Suzanne it is a pleasure to welcome you all here to do to our conversation on Foreign Policy and the u. S. President ial election. This event is part of the brookings policy 2020 series which seeks to empower voters ,ith factbased, datadriven nonpartisan information to better understand the policy matters discussed by candidates running for office this year. Thank you all for joining us. We are 29 days away from november 3. Americans will cast their ballots for the next president , but the future of americas global role is also at the ballot. Election,ward the todays conversation will focus in particular on its implications for the transatlantic relationship and u. S. Foreign policy toward europe. Many of leaders and their counterparts around the world are watching the election closely. While there are differing views about how the upcoming november election will shape the relationship, few in europe or it will revert to its previous form. The europeanfrom council on Foreign Relations
Technology investors with these kinds of gains after stellar earnings last night . It was unbelievable. Weve got a story on that coming up in just a moment here. You guys had your hands full. It was a rollicking hour, i hear it was. Meantime, a rollicking deal through the health care space. Cvs is pursuing a major deal to buy aetna and former aetna ceo john rowe will join us in a cnbc exclusive to discuss what that bid could mean. What a fascinating story that is cant wait to talk to john about is. Also look at oil today, trading higher, brent is back to 60 a barrel and wti is at an eightmonth high however, chevron is falling. Whats behind the move and whether this is a buying opportunity or not well talk about that coming up in a little bit later. Is pretty sharp moves in oil today. Lets go back to the big rally in tech stocks, thanks to strong earnings from a trio of tech giants. Deirdre bosa is all over amazons results for us. Josh lipton covering alphabet. Jon fortt is covering mic
Over the past three months, three deadly terrorist attacks have struck the United Kingdom. In additional five other plots were thwarted. These were the latest in a wave of deadly attacks that have since swept europe 2014. In three years there have been more than 36 attacks across western europe killing nearly 400 people, including a number of americans. The number of potential plots have skyrocketed, posing a challenge to european authorities. According to british authorities , they are investigating as many and 5000 suspected potential plots. While Security Services have been lucky all of the time to protect our freedom, the terrorists just have to get lucky once to threaten our sense of safety. Terrorists are no longer focusing on sophisticated tax. Everyday items such as kitchen come areelivery trucks used as tools of terror. Anyonel is directed to be it French Police patrolling the streets or children and their families exiting a concert in manchester. They have targeted symbols of
Good afternoon. Nice crowd. I know everybody is excited about energy week. Whitetainly are at the house and that is why we have secretary of Energy Rick Perry here to talk to about what the president and others in the administration are doing this week to emphasize our commitment to American Energy dominance. He will take some of your questions after that and i will be happy to step back up after that and answer questions on other energyrelated topics. Be nice to him. He is from texas. Not quite arkansas, but a good neighbor. Ecretary perry thank you my privilege to be here today to share with you a little bit of the observation that i have relative to energy week. Trumpeek, the administration will bring state, tribal, business, labor, old together. All together in one room sitting down and discussing how we are going to go forward. With the path forward is for u. S. Energy dominance. And, President Trump wants america to achieve Energy Dominance by utilizing our abundant resources for
Over the past three months, three deadly terrorist attacks have struck the United Kingdom. In additional five other plots were thwarted. These were the latest in a wave of deadly attacks that have since swept europe 2014. In three years there have been more than 36 attacks across western europe killing nearly 400 people, including a number of americans. The number of potential plots have skyrocketed, posing a challenge to european authorities. According to british authorities , they are investigating as many and 5000 suspected potential plots. While Security Services have been lucky all of the time to protect our freedom, the terrorists just have to get lucky once to threaten our sense of safety. Terrorists are no longer focusing on sophisticated tax. Everyday items such as kitchen come areelivery trucks used as tools of terror. Anyonel is directed to be it French Police patrolling the streets or children and their families exiting a concert in manchester. They have targeted symbols of