President of the United States. [applause] election 1976, the Democratic National convention. Your host is political analyst Richard Scammon. Richard this is Richard Scammon in washington. With me are professor howard honeyman of Howard University Howard Penniman of Yorktown University and mr. Stephen hess of the brookings institution. We want to discuss the Democratic Convention. We will do the Republican Convention at a later time when that meeting has been finished. But perhaps before we do either of the detailed discussions on these conventions, we want to spend at least a few minutes talking about the basic purpose of an American National president ial nominating convention. One observer has said these conventions are real ideological struggles told as circuses. We know the main purpose is to nominate a candidate for president. But Howard Penniman, beyond that, how can we briefly describe the process of an American Convention . Howard the National Convention is the time of the nom
Remains shut down this evening as police try to negotiate with a barricaded suspect who pulled a gun on an exterminator, a Police Spokesman said. Police responded to reports of a person with a gun in the 500 block of valencia street between 16th and 17th streets at 1 55 p. M. , according to Police Spokesman sgt. Michael andraychak. The call came in after someone doing pest control work in the building went to an apartment. The apartments resident pulled a gun and the exterminator fled, andraychak said. The suspect is now barricaded there and police are working with hostage negotiators to get the person to surrender. All vehicular and pedestrian traffic is shut down on valencia street. Residents in the area have been ordered to shelterinplace, police said. The closure of the busy thoroughfare is causing heavy traffic in the area. San Francisco Municipal Railway buses are being rerouted. Independent movie venue the roxie theater wrote on twitter that they were in the shelterinplace area,
This one is blocked and returned for the touchdown. [cheers] brian all right. We will discuss all these stories but, first this. A fox news alert. The urgent manhunt underway right now after an Arkansas Police officer is shot and killed. Steve its just a terrible story. Letarius howard is suspected of opening fire outside a motel in west helena near the mississippi border. Police were looking for him in a separate shooting. Is he considered at this hour armed and dangerous ainsley. Ainsley yes. And then also, overnight, two North Carolina Police Officers were shot while they were trying to break up a fight at a nightclub. Four other people were also shot. All are expected to be okay. Two suspects are now in custody. Brian its unbelievable. The lack of sanctity when it comes to our officers is just out of control. And there seems to be a wild west attitude in this country right now. I dont know whats going to reverse it. I will tell you the whole defund the cops thing i couldnt think of
Good morning. Welcome to squawk box. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe kernen. Becky is on assignment today. Our newsmaker of the day, Morgan Stanley ceo james goreman will joan is live at 7 15 eastern time. Weve got a lot to discuss with him about the fate of that bank and wall street. In the meantime, lets get you up to speed on the days stories. The big one, china aes economy rebounding in the final quarter of to 12. Growth to 7. 9 , up from 7. 4 the appreciate quarter. Economists do caution, though, that a chinese recovery is likely to be gradual and weak to drive a global rebound without improvement in the u. S. And europe. Also, the fate of dozens of hostages in algeria is still unknown. The algerian military stormed a gas field where the workers were being held. Six people if not more are believed to have been killed. A team of experts from boeing and the aviation experts are arriving in japan today. Today the japan Transportation Safety board released a picture of the batter
Have the rights talk actually keeps us from allout war. Because if you think that this is actually murder, you dont say i respect your right to murder. It would be like saying im against slavery, but i respect your right to have a slave. Right. Howard with so many prochoice voices on the air, are journalists covering both sides . Chris wallace moderates a town hall debate tonight with Pete Buttigieg, and hes here to talk about why more democrats are coming on fox while others slam the network. And why is mayor bill de blasio drawing so much media mockery . The attorney general orders an investigation into whether the fbis early surveillance of the Trump Campaign and russia was improper. This is huge news, a colossal step forward for equal justice and equal application under our laws. This whole idea that the president s going to demand investigations of the investigators, demand investigations of his political enemies, its, you know, not the distaupic future anymore. Were living throug