Panel. We have a great collection of talent, expertise, knowledge to approach this topic, and im very excited to share the stage with all three of you before we get into that, i would be remiss if i didnt at least add a little fun historical anecdote to the session. So i found this one. I thought it was pretty amusing. I think maybe youll agree. Maybe you up on november 6th, 1947, president harry truman held a press conference in the oval office. You know, in between questions that were revolving around brain exchanges, there was inflation, price controls and also the marshall plan. One reporter piped up, mr. President , have you seen any good movies lately . Truman answered, well, i never get a chance to see a movie unless they bring one to the white house. And about the only thing i see are newsreels. I try to go when i am not in them, so i guess that was funny. In 1947, trumans quip touches on one subject that we will discuss today with our panelists. President s in newsreels in rea
My name is dr. Matthew costello and i serve as the Vice President of the david improvements Site National center for white house history and Senior Historian for the White House Historical association. It is a pleasure to be here with you all today. And im very excited for this panel. We have a great collection of talent, expertise, knowledge to approach this topic, and im very excited to share the stage with all three of you before we get into that, i would be remiss if i didnt at least add a little fun historical anecdote to the session. So i found this one. I thought it was pretty amusing. I think maybe youll agree. Maybe you up on november 6th, 1947, president harry truman held a press conference in the oval office. You know, in between questions that were revolving around brain exchanges, there was inflation, price controls and also the marshall plan. One reporter piped up, mr. President , have you seen any good movies lately . Truman answered, well, i never get a chance to see a
President s of belarus and russia Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin held talks in the kremlin on the evening of april 11. The communication between the leaders of the countries lasted about 4 hours. Before the beginning meetings. The president of belarus spoke with journalists and answered a number of questions. In the kremlin, the leaders discussed issues of developing cooperation between the two countries in various fields. The focus was also on the regional and international situation, coordination of actions to respond to existing threat challenges. Today, heads of state took part in events marking cosmonautics day. Hero of belarus Marina Vasilevskaya was awarded the order of gagarin by decree of the russian president. The meeting of the first session was held today in minsk. Council republic of the eighth convocation, it was opened by the chairman of the central election commission. After electronic registration of members and the necessary quorum , secret voting began. Sena
Arm set to set trading in the next few hours. The biggest imo of the year. Stock pricing at 51 a share. It was at the top end of the anticipated range giving it a market cap of 54 billion, 95 million shares were sold. Lets kick it off with leslie as they build towards that first trade. The indications coming in, interesting. You know, they started the morning at about 62. That was the first indication. Fell to about as low as 57, which implies a 12 gain relative to that 51 ipo price. And now its kind of around 57, 58. Still have time before it starts trading. We could expect another hour, hour and a half before its open and off to the races for arm. But its interesting, nonetheless, just to kind of see where these indications are coming on because just kind of gathering some color from investors and bankers and so forth. There was some dispute over exactly where to price this. Softbank doing all of the selling here. The question was, do you price it above the range or do you price it a
Joseph kabila. The government has been accused of halting preparations for elections for over a year to replace him. The hearing will come to order. Im very, i think the committee is privileged to see our distinguished chairman, and roys joins, and i thank him for his leadershiphi on africa, havg once served as chairman of this subcommittee. So great to see you and thank you for your ongoing leadership and for yesterday important briefing with nikki haley, our ambassador to United Nations and a major portion of that important briefing late in the afternoon was on the dr congo so iq, chairman royce. The democratic republic of congo was supposed to conduct election one year ago this month. In order to achieve the required transition of political powers y december 19. 19th. However after years of stalling on making preparations for elections, the government of the drcc failed told elections last year and provide on a constitutional provision that president Joseph Kabila could not step dow