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Blackwell of policylink and Michael Tanner of the cato institute. Ifill here with us now, as they will be throughout the evening, our own shields and brooks. Syndicated columnist mark shields and New York Times columnist david brooks. 7 so, gentlemen, put on your prognostication hats. What do you expect tonight . It wont be f. D. R. s new deal. Were not looking at the 100 days here. Were looking at modesty, theme of opportunity, discussion of the executive order. Immigration will be bigger, probably a few threats on the debt ceiling somake sure congress doesnt put us in default, but not look at a gigantic agenda. Im most interested in the tone. I think the president a nation that is severely pessimistic, has been now in the wrong direction rather than on the right track for 10 years now. The sense of pesmism is pervasive, and i want to see if the president can connect with people beyond the room tonight. Woodruff is there a defensiveness already setting in with this state of the union
That. But bias for the last half hour or so has been to the downside slightly, but that could change as we go into the hour. And also our own jim cramer is worried. He will join us here in a couple minutes to tell us why he doesnt like some of the patterns hes seeing across the stock market, and it is changing how hes investing. Find out to see what hes doing and why. Also, in arizona this new law that would allow businesses to deny service to gay people may never be signed by the governor because Big Companies are now speaking out against this law. Sending letters to governor brewer. One of those companies is pushing back against the law and will join us on the closing bell today. Lets take stock of markets here. We are seeing small declines across all the major indexes. The dow off 20 points. The nasdaq off 5. The s p 500 off 1. As mentioned yesterday at this hour, it looked like wed be closing at new highs. Well see how the final hour of trade pans out right now. All right. Lets bri
Before this was a political issue, that established by the state, establishes use consistently throughout the statute a particular way, when state is defined in the statute, a definition that they didnt mention, states expressly defined in the statute to include d. C. , not include the federal government, territories that are defined as equivalent for certain purposes, federal government never is, when people outside the political context engaged the statute, what was there unpoliticized read of the statute . Federal agencies havent been very forth coming with everything, but, you know, there certainly are efforts to try and look at what did neutral folks, when they read the statute, think it meant, because obviously now everyone who reads the statute has a sense of what the possible implications are. Crs, for example, did an early read where they said basically go by plain text. Pretty strong argument that this is limited. Acknowledge that you could also find it ambiguous. Irs, again,
Where girls dont have a whole lot of power. Thank you for the question. Thank you. I think, are we running out of time . We have time for one more question . Please. Thank you. I just want to thank you more your contribution. I think its important for us to learn about latin america. Im curious, youve talked about his tannic culture a lot hispanic culture a lot, mainly as a synonym to the spanishspeaking countries of latin america. Could you comment on the port tweeze influence portuguese influence, did you see interaction with bolivar and the portuguese or brazilians . Thank you. What happened, of course, is when napoleon came in and invaded the peninsula, the portuguese royal family got into boats, a whole convoy of boats, and sailed to brazil which was their colony. So they transplanted the royalty to brazil, and they felt they kept the portuguese power and the portuguese monarchy going. It was a very different story from the rest of pushspeaking america. There really is a distincti