And oil down 6 to 2860 and change oil now on pace for its worst month ever and here is a stat that really sets the tone for how things have been and it comes from our friend ryan detrick at lpl financial. It markets the serventh straight session that was up or down and this breaks the previous record of six such volatile sessions set all of the way back of november 1929, a true sign of the times. All of the markets rising today. It is clear that we are in unprecedented times for the markets and the economy, but we are here for you here on cnbc with the folks working tirelessly around the clock. Bob is downtown and steve has more on the Federal Reserves move and most of the action came from inside the beltway. Lets get to Kayla Tausche with what was live with the white house response. An unprecedented stimulus package the white house is proposing, 1. 3 trillion in relief for businesses and workers whose revenues and wages are grinding to a halt the treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin putt
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the the gentlewoman from North Carolina, ms. Foxx, for five minutes. Madam thank you, speaker. Madam speaker, i rise to congratulate wanda k. Brown on her inauguration as president of the American Library association. The oldest and Largest Library association in the world. Ms. Brown has an exemplary record as the director of Library Services at winstonsalem State Universitys c. G. Owe Kelly Library in North Carolinas fifth district. She also served as associate dean of the z. Smith Reynolds Library at wake forest university. During her tenure as president of the North Carolin
This is an hour and a half. Professor nguyen, looking back was it possible for the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . No. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it definitely wasnt in the cards. Take us to the end of 1967 and politically that president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon . Lbj was there a fair amount of difficulty. The democrats had lost not control over congress, an important point but lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two in the senate. This was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. I think what you see is a kind of breakup of that centrist coalition lbj had depended on and ridden so effectively in 1964 to one of the biggest landslides in american president ial history. You could see it was a thing of the past and that the coalition he had so effectively cobbled together was fracturing into any number of pieces. Here on American History tv all weekend long we are focusing o
Historians, Mark Lawrence and lien hang nguyen on the legacy of the vietnam war. This is an hour and a half. Professor nguyen, looking back was it possible for the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . No. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it definitely wasnt in the cards. Take us to the end of 1967 and politically that president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon . Lbj was there a fair amount of difficulty. The democrats had lost not control over congress, an important point but lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two in the senate. This was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. I think what you see is a kind of breakup of that centrist coalition lbj had depended on and ridden so effectively in 1964 to one of the biggest landslides in american president ial history. You could see it was a thing of the past and that the coalition he had so effectively cobbled together was fracturing into any
Going to jail. Former tv star, bill cosby, is taken out of court in handcuffs after he is sentenced to prison for Sexual Assault. Dozens of women have accused him of similar crimes. Were going to get reaction. And the world laughs. President trump is greeted by laughter as he boasts about his accomplishments before World Leaders at the United Nations. The president shrugs it off as a joke, but is he burning with anger on the inside . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. President trump is joining Senate Republicans in an aggressive defense of the Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Judiciary Committee Republicans have hired a female outside counsel to question kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of Sexual Assault, Christine Blasey ford. The president is accusing democrats of mounting, his words, a con job. And even though he himself has been accused by numerous women of past sexual harassment, he has dropped all c