Hear our theory of creativity. Im soledad obrien. Welcom to matter of fact. A pressure packed december on capitol hill. The Republican Congress, pushing tax reform. Driving toward a deal with democrats to prevent a government shutdown. Hammered by requests for more Disaster Relief funding. Add to it, allegations of Sexual Misconduct piling up against the politically po. And revelations that congress quietly paid out millions frome harassment settlements. Several foreman staffers have a accused veteran congressman john conyers of making unwanted sexual advances. A report said he made a female aid 27,000 to settle a complaint. The complaint the office of compliance. That to the tune of 17 point 2 mi dollars over the last 20 melanie sloan, is an ethics lawyer, who worked with conyers on the House Judiciary Committee in the 1990s. Laac being increasingly abusive to her, behavior she says wasnt Sexual Harassment but was she joins us now. Nice to have you. Hanks f bringing the complaints for
Continue in the markets, but a big story involves disney and 21st century fox, a story faber broke at the top of the nine and joins us once again. About one month after we reported on the talks between disney and fox, designed for disney to buy largely all the entertainment assets of 21st century fox, we can tell you now they are closing in on a deal that could be announced as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the situation. That is not to say it is done, but it is to say they have made a great deal of progress talking about a deal for which the consideration will be all disney stock and when you take in the assumption of debt and the equity that will be exchanged for the assets in question, it will amount to more than 60 billion, again according to people familiar with those negotiations. An exact price could not be determined at this point the assets in question include foxs studio, its fx and nat geo cable networks, Regional Sports networks, my first reporting on
Heading our way in an hour and crude inventories not long after that new record at the open but the selloff for tech stocks continues to weigh on the nasdaq and s p. Jack ma, the push to brick and mortar and why jeff bezos struggled in the Chinese Market. A turning point for snap, a key 2018 outlook upgrade shares are up in the premarket. Futures are pointing to a higher open after the record setting day for the dow and s p offset by the sell offin Technology Microsoft and amazon had the biggest impact on the nasdaq and optimism surrounding tax reform. We did manage to get the vote in the house to go to conference with a little bit of drama last night. Jim, you said the reversal yesterday, doesnt bode well well, look, i was doing my show and you posted a little squib about reversal and i did not realize how serious reversal was obviously its more serious for the but i find reversals catch people out of position when youre out of position, you scramble and start reaching for things you
Semester, these three duke with some great stuff planned for next semester already. Also to nights for him being filled by cspan, so during the question part of the forum, if you would go up to one of the microphones and also hopefully state your name and your question, another reason why we ask you to stitching is because we didnt do a write up of all of the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our website which is comp forum. Edu, and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius, which is another group at mit. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three. It is a different story than we initially thought would be here because jeff, he called me up a little past by because his daughter was puking, and as a aa father of two young kids myself i said please stay home. And so fortunately christina couch who writes a lot about technology and works with the forum is a bright journalist in her own right has agr
Mississippi historical society. Two of the groups are responsible for the series she will moderate this penal. Thank you very much. I want to begin by recognizing our sponsors, bradley and cummings and Mississippi State university, thank you very much for making this panel possible. I want to thank you all for joining us here in the Mississippi State capital. We are very proud of this building and it was recently designated a National Historic landmark which is very appropriate. [applause] in our bicentennial year. Im really pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a bicentennial initiative. The series will cover mississippihistory and 17 volumes , seven of them have already been published and there are seven scholars working their fingers to the bone right at this minute on the next volume and then a few to be signed. This series is as i said meant to cover the whole history of the state and its aimed at a wide audience. Dollars, teachers