John ford has the morning off. We start with this big story about big business and the white house. Two of the president s Advisory Councils disbanding after multiple ceos dropping out citing the president s response to the violence in charlottesville. Among the ceos speaking out, jamie dimon, jeffrey immelt, mary barra, etna ceo mark bertoli bertolini. I think well talk to bob crandall in just a moment, guys, but were all trying to process the dramatic decision, how it went down, a lot of good cnbc reporting on that and what the significance of this move is going to be. In practice and also symbolically in the statement that it sends to the president and the white house. We clearly havent seen anything extend into the administration and markets are down half a percent or so but over the course of the last week as a whole, were up about three quarters of 1 for u. S. Indices. Reuters now has the headline quoting a white house official that gary cohn intends to remain in his position as
Las ramblos area very popular with tourists this is the height of the tourist season he plowed into a group of people at the Plaza Catalunya then the man jumped out of the van and fled on foot no word as to whether or not he has been apprehended shortly after that reuters reported that two men entered a local restaurant with guns in that plaza area as well. Nbc has not independently confirmed that there are mixed reports as to whether or not this is being considered a terrorist incident. There is only one source that is calling it that. The police have not independently confirmed that to us or to nbc news. At this point we do know that there are injuries we do not know how many. There are unconfirmed reports of one death. Nbc has not confirmed that either we do know that the police have cordoned off that area there is a massive Emergency Response to it reuters is reporting that the Emergency Services and police have requested that mass transit and rail System Service to that particular
More, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan two major stories tonight the fall of steve bannon, and the fallout in barcelona. We begin with the news that bannons tenure as white house chief strategist is over. It came three days after President Trump praised him, but left his fate in doubt. I like mr. Bannon. Hes a friend of mine. But mr. Bannon came on very late. You know that. And i like him, hes a good man. He is not a racist, i can tell you that. Hes a good person. He actually gets very unfair press in that regard. But well see what happens wi
They will not be defeated, they will not change their lives because of what happened here yesterday afternoon just before 5pm local time. The king of spain getting rapturous applause. People, as they we re rapturous applause. People, as they were observing that minutes silence here in the heart of barcelona, many of them with their eyes firmly closed. Some of them crying as well. An extraordinary how many people wa nted an extraordinary how many people wanted to come here to the placa de catalu nya wanted to come here to the placa de catalunya just on the top of a las ramblas where the attack unfolded. They will be wanted to come here to show their defiance and to show that they are not afraid to come out onto they are not afraid to come out onto the street. Lets listening. Applause the king of spain and the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, talking to some of the crowd here. An absolutely sustained applause. It has now going on for several minutes now. After that impeccably observed sile
More, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan two major stories tonight the fall of steve bannon, and the fallout in barcelona. We begin with the news that bannons tenure as white house chief strategist is over. It came three days after President Trump praised him, but left his fate in doubt. I like mr. Bannon. Hes a friend of mine. But mr. Bannon came on very late. You know that. And i like him, hes a good man. He is not a racist, i can tell you that. Hes a good person. He actually gets very unfair press in that regard. But well see what happens wi