These critical times with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the European Union stating wednesday that it will impose economic sanctions against russia after russian Opposition Leader alexei no bawly a corruption investigator and longtime opponent of russian president Vladimir Putin was reportedly poisoned with a nerve agent now according to German Authorities no bawly is in germany and is now recovering this week e. U. Foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on russian officials fish tales and organizations blame for the poisoning these sanctions according to Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov are not surprising and could lead to further economic strains between the 2. The question is not just whether business as usual is possible but with the any business with the European Union is possible a tool the e. U. Behaves arrogantly towards us and looks condescendingly down with russia demanding answers from us for all the crimes it imagines we
And then the secretary 1864. Of war set aside 200 acres to become a national cemetery. By the end of the civil war there were 15,000 union and confederate soldiers buried here and general john logan. Established Decoration Day, she which he declared may 30 of every year. The idea that was throughout the country people would visit the graves and place flowers. Decoration day became a more memorial day. It became so popular that in 1873, quartermaster general Montgomery Meigs designed Decoration Day ceremonies. In time that became such a small venue, because every year thousands of people would show up to arlington. One year we found that 25,000 showed up to decorate the graves. 1913 congress authorized this moria memorial we are standing in. In 1950 as part of the laying of the cornerstone, this memorabilia box was placed by woodrow wilson. He laid the first stone which now brings us to the memorabilia box and its history. Ms. Smith when the memorial amphitheater began construction in 1
New york city for bloomberg television. All eyes on cleveland, ohio. Jon ferro, i dont know your history with cleveland, ohio besides the best Football Team on the planet, but this debate tonight will be a battle. It will be interesting to see just in the first 10 minutes how the debate agains the debate begins. Jonathan jonathan my association with cleveland is lebron james. Did i do that right . Tom you nailed that. Jonathan we can explore that another time. In the markets, i am not sure what the implications or conflict once is actual or consequent is actually are. The nearterm risk, the number one is that we dont have an outcome november 4. If we get a clear lead and joe biden really solidifies that in the debate tonight, is that risk on . Do you fade the volatility off the back of that without really considering the policy implications of a democratic sweep . I think that might be a step too far, but i am trying to work through those issues with a series of guests. We continue to
Though and that is the fact that for Unemployment Benefits a large expanded during this downturn during that for obvious reasons as well and its funny when that happens it makes it very difficult to compare the unemployment numbers. Because were doing very Different Things so that you have lost if you have the same as youve been as youve unemployment before and the same kind of benefits what kind of train starting point would we have seen over concourse odds that question but it is clear we are much much higher so it makes a comparison very very difficult but so as long as you have those use that image ability requirements and larger payouts and the covert partial shutdowns of this were going to carol see high unemployment has come through so that is not going to change anytime soon i think as long as this situation goes on will concurrency well especially of these sectors are already struggling and looks like a lot of these employees arent coming back and theyre having more and more l
Struggle for equality in education. Without further ado, would you welcome Anne Gardiner perkins, the author. Can you get us started by telling us a little bit about your book, yale meets women. Absolutely. And the history of coeducation in this country. Coeducation in the ivy league in particular. Terrific. Thank you so much, mark. This is so exciting. Over the next hour we are all going to explore together that moment in americas history when yale and its peers, when americas most prestigious colleges, finally admitted women students. For those of you who havent read the book yet, that moment was just 50 years ago. Close enough that we can touch it, which is why we are so lucky tonight to be able to include elizabeth spawn and connie roster, two of yells first women undergraduates, in our program. But before i begin, two thanks are in order. First of all too mark schmidt and the museum whove been terrific sponsors. Its delightful to work with you, mark. I know that in my community ho