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a program on education and politics setting the stage for the 2021 elections and 2022 electionsti featuring congresswoman rosa delauro, and anna greenberg. at 7 p.m., navigating international hostage situations, a collaboration with the richardson center for governor bill richardson will join us. we hope you gote to www.i/o pga cornell or just google cornell politics and you can register. during this evening a few distance guess. former carson john barrow from georgia, martin frost from texas, former chairman of the state republican committee, tompkins county legislator martha robertson, cornell is located in the county.nt the president of the afl-cio richard trumka, great keiser, chair of the executive committee of the cornell board of trustees and a member of the board of trustees becky robertson. and now to our guests this evening. my co-moderated ass always is chris reback, the host of chris reback conversation and publishers chris reback newsletter which i made up my for
the united states. we expect to see his arrival at joint base andrews in this hour as he prepares for tomorrow s inauguration, billionaire backer bernie swarts is here the business is well underway already on capitol hill confirmation hearing close to half a dozen of biden s nominees are underway but it s biden s pick for treasury secretary who is moving the market. the nasdaq is that session highs right now. we will tell you the one thing that janet yellen said that will heal the economy that is pushing stocks within striking dish distance of new all-time high download industrial 139 s&p better than 32 nasdaq at 193. the paycheck protection program several hours old we have two bankers writing hundreds of checks for billions of dollars, will it be easier or harder for your business to get the money this time plus the one group that is not allowed to get the covid relief coin in the ciampa administration state department official who took on china is giving up his exit interv
[applause] good evening and welcome to the new york historical society but i m the new york historical president and ceo and thrilled to see all of you this evening in our beautiful robert h smith auditorium. tonight s program gives me liberty, history of america s exceptional idea is a part of our bernard schwartz established speaker series and as always i k like to thank mr. schwartz or his great generosity which is enabled us to bring so many fine speakers to this stage and i also want to thank all of our chairman council members who are in attendance as evening and to thankk you for your great suppot which enables us to do our work. tonight s program will last about one hour and it will include a question answer session but you should have received a note card and pencil as you entered the auditorium and this afternoon or this evening and it is not my colleagues going up and down the aisle with note cards and pencils in the note card will be collected later on in the pr
a very warm welcome to the program on this friday morning 8 am here in the russian capital let s get started with your live news update. turkey says it will begin consultations with nato on the situation in syria on friday earlier the country s officials said turkey would conduct attacks on the syrian army in northwest syria it follows the reported deaths of $33.00 turkish soldiers in the province. of looks at the sudden escalation. situation in the northeastern syrian province of idlib has been hated so far and lately turkey has been saying that more than 30 of its troops have been killed they say that the fire has originated from the syrian army now again just a disclaimer all that we know so far comes from the turkish side the syrian army is yet to comment but he is adamant i mean they hold no punches they are saying that it s the syrians who have killed the troops and they re saying that essentially now they are designating all syrian soldiers as anime s turkey is determi