Shutdown. Give us a call. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter, its cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. A very good thursday morning to you. You can start calling in now. The question, again, can Congress Avoid a shutdown . Can they . Should they . You can start dialing in now. Heres the headline from politico from yesterday evening, republicans lack the votes to prevent a shutdown, but house leaders are confident that they can round up enough support before a vote on thursday. One of the reporters on that story, sarah farris, joins us on the phone 2340uf6. Where are we as of this morning . Guest thanks for having me. Basically were not at a doomsday situation. I dont think we should be drawing out our shutdown plans yet. But House Republican leaders do have a pretty tough day ahead of them, and t going to be we could pottially he a nailbiter vote when we do see this go up tonight.
Good evening, everybody and welcome. Before we jump into the event, i want to thank you all for coming. Events like this couldnt be possible if it were not for your generous support and showing up to them so thank you for your support we appreciate it. We have the honor of hosting them only here to talk about the book the rise and fall of marijuana in america. She received her phd from George Washington university and grassroots is based off of her dissertation. The inspiration for such a sure she will tell us more about it as she starts her talk. Emily has been featured on the history channel, npr and her book can be found in the washington post, the atlantic, History News Network and run washington. We are excited to have emily here today because here in colorado we had a very intriguing conversation going about marijuana even before it was officially legalized in 2014. Her book adds to the conversation with research and interviews which expand the conversation even more than we coul
This is one of several appearances he made. This is two hours. This is two hours. The committee will come to order it as we hear testimony from a the ceo from equifax that held those positions until last week i understand you are now an unpaid advisor to the company that we appreciate your willingness to testify here about the events surrounding the breach and equifax response what you were leading the company. Given the severity congress will continue to examine the facts and what can be done to prevent similar situations cyber securities one of the most pressing issues facing Companies Consumers and governments alike is one of the biggest threats to the Financial System the amount of data us the industry collective stores very concerning intrinsic vulnerability collecting and storing personal information when you have the Banking Committee takes the oversight seriously and Financial Institutions Credit Bureau serves the critical function to be a daily part of every americans intersec
With them. There is nothing he can do about that except to tell you what they are and how he got here. He started with charles dickens. He wrote a hypnotic book about dickens and mesmerism. A little joke there. [laughter] thank you. You will wake up eventually when fred comes out. In he wrote a biography of 1983, Thomas Carlyle. That was a finalist in the National Book critics circle. And for the pulitzer. He has written biographies of dickens, henry james, which would have been Interesting Research mark twain, john quincy , adams, abraham lincoln, and this great book he will be talking about tonight, lincoln and the abolitionists. Historians want to tell you what happened in the world and why it is important. Literary critics tell you about the power of words and how the great poets and rhetoricians did their best, they do it as well. For instance this is from the carlyle biography. One of the most famous librarians in history used to be the British Library in, and Thomas Carlyle woul
Major averages are lower. Dipping dealing as low as a 1 decline, but all three still lower as we have concerns about Central Banks effectiveness in fighting global slowdowns. Not giving aspan much stimulus as had been anticipated. Franko heard from the fed kaplan who questioned the effectiveness of monetary tools or the difficulty in using monetary tools. If you look at the threemark ix, itmonth chart of the v shows it is the highest it has been going back to the period surrounding the u. K. Vote to leave the european union. If you look at other assets, the is seeing an uptick or gold futures are rising for the sixth straight session, and crude oil futures are trading lower. That is how this macro view is playing out. Lets go back to stocks. Transportation a huge drag. Delta going down after unit valley value fell. Royal caribbean lower after its earnings report, and forward, not technically in the transportation average, but it makes stuff that gets you place. They came out with july