Employees, they do not. Jason much more of that ahead but we begin with our top stories. A busy week in d. C. With impeachment hearings. Trade talks hitting a series of road bumps. So much more and legislation passed by congress, supporting hong kong protesters. Lets break it down with Ryan Teague Beckwith in d. C. So ryan, help us understand everything that happened there in the nations capital. Ryan yeah. This was a long week. And i think the last news day was june 15, 2015. Last slow news day was june 15, 2015. [laughter] this was a particularly newsy week. The sondland testimony from the ambassador to the e. U. On what day was that even . Thats how long of a week its been. Jason wednesday. The sondland testimony on wednesday established pretty definitively that there was at least one quid pro quo holding out the white house meeting in exchange for investigations into the bidens. Sondland testified that he was not definitively sure that there was a second quid pro quo on the aide bu
Jason visa c. E. O. Al kelly, no relation, says consumers are still swiping and tapping despite talk of a recession. Carol and then theres this weeks cover story. Google and the generals. The search giant wants to build its military business, its employees they do not. Jason much more of that ahead but we begin with our top stories. A busy week in d. C. With impeachment hearings. Trade talks hitting a series of road bumps. So much more and legislation passed by congress, supporting hong kong protesters. Lets break it down with Ryan Teague Beckwith in d. C. So ryan, help us understand everything that happened there in the nations capital. Ryan yeah. This was a long week. And i think the last news day was june 15, 2015. [laughter] this was a particularly newsy week. The sondland testimony from the ambassador to the e. U. On what day was that even . Thats how long of a week its been. Wednesday. The sondland testimony on wednesday established pretty definitively that there was at least one
The search giant wants to build its military business, its employees they do not. Jason much more of that ahead but we begin with our top stories. A busy week in d. C. With impeachment hearings. Trade talks hitting a series of road bumps. So much more and legislation passed by congress, supporting hong kong protesters. Lets break it down with Ryan Teague Beckwith in d. C. So ryan, help us understand everything that happened there in the nations capital. Ryan yeah. This was a long week. And i think the last news day was june 15, 2015. [laughter] this was a particularly newsy week. The sondland testimony from the ambassador to the e. U. On what day was that even . Thats how long of a week its been. Wednesday. The sondland testimony on wednesday established pretty definitively that there was at least one quid pro quo holding out the white house meeting in exchange for investigations into the bidens. Sondland testified that he was not definitively sure that there was a second quid pro quo
Weak so far. The dow and s p 500 even with those losses on wednesday are on pace for the best week in five nasdaq with the biggest week in seven weeks. In morngs ding dow futures up b5 points, s p up by 3, and the nasdaq up by 6 overnight in asia, the nikkei ended up just slightly. Up by 27 points. The hang seng by a half percentage point in europe this morning, with some of the early trading, it looks like the dax is up by 0. 3 the cac in france up bay half percentage point stocks are slightly weaker in london, but italian and spanish stocks are in the green. Also look at crude oil prices. Crude jumping on wednesday by 2. 1 , setting a 2. 5year high. It was sitting at 58. 02. This morning were up again, 63 cents higher to 58. 65. A couple of corporate stories were watching Teva Pharmaceuticals will lay off thousands of employees in israel and the United States they will be reportedly sending termination letters to 10 of its 10,000 employees earlier this month we heard teva said it wou
Where the Wright Brothers had tinkered in their bicycle shop and started flight. And talked to numerous friends and family in the town and in doing so, discovered that no book had been written about Neil Armstrong, which i was very, very surprised. The only thing close to it was life magazine at the time of the space landing put together more or less of a biography of the three astronauts that landed that were on apollo 11. No proper biography had ever been done. Over the years i thought it should be. Gradually learned more about him and about five years ago, i put a proposal together and took it to my publisher and sold them on it. Began in earnest and interviewed people who shared his journey some included other astronauts as well as the men he served in korea with. I talked to just about all of the surviving men who was in his flew off an Aircraft Carrier with him in the korean war. I talked to many of the people he attended Purdue University with. And learned much about his remarka