It is april 24, 2020, this is Worldwide Exchange on cnbc good morning. Welcome wherever you may be watching i am brian sullivan. I think i speak for everybody when i say tgif. It has been a rough and wild week indicating we may not get another break today. Lower now off about 100 points the index lower on the week with the dow, s p losing between 2 and 3 that looks now to continue those losses today crude oil is down 30 since monday prices are lower now if we extend physical guidelines to summer, that could keep gasoline and jet fuels low. One of the biggest World Storage producers will give us the story. That has certainly been a market mover. In asia, plenty of red across the board. Japan down nearly 1 shanghai and kospi also down more than 1 to close out their week stocks in asia declining largely on report of doubts from treatment from Gilead Sciences to the trade in europe, early following the foot steps of asia markets there are sharply lower with major indices all down 1 or more
The 18th century converging with the 20th century, we can be hightech about this. I feel much the same as does my wife because i have been a long time reenactor, you can see me dressed as an officer in the army. I battled three times in sweltering heat like today, and there i am speaking twice for the Alexander Hamilton awareness society. You can also say he was helping to found american industry. Were just west of paterson falls where he worked with that, of course. Washington crosses the delaware, a famous scene on christmas night into the morning of the 26th. A large life side paintize pain. Here is one that came out and debuted at the New York Historical society. You can see it was at nighttime, a different kind of craft, a cannon, maybe hamiltons. Not good weather. Similarly, another painter who is now retired, this is another painting, victory or death. ; and there they are, in the Early Morning light, trudging through the ice and the snow. You can imagine how cold they must ha
Cspan. Org thepresident s, order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Can everybody hear me okay . We appreciate you supporting our event. I have a couple quick House Keeping announcements first. Silence your cell phones. If you would like to keep those on and that is fine but turn off your flash. We have 300 every year. We need to do that because if you come here you by your socks and greeting cards. Our guests will be speaking tonight, recorded by steve that cspan. After this, we will have an opportunity to ask questions and we will have mikes available. If you would like to stick around, we can accommodate that but ask that you purchase the book downstairs, it is on the information desk. We are excited welcome back to the store, h. W. Brands, a professor who holds the senior chair, the New York Times bestselling author, it is interesting, you can buy 30 books that tells you something. Two of his books were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize winning biography and he is h
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Today, we will be looking at cold war berlin. After world war ii ended, germany was divided. Between the victors. Thats the united states, france, United Kingdom and the soviet union. Soviet union occupied the east and the other three countries, the west. And that included the capital city of berlin which was also divided into four sectors, one for each of the victors, again with the soviets occupying the eastern zone of berlin and the three western powers occupying the western zone of berlin. This starts the division of germany and the division of berlin after the war. That division became concrete erectiondirection of the berlin wall in 1961. The wall was put up by east germans ostensibly to keep people out. In the years after world war ii and with the occupation of east germany and east berlin, by the soviets, hundreds of thousands of people in the east had been fleeing to the west. These numbers became larger and larger. It was a terrible drain of intelligence and of skills in the