Youre welcome to the pulse live in london. Our top story. Chinas secondquarter gdp beat estimates. Rising 7 from a year earlier. 7 , a, im always a skeptic. Coming in bang in line with what they wanted to achieve. What are these numbers . Andy you are right to be skeptic. It is a bit like last year. We had a slow start to the year. And a slow first couple months, but now it has picked up again. Exports being better. Consumers are back into the game. House prices recovered. It was enough to get gdp up to that 7 figure. Ill gveive your one anecdote. Cinema sales boomed, which gives an indication that the high street is actually spending a bit. Manus a take away from that is buy popcorn. Does it mean where in for a better second half . These numbers are better than the market hoped for. It depends on whether there is more rate cuts and more support given by this administration. Enda it does. One wild card we have is the stock market. We know the story about the huge gains in june. Then we
Kong. In newi am betty liu york. We had breaking news on anthem and their bid for cigna. It is being blocked by a judge as anticompetitive. For sigma blocked by a judge as anticompetitive. Next, they will be fighting over the 1. 85 billion breakup fee. Remainses decision sealed for now. We do not know the reasons why it was ruled anticompetitive it is really a costly ruling for anthem. Yvonne it could be a bitter battle. Lets talk about the senate beginning the confirmation vote of Jeff Sessions as attorney general. It was always the democrats trying to stop the nomination, aw it is the gop taking after after the speech they tried to bar her from giving. Then it went viral. We will continue to watch what goes on there on the senate floor. Betty the hearings have been surprisingly interesting to watch. They are normally not this exciting. Nothing has been normal from the start of his administration. It has been contentious all around. Episode leanede the whole discussion. Stalling for 4
The great tragedies of american kennan that cannon was not listened to by the policymakers in 1960 when we. Ecided to go to war jamesired army general gavin presents his views on the vietnam war. This was broadcast of your he 8,e, broadcast february 1966. He was the only general to parachute four times with his troops in combat. He was u. S. Ambassador to france for the first two years of the kennedy administration. This is the first 70 minutes of hearing. Day within of the the Eisenhower Administration over possible United States involvement. He served under general ridgeway then army chief of staff as the assistant chief of staff of plans and operations. Whos one of them leading military strategist in postwar. Although hes now in private industry hannahs remained a thoughtful observer and commentator on military strategy in the nuclear age. General gavin has served his country very well and has a right to enjoy his retirement. We need his advice where there are very few people with h
Postwar. Although he is now in private industry, he has remade of thoughtful observer and commentator on military strategy in the nuclear age. Gavin has served his country barrel well very well and has a right to enjoy his retirement. But we need his advice, for there are very few people in his experience. Elieve we are constructed confronted with momentous decisions in the near future, and i need not tell you general gavin, with the subject matter of these decisions involves very this committee is trying to explore certain aspects of our policies come upon which you can throw some light. So that the judgment of our people in this committee may be as wise as possible. Not a novel or new approach, it is a traditional role which are systematized to the senate, and the senate is dedicated to this. To be reviewed by the senate as a whole and by the country. We have many precedents for this inquiry, one of the most effective and listing which leaders of the senate. That the center has ever
Test. Test. Test. Test. I did not say withdraw, retreat, go ahead, attack, do anything else. We must do the best we have with what we have. Keeping in mind the true meaning of global strategy and World Affairs today. Economics, science, technology will in the long run serve as a strategic plan. On the other hand, tactical mistakes if theyre allowed to escalate at the initiation of an enemy could be disastrously costly. The confrontation in vietnam is the first test of the understanding of such change or a lack of it. The measures that we now take in Southeast Asia must stem from segasity, thoughtfulness, restraint, natures restraint in a shrinking world and that is right from the letters that i wrote to harpers. Mr. Chairman, perhaps at this point i might say nothing further. I am pleased to have an opportunity to answer any questions that may be addressed to me. Thank you very much, general. I think your review of the overall strategy is very useful. Speaking for myself, not being a m