Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca
Rotc program from the university of texas was 1981. Hes been serving his country long and very well, despite his youthful appearance, hes been at it for quite a while. We look forward to a rich conversation today at the end of which well be able to handle some of your questions if you wish to email us. I will transmit some of those questions to the general. But, first, were going to hear from him with some opening thoughts on the state of the guard and on its health and admiral and much appreciated help in responding to the covid crisis in the United States. That will not be our only topic. This will be an opportunity to think more broadly about the guard and its role in the nations force at this very difficult moment in our history with the return of Great Power Competition and other challenges around the globe. General, thank you again for joining us. Without further adieu, over to you, my friend. Michael, thank you. Thank you to brookings for having me on today to talk about the Nat
Instructed the u. S. Navy to shoot down and destroy iranian gun boats if they harass or ships at sea obviously thats a policy, thats going to make it so that anyone who is short oil theres so many people short oil, might say its worth covering here. I had a big win. Its geopolitical, the fact theres a failed instrument out there called the uso, i say its failed because its not been able to handle the selling yeah. Executing a 1 for 8 reverse. Are they really we talked about the usa more th than we ever have. Some things should have never been created, the uso was blessed when the s. E. C. Not around, people lose money, but theres no constituency that says you cant lose money. What do you make of the general notion that the president s tweet aside that some of the results last night were better than feared. You have a list of companies now that have been able to either sell a stake privately or through secondaries and well get to that in a moment. Plus the Senate Package making progress
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan at post 9 of the new york stock exchange. Jon fortt has the day off. Weve cut our losses in half since the open, although oil is approaching below 42 know v now as the opec meeting continues. Well begin with the mornings markets, the dow falling again but well off the lows, down about 380 points. Mark mahane knjoins us live alo with mark just in the internet space, the fact that so many investors are trying to game out what the impact here of covid19 could actually be on the sector. How are you gauging, how are you assessing risk versus reward within your coverage okay. We had a pretty significant data point this week. We had the ceo or the cfo of Companies Like uber, lyft, and Google Alphabet all present at an Investor Conference this week i think what we heard from all of them is not yet a Material Impact lyft said they were seeing a small positive impact because people were leaving Public Transport
Triple digits. The s p 500 and the nasdaq in the red. Walgreens is jumping on renewed reports that kkr has made an offer to take the Pharmacy Market giant i covered the 25 feet from the exchanges desk over here in about a minute and a half. I havent lost a step. Boeing shares having their best day since june after the company upgraded its progress on returning the 377 max to the skies. Phil has the developing story. Hi, phil lets run down the time line that boeing put out this morning. Looks at december and january. Those are the crucial months for the max getting back in the air. In december what the company is planning is that you have faa certification. Once that happens youll resume deliverie deliveries in january they expect the Pilot Training rules to be set and then depending on which carriers are ready, they could resume commercial flights by the end of january. Southwest and american, two of the Larger Airlines around the world that have the max in their fleet. They both said