Commission on civil rights issued a statement condemning last weekends violence in trouble its it proposed amendment to that statement condemning violence by counterprotesters was also supposed but voted down. This is one hour. On thelieve we have telephone, but i would like you commissioner. Are you present . Yes, i am. Thank you. I am having button trouble already. A quorum of the commissioners is present. The Court Reporter is present. The meeting now comes to order. We are here to propose the agenda for the meeting. I am going to ask for amendments. First, i would like to remove the discussion and vote on lgbtq employment report. Some commissioners have asked for additional time to review the report. Second, i would like to amend to add considerations for a statement entitled the u. S. Commission on civil rights condemns the administrations the lee terry ban on transgender individuals. I would like to also add a statement from. There any other part most are there any other proposed
The president will be addressing military strategy in afghanistan, shortly. In u. S. Dy the largest history. Betty good morning, folks. It has been another busy news day, not least because half the country was watching the solar eclipse. In the meantime, as we are awaiting the president and his speech on afghanistan, we had many lieutenants are talking again about policy. Was one, the treasury secretary at an event in kentucky with mitch mcconnell, and he was talking about tax reform, and one of the most contentious areas of tax reform is the carried interest, which President Trump had noted is a carried interest break for the 1 . He noted on the trail i am going to pull it. A little bit of a turnaround for mnuchin. They said they would that to continue the carried interest for funds that create jobs. The hedge funds are evil. Get rid of them before the other funds that actually create let us keep them. He struck a different tone. Let me play this for you guys. Permanent is a lot bette
Column, theres your equity indexes, down for the first. Ime, led by the ftse ,enmark, iceland, switzerland all the currencies are rising against the dollar today, led by the sterling, up by three quarters. 4 10 of 1 , we are seeing long bond yields gaining across europe, belgium, france, austria, switzerland. Those are the final two columns. Just want to talk about some of the individual movers today. This is royal phillips, the Dutch Company that has agreed to put a majority stake in to its lighting for the Apollo Global management. A cutprice deal valued at roughly two billion dollars. Phillips will receive cash proceeds of 1. 5 billion for preferred equity for the 80 . Their shares are barely changed. Blocking the plan to go scale capital in china and in january. Thathief executive says accepting a lower premium offer from the u. S. Private equity firm makes sense as it is a safer bet. Macro data in the u. K. Including house prices where asking prices for homes fell nationally in de
, sitting in jail . The 23yearold has permission to live in work in the United States under president obamas daca program thats deferred action for childhood removals. His lawyers call his detention unprecedented and unjustified. Well also go to a Unitarian Church in denver, where an immigrant mother of four has taken sanctuary. Has taken refuge. Things it system could break me, the system is wrong. Fighting sowhy i am hard. I know that i am not alone. There are many people in the immigrant community that share my anger and my passion for justice. Amy finally, who is alex acosta. Pike whopeak to alan says that the nominee has skeletons in his closet, too. All that in more, coming up. Democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Goodman. [503]trump unhinged press conference President Donald Trump assailed the media and defended his administration as a finetuned machine thursday, in a combative and rambling News Conference at the white house. For 77 minutes
He has met the president of china a number of times. Welcome. You may china a particular area of interest for yourself. What do you think the chinese are expecting and what do they hope to accomplish. Tom it is the most important diplomatic meeting that President Trump has had so far in his presidency. On the chinese side, their have ah would be to successful meeting. Indeed moving forward towards the fall when the chinese leadership change takes place. That sethave changes the next five years of president xi jinpings tenure. They were want to operate effectively on the international stage. He will try to get this on the does not havee conflict or crisis until the end of the year. Charlie he is looking ahead to october . Tom that is exactly right. He will select the leadership for the next five years. He will certainly want to avoid any sharp trade conflict between keeping the, chinese economy on track to meet its growth and other goals. The one thing that could take with off track is