Good afternoon, happy tuesday, thank you all spinning your tuesday with us. I am joe and the executive director. The institute here has been here for over three years now. An important member of the institute, things are since our founding, hes been our media fellow and help coordinate some of our events. So far more pretentious event you may have seen, ross was involved in. [laughter]. But anyway we are super pleased that ross is joining us today anything of the day of the really of his latest book. All of you know ross is one of the most important commentators American Culture today the rights of course the New York Times opinion page is written more than a few bucks at this point and they seem to all at least a couple of them is how we became something right. [laughter]. Ross you might want to steer clear that racing is on point. Host anyway today in the format will be i will engage ross in conversation about the book prayed and i had the pleasure of reading it and it really is an i
Thats important to all of us that are here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly it is used as a weapon. Democracy requires wellinformed electorate to function properly but to undermine the principle through socalled Disinformation Campaigns designed to mislead voters and in doing so delegitimize the democratic elections. Actors like russia systematically exploit the media and to distort the truth to an unsuspecting populace with regards to the coronavirus and this information is being spread is a high degree and anonymous and again if left unchecked it could be devastatingly effective. I established this organization it could help lead to the global disinformation effort and work with International Partners. The Bipartisan Legislation within the state department is now the law and to get it up and going we will hear more about that today but we are pleased that we are making progress. They lead, synchronize
Nonstate actors but from old nationstate adversaries who have learned from the change right at the end of the Twentieth Century and to understand the only way to defeat us is by using irregular or indirect means of attack, the assassination of general soleimani fit into that theory . It did because of who he was, his in official title. Thank you for having me on this show. The shadow commander. He wasnt a Major General in the regular Army Commanding divisions in a normal battle where you face off in a theater of combat and everything is aboveboard, the battle of the bulge, this isnt the first gulf war. This is an individual who used proxy forces in Six Continents including the us and the recent attempt against the saudi ambassador to wage irregular warfare using means the weaker power developed against a far more powerful adversary, the United States is no longer a superpower. We are a hyperpower, nobody can come close to us in a conventional capacity. We have 12 Nuclear Aircraft carri
Its back to 32 a share. Down 6. 58. Overall, the markets holding pretty steady as the profit reports roll in. In fact, id say stock prices are real solid and some of the profit reports, thats keeping the market at very high levels. No big pullback at this point. The dow industrials will open up about 40 this morning, s p up 6. By the way, the s p is only 22 points away from the alltime high. Whats that, just one big rally . The nasdaq, look at it go, up a half percentage point premarket. Big deal. Now let me lay out what we have for you. An important speech from Vice President pence on china. He may take a hard line. That could affect the market. And here comes amazon, perhaps the most important Earnings Report of them all. How strong is Consumer Online buying . Very important and we are going to find out today. Of course, we are going to watch apple hit new highs and unless something dramatic happens, we are hardly even going to mention impeachment. Here we go. Varney company is about
November 10th and 11th. That is thrown into the mix. Were told this is not part of the ongoing trade talks but put as wrinkle or maybe a hatchet in them. Blake burman at it whoo house with more on that. Markets are confused. So am i. What do you make of this port . I spoke with someone familiar with the matter. The way it is described there is a ongoing policy process, taking place, during the policy process one of the discussions the u. S. Might, it was stressed to me, might, limit investment flowing into china. A couple things were pointed out to me which you hit on, according to the source, this is a way essentially to protect u. S. Investment. As you know the u. S. Feels there are a host of issues, once you start dealing with china and and protections, companies there and making sure those companies are taken care of. Also it was put to me this is separate from the ongoing u. S. Trade discussions. Now about you believe that to be the case is another matter. We talked about the issu