Welcome to power lunch. Im courtney reagan. Lets get a check on the markets this hour. A cautious day on the street stocks trading in a narrow range. The dow managed to hit an intraday high earlier, but now were in the red across the board for the three major averages with the dow down about 21 points, the nasdaq composite leading way lower by half a percent. Oil also tanking this hour secretary of state pompeo says iran is ready to negotiate about its Missile Program. The final trade details are straight ahead brian. Big oil story im sure well get more. Thank you very much. We have a lot to do. Lets kick off this hour from news from washington where else where once again, President Trump sparking new uncertainty about any kind of a trade deal with china that happening in just the last hour Kayla Tausche is following it. As the president s top trade officials prepare to continue negotiations over the phone and possibly in person later this month, President Trump was ambiguous when spea
Leading usbased efforts. You can find all of the results including the findings on american attitude toward space force. You can find that at cspan. Org. Six, five, four, three, two, one, 0. Lift off, we have a liftoff. 32 minutes past the hour. Liftoff on apollo 11. 50 years ago this morning at 8 32 a. M. Eastern time apollo 11 launched from pat a 39 at the Kennedy Space center important. It began its journey to the moon, four days later Neil Armstrong will be the first man to walk on the lunar surface. The remainder of the program we will hear from you about the legacy of theil apollo 11 missin and talk to you as members of congress of space and Technology Committee about amicus priority for space expiration in the future of nasa. Heres how you can get in touch with us. Share your thoughts with our phone linesur by region if youe the eastern or central time zone its two at 27,488,000 phone back or mounds or pacific, 202 7488001. As we take you up to Capitol Hill Office building we ar
The us open. He is hardly a household name but he has had and is interesting journey. And matt taylor . If you are fed up of rain, more downpours to come, particularly for Eastern England tomorrow night. Where is the summer . I will tell you more in the next half an hour. Also coming up can you have a naughty corner in the oval office . It isa it is a fantastic financial statement. Lets do that over, he is coughing in the middle of my answer, i dont like that. If you get a cough, please leave the room. His views on germs are well known. Well tell you how the president reacted to that cough, during a television interview. Hello, everyone, this is afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Boris johnsons campaign to become conservative leader and Prime Minister received a boost this morning with the endorsement of the Health Secretary, matt hancock, who said mrjohnson was best placed to re unite the fractured party. Matt hancock dropped out of the race last week. He made his announcement after the
Potential retreat. American history tv. History bookshelves, the biography of influential conservative writer russell kirk. This was recorded at the 2016 Chicago Tribune book fest. [applause] good morning, everybody. I love the smell of books in the morning and its great to be around a bunch of friends who feel the same way. Its my pleasure to help kick fest. Days day of lit its my great pleasure to rzer, theradley j bi russell kirk famous american conservative. Bradley came over this morning from southcentral michigan, made the journey, and is here to talk about his book about russell kirk. One of the first questions for lots of people is who is russell kirk . The man undoubtedly cast a very large shadow over american political and intellectual thought in the latter half of the 20th century. It could be argued he still does. Yet, russell kirk is not a name that is much known these days or much invoked these days. Your book does many things but marvelousd serve as a bracing introductio
S p 500 hitting record levels. Were about ten points below our intraday high. Trying to close at a record high for the first time in more than eight months all three avrnls on track for a Third Straight week of gains we begin this hour in washington President Trump explaining why he called off a strike against iran just minutes before it was scheduled. Eamon javers has the latest from the white house. Thats right. The president sat down with chuck here and went through his thinking last night as he contemplated the idea of issue ing the order to begin this attack on iran heres what he said. I said how many people are going to be killed sir, id like to get back to you on that. Great people, these generals came back, said sir. Approximately 150. And i thought about it for a second they shot down an unmanneded drone, plane, b whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go aahead and i di