioned tech stocks are the big culprit here and that really has been the case, weve been seeing the major tech names sell off ever since trump won the white house in about part thanks to investor worries about change on trade and immigration policy. So apple one of the biggest losers. It is having the bigs negative point impact on the nasdaq 100. One reason is that we have a report out of china that iphone sales may suffer if president elect trump were to impose tariffs on tha