It specifies that athletes are not permitted to accept anything of value really related to their status as an athlete. That means that you know a fan or a booster, a wouldbe agent, a coach, is not permitted to give you anything of value beyond what is specified in the ncaa constitution. How it forces good people to do bad things or consider doing bad things. The pressures are just so enormous in the athletic program. People that are sports fans or like to be helpful will be enticed to do shady things from time to time. Sometimes it morphs into fullscale fraud. It is a system that needs repair. That is the dominant message we would like people to take away from the book. I am in chapel hill and hillsboro. My district is best known has as a diverse and growing and by that we not only refer to shedding some of the negative aspects of our history, but really charting a new course. The Research Triangle story is pretty principle internalized arnold here. A group of leaders in education and
Blow you off and keep going. He lives in his own world. I think people take his aloofness for rudeness which is not that at all. He used to be a darius outgoing guy and then had a traumatic brain brain injury and it changed his body. I think its evolved and you see in the fall and that my wife is funny, she read this book and she said i finally like him. He reached his humanity level. At the core. It took me four books to get there but i like complicated guys and hes complicated. Host thank you for being with us for our indepth program and in this special series we sit with authors for three hours talking about their life in their work. David baldacci will spend the time with us today and we hope very much for both of us as we enjoy your interaction that you will be a part of the conversation. As we continue along here we put the phone numbers on the screen and our facebook and twitter handles so you can join in on the conversation and we very much would like to from your questions abo
Take me away. A secret place. A sweet escape. Take me away. Take me away. To better days. Take me away. A hiding place. Lauren welcome to fbn a. M. Happy monday. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl good morning, im cheryl casone. Lauren lets take a look at how your money is moving. U. S. Stocks indicating a strong open, all three major averages up three months in a row on the first trading day of december. Dow gaining 102 points. Cheryl Strong Manufacturing data out of china helping to lift asian markets. China is going to sanction human rights and worship groups. More on that in a bit. There are green arrows in sa as. Lauren in europe, we have green arrows for the french and german markets. Cheryl the top story this morning, a bullish sign for online retailers and the economy this holiday season. Another possible nail in the coffin for brick and Mortar Stores. Consumers jumped online over the weekend and shopped, an estimated 29 billion in sales going into cyber monday. A record amount spent
A special thanks to them for this lunch sponsorship. [applause] i also want to thank them for their seven years of sponsorship and support which has been greatly, really a key reason for us being able to host this forum with the government, military and to be able to do this now for the tenth year. So thank you very much. I want to just also point, give to your anticipation, please, on your seats are fliers that describe the next years event, september 8th and 9th at the Marriott Wardman park. So that will be september 8th and 9th, 2020. We also have Corporate Executives that are interested, we have a series of quarterly Leadership Council meetings. Were in the third year of that. If you look at the flipside, youll see the corporate members include cisco, aws, booz allen hamilton, raytheon, hp, northrup, google cloud. If youre interested in that, please let us know. Id also like to recognize and express our appreciation for the Advisory Board members. Ill list those once again as theyv
President ial candidate steve forbes, great to see everybody this morning. Good to be with you. Maria a lot to talk about, dagen, missed you, wanted to get your take on complaints and whistleblower complaint that we will be declassified. Dagen right, acting in front of Congress Later this morning, declassified last night. Again. Let the American People see it in. I will leave it at this. Will democrats try to leave the. , the intent is to essentially destroy the economy and prevent everything from getting done that would benefit the American People like the canadamexico trade agreement. It looks like they are not maybe even impeach him but just destroy the economy because of it. Uncertainty they maria theres no u. S. Mca, nothing gets done legislatively and its amazing to me that they could stand there and pursue the moves when, in fact, at tend markets, investors, voters are going to blame them for that, steve forbes, what do you say . Its going to be a thin excuse when you have 6 or