On the director on the center here at religion and culture director of the center of religion and culture. Coverage by our friends at cspan for this event tonight. Sharp, try to behave. Put yourself ones on mute. Feel free to tweak the event as you like. Maybe even our president will be tweeting the event at some point. It seems hes more interested in general in other manners. Of this to conceive Program Shortly after mr. Trump on thected last november Famous Campaign slogan make America Great again. We are taking something of a risk by having this program, because we were betting in the course of one year he would not in fact have achieved his goal, an achievement that would have made this evenings discussion. Oot it does seem the issue of National Greatness is still very much in play and in our case very much in doubt. Nationalism, a service of naked hatred garrity, rampant. Ropaganda they are all problems that if anything have gotten worse. Is operating thesis shouldnt donald trump,
Back to shareholders. Shell divests its oil sands, investments for 7. 5 billions and agrees to buy Marathon Oil Canada in a joint deal with canadian natural. Cnbc speaks to Ben Van Beurden at 19 10. And altice shares move higher boosted by u. S. Growth. Well be speaking with ceo Michael Combes at 10 30 cet. Good morning. It is ecb day, the day before the jobs number in the u. S. Excitement and on the back of the super strong adp employment figure we had yesterday. Blew it out of the water. The fed hike next week is baked in the cake. It would take a lot for them not to hike. The jobs report tomorrow is about how many more hikes will we get in 2017. Thats the key focal point. Then we have some interesting news, akzo nobel shares soaring after rejecting a bid from Ppg Industries. They say they received an unsolicited proposal which undervalues the company. Akzo nobel says it is reviewing Strategic Options to separate its Specialty Chemicals business. It will consider alternative ownershi
Right . And then there was the remarkable sight on the campus at Harvard University yesterday at a forum featuring top trump and clinton aides. An event held every four years and usually a civil affair where former rivals come together to get debriefed about the election. This year, it devolved into shouting matches over the popular vote, the media, and the race itself or the issue of race, especially when it topic of trump Senior Adviser Stephen Bannon came up. He gets held to a standard that none of these other folks are held to. If providing a platform for White Supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, im glad to have lost. Give me a minute, david. Im more proud of Hillary Clintons altright speech than any other moment on the campaign because she had the courage to stand up. I would rather lose than win the way you guys did. No, you wouldnt. No, you wouldnt. Thats very clear today, no, you wouldnt. Do you think i ran a camplain where White Supremacists had a platform . It did. K