early on in the day. dowver, not enough for the and the s&p to reach new records here. investors are going through earnings news once again, a lot of corporate news, and they are weighing against valuations for the s&p 500. take a look at bloomberg here. $22.08. s&p has gained more this year, so there are some about the possibility of companies in the u.s., being enough to sustain those valuations. that is something investors will be waiting on a macro basis as we go through this earnings season. one of the top corporate stories today does not have to do with earnings it has to do with m&a. we are watching verizon and yahoo! on this news that vonnie and david mentioned that verizon and yahoo! are in one-on-one talks, a $5 billion acquisition. it is not clear if they will indeed get them, but it looks like it could, and it could happen early next week. at&t also announced earnings today, trailing analysts estimates, but the shares are moving higher. perhaps not the winning
image a bit, and i released it to our work force yesterday. so many people went online to look at the new video. we crashed the system. we had to start over again. but it will be released publicly today. i hope everybody here will take a look at it. with that, david, back over to you. thank you, sir. i m going to do the ceremonial softball opening, then we ll go to brian bennett, julie davis, julie edwards, mark thompson, aaron kelley, and john stanton to start. a long line up. that should keep us going for awhile. i want to ask you how the threat has evolved during your time in office and what further changes you think are needed at dhs to deal with it. you had a fascinating conversation, i thought a fascinating conversation with the times last week. you talked about the rise of isil and the rise of terror-inspired attack where the operative may not have met another single other member. never received a direct the order. you said that makes more a for complicated t
to douglas and back again. i suspect that a few of you are trying to survive this afternoon after a late-night. you know who you are. [laughter] but however you got here, you made it. you made it. today, you join a long line of scarlet knights, whose energy and intellect have left this lifted this university to heights that the founders could not have imagined. 250 years ago, when america was still just an idea, a charter from the royal government, ben franklin s son, established queens college. a few years later, handful of students gathered in a converted tavern for the first class. from that first class at a pub, rutgers has evolved into one of the finest research institutions in america. [applause] it is a place where you 3-d print prosthetic hands for children and devise rooftop wind arrays that can power entire office buildings with clean, renewable energy. every day, tens of thousands of students come here to this melting pot where ideas and cultures flow together am
[indiscernible] [indiscernible] [laughter] rep. nolan: i could not be very sure. although when i read it again [indiscernible] $1 million of taxpayer money for public television. we brought down the costs that way. i really don t know in.ll put my heart and soul that s a hard question. conversations] transparency regulation. are there a lot of willlicans out there that vote for this issue? rep. jolly: i don t think this is a partisan issue. you have a lot of messages on tv where you did not know who was accounting. what if you have legislation that said any outside group has to get the approval of one of the registered candidates? at least then the voters have .ccountability for the message but the problem is that creates unlimited coordination. i thought the was something there, but that can make it worse. you get out and coordinates. i think the american people are frustrated by the luck of transparency. of transparency. is there a message i assume you are ra
we have seen the lords and ladies and in a few moments we will see the cavalry and the human of the guard assembled and ready to welcome the royal party to westminster. what heart of modern what kind of modern message might all of this convey? i spoke to the reverent samples in reverend samuels trafalgar square. parliament demonstrates how we understand power. the people boat and parliament is elected. parliament proposes to make laws in the government party does not impose its will on the population. it doesn t in discussion and it asks the queen to deliver to parliament a description of what it proposes to do that it can be made accountable for. not would say that is naive, but a rose tinted version of democracy. an aspirational version of democracy but that is how it works in practice. when a party wins an election it does not ride roughshod over the rest of the population. the queen presided over her first state opening in letting 52 and has attended all but
twitter.com/c-span. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] announcer: american history tv programs are airing prime time on c-span3. a three-day vietnam war summit from the lyndon b. johnson andon b. johnson library, retrospective on the conflict. tonight, the first major engagement on the war and then the soldiers battle after the war with sieve physical and psychological try,, and a conversation with henry kissinger. kissinger: a president who has been known with being concerned about domestic policy, and a division of the country that has lasted to this day. announcer: tuesday, how america was divided over the work, and then by the time we got four or five decades away, where historical triangulation can actually take lace, when you can have the distance and perspective necessary not to just make a reactive or jo
[cheering and applause] pres. obama: hello, rutgers. [cheering and applause] thank you so much everybody, please have a seat. thank you for the introduction. let me congratulate my extraordinarily worthy fellow honorary scarlet knights. dr. cornell and bill moyers. matthew, good job. [laughter] if you are interested, we can talk after this. [laughter] [applause] one of the perks of my job is honorary degrees. [laughter] i have to tell you, it impresses nobody in my house. [laughter] now malia and sasha say, ok, dr. dad, see you later. can we have some money? [laughter] to the board of governors and chairman brown, the lieutenant governor, mayor cahill, mayor waller, members of congress, rutgers administrators, staff, and family. thank you for the honor of joining you at the 250th anniversary of this remarkable institution. [cheering and applause] most of all, congratulations to the class of 2016. [cheering and applause] i come here for a simple reason, to finally settle this
facebook.com/c-span. we are live from the skylight cleveland.roup in it is day three of the republican national convention. start filing in. give us your thoughts about how this is all going here in cleveland. first, back to washington and peter slen. this is how last night s nomination of donald trump is playing across the country. dispatch he columbus from the capital of ohio. .rump is the choice also, the cincinnati enquirer. 2016.fficial: trump for a jubilant celebration places trump atop the ticket. the new york post has nothing related. they are on the roger ailes story. withwall street journal trump wins gop nomination. there are his kids with the new york delegation. today. is usa it s official: the outsider is in. below that, more ink on the melania trump plagiarism story. here is the washington post this morning. they also have the roger ale story right below that and they also have a story about hillary clinton. kaine seen as top running mates for clin
for mountain and specific. pacific. retta bronner is going to the news. wall street journal reports that 35,000 to 50,000 protesters are expected in philadelphia. yesterday on the evil the convention about 1000 protesters supporting bernie sanders went to the streets. take a look at what they were chanting. dnc, we won t vote for hillary. , dnc, we won t vote for hillary. sanders also took over the official welcoming party by the democratic national convention. this is what they were shouting at that gathering last night. center supporters took this over. sanders supporters took this over. vote for bernie. delegates of the dnc by the way. roll call vote is with the protesters what the bernie sanders supporters had to say. they want a rollcall of the states to happen at the convention, all because of the fallout from those wikileaks e-mails. complaints throughout the what they believe was favoritism. the chair of best debbie wasserman schultz is stepping down
america, don t boo. private is better. that s our show tonight. private s better? that doesn t sound right to people. private seems selfish, secretive. by contrast, public or government-run sounds like sharing. we are all in this together. i have this phone because it was invented without government. first they had to give the developers permission. government was barely aware people were working on this thing. permissionless innovation is a beautiful thing. to the author of this book, this permissionless innovation that brought us google, facebook, the phone, is threatened now? it is, john. there are a lot of efforts to impose permission-based. john: drones, they are inventing all kinds of things but the government says you can t do it news get an faa license. there are hypothetical worst cases that could occur, and they end up basing policies off the worst case scenarios. if you base it off worst case scenarios, you will never get the best case scenarios. john: they wei