Skip rutherford of the clinton center, to the sixth Anniversary Committee and most of all the little rock nine and their families. We welcome you to this 60th Educational Forum for the city of little rock and the state of arkansas. We thank you for being here and we hope that something is said or done that would give you a better understanding when you leave here today. And let me digress for a minute and say that the naacp, the organization that worked and spearheaded the little rock nine. Terrible time in our history. I remind you, this was way before the march on washington. This was way before the 1964 civil rights act. This was way before the 1965 Voting Rights act. These young people wanted to do get an education, thats all they were aspiring to do. But our system at that time said you will not be able to go to school based upon a decision by the United States Supreme Court. However Thurgood Marshall, who went on to be a Supreme Court justice. Weiland grant senior, one of the law
Chairman of the board of the naacp. Interim president , ceo and to the late elsy and bates, i bring you grievance. To our mayor, the city manager bruce moore, the city board of directors of little rock, to the sixth Anniversary Committee and most of all the little rock nine and their families, we welcome you to this 60 Educational Forum for the city of little rock and the state of arkansas. We thank you for being here and hope something is said or done that will give you a better understanding when you leave here today and let me digress for a moment and say that naacp was the organization that worked and spearheaded the little rock 9. A terrible time in our history. I remind you this was way before the march on washington. Its way before in 1964 civil rights act. Its way before the 1965 Voting Rights act. These young people wanted to do to get an education. Thats all theyre aspiring to do. But our system, at that time said you will not be able to go to school based upon a decision by
Sahil kapur, the headline on your bloomberg piece says bob corker is the beginning of trumps taxcut problems. Whats the issue that donald trum has with senator corker and what are the key senators we will be watching for in the senateebate . Sahil thank you for having me on. Senator corker has laid out a strong red line on the tax bill , in other words he said he will not vote for any tax package that adds a penny to the deficit. To watch. Y senator on the other end of the spectrum, you have have senator senator rand paul, the kentucky libertarian said he wants a tax cut acrosstheboard for everybody. That will be difficult to reconcile with the deficit neutral tax passage. Some other senators to watch are susan colins and Lisa Murkowski , republican women who were significant in torpedoing the Obamacare Repeal and replace push. Roy moore, not yet senator but front runner to win the special election for the senate seat in december. He is a bit of a wildcard. He has laid out a pretty far
Foundation inage washington, d. C. , this is just two hours. Good morning, everyone. We are delighted to have you here on friday the 13th. It gives me great honor to introduce the director of National Intelligence dan coats. He became the fifth dni this past march. He leads the u. S. Intelligence community and serves as the principal intelligence advisor to the president. He provides the intelligence briefing for the president virtually every morning in the oval office. Servedr codes previously in the u. S. House of representatives and the u. S. , then from 19811999 returned to the senate again in service to our nation from 20112016. During that time, he was not sitting idly in indiana. Having served on the Senate Armed Services committee, the Senate Select intelligence committee, he worked on ways to strengthen our National Defense that service but was interrupted in washington by going to germany as our ambassador between 20012005. With his experience in the legislative and executive
Through the last seven days, we can even relax as the weak gdp number. Im ready to put this week to bed and move on our game plan for the next one. Monday we hear from advanced microdevices, amd, a stock that was picked very high up in yesterdays very fun seemingly fit draft. And just like the markets like of new tech stocks, i dont know how this one will react even in the best of quarters. Intels numbers were widely panned last night. As i have repeatedly said theres nothing wrong with the company amd, the stock just has the stigma of running from 25 to 15 back in february and has been biding its time at 13 and change. The market has fallen out of love with last years darlings. Thats been a continue wall theme. Earlier we talked about cardinal health, a lousy business and more of a play on hostile supplies. No one paid any attention to this acquisition at the time, i bet that changes when cardinal reports and talks about it. Tuesday morning, we get numbers from cvs, which has been one