I think roowere ready to ge started. I want to thank everyone for joining us today, my name is wi riley is titled prospects for black america. Before we get started, i want to thank a few people starting with larry moan from the man at that time has been institute who signed off on this event and i want to thank dea n, tanisha and debby who contacted the hard panelists and securing the venue cht i want to thank them as the well. Id this is our third annual symposium and the idea is to omf bringfe other people with different points of view about addressing racial problems in hn america. Youll beg hearing from some democrats, republicans, liberals, conservatives but moso importantly youll be hearing from people who given serious thought to these issues and dont dismiss out of hand people who think differently from that. Everyone here is here to engage. Youll be hearing from people who rrnt afraid to touch some third rails. Thats what the Manhattan Institute specializes in. Rails touching
We got three reporters covering it all there. Phil lebeau on the cars and the crash tests. Housing, diana olick and the economy, steve leisman. But we do start with phil and these new crash tests on the ford f150. Give us more details, phil. Mandy this is a mixed review from the Insurance Institute for highway safety. Look at the crash test video. The good news for ford and for f150 owners they tested two versions of the truck, the super crew version which is the most popular version, all good ratings across the board. Extended cab, four good ratings but one acceptable citing injuries to the driver. Ford says it is making changes in the extended cab for 2016 to ensure that it passes all of the safety tests. But heres the negative news in this review by the iihs. It has to do with the cost of repairing the aluminum panels on the f150. They say those repair costs could be 26 more than the old repairs against a steel panel version. They say that repairing aluminum is timelier or takes mor
Time guy is so nice, he got everybody starbucks downstairs he does that once in a while. Every time he comes in. He expenses it you know, see, you ruined it . You ruined it. We had a moment. He did not expense your epsom salt no he did not youre a good guy, guy do people say hi guy, guy you just did. Japan has called for an emergency meeting of the u. N. Security council u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is calling on china and russia to take direct action against the north. There has not been much action in the u. S. Fought chores. The dow is indicated higher again. Futures indicate up 9. 5 points now. S p fought choutures down 2 1 2s the nasdaq down 11 lets look at the currency markets. The dollar coming up the dollar was lower versus the yen after the north Korea Missile Launch news first hit. You can see this morning that at least at this hour the dollar is up against the yen at 111. 20 down against the euro. Lets look at the asian markets. Overnight the nikkei still closed up
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Or the times we would forget. To use bill back its baskets we used to have a saying that the file cabinet were his ideas in the fourth tour was newts good ideas. [laughter] he was the idea guy. And to be a part of the organization that is now a permanent part of the Republican Party that is not up permanent fixture. But you were up part of that. Was gingrich j. And extension of that . Absolutely. The contract with america was portrayed into the reagan principles. But Ronald Reagan inverses bill clinton to feel confident in the context but the results prove that. That is one way but i think how he got into politics with the people that were in power. It was not a conventionally conservative race. Key called itself a conservative but he wrote in 1970 for one of the first articles advocating governor reagan as president general ford in the primaries. Everybody had a chance with the eyelashes and a the whisker to defeat in kansas city in 76 so thinking of politics and revolutionary politic