Should College Athletes be paid outside their scholarships . If your answer is yes, we want to hear from you at 202 74880 00. If your answer is no, College Athletes should not be paid outside scholarships, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. Oryou are a College Athlete you are a former College Athlete who are you are in the family of a former or current College Athlete, we especially want to know what you think at 202 7488002. You can always text us your answer at chilly8003 202 748 and we are always 202 7488003. We are also on facebook and cspanwj. There was a hearing on capitol hill this week where the ncaa president discussed what the ncaa is doing on the issue of compensation for student athletes. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] there are legitimate concerns being expressed about the fundamental fairness of our system. We share those concerns. We agree student athletes should be allowed to benefit from their ,ame, image and likeness, nil and we are in the process of ide
Joining us from new york this morning, antoine hope, hes a Senior Research scholar at columbia universitys center on Global Energy policy. Here to talk about oil prices. While were experiencing these tensions with iran. So, mr. Hope, lets begin with the history of the United States getting its oil from the middle east. Tell us about that. Right. Well, the volumes that are imported from the middle east have decreased dramatically in the last few years with the increase in election. But, in fact, the middle east has never accounted for very dramatic share of u. S. Imports. There was a time when there were significant imports from saudi arabia, from kuwait. The reason why the u. S. Has been playing the key role in keeping the shipping lanes safe in the gulf is not all about imports into its own country, its about the stability of the market as a whole. What is how is the market handling u. S. And iran tensions . Its been quite remarkable. There hasnt been much of a reaction. There was a k
Concern in the armed forces for many years. But it has come tofo the forefrt again especially with the misuse of social media to post nude photographs and unseemly conduct. On mrp 14th they issued a policy giddance in which ill quote a small portion of it. Marines represent the marine corp at all times and their speech and conduct must consistently embody or core values and commitment to each other. They must never engage on social meturicing platforms or other kmieks that harm good ordered and discipline or bring discredit to themselves, their unit or the marine corp. The times magazine talked about it. It creates no new laws, under scoring the legal quagmire posed by the internet and constraints by military leaders posed by privacy laws and rights of free speech. I think we all know free speech has limits. Certainly neither civilians nor military members can post threats, various kinds on the internet, cant break copyrights engage in what are those restrictions . I think we have thre
Coffers were looking at politics in the u. S. Firmly. This is what the data is telling us, you can see stocks in Europe Holding high. A global rally pretty much saying the same as yesterday. It did pick up speed a little bit. Concernedares were about what is happening in north korea with the artillery drills but that also did little to ruffle financial feathers. Gold down a touch as well. Riskonn the mood mood. Donald trump calling for tax cuts to individuals and lowering the corporate rate 15 . From plans to make public the broader lines of what he plans to change in the tax code with details left until late in the negotiations among officials from the treasury. Stepping downis as head of the National Front party in order to be the candidate for all of the french people. Facesve comes as she centrist Emmanuel Macron on may 7 in a battle between nationalism and globalism. Norons candidate says he is clear policies, he would be here for you are good for europe. In other of unsold london
Macron is being inaugurated as frances new head of state. Well be live in paris for all the live pictures and reaction. In the United States, good morning. It is 5 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. We want to when celcome our vie here in the United States and around the world. Im George Howell live in cnn. And im Hannah Vaughn jones in london. Cnn newsroom starts right now. A live image there in paris, france. Youre looking at the steps in front of the elise palace at 11 00 a. M. In paris. Were expecting Emmanuel Macron to appear beside the outgoing president Francois Hollande. An image well continue to monitor, waiting for this very important moment in france, the changing of leadership in that nation. As we continue to monitor all of these pictures from paris, well obviously go back there as soon as we see the two men emerge. In the meantime, we want to bring you another poimportant t story. The u. S. Says the Ballistic Missile north korea launched early on sunday did not threaten th