See more on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the cspan radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. Joining us this week on the communicators is alan pratt, he is the executive director of the National Rural Education Association and he joins us from chattanooga, tennessee. What is that association and what do you do . Our association is the voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve a rural schools and communities and right now we are looking at a Digital Divide and we are looking at the reopening of schools in a very different way. That is what i a lot of our work has been focused on over the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit and in rural, remote areas or areas outside
Impact it will have on the rest of the president s economic agenda. Plus well talk about disneys earnings. Revenues though a bit weak and of course its all about espn and cord cutting. You want toer what what bob iger had to say about the quarter. The yelp shares getting hammered. Well dip through that quarter that is dragging the name down. Obviously the story of the morning is the firing of jim comey. The lleyton ohis leaf the latest on his leaving the office. Lets go to eamon javers this morning. Good morning. Were an hour and half away from President Trump meeting in the oval office with Sergey Lavrov in the oval office. That came one day after firing comey who was investigating if any Trump Associates were in collusion with the russians in that process. We just saw mr. Lavrov at the state department a few moments ago play that video for you. And i believe we have some sound here of mr. Lavrov is asked about the firing of mr. James comey. Does the comey firing cast a shadow over wh
Moving up. We are all waiting for the jobs report tomorrow. Joe you have to talk about the resiliency of this market. We were down earlier in the day, and another come back to close over 2100. That is an important level. One thing that did help a little bit was a bounce back and oil after the inventory report. Energy down the most on the day, more earlier, then a pullback into strength. For a long time we talked about oil and stocks correlation. That is not where it was three months ago. Is going one way, stocks are going one way, the correlation down. 9, so today positive despite oil. , a bigresting stock move move down intraday, a report came out from andrew left of citroen research. Chemours. There is some doubt and Short Interest might be building. Joe a remarkable turnaround there. Lets look at the greek twoyear yield. Here is a threeday chart. That was thisop, morning when we got the ecb decision. They did not grant the waiver for banks to get greater access to ecb capital. That
Such an air of excitement here. Although the pope is leaving, although just an opportunity to see him. You can see the American Airlines charter airplane behind me geared up and ready to go, as soon as the pope arrives here, around 8 40, he will leave to head to philly. There are about a few hundred people. About a couple hundred people here waiting to say goodbye to pope francis. Many parishioners from the diocese of brooklyn. Which of course includes brooklyn and queens, and they won a raffle to be here today. And airport workers, as well as seven nuns from precious blood monastery in brooklyn. Four of them are argentinian and will present pope francis with a bouquet of white roses in honor of his devotion to Saint Therese the Little Flower. And a book of images of the marian paintings on the cathedral of st. Joes in prospect heights. The marian images are from around the world to celebrate the Brooklyn Diocese of immigrants and the pope is emphasizing his love of immigrants of his t
We have one on skype. Well start with chief zachery, the Public Safety director woodway, texas, and immediate past president of the International Association of chiefs of police. Yost, good to have you. Thank you, sir. Thanks for inviting me to testify today. My name is yost zachery, immediate past president of the im sorry i wasnt able to join you in person today. I intended to but my flights were canceled. I began Law Enforcement dispatcher woodway in 1979 and im still there today and currently serve as a chief and a director of the Public Safety department. One of my main duties as a chief is to ensure safety and wellbeing of my officers is there. This means making sure they have the proper training and equipment they need to do their job safely so they can return home each and every day to their loved one. During my time as president iecp, officer safety and wellness was one of my top priorities. Its always been a top priority of iecp. It is the position of that organization that n