Can grow interest in polo. And the remarkable story, from inmate to well performing businessman. All that and more over the next hour. But first, lets get headlines from my radio cohost. Thank you very much. Valiant pharmaceuticals raising its unsolicited offer foraler began a second al for allergan a second time. Holders of allergan would get 72 a share in cash and a fraction of one valeant share. Household purchases unexpect lid falling in april. 1 . That, folks, is the first decrease in a year. And check it out. Former microsoft c. E. O. Agreed to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for a record 2 billion. One of the big stories on this friday. She shelley sterling, the wife of the clippers owner, signed a binding contract with mr. Ballmer. Thats a look at some of the top headlines. Thanks very much. Now, from a sale to sails. The ocean masters World Championship is in full swing and it departs new york city tomorrow. Its a transocean race across the atlantic to barcelona, spain. There are
Be here with jedediah bila and Griff Jenkins here in new york city. We could have gone to almost every major city at any particular moment. Most had curfews at different times. You can count the clock down and Police Moving in. Finally minute in place decides to set a curfew to attempt to enforce it even though it was hour, hour 1 2 before they decided to do so. This is not slowing down, rioters felt embowlenned by local leaders not strong in responding. That is exactly right. A large vacuum in terms of leadership. A lot of people around the country, many of these cities who wanted to peacefully protest. Who wanted to get out to make voices heard, talk about george floyd, who was unjustly killed, make him the focus, celebrate his life and the need to bring justice to the family. They didnt feel safe enough to go out because the protests turned into violent riots. What do we do, we have the right to protest in our country, that is cornerstone of our republic but i cant get out there bec
Msnbc distributor and also heidi is with us and associate ed door of the Washington Post and political analyst. And welcome back to the stage of pyeongchang. Its great to have you. How many olympic medals have jane won before the pulitzer . He won the silver but they took it away from him. Well, were glad to have you back. Nothing has happened while you were gone. So midterms can be tufz for a party. And a president party. And thats thousand things are shaping up for november. Democrats are also more enthusiastic about this years midterms. 57 of democrats say they are extremely or very enthusiastic to vote for congress this year. 4 43 of republicans said they are enthusiast enthusiastic. You saw republicans get a bump over the past month, some suggested because of the tax cut. Buzz thats been wiped away. In fairly dramatic fashion. We can only guess but its the major intervening event since the pa the parkland shooting. I guess you have to say that oowhats responsible but i think thats
And two communities in chicago divided by a street are joining together through a shared love of art. I see a change in the air. Ninan good evening. Im reena ninan. Singer r. Kelly remains in custody after surrendering to police on charges of criminal sexual abuse. Today, prosecutors described the disturbing allegations against him involving multiple underaged girls. He maintains his innocence. A judge set his bond at 1 million. Fwarning for viewers tonight the details in our first story are graphic. Heres jericka duncan. Reporter in graphic detail, state attorney kim foxx described the allegations involving four women who say they were sexually abused by threetime grammy winner and r b singer r. Kelly. One of the cases involved a 24yearold who says she had an appointment to braid kellys rir back in 2003. Robert kelly grabbed the victim by the head and tried to emrce her mouth on to his exposed penis, and his semen was identified on the shirt. The male d. N. A. Identified in the semen
Drives the stock market. Theres no doubt that everyone says earnings should resume. People are kind of concerned, is the good news built into this market . Theres been some relief obviously. Weve had the same news this fall and winter that we did last year at this time if you remember with the trade on and off again. Definitely something to forget because we have that big fall from the top. This year the market reacted positively to the same news. I think the tone is changed and so is the sentiment. That was the biggest hurdle we hawehad to overcome. Speaking of tone and change last december we saw another rate hike with the Federal Reserve indicating they were going to keep hiking rates no matter what. December 24th, christmas eve, was a bloodbath. This year they cut rates three times. Jay powell sank ive had an epiphany, higher wages does not mean higher inflation. Were not going to get ahead of the curve are not going to derail this economy. Thats been a major difference this year.