For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today there are members of the general public in addition to journalists so any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left is Valerie Jackson washingtonbased editor , a. Doug harr brecht former npc president and a member of the Club Journalism institutes board of directors. Next to doug and debbie carol f key, a guest of our speaker. Jacqueline policastro whos the Washington Bureau chief at gray television. Adam eaton a reporter at e news ira our look whos the Communications Director for a company. Next is Elizabeth Mcgowan a reporter at the Energy News Network to my immediate right is donna line one lachey shes the president at Dc Media Strategies a former npc president and a cochair of the nbc Headliners Team which organizes these
To listen, watch, and follow along on twitter at the Hashtag Hashtag npc live for our cspan. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today there are members of the general public in addition to journalists so any applause or reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. [laughter] id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left is Valerie Jackson washingtonbased editor , a. Doug harr brecht former npc president and a member of the Club Journalism institutes board of directors. Next to doug and debbie carol f key, a guest of our speaker. Jacqueline policastro whos the Washington Bureau chief at gray television. Adam eaton a reporter at e news ira our look whos the Communications Director for a company. Next is Elizabeth Mcgowan a reporter at the Energy News Network to my immediate right is donna line one lachey shes the president at Dc Media Str
Flooding winds and a dangerous storm surge. Were all over it. How about this . A alltime high for the Dow Jones Industrial average. Were above 27,000 for the First Time Ever. The market performing so well, thanks to some might say to an underperforming economy that has the Federal Reserve set to cut Interest Rates. Gerri willis starts it off for us at the new york Stock Exchange. Hey, gerri. Connell, thats right. Were up 200 points. 61 points over 27,000 level. Therefore i can wear my hat. One is outshining the others. United healthcare is up 5 after the president decided to kill a proposal that would have overhauled rebates collected by the middlemen between insurance plans and drug companies. Unh owns optum rx. That is the biggest of these middlemen. Dow jones reported that unitedhealthcare was responsible for 200 points of the dows move. Also contributing to gains today, Goldman Sachs and boeing each up. You can see here nearly 2 . The move to 27,000 took 372 trading days. That is t
Just a fraction below 3,000. It is one that misses out on a new record. We have a lot boeing on. Waiting for new comment from President Trump at this hour. He is hosting a social media summit at the white house. He is also expected to make announcement of some sort on executive action related to maybe the Citizenship Question being added or not added to the census anything on either topics well bring breaking headlines as soon as we get them. Blake burman is there at the white house for us. Gerri willis. Is fully outfitted down on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on recordsetting day. Hey, gerry. Reporter United Health systems was propelled. Trump agreed to kill a proposal that would overhaul rebates collected by middlemen in the drug business, between the insurance companies, the Drug Companies. He is going to kill that. The drug Company Costs that really helped company like unitedhealthcare that has optum rx is their middleman company. They are on fire as are others in the ca
The wpa did in california, and then you fall down this rabbit hole and you find that theres everything else. And its a its a universe. So now what we are is a National Team that is identifying, mapping and interpreting the physical legacy of, the new deal, which is absolutely colossal. Its all around us. Its indispensable, able, but we dont see it. And thats accidental. So what were doing, we have a very active chapter in new york city, some of whom are here today. And what were doing is excavating a lost civilization. Its what i call the lost ethical language of new deal, public works. These objects which are everywhere, are trying to speak to us in a language which we have been persuaded to forget. And the effort to erase the roosevelt legacy. About april 12, 1945, when roosevelt safely dead and they could to do that. So thats what were trying to do. And we established a few years ago a prize, the best book on roosevelt or the new deal out of a of books being published year theres we