Already been killed because of this crisis so we need the fighting to end a peaceful resolution so that people can get the help they need i thank you so much for explaining the situation there now protesters in hong kong have been out in force once again across different parts of the city the latest standoff took place inside a train station that was filled with smoke after police fired tear gas at protesters earlier officers trying to disperse a crowd that surrounded a Police Station as a major shopping district some of the scenes played out across the city as police tried to chase away crowds who set up barricades meanwhile a 3 day sit in in Hong Kong International airport appears to be wrapping up the protest movement is now entering its 10th week bryant has the latest from hong kong. Weve had a another day of the typical hong kong protests they start quite peacefully almost in a carnival type atmosphere as you mentioned that the protests that were taking place today are not allowed
Everybodys attention please. All right. Welcome to the met club thank you for coming out on this rainy evening and i know theres a lot of traffic and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were absolutely delighted im not doing introduction yet but delighted to have dick march here the first time hes been here at the club. Thank you, welcome to the met club. [applause] were to have our friends from cspan here thats pretty cool so wave to the guys at cspan there. [laughter] yeah. Okay just a couple of quick announcements, our next adventure at the club will be the first thursday. Yeah, you will too. Our next event here at the club will be first thursday october fifth and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman adele who she and her husband moved to washington, d. C. Her husband david who is a very noted economist is part of the easy under secretary the treasury for International Monetary affairs. So hes been confirmed as undersecretary and treasury so theyve moved
Can i get everybodys attention please . All right. Welcome to the met club. Thank you for coming out on this rainy evening. Know theres a lot of traffic and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were absolute im not doing the introduction yet but dehighlighted to have dick morris here tonight. Thank you. Welcome to the met club. Were also glad to have our friends from cspan here. Thats pretty cool. So wave to the guys at cspan there. Just a couple of quick announcements. Our next event here at the club will be our first thursday say hello. The next event is first thursday, october 5th, and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman, adele, who she and her husband moved to washington, dc. Her husband, david, who is a very noted economist, is part of the the undersecretary of the treasury for International Monetary affairs. So hi has been confirmed as an undersecretary of the treasury. He is going to be here that night, too so its a great opportunity to celebrate the
Commanderinchiefs case to the nation. Political shocker in the United Kingdom. Theresa mays highstakes gamble not paying off to say the least as Prime Minister is now scrambling to stay in power. Is this election signaling an end to elitism across david elitism, elitism. Lets get rid of it. Back to the markets. This is an incredible day. The dow hitting alltime high second day in a row ending 18th record for the year. Look at nasdaq one down off 2 . Managed to close down 1. 8 , just a little better than that. Nicole petallides, dramatic tale of two cities here. What an exciting and interesting day on wall street because you really have this divergence. You had some of these financials doing great. You had record highs for the dow and nasdaq, s p. By end of the day we saw tech selloff in big day and that weight on the market. You mentioned the dow, closing record alltime highs. That is great news. Squeezing out a gain for the week i believe. Take a look at that. Also the 30 if i haveth
The stuff we worked on, and all of a sudden, everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. On a personal level, raise your hands if you were on the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. We said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago, and when i got ready to do this, i called jim hamilton, who was my boss back then. I said, i mean it, ill have it in tomorrow. He said, gordon, you better have it in tomorrow. Its like no time has passed. When we broke up i dont know how many of you remember this sam dash had a final meeting. He said this has been the most important thing that has happened in my life and im sure will ever happen in my life and will ever happen in yours. Im thinking of 21, 22 years old. I hope something happens. Looking back, it becomes very real. Then, the truth was solid. Something you worked on. You found it. In the intervening years, it became more and more relative, and now, it is like water or air. I think its important to come back in this room toge