Director of the documentary. He is the author of to swing through the sky a musical theater piece about the twin histories of jazz and powered flight. He was a longtime member of the wright experience team and was executive director of the discovery flight foundation. Paul is a graduate of Washington University in st. Louis with a degree in visual arts. In addition to aviation history and documentary film making, his career covers classical drawing, s. T. E. M. Education, exhibit design and photography. With that, id like to turn the stage over to paul and thank you all again so much for coming tonight. [ applause ] hello. Thank you so much for having me. Can everybody see me okay . Hear me okay . Great. Great. Let me make sure i turn this thing on correctly. Okay. Thank you, kathy, and to everyone at Smithsonian Associates for having me back. Im very happy to be here. Again, and share this story with you. Its, i think, a its a really fun story in a local kind of a way. Its a story of
Constructive. It needs funds to help reduce a crippling total debt of 130 billion. The streets of hong kong, demonstrators clashing with police for a 16th consecutive weekend. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. Seeing u. S. Futures gaining ground,. 5 . This after the s p 500 lost ground on friday. We have seen stocks higher throughout the session. The we got reports that chinese delegation in the u. S. Had canceled their visit to u. S. Farms. That led markets lower. We had trade sensitive stocks, like consumer stocks and tech, leading the declines. The nasdaq fell the most in over two weeks. After the close, we saw local media reports in china that the cancellation of those trips to u. S. Farms had nothing to do with trade negotiations. Perhaps risk on sentiment being felt across the market. Treasuries rallied throughout the week. 10 year yields now at the moment at 172 level. Lets see how things are shaping up in asia. Japan markets are closed on holiday, but the
Are you doing a lot of prep work . Im doing some. Ive seen people do so much prep work that when they get out there, they cant speak. Ive seen that. Is someone playing hillary in your no, no. I havent done that. Do you plan to have mock sessions where someone does . I hadnt planned on it. I never did it before. And youre definitely going to do all three of these debates . As of this moment, yeah. What could cause you to change your mind . You say as of this moment. What could cause you to change your mind . Hurricanes, natural disaster. I expect to do all three. Only an act of god . No, i look forward to the debates. I think its an important element of what were doing. I think we have an on ligation to do the debates. I did them with the other cases, we had i guess 11 debates. I look forward to the debates. They came out with the moderators. Are you happy with those . I like them, i respect the moderators. So lets talk to sara murray following the Trump Campaign and dan mare a on Hilla