Exchange. Im wilfred frost. Im Courtney Reagan in for sara eisen on this friday morning. We made it absolutely right. Happy friday lets get to Market Action we did see a half percent of gains for the dow yesterday. The s p and nasdaq just either side of flat week to date, all three are up more than 1 the dow slightly leading the pack is up 1. 2 . We expect a small positive open today. The dow up 34 points tenyear treasury note, we have seen yields slip over the course of the week. Even though the theme of the year has been a steep ee eenenel curve, we have had a flat yield cur curve. Looking at trading overnight, japanese nikkei average closing down just slightly thats about the only average in asia that closed lower for the session. You can see the shanghai higher by a third of a percent. The hang seng up 1. 5 . The dollar was fluctuating yesterday between second starety mnuchins comments about the dollar and President Trumps comments to joe kernen later on. So asian equities we know
Because of initiatives that kennedy had taken. These issues are fascinating, and they have inspired what is and remain and will remain a passionate debate among people on all different sides of this issue. Thats not what this book is about. I am not writing a book about what shot jfk. I have no new theory to offer about where the bullets came from or who shot jfk. Actually a very different book. What im interested in is not who shot jfk. Im interested in the trants for of political power that takes place in the hours after the assassination. I want to move the focus away from the tragedy that is unfolding in the president ial limousine, and move it back about sixty feet to the car carrying Lyndon Johnson. Follow johnson over the course of the day as he goes to parkman hospital and air force one and back to washington, d. C. To give people a sen of the texture of the decisions he to face and the choices he confronted. When you think about it, the kennedy assassination represented the mo
Committee have commented on my personal diary and if i might, id like to make one brief point about it. I started keeping this diary nearly six years ago. I would write in it fairly infrequently. Sometimes two weeks, other times six weeks would go by. I made no effort to check the accuracy because this was nevada intended to be a precise narrative or a verbatim account of what took place. It was more than anything, a way to reflect on events and draw lessons from my personal and professional experiences. So there he is. 28 years old. Testifying to congress. Not because he had done anything particularly suspect or worrying, just turns out Congress Heard that he had a diary and they decided they wanted to read it. Mr. Sign teiner i want to st with you and the diary you kept. Senator, as i said in my opening statement, i used my diary as reflecting back but to try to draw lessons from my professional experiences. Now yes, would you pull the microphone i apologize. Now, do you have a copy
Then in june, it was the Vice President s chief of staff, guy named josh and july, july ended up being busy. I swear they saved this up for when i went on vacation in part of july. In july they lost the deputy chief of staff of the National Security and then they lost the White House Press secretary sean spicer. Assistant White House Press secretary and lost Reince Priebus and then they lost White House Communications director number two Anthony Scaramucci and then we rolled into the lzyy days of august and in washington nothing happens but its time to fire or accept the resignation of the senior director for intelligence at the National Security counsel as watnick and there in the first place and he was gone. Then all in the same day, chief of staff president named and a direct liaison, director of the office at the white house and and advisor on regulation and carl icahn and that same day. Then a week later, sebastian gor gorka. All gone. I mean, this is just like the people who have
Testifying to congress. Not because he had done anything particularly suspect or worrying, just turns out Congress Heard that he had a diary and they decided they wanted to read it. Mr. Steiner i want to start with you and the diary you kept. Which i think is a important document that we have before us. Senator, as i said in my opening statement, i used my diary as reflecting back but to try to draw lessons from my professional experiences. Now yes, would you pull the microphone i apologize. Now, do you have a copy there of the diary entries that were going to focus on today. Yes, i do. All right. Do you want to get those in front of you. Let me read you the entries. Then he reads from joshs diary. Joshua steiner worked for the treasury secretary at a tender young age and when investigators were looking into the white water scandal of the clinton era when they found young josh at the Treasury Department had a diary, they not only made him hand it over to congress but summed him to cong