[ applause ] more now from the intelligence conference at George Washington university. Well hear about threats from biological weapons. This is about 50 minutes. Our second panel of the day will tackle the dangers of bio tech bio tech innovation. Addressing these issues requires focus from the Intelligence Community and national and International Consensus on laws, standards and authorities. It is moderating by tank at George Washington jufrt. Dr. Charles and lieberman anxious to get back on cam pa pus. Back to you. Over to you guys. Well, good morning everyone. It will provide implications. And well focus on National Security. My area is in biological weapons. My background is in biology and micro biology. We all know you from your campaigns. Throughout your career you have had serious focus on National Security. And now well talk about this youre also focused on biological crimes and terrorism. Tell us a little more about that. Yeah. When i went to college we were still a science re
Snatches a child instead. Thats quite a tease. Look who is joining us. Power lunch starts right now. Welcome, im becky quick. All three indices up for the Third Straight session. Take a look at this now. The s p up over ten points. The defense is in focus after billions of dollars in deals announced in saudi arabia. Lockheed martin one of the big beneficiaries of the deals it announced. Lockheed hit a new high, some of the other defense stocks also hitting lifetime highs. Oil is on the move crossing 51 and hitting the highest level in more than a month. Right now sitting back below that at 50. 65. Amazon hitting another alltime high. Up more than 120 . This comes ahead of tomorrows shareholder meeting. Becky, its a privilege to have you on the program. Ill keep the coffee brewing. We begin with the president who in just moments will be speaking from israel. All of this taking place before a dinner with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Were also waiting on the president to make a join
Lets have a look at where european equities are trading just under 30 minutes to the close. I can tell you the stoxx 600 is rebounding from a fivemonth low and also rebounding after it had its worst week since november last weekend. We are seeing broadbased gains, the ftse 100 up the most in over a week. The dax up the most in almost four weeks. Some people coming out to say perhaps a correction is imminent. This is the europe index and what we can see here is that those are drops of 10 or more from peaks. That hasnt happened in about 13 months for the europe index, they in the question whether we are due a pullback. That 13th month run without a pullback of 10 or more is the longest since this bull market began in 2009. That is and and then we will talk about this hour. And then looking at the stoxx 600 revenue per basic share against the euro. We were just talking about the gains in strength of the euro. The euro was weaker because of broadbased dollar gains, but overall, we have see
In a little bit but tell me first about the conversation you had this morning with president elect donald trump when you informed him that you would no longer be building that plant in mexico. Well, we informed president elect trump and also Vice President elect pence this morning that we were going to be investing 700 million here in our plant in flat rock, michigan, adding 700 jobs on top of the 28,000 jobs that weve created over the past five years. And at the same time, told them we were going to be canceling our plant in mexico and the reason for that is that plant was we were going to produce the focus. Weve seen a market decline in demand for small vehicles. So were now going to produce the focus in an existing facility in mexico. Mark, what did the president elect say to you when you told him this . Well, over all both the president elect and Vice President elect pence were very happy that we were making these investments here in the u. S. And u. S. Workers. And we mentioned al
If we really believed and were going to live this record programmed to go live to the Heritage Foundation this afternoon. A quick reminder you can watch the rest of the Program Online on cspan. Org. This type center for strategic and budgetary assessment in the search bar. Live now to the Heritage Foundation for the future of the every Nuclear Agreement. This is cspan2. Will post a program in the heritage homepage following todays presentation as well. Leaving our discussion as jim phillips, Senior Research fellow for middle Eastern Affairs in douglas and Sarah Allison center for Foreign Policy studies. If the veteran foreignpolicy specialists who has written widely on the middle east and issues of International Terrorism since coming to the Heritage Foundation in 1979. He has authored dozens of papers on iran on its Nuclear Program, use of terrorism and testified before congress on Irans Nuclear program and other middle east security issues. Please join me in welcoming jim phillips. W