Rights movement, as bernie was. Having led demonstrations in west chester, pennsylvania, the home of their rustin. Barrett rustin. I was disappointed in that the movement in the mid1960s when most did not benefit from the change. Low income blacks were used for demographics. When the remedies came they helped middleclass blacks in that separation of interest continues to this day. One of the reasons why i left the movement and began to work on behalf of low income people of all races, the Civil Rights Movement, thats why. Taking the long view, you talked about the Civil Rights Movement. You also have the election of the first black president. Then we have the comments this past week from President Trump where he seemed to equate those who were taking the size of the White Supremacists, along with those who were marching in protesting in moral opposition to the White Supremacists. Where do you think the country stance of this moment . Guest let me begin by giving you a little of my back
Cochair of the American Astronomical Society eclipse task force. This task force you are a part of has been working for more than a year to prepare the American People for the total Solar Eclipse monday. What kind of work have you been doing . Angela we convened about three years ago and really, to make sure people realized what was going to happen. When you start saying there is going to be this mass migration of people on all the towns that see the total eclipse, people look at you funny. Our job has been to work with every aspect of this, whether emergency services, departments of transport, tourism and business, all that sort of thing as well as educational. It is such an education opportunity that we want to be able to make sure teachers are ready, that we make the most of this, and that everyone is safe, because there are safety issues. Every conceivable aspect of the eclipse, we have been putting out to whoever needs to know about it. Why do you think that is important . Angela
Rights movement, as bernie was. Having led demonstrations in west chester, pennsylvania, the home of their rustin. Barrett rustin. I was disappointed in that the movement in the mid1960s when most did not benefit from the change. Low income blacks were used for demographics. When the remedies came they helped middleclass blacks in that separation of interest continues to this day. One of the reasons why i left the movement and began to work on behalf of low income people of all races, the Civil Rights Movement, thats why. Taking the long view, you talked about the Civil Rights Movement. You also have the election of the first black president. Then we have the comments this past week from President Trump where he seemed to equate those who were taking the size of the White Supremacists, along with those who were marching in protesting in moral opposition to the White Supremacists. Where do you think the country stance of this moment . Guest let me begin by giving you a little of my back
Trading days of the year. Well see what happens. The dow is up 21 right now. Warren buffet telling cnbc this morning he doubled his holdings in apple this year. Is it too late to follow his lead . Well debate it. After the bell, who will President Trump pick to sit on the fed board. Jim grant will tell us exclusively. Some people in the past have suggested maybe mr. Grant would make a fine fed governor. Fun take on the subject. Looking forward to it. Lets start with the news out of washington today. Eamon javers back at the white house and ylan mui is at our washington bureau. Eamon, a surprise appearance at the press briefing. Reporter yeah, thats right, bill. We had a surprise visitor. It was Mick Mulvaney. He said the president is going to coming up with massive spending cuts in his budget which will roll out in the next month or so. The spending cuts we see, even though hes not detailing them specifically now, will seem awfully familiar to those of us who followed the president ove
Left candidate the only two options. Two candidates who wanted to take france out of the European Union. We do have Marine Le Pen. And centrist frenchelected macron. Because of those results, you can see the market is picking up a little bit of ground. Again, this is not unanticipated. This is what most people expected would happen here. There is one candidate that would keep france in the eu. Dow futures indicated up by 219 points. S p futures indicated up by about 29. And the nasdaq up by 58. Friday was a down day for the market. But it was still the best week the dow had seen since the beginning of the march. The s p 500 and nasdaq best in two months. Overnight in asia, take a look, japan up 1. 3 . Hang seng higher, 0. 4 . Shanghai composite was down by 1. 3 . In europe, early trading, again, based on what were seeing in the election, we do see stocks across the continent. In france, markets are up by 4. 3 . The dax is up higher. Ftse up in europe and spain also higher. Taking a loo