Coming up this morning. Took me a taco about it, Dagen Mcdowell, rose clip ceo managing partner mike murphy and twc managing partner Mitch Rochelle. Happy valentines day. Thank you for this. So sweet of you. Its a more important day for us. The cpi day. So excited about inflation day. Maria so worried, et cetera. All this comes back to a market improving. I dont have a problem. If the overall economy is improving, the market cannot fluctuations but a good thing overall. Dagen let me be the worrywart. Maria of course we want to get the Consumer Price index data to see how bad Inflationary Pressure is close to the third consecutive day. 200 points with another wild wind up trading despite gains at the close. The dow and s p 500 remain on pace. Worst month since august 2015. Nasa but the biggest monthly decline since january 2016. Mike murphy, what is your take . A little nervous. Nice rally from a three day rally, but its important to find that cpi. Its a basket of goods come in the pric
Let me try to call this full have stored or, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill gholston , senior fellow here in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The location of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate. This one entitled broken can the senate save itself and the country those of you who read his first book on the senates will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget resolution and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on Us Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is, will todays senate be up
Fallout had with one of the best political analysts in the business ed rollins and former aid to president trump, Sebastian Gorka and another blood bath on wall street the dow plunging more than a thousand points closing in correction territory on ris ing concerns about inflation and rising bond yields. Well take all of that up here tonight. Our top story, new developments in the uranium one paytoplay scandal. An fbi informant telling congress that russia hired an american lobbying firm to funnel millions to the Clinton Global Initiative in an effort to win influence with the clintons. Fox news chief intelligence correspondent has our report. Fox news confirms that an fbi informant whose not gone public spent four Hours Wednesday answering questions from staffer s on the Senate Judiciary as well as House Oversight and intelligence committees and their focus is an Obama Administration deal that allowed a Russian Nuclear Energy Agency to gain a controlling stake in uranium one a canadian
Important to come to the audience microphone as well as the author answers than last at the end take of moment to fold up your chairs to help us get back to bookselling. I read all of the events in the stores you are not familiar plays take a moment to sign up for email or pick up a calendar of events we now have three locations around town so were doing more in than ever and we do not want you to miss out on any of that. We are happy to have him back with us to talk about his book 1920. This is not the typical history book to bring the journalist dai to the topic end but as the former post as news watch so he strips away the glamour of the 1920s to show what every day life is like talking for people who dont remember as much but were important in their days so i will tell you more but were happy to have him back here at politics prose. Eric burns is. [applause] i dont drink coffee. I dont like coffee i thought the reason was the taste. But instead it may be my lack of coordination. [l
Mounts a new fight to overturn the North Carolina bill that did away with the antilgbtq bill known as hb2. We will also look at the political crisis in the tar heel state after republican lawmakers waged a legislative coup against the states democratic governor. Is the state of North Carolina still a democracy . And we will look at how a group of africanamerican residents are fighting back against factory hog farms that spray liquid manure on their communities. Thisu open the door, and melted sure by the way. You start gagging. I shut my hog operation down. I got out of it. I just could not do another person that way, to make them smell that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Around the world, millions of workers took to the streets monday for may day, also known as International Workers day. This year, in california, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the bay area, as immigrant work