For serious readers. [laughter] good morning. My name is kirsten carter, senior archivist at the president ial library. On behalf of the library i would like to welcome you to the roosevelt reading festival. Fdr planned for the library to become the premier Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The Library Research room is consistently one of the busiest of all the president ial libraries and is europes group of authors reflect the wide variety of Research Done here. If you love the roosevelt reading festival and want to support this and other programs we do here, i encourage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today at the membership table in the hall or online at fdrlibrary. Org. If you havent already, please do go see our new special temporary museum exhibition, images of internment, the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. Let me quickly go over the format for the festival session today. At the top of each hour a session
White house shake up. Headlines across the country say it all. Less than four weeks in office and president Donald Trumps National Security adviser Michael Flynn is forced from the west wing. Mounting pressure after reports surfaced that flynn lied over calls to russias ambassador. He reportedly discussed lifting u. S. Sanctions and misled the white house chief of staff, Vice President mike pence and even President Trump. Flynns resignation comes hours after the white house said it was evaluating his position. Despite counselor Kellyanne Conway saying this to msnbc. General flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president. By saying he enjoys the full confidence of the president are you saying youre satisfied that he did not have the conversations . That he did not mislead the Vice President . No, those are two different questions. You asked me and ill repeat the answer. Does he have the full confidence of the president . Yes, he does. Overnight a statement from flynn, i am tender
Jonguns half brother. What was the motivation . And rumor has it, a fiveyearold German Shepherd named for one of adeles biggest hits crowned top dog. The story behind her unlikely best in show title. Today wednesday, february 15th, 2017. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer in for Sheinelle Jones. Its been such a busy week. Every morning were waking up to new developments. We have one this morning, its our top story. The stunning new report that members of president Trumps Campaign team and other associates were communicating with senior russian officials during the election. We have the latest on that jackson. What can you tell us . Reporter good morning to you, this morning were learning a bit more about the timeline of who knew what when in this crisis over the National Security advisor that has consumed the white house. Critics here on capitol hill say they still dont know nearly enough. They want Michael Flynn to face questions. As new que
First Abigail Doolittle tells us everything going on in the markets. Small small gains for the nasdaq but nonetheless looking at it caused with the reflation trade, the dow and s p 500 trading lower, the doubt on pace for its worst day in the month of february. Thething else about today, first day in seven trading sessions that we do not have some sort of record high for these three major averages. A bit of a pause in the reflation trade. We have stocks close to the record highs and still do not have a 1 move for the s p 500. ,hen we go into the bloomberg the top orange line is a 1 move up in the bottom line is it one person move down. We are now on day 49 without a move up or down. Day 89 without a move to the downside, the last time that happened was in 2016. Stocks trading to alltime highs on the reflation trade, the risk rally, we do not have any really big conviction behind it or big moves. The last view times the other ranges broke it was on massive volatility so when this tradin
Boeing ceo and tour the boeing plant, a rollout for the companys new airline they are debuting. He is facing several questions about his Previous Campaign relationships with russia, off a Fiery Press Conference we saw yesterday at the white house. We are minutes away from his weekly address as the administration looks to turn the page and again to execute some of their policy agenda within the new congress. Vonnie we will be hearing from Mitch Mcconnell in the next little while, he will do a wrapup of what is been accomplished over the last month, what will he concentrate on . Kevin he will look ahead, this is one of the first things on the todo list by congress, rolling back parts of the Affordable Care act, in addition, they are beginning to lay the groundwork for tax reform and a point of contention among republicans is that order adjustment tax which retailer groups and retailer industries have opposed. There is growing dissent within the Republican Caucus on opposition to that. Se