Japans nikkei tops 40 thousand and awaiting testimony from jay powell. Opec plus extends cuts. China unveiling strategies for reviving the economy. We are live in beijing. Diplomatic efforts to pause fighting as conditions deteriorate with planes air dropping aid into the territory. Its a big week for global markets. The National Peoples congress in china and growth targets. You have jay powell in the house and senate and fresh forecasts. The rally continues across asia and 16 stocks out of 18 closing higher. To tens of a percent gains. Looking to losses of a 10th of 1 . Upgrades coming from bank of america. Nasdaq futures are pointing to modest gains. Lets look across assets. European futures, lets look at the currencies. Money moving out of treasuries. 108 on the single currency. Bitcoin in focus having crossed the 64,000 level. Etf flows continued to support opecplus extending cuts, now the most important decision for the cut in june. Brent at 83 a barrel. Mixed demand. What is stan
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Thing okay, greg. Greg bye. Bret good evening. Im brett bay. Antiisrael protesters College Campuses clashing with Law Enforcement several locations again tonight this after police in new york forcibly evicted demonstrators from a Columbia University building overnight. New protests have begun at another new york school, an antiantisemitic, antiisrael protesters ucla in los angeles fought with projewish demonstrators who tried to tear down their encampment overnight. In the midst of all of this, very little from President Biden himself, his staff putting out statements answering questions about the president s relative silence on the issue. We begin tonight in los angeles with correspondent bill melugin at ucla. Good evening, bill. Bill bret, good evening to you. All classes here at ucla are canceled today after a night of violent clashes here on campus that went on for hours without any kind of Law Enforcement intervention and just moments ago, we heard from uclas chancellor who descri
Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000, and , 202 7488002. We will get to your calls in a minute but first running us on the phone is jennifer shutt, the budget appropriations reporter for c q roll call to talk a little bit more about a continuing resolution in washington. When they say that this continuing resolution keeps the current spending level going into 2017, what does that mean exactly in dollars . Guest every year the federal government is supposed to get 12 Appropriations Bills passed by september 30 when the fiscal year expires. They were not able to do that this year so they passed a temporary stopgap spending bill which we call a continuing resolution. One of the criticisms from appropriators is that it continues those fiscal 2016 spending levels into fiscal 2017, which can cause some problems. We heard the department of defense repeatedly Tell Congress that it causes a lot of problems for them. One of the important points to make about the continuing resolution
I really appreciate it. To these unbelievably strong and brave people, we will fight and we will win, and again, i say, your loved ones will not have died in vain. Believe me. Ok . Thank you, everyone. Thank you very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] cspans washington journal live every day with policy impacts that impacts you. Willg up, Eliana Johnson talk about the latest in campaign 2016, recent rolling polling, and key senate races. Then joe conason will talk about his book on bill clintons life postpresidency and his role in the Clinton Foundation and campaign 2016 be sure to watch cspans washington journal live, sunday morning at 7 00 a. M. Last july, hawaii congressman mark takai died at the age of 49 after a brief term in congress and a battle with cancer. Cspan sat down with congressman takai last year