Conagra, just like General Mills yesterday, down 8. 6 for one of the worst performances today. Down today. That is being acquired. Coming up later this hour, i will speak to atlantic investment president and cio. We will have the value versus growth rotation discussion. Guy absolutely. Looking forward to that one. European stocks just in positive territory. They sold off midmorning and have been climbing back ever since. The pound has spent most of the day positive, but has since sold off. Boris johnson was saying it was a million to one shot that we get a hard brexit. We continue to see a bid on the bow and. We are not quite at record lows or record highs on prices, but we are awfully close. Vonnie i will tell you where we are awfully close, and that is in tokyo. G20 leaders meeting this weekend with investors watching for the outcomes of bilateral discussions on the sidelines of the event, in particular between President Trump and president xi , which takes place saturday morning. We
Smiths election interference case against former president donald trump. We will hear from the former president speaking to reporters about his ongoing new york city trial, while visiting a local Convenience Store in upper manhattan. Later, President Biden making a Campaign Stop in his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. Before this up in court and its implications, Kimberly Robinson with bloomberg law. She covers the Supreme Court. Thanks for giving us your time. Guest thanks for having me on. Host can you set up who this case is being brought by and those locations regarding january 6 . Guest this case was brought by a former who breached the capitol on january 6, 2021, or at least is alleged to have done that. He is one of many january 6 defendants who are challenging a specific charge that prosecutors brought against about 1 in 4 defendants. This particle or charge is one of the more serious charges the doj has used and carries a pretty hefty sentence of 20 years in jail. Many of t
Could you set up who the case is being brought by . It is brought by a former Police Officer who breached the capital on january 6, 2021 or is alleged to have done that. He is one of many defendants challenging a charge prosecutors brought against one in four defendants. Ants. This particle or charge is one of the more serious charges the doj has used and carries a pretty hefty sentence of 20 years in jail. Many of the january 6 defendants who have this charge brought against them are saying that prosecutors overreached when they brought it, and that is the issue. Host they center on the topic of federal obstruction and the statute being used to prosecute some of those. Can you describe what that is and how it is usually applied . Guest so this was a broad law passed in the wake of the 2007 financial scandals. It was really passed in order to have it evidenced instruction by companies prohibit evidence destruction by companies. The broad point of the law was to stop evidence destructio
For Donald Trumps hush money trial. Several jurors were let go yesterday, saying they could not be impartial. House Speaker Mike Johnson is set to reveal a package of bills for aid, a move already meeting resistance from some republicans. Heres how you can comment on either or both of those topics. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. If you want to give your thoughts on either the former president s trial or efforts to find ukraine and israel and want to text us, you can do that at 202 7488003. You can post on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Or you can post on x, cspanwj. From the bbc, kind of a round up of yesterdays events in new york considering the former president and his hush money trial. They report dozens of potential jurors have been ruled out of Donald Trumps unprecedented trial on impartiality grounds. Just ahead of the 2016 election, which he won. 60 of 96 potential jurors were quick to say they couldnt be impartial after the procee
For the naacp Legal Defense fund. The organization that i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. And so i want to give a little bit of hello . I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year. But worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood russo was the first black school sup superintendent in selma, alabama [ applause ] thank you. In 1987. When he arrived, selma was a very integrated School System. The selma city schools were incredibly integrated. They had, though, what is called inSchool Segregation. They had a tracking system where the majority of africanamerican students were in level three or