Vaccine and treatments, bringing the futures off of their lows this morning. Still looking a lower open today, but much of this is profit taking after a very strong rally yesterday and last week. Investors saying you know what, im going to take some money off that table. Theres not much stopping big tech, though. We talk about them a lot, every day, but for very good reason. New highs for several of these and one of our bulls will tell us in a few minutes why hes still buying them even at these levels. Happening at the white house today, a big meeting about getting americas children back to school in september. That is a major factor in the economic recovery, if kids are back in school, parents can go back to work. Its a key issue. What about Patrick Mahomes . Hes a recordbreaking deal thats guaranteed for nearly a half billion dollars. I say guaranteed. Hes a very rich young man. We have two pro athletes on the program to talk about that today. Big three lourshours ahead. Im Ashley We
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome governor chris christie. [applause] how are you doing, robert . Thank you. Thank you, guys for being here. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Happy to be back. Thank you, everybody. Well, you knew that we would have to play springsteen, right . I guy from new jersey comes up to New Hampshire whiffed remind you about what youre going to get tonight. Youre going to get some Straight Talk from new jersey. Im glad to be back here. And i have to tell you, it was not a layup that i would be here. Far from it. If you asked me a year ago whether i would be up here to talk to all of you about the future of our country and where we would go, i probably wouldve said to you, life is pretty good in new jersey and i think ill stay down here and let you all fight it out appear like you always dol every four years and get a new crop of folks come up here and talk to you. But i have to tell you as i watched the last year evolved theres been just one question that kept
You to our speakers to start meaning tonight we have with us dr. Bettina becker, a distinguished professor emerita, feminist studies, university of california, santa. She has taught for more than 40 years an activist scholar. She coled the Free Speech Movement uc berkeley in 1964 and the National Student Mobilization Committee to end and the war in vietnam. She played a leading role in the International Movement to free angela davis. But she was a member of the communist party. From 1962 to 1981, and she has been of the lgbt movement. The late 1970s and has published several, including the morning breaks, the trial of angela davis tapestry, the life, womens work, womens consciousness and meaning of daily experience, and a memoir politics how i grew up. Read and fought for free speech and became a feminist rebel, which was nominated for lambda literary award in 2006. We also have with us tonight dr. Estelle friedman. Shes the Edgar Robinson professor in u. S. History emerita at stanford
She coled the Free Speech Movement uc berkeley in 1964 and the National Student Mobilization Committee to end and the war in vietnam. She played a leading role in the International Movement to free angela davis. But she was a member of the communist party. From 1962 to 1981, and she has been of the lgbt movement. The late 1970s and has published several, including the morning breaks, the trial of angela davis tapestry, the life, womens work, womens consciousness and meaning of daily experience, and a memoir politics how i grew up. Read and fought for free speech and became a feminist rebel, which was nominated for lambda literary award in 2006. We also have with us tonight dr. Estelle friedman. Shes the Edgar Robinson professor in u. S. History emerita at stanford university. She cofounded the program in feminist gender and sexuality studies. The recipient multiple teaching awards. She has held fellowships the National Endowment for the humanities, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation an
People are still. Good afternoon. Please find a comfortable seat, and before we begin i need to tell you that there will be a book signing afterwards and, it is outside on table h, and all the authors will be there with their books. And, let me introduce the speakers for today. The first speaker will be darryl pinckney, all the way on my left. A longtime contributor to the new york review, distinguished author of high cotton and black deutschland among other books. And then i dont know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. So, yasmine el rashidi, egyptian author, who wrote, the battle for egypt, a chronicle of last summer, a novel, and written important pieces for the new york review. Last my on my right, masha gessen, who has written several books about russia, including the man without a face, the future is history, how totality ianism reclaimed russia, the most recent i think. Well be discussing immigration. None of us is an expert on the subject wh