The real problem isnt the government but the corporate forces. If we can get them where the Founding Fathers thought, which is out of elections and politics you want to go way took to your beginnings. Your dad went to jail. He was a diplomat in laos and thailand. Tell me about your upbringing and the process of living through the experiences you lived through you developed these ideas. Growing up in Foreign Service i saw two things, we were always in dangerous places. Growing up, you cannot go to the hospital if you are sick, or go to the movies, if somebody got bit by a dog you had to go through the rabies series because it was probably rabid. People didnt talk about it as much as we do now. Then i saw in all these different countries, although my father liked to say we were a big player and every once in a while they had to push back. Behind that was respect for and admiration and confidence in america that created, i think, a beacon for many, many people and many countries around th
The inauguration. That seems to be whats happening now but were still within less than 1 . The s p closed at 23 and change today. We have had had days where the s p is up in essence twice that much on any given day so could you see a scenario where all along mr. President elect trump has been waiting for his Inauguration Day to get that magical 20,000. Would it surprise anyone out there, the do you jones miraclely trades 20,000, i could see that. With that said, the internals of the markets have not been great now for the last couple weeks. There are some troubling signs. Banks havent be trading well. I could easily see in the scenario tomorrow where the s p is up. What do you do if that happens . Provided nothing gets said thats not necessarily smart. I would say if the market sells off big tomorrow i think you pick pockets like financials. If theres an opportunity to buy stocks. I think on weakness there is. I love the drug stocks here. I think weve talked about pfizer. These are nam
And no word on a wd on suspec c. Developing in the disstrkt a deadly pedestrian involved accident in norm west a woman was hit killed late last night 10 and u street and were told the drive of the car remained on the scene. And happening visit now a live look at the snrt floor lawmakers continue to protest this morning. Theyve been holding floor several hours now protesting nomination of betsy devos for education secretary and senate is scheduled to vote on nomination today at noon. Melanie alnwick is live on capitol hill this morning with the latest, mel. Good morning, yes, typeal stand here with democrats. Each has been taking hour long positions at the podium talking about their personal opposition and constituent be confirmed as secretary of education. So were looking herejeff for the next person next senator to come in. Senate rules allow for 0 hours of debate once a nominee comes out of committee before it goes to the vinyl vote. Senate democrats fully intend to use every bit of
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[ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. This morning were holding a confirmation hearing on Alexander Acosta to serve as secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement. Then we will introduce our witness. We are delighted to have senator rubio. Senator cruz is coming. After our witness testimony, senators will each have two fiveminute rounds of questions. Just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple reinvented the mobile phone. Just ten years ago. A micro blogging Company Named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale globally. Amazon released something called kindle. All that in 2007, just ten years ago. The same year ibm began to build a computer called watson that within a few years defeated human contestants in the jeopardy tv show and in 2007 the cost of sequencing a genome started falling from 100 million in 2001 to 1,000 in 2015 and a new book New York Times co