On the white house is part when it comes to this legislation . We saw the white house on the fence as to whether President Trump was going to sign it for a while. How has he come around to this legislation . Kevin they have said they are going to sign this russia, iran, north korea sanctions bill. It passed nearly unanimously out of the senate and the got to the house. The white house is working with house leadership to tweak versions of this bill from their perspective that would not hurt u. S. Businesses. Now the Russia Companies that were named on this sanctions list, if the u. S. Has some type of business arrangement with some of those businesses or do deals with them up to a one third threshold, they will be able to continue. M putin has already responded to this and he has kicked out essentially two thirds of u. S. Diplomats who are in russia to get out as a response to the Republicancontrolled Congress doing this piece of legislation. Was fascinating is that the Republicancontro
We have seen the ratio of the dow to the nasdaq. The dow has been gaining disproportionately and add a record, approaching 22,000. Movement has to do with earnings sales and if you look at the tally on the bloomberg, we have 315 of the 500 components have now reported and 70 companies have beat analyst sales estimates. About 5. 5 ing at earningswth and 10 growth, so continuing to see gains that are better than estimated. As for some of the highlights to the upside and downside, we have sprint as one of the best performers after the Telecom Company came out with a surprise profit after subscribers dropped. We got the story in the loss bash in the last hour that softbank might be interested in looking at dish network. That could be a potential murder potential merger target. On the flipside, we have under slashinghat company its forecast for the second half of the year. That was broadly expect it. Also protest also projecting weaker gross margins. Mosaic is forecasting a tighter margin,
Independent publishing and bookstores. Before we begin just a bit about matt. Matt taibbi is the author of New York Times bestsellers the divide and the great derangement. Derangement. Hes an editor for Rolling Stone and the wind of it 2007 National Magazine book magazine book columns and commentary. Please join me in welcoming matt. [applause] hello . Thats better. Here we go. Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody for coming. Before you start tonight, im speaking tonight with a bit of a heavy heart. I just got the news on the way here that the great Investigative Reporter Wayne Barrett has died this afternoon. Wayne was my first boss in this business. He was a mentor to me and hundreds of other reporters and other media people in this city. He dedicated his life to rooting out corruption in new york and i think new york is a better place because of him. Its a very sad day. I think its also, no journalist in america knew more about donald trump than wayne. He was his first biograph
Independent publishing and bookstores. Before we begin just a bit about matt. Matt taibbi is the author of New York Times bestsellers the divide and the great derangement. Derangement. Hes an editor for Rolling Stone and the wind of it 2007 National Magazine book magazine book columns and commentary. Please join me in welcoming matt. [applause] hello . Thats better. Here we go. Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody for coming. Before you start tonight, im speaking tonight with a bit of a heavy heart. I just got the news on the way here that the great Investigative Reporter Wayne Barrett has died this afternoon. Wayne was my first boss in this business. He was a mentor to me and hundreds of other reporters and other media people in this city. He dedicated his life to rooting out corruption in new york and i think new york is a better place because of him. Its a very sad day. I think its also, no journalist in america knew more about donald trump than wayne. He was his first biograph
Larry her rare row recalls the assistance france and spain provided the communist during the revolutionary war, and then an examination of the economic value assigned to slaves. Those are just few of the programs youll see on booktv on cspan2 this weekend. For a complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Hello, everyone. Welcome to powerhouse book. Were very excited to host dispatches from the 2016 by matt taibbi. Matts book isnt a blowbyblow recounting of this bizarre and disturbing election season but the wider temperature of the seeming collapse of the american democracy. Matt will talk about his book and read a section from the book, too, and then you have a chance to ask questions and get your book sign. So we have copies up front and we encourage you to pick up a book that allows us to do this great event and support independent publishing and book stores. Just a little bit of our tie matt is the autho