Town hall is grateful for the opportunity to invite seattle answers in exchanges of issues, ideas and creativity even when we want do it in person. Well produce online content through the fought and new year if circumstances allow to host live streams from the building, meanwhile if you cant get enough time on zoom or youtube, our past talks are available in yesterdayow or podcast form. Back to tonights program. The event dill run 30 to 40 multiples followed by q a, steve and chelsea will ask your questioned from the ask a question field. Also, know that you can view the event here on crowdcast or on the youtube page. If you want to utilize that platform, closed captioning feature. Townhall is adding new event thursday podcast every day. Upcoming policemans including women odd activism, to bend the course of climb change, and overcoming americas obsession with economic efficiency, a book about the past and future of american isolationism, as well as howard gardner, David Eagleman and h
It is still up there, unchanged for now. President the suspended temporarily visas of hundreds of thousands of workers used to work in the united visas, including the h1b used widely for immigrant employees in Silicon Valley. First, a check of the markets. Ending the day slightly up despite all the political commotion. Abigail doolittle has been watching the back and forth. Investors again looking past the bad news. Why . Most part, they are looking past the bad news. Relatively risk on close. Close itself in the past couple of hours, not so great. At the highs, the s p 500 and nasdaq up more than 1 . The nasdaq of course closing at yet another record high. That has to do with todays strength, the stayathome stocks and stayathome sectors. Both at aamazon closing time. The longest winning streak since july of 2019. The stayathome team has emerged. A couple of weeks where the cyclical sectors were doing better. As the virus has started to hotspotscertain areas, created fear. Weeks, thest
Lawmakers are expected to work on the 2021 policy bill, a vote to advance the measure scheduled for 1 30 p. M. Eastern. Now, live to the senate floor on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Our father in heaven, we sing of your steadfast love and proclaim your faithfulness to all generations. Make us one nation, truly wise, with righteousness exalting us in due season. Today, inspire our lawmakers to walk in the light of your countenance. Abide with them so that your wisdom will influence each decision they make. Keep them from evil so that they will not be brought to grief, enabling them to avoid the pitfalls that lead to ruin. Empower them to glorify you in all they think, say, and do. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the repu
The Recordings Program. It is quite wonderful actually to be here with everybody. It is something of a reunion in fact since kent was with us for years and years and spending his time at university of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share with you insights from the secret white house tapes. And well look to explore the dynamics therein and to relate them to see what kind of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the Recordings Program, we were established in 1998. And our goal, we are the only institution of its kind doing it, is to analyze and transcribe the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1940 through 1973. That is from Franklin Roosevelt through Richard Nixon. We do this work at the Miller Center. We actually do it off site as well because so much of the work these days is browserbased. But we publish our
Good afternoon and welcome to this event on u. S. Sanctions and deterrence. It is a pleasure to have you here with us. Todays session is an opportunity to think about the deterrence and signaling effects of financial sanctions and as many of you know well, u. S. Sanctions are an economic tool which in general terms shut off access to the u. S. Financial system to entities that pose a threat to u. S. National security. The use of sanctions has become central to the exercise of u. S. The and National Security over the last decade. And is the favored policy tool of this administration. The topic for todays session is also the topic of a report that jordan and i cowrote and are releasing today. Here will have seen it as you came in. We haveincludes convening the session with the intention of achieving a better understanding of how the administration and congress you sanctions for signaling and deterrence and offer views and recommendations for how to improve the signaling and deterrence va