I know. Were expecting big ideas out of aspen from you folks today and, i mean, if nothing else, the view is spectacular as we always know this time of year. Yes, i am Bill Griffeth here at cnbc headquarters, where we are watching a final hour of trade not only for this day, for the, month for the quarter, for the first half of this year on wall street, and kelly, as we know, the markets have continued to move higher. This will be the fifth consecutive month where the dow and the s p have moved higher. And by the way, eighth consecutive quarter for russell 2000. I believe thats unprecedenunpr. Well follow these markets here. Well hear shortly from the president as well. Lets tally up the gains this year, take a look at our lineup of heavy hitters as well including David Rubenstein, former treasury secretary Larry Summers. Thats all from aspen. Later on the program, john calmo joining us. Could you want anybody else . Well, yes, were awaiting the president. He is about to make a stateme
Forces are active inside Eastern Ukraine and russian financing is very active inside Eastern Ukraine. Thank you all. President obama is going to announce his pick to head the Veterans Affairs department, replacing eric shinseki, who resigned last month. Will be Robert Mcdonald, a former executive at Procter Gamble. We will be live here on cspan with the announcement expected in about a half an hour from now at 4 30 eastern. Burnish Prime Minister David Cameron reported to the house of commons today about his meetings last week with European Union leaders. The eu is set to elect its next resident of the commission in july. They have decided to nominate a person Prime Minister cameron have has opposed. This is about one hour. We will show you as much as much as we can before the president s announcement. I would like to make a statement on the European Council. Let me briefly report back on two other points. First, the council began in april with a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniv
This is 15 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, the president and Vice President of the United States accompanied by bob mcdonald. Good afternoon, everybody. Please be seated. Let me start by thanking acting secretary gibson for welcoming us here today. Im pleased to be joined by our Vice President , joe biden, from leaders across this department and our many partners particularly representatives from our incredible veterans and military Family Service organizations. I want to begin by making a basic point. Those of you who serve here at the v. A. , do absolutely vital work every single day for our veterans and their families. I know how deeply you care about our veterans. Many of you are veterans yourselves. Veterans serving veterans. You help them transition to civilian life, college, a first home, and start a new business and you have some of the best doctors and provide some of the best Specialized Health care. In our national cemeteries, you lay our veterans to rest with dignity and com
Preschool over 25 thousand square feet but some mentioned should be made i think that presidio and knowles may include a preschool but other situations p where the Elementary School or preschool may want to be allowed in that area and want want conditional use so with the consent of the other commissioners, i want to modify the preschools and mention whats allowable can i ask either the staff or the Supervisors Office to comment on that. I believe preschools would be cared childcare and we can looked at the code section to accommodate that. I think well support that and maybe to further just comment on the intent or our agreement with the Planning Department recommendation to limit it to just the exemptions to just preliminary and secondary education and laughing the childcare were supportive of that. Commissioner richards. This is my First Commission hearing im excited as a gay man to hear this i am concerned about the displacement only for the performed and the institutions. I came i
Conditional use so with the consent of the other commissioners, i want to modify the preschools and mention whats allowable can i ask either the staff or the Supervisors Office to comment on that. I believe preschools would be cared childcare and we can looked at the code section to accommodate that. I think well support that and maybe to further just comment on the intent or our agreement with the Planning Department recommendation to limit it to just the exemptions to just preliminary and secondary education and laughing the childcare were supportive of that. Commissioner richards. This is my First Commission hearing im excited as a gay man to hear this i am concerned about the displacement only for the performed and the institutions. I came in the late 80s as well i have to tell you im worried about the conceptual regions there is just because of the money or the quality of the people but we need more people like you Health Care Less than and im glad youre doing this thank you commi