Wages, but the pace was slower than market expectations. Consumer spending, which accounts for about 70 of gdp, rose 2. 5 . Corporate investment on equipment was also up 2. 4 and Housing Construction gained 10. 2 . But exports shrank 4. 3 . Its first contraction in three quarters. For the 2016 calendar year, the economy grew 1. 6 . Thats down from 2. 6 in 2015. President donald trump says his administration will try to achieve 4 annual growth through infrastructure spending. Russian president Vladimir Putin and u. S. President trump are expected to hold their first talks by telephone on saturday. Putin told reporters last week he will congratulate trump on his inauguration. He added they may discuss when to have their first meeting face to face. U. S. And russian talks deteriorated after u. S. President barack obama imposed sanctions against the country over the situation in ukraine. But trump is showing his willingness to cooperate with putin on military operations against Islamic Sta
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Dr. Elizabeth blackburn is a nobel prizewinning molecular biologist who discovered one of the greatest secrets how to slow down the aging process now i got your attention, dont i . The new book is called the telorere effect a revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer. Dr. Blackburn, an honor to have you on this program. Thank you, tavis. I did pronounce it correct, telomere . Break it down for me. Perfect. Look at your shoes. Youve got shoelaces. Tips at the ends of the shoelaces protect them from fraying away. The little plastic things. The tip of my shoelace, im looking at it right now. Thats not a telomere is it . Its like if you think of a shoelace as being chromosomes, the chromosome carries lots of genetic information. And the little tips of the chromosomes have to be protected, and thats what the telomere is. And there are literally trillions of cells that we have, lots and lots of littl
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Dr. Elizabeth blackburn is a nobel prizewinning molecular biologist who discovered one of the greatest secrets how to slow down the aging process now i got your attention, dont i . The new book is called the telorere effect a revolutionary approach to living younger, healthier, longer. Dr. Blackburn, an honor to have you on this program. Thank you, tavis. I did pronounce it correct, telomere . Break it down for me. Perfect. Look at your shoes. Youve got shoelaces. Tips at the ends of the shoelaces protect them from fraying away. The little plastic things. The tip of my shoelace, im looking at it right now. Thats not a telomere is it . Its like if you think of a shoelace as being chromosomes, the chromosome carries lots of genetic information. And the little tips of the chromosomes have to be protected, and thats what the telomere is. And there are literally trillions of cells that we have, lots and lots of littl
Rose welcome to the program, we begin this evening with an assessment of the first 100 days of the Trump Administration which will be marked on april 29th. The surest sign that donald trump is not happy about what he is doing is trying to downplay the hundred day mark. He is a person that very much celebrates when he feels he has had successes, is he not celebrating this week. This is a president right now according to a pair of polls that came out, the abc Washington Post poll and another poll by nbc a couple of days ago is in the 42 40 to 42 percent approval rating. That is the lowest by far of any president in the modern era. Rose we continue this evening with an assessment of the French Election results. I think the french are really just beginning to come to terms with what they have managed to do which is to evict both of the two parties that have dominated french president sees since the fifth republic was established back in 1958. It is an extraordinary situation. You have two
Cspan two. S on the sunday morning we want to turn our attention to politics and the latest recordings released late last week by the showing donald, trump supposedly talking about being his own publicist as the miller. M john do these recordings matter . We will let you know in just a moment. In onand comments, coming the line for democrats. 202 also, share your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan, or send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj. More on these recordings is Available Online. Quoting laura ingram, a conservative regular truck talk show host says the media is treating this like its watergate. It doesnt matter, he told chris wallace, questioning whether or not it matters at all. It is stupid, but this is going to heres a portion is released by the Washington Post, last week. Host donald trump claims that that is not his voice. We will hear from him and in his interview from friday, John Cassaday is writing about it this morning. This is the headline a trumpf characte