Was the u. S. Involved in the attempt to venezuela washington says it wasnt even those detained suspects seem to claim otherwise but the u. S. And most of latin america want Nicolas Maduro out of power does that mean venezuela this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program now on the 3rd of may the venezuelan government announced it had detained a group of what it called mercenaries trying to reach venezuela on speedboats along with several dozen colombians the group reportedly numbered around 50 at least 8 people were killed in the incident as the venezuelans in effect ambushed the group having apparently waited for them on shore the mission according to the government was to kill venezuelas president Nicolas Maduro and then spark a coup in caracas but others claim the plan was to adopt mr mudd doro and then take him nobody knows where a florida based Security Company has claimed responsibility for the operation which was coordinated reportedly with venezuelas opposition led b
Brokered. Weekrude about 13 on the but we cant go without pointing out we are down about 50 on the year. The dow, the nasdaq, the s p down roughly 1. 5 on the day. The big decline or is really the russell 2000. A lot of concerns about what the smaller and Midcap Companies are going to fair. We also saw a selloff in the financial space. The bank index down about 4. 8 on the week. We should also point out, on the weekly gains and losses, the only three sectors that managed to close with gains this week was energy, consumer staples, and health care. Also up about 2 , scarlet. Scarlet it is interesting how weve seen the gains that initially came at the open disappear pretty quickly. For all the talk that the data is backwards looking, the fact that it is friday and we have so much uncertainty i had of us with worsening numbers presumably means that investors dont want to be long heading into a weekend. Now all eyes are looking towards the opec Conference Call on monday. Certainly there a l
Yeah. No doubt hopefully they can get this stuff done between the congress and the senate and it will be a lot more to do its a good start but given the dislocation to the marketplace, hopefully we can get this thing done in washington and well be good backstops for the market. Does it take a significant amount of stress off of the credit markets, which i know youve been concerned about and you watch so closely well, i mean, it takes a certain amount off it doesnt theres still a lot of stress in a lot of different places it takes a little bit of the stress off you really need the washington package. A package in washington just a lot bigger what they were talking about doing, seven times bigger. If i got my numbers right off the top of my head just to help support corporate small business, et cetera, what were going to need support and buy secondary stuff in the marketplace. Some of the other things they started to do today, so that we can have the economy function the right way. How c
1 pm here in the russian capital thanks to cheating and as we take a look at whats going on in the wild day. Starting something that literally just happened within the last hour in hoth Iraqi Security Officials Say a bar ourselves rockets has again hit a base housing u. S. And Coalition Troops near baghdad its the 2nd attack on the facility this week on wednesday 2 American Service members and one british soldier what killed the u. S. Retaliated on friday with as strikes against a new radio and linked group but 6 iraqis were killed in that operation leaders in baghdad say that will be consequences for relations with washington. The u. S. Bombing of Government Security and civilian headquarters undermines counterterrorism efforts and disrupt the agreement between iraq and the global coalition. The pentagon claims it was targeting the iran backed hezbollah militia to take out 5 of the groups weapons Storage Facilities in response to this attack on an iraqi base that hosts Coalition Force
Mr. Steyer i want to thank katherine and calvin and derek for those very nice introductions. What i want to do this morning is take as many questions from you as i possibly can. Ill do a short introduction, but what i really want to do is talk to you whatever you want to talk about. Let me say that i was asked on the debate stage on tuesday night what i think people misunderstand about me. And i said that people think that im defined by my money. I am not. My mom was a teacher in the new York Public Schools. When she retired from being a teacher in the new York Public Schools and taught prisoners at the brooklyn house of detention. She was someone that defines her with service to other people and trying to give young kids a chance to get ahead in the world. My dad was somebody who was the first generation in his family to go to college. My grandfather was a plumber. They were people who thought that education was the chance to get ahead. My father graduated from college at the age of 1