Good afternoon everyone. Good afternoon. My name is Michael Barone and im a resident fellow here. American enterprise institutent and its my pleasure today to welcome to aei professor Cass Sunstein. Hes a robber wants a University Professor at harvard law schoolp he formerly was professor of law and Political Science at the university of chicago for many years. He was the administrator of the office of information and regulatory affairs, may none as oira from 2009 to 2012 in the obama administration. He has written more than a dozen books and im happy to say he has spoken a number of times at aei and we consider him a good friend of aei. He is here today to talk about his latest book, which is called republic. I think a reader would not have pronounced the word that way 20 years ago but its an important and interesting book, so please welcome Cass Sunstein to aei. [applause] okay, well its a thrill to be back here. You all do amazing work and i have learned so much what is produced her
And im anna edwards in london. Lets start the program with data out of the eurozone, specifically out of italy. We had gdp data hitting the bloomberg. Exactly inline with estimates, 0. 4 , the Second Quarter pulmonary reading. That is what the analysts were looking for. Data on abetter number of fronts from italy. Industrial output expands in the Second Quarter. The jobless rate, still too high of course, but coming down. Better news on exports and bank rescues taking place in italy. Those are some of the headlines in the Second Quarter. In line with that, we see this better growth picture, in line with estimates and the previous quarter. Lets look at where we are on various assets. 1. 1720. Urodollar, heading into this we were at 1. 1755. A little bit of sluggishness on the euro. The stoxx 600, up by 0. 7 . Gold and yen, continuing to s lip. Bullishness in stock markets in europe today. Pound, 0. 91. O we are going to get the u. K. Wage data and eurozone growth figures. We got the s p
Receiving to show up to the briefing by house intelligence request about whether or not interfered with our election some way. So why arent intelligence officials showing up . Why arent they willing to set the record straight. As you know, democrats seizing on this issue, if it is not sexism, if it is not racism, if it is not james comey, it must be vla putin, right . That must be theeason why Hillary Clinton lost the election. When it comes to the left it is always someone elses fault, right . Victimization politics. Were on it. First back to the investigation itself. Blake burman is here. He fills us in on all the details. Hey there, blake. Reporter hi, trish. Important to note at top members of the House Intelligence Committee appeared to fly back to washington, d. C. , on the holiday break to get the latest intelligence briefing on alleged russian interference in the november election. They were hoping to hear from the fbi, cia, nsa, and the office of the director of National Intel
You are attacking our News Organization which can you give us a chance to ask a question . Mister president elect can you give us a can you give us a question . Im not going to give you can you state you are take news. Trish the reporter later appeared on cnn complaining he had never been treated this way. During that News Conference sean spicer said to me that if i were to continue to persist and ask a question i would be thrown out of the News Conference. I covered four president ial campaigns which i covered president obama at the white house, i never had a press secretary threatened to throw me out of a News Conference with that is the first. Trish joining me now republican strategist and Communications Director for democracy, with their thoughts on this. It was a little rude, wasnt it . Just a little rude. There is a certain decorum. I know as a journalist you present to the president elect or president ial News Conference you try not to interrupt so aggressively, try to move on a
Than 840 people have been killed by this monstrous storm, including one in florida. More than half a million homes in florida are without power. More than 4500 flights have been canceled through saturday and evacuation orders remain in place for two Million People in florida, georgia and south carolina. Authorities are urging people to leave these areas. The storm is barrelling towards georgia and the carolinas as we speak. President obama reminding americans that theyve got to remain vigilant. This is still a really dangerous hurricane. If they tell you to evacuate, you need to get out of there and move to higher ground. We can always replace property, but we cant replace lives. Trish theres also a hesitancy when there are events from People Living in these areas because they dont want to get out or figure i got out in the last hurricane and nothing happened. I would have been so much better off, it would have been easier to stay put, but once again the warning coming from the preside