Tonight, Hillary Clinton officially accepts her partys nomination, and just minutes from now, were going to speak with one of wall streets biggest backers of the clinton campai campaign, mark lazri. Thats katy perry doing a sound check. Shes wearing a black baseball cap that says hrc for Hillary Rodham clinton. Im assuming you can hear her roar. Right now, in fact. Welcome to the busiest earnings day of the quarter. The dow is down, but apple continuing its solid run. Your big dow laggard right now happens to be boeing, down about 2 . Lets get downtown, and our own bob pisani with a scorecard on earnings season as we officially reach the halfway mark. Bob, how are we doing . The numbers are slowly improving, but still negative. Lets look at the Second Quarter scorecard. The s p 500 as a whole, these are Companies Reporting as well as companies that havent yet reported, what we call the blended earnings rate, down 2. 8 . Thats not good. Its still negative, but its better than it was a f
Here in boston, but this story was too important to be ignored, and this year its even more important still because here is an amazing example of the qualities necessary for a president to take on the role of commanderinchief. May i end . [applause] if any of you would like to buy the book i will happily sign it. I grew up in a small town not by any travel particularly about what books i checked out the local public library. All my life ive been a reader and still want that book in my hand, so im oldfashioned in wanting the hardcopy and im reading at the moment biographies, history, things you might expect to somebody thatss interested in Government Politics to read a. Of this is a new book to be written by arthur herman. Im trying to get it done so i dont have to carry another book i will soon be done with. I was meeting with john meacham describing a book and this is probably the next one on my list the story of two world war ii leaders in britain and the United States and their rela
Things are sorted out and rarely does the majority gets things exactly their own way. Its where the stability can occur and most people dont think that. In the era in which everybody wants instant gratification if you are looking for instant gratification or perfection the senate would be a place for you. Host at the time that Many Americans are not optimistic what would you want those teachers tell their students about their future in this country . Guest i think because of our woeful ignorance of history, we always think the period that we are in is tougher than others. We have had nothing like the civil war. Have. We have and have a single instance where the congressman from South Carolina came over and almost beat to death the senator from massachusetts. They have money and tough challenges. World war, depression. This is a great country. We will deal with whatever our current problems are and move on to another level. I am just as optimistic as i ever was that this generation will
Candidates. But most of the candidates has has a character test. Like senator mccain. Im not sure donald trump does that. He does a lot of time bragging about chasing women, and that he is than everyone else. That is not necessarily lincolnesque. Finally, do you have a sense of who hillary should take as mate . Nning is a lot of names i would be happy with. Elizabeth warren is one of them. Sherrod brown. Tim kaine. Have really solid progressive credentials that would be a real asset. Obviously, Bernie Sanders would be someone who should be on the list. Do you think Hillary Clinton would consider him . I dont know. They have to work that out. She would be smart to want to embrace his success, and how better to do that than by selecting him . But theres also chemistry issues, and personal issues between secretary clinton and sanders. I definitely think he is qualified. Whether she would pick him, we will see. Congressman peter welch, democrat from vermont joining us on capitol hill. Than
What do you have . We want to introduce you to one more student. This is natalie of the Fashion Institute of technology. How did an fit student get to hofstra to attend the president ial debate . Well, i went to Lawrence High School a local high school in long island and my former teacher is very into politics and i was in one of his Public Policy classes and he noticed i have a huge interest in politics. He got this great opportunity and he has been here before at the 2012 debate. He got this great opportunity and was natalie i am taking three students or former students they need to be 18 are you interested and i was like of course i am interest. I have a class monday evenings and told my professor i will do all my work i just really have to take this and he said go do t it is a once in a lifetime chance. Here i am and really excited. This is a picture tweeted out. You interviewings congressman peter king. What are you been doing up there . They are very persistent and go up to every