From the Hudson Institute, this is an hour and a half. Good day and welcome to the Hudson Institute and thank you for showing up for this panel on Multilateral Institutions. Indispensable or irrelevant to global peace and prosperity. I will be the moderator. Am Liselotte Odgaard i put together this panel which i think is on a key issue in d. C. And globally indeed. It is talked about a lot although there are not that many panels about the topic around town. I look forward to this discussion. I mentioned to come up for the past couple of years, there has been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions and on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of the since to two nations and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. And one question that arises the is does that make institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions . And p
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I told the senator, i said i know that eyes and the back of your head. My mother had them. Every damn thing i i did she caught me doing. [laughing] its so great to see it all. What a wonderful, wonderful crowd. Let me begin by just saying the obvious. Every four years democracy begins in iowa. Its not hyperbole. Democracy begins in iowa. You are the one who has the starting gun to do with one to decide and have Significant Impact on who is likely to be the nominee in the democratic party. For that matter, Republican Party when theres not an incumbent president. And it matters a lot. Because of the values you will bring to the process are real. I want to talk a little bit today about values. You know, folks, im running forward, i decided, jill and i decided we are going to run this time for three basic reasons. Most important one was is we have to literally notte figuratively restore the soul of this country. Were in trouble. Were in trouble. [applause]
Because we are going to have to handle all of you when you come in. So the second show of hands i want to see is how many of you are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. It just makes it so much easier no matter who youre supporting that well be ready for you on caucus night. We have three of the campus democrats, copresident s out here tonight. Olver, ali, they were holding clipboards. Heres al irving in the front. And nat all the way in the back. If you are registered as a democrat, it just makes everything go so much better. If you can register on the way out, well sob excited to see you back, many of you on february 3. Without further ado, i wanted to do a quick introduce of someone who were very excited to welcome back to i nell. Hes been here three grinnell. Hes been here three times. It was a group of 20 students who were interested in meeting
This calendar year 2019, the nasdaq composite has gone up a shocking 27 , that reflects the money flowing into americas giant Technology Companies that dominate worldwide. The average gains of the s ps 500 companies this year, 23 , the 500 Biggest Companies with an average stock price gained 23 in less then 11 months. Look at how stocks open this tuesday morning. The dow will be up 40 points, it will be up much more than that if it were not for home depot which is a dow stock, down sharply. The s p up another 7 points. Look at the nasdaq up 27 for the year going up another 1 2 , 35 points higher. What a day, what i year. Make no mistake, we think the enrichment of america is more important than the charade called impeachment and todays show will reflect that. We are asking dow 30,000, lets get on with it. Varney and company is about to begin. Lets get to home depot. It will drag on the dow today. It is a dow stock, reported its earnings earlier and the stock freemarket down 8, 3 . Ashl
Someone they believe intentionally set the fires. Cal fire was one of several agencies participating today. But halfway through the event cal fire took off. A plume of smoke started. Corey johnson took pictures of this. Two of the larger planes dropped retarget. A lot of equipment responded quick. Cal fire is investigating six fires in the hills as arson. Fire crews saw a honda suv leaving the area. Calaveras road closed throughout the night. Predicted high temperatures and gusty winds prompted pg e to warn customers of potential power shut offs. The utility raised the likelihood of power should off to elevated. Forecasters are predicting hot, dry and windy conditions for monday and tuesday. The shut off program has grown to 30,000 miles of power lines in high fire risk areas. Kyle will have more on the fire danger coming up. The pentagon is deploying military forces to the middle east a fields were bombed. Bia the pentagon said this is just the first step in response to these attacks,