Also his rhetoric reiterated when it comes to china, saying china should have kept the virus where it was and could have stopped this virus spread. These are the latest lines coming through, the president saying trump the u. S. Can deal with the flareups. We are seeing with stocks we are basically coming off some of the lows but still heading lower today, u. S. Futures extending losses to more than 1 now. Jakarta coming online. We have a Bank Indonesia decision today, expect some type of rate cut. When it comes to india we are watching the standoff on the border with china. Besides continue to talk. They are pledging to deescalate after the deadly clashes. Here is what we are watching out for, not a lot of catalysts. Looking at the dollar, it is very much on the stronger side and youre seeing the likes of the aussie dollar reacting to those unemployment numbers which was a big miss. U. S. 10year yield, seeing bonds that are up as well and the china 10year yield is what we are watching
Alexis is a deputy ceo of new york city where she runs basically a policy Experiment Lab trying to get offenders to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens of new york. Shes in that adjunct professor of communications at Columbia University and shes studying issues extremely intensively as a chicago student and then as a member of the staff at the u. N. Mission of the state department and also a quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] just jump right into this book is about whatn you call states. Maybe you want to take a minute to tell us what those are and you why you thought we needed a new category 4 them. Thank you all so much for coming and its so wonderful to see you all here. I think the best way to describe it is to talk about how i came upon the idea to write this book in the first place. Back in 2015 there were a number of terrorist attacks across france and in november of 2016 there was the largest terror attack which kil
Senator George Mitchell was president of the club and we had 288 members. They were all the rage. And the world war ii memorial dedicated, and Major League Baseball returned to washington as though washington nationals. For 15 years and David Rubenstein is back. David as we all know is cofounder and coexecutive chairman of the karloff group and chairman of the board. And the performing arts, a Strong Institution at the council on foreign relations. And engaged in many many other philanthropic activities. The patriotic philanthropy, generous financing, great historical landmarks, including the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. The us marine corps. And monticello, and the arlington house. And purchased rare copies of historic documents like the declaration of independence, the emancipation proclamation, and magna carta to ensure they are publicly displayed at the smithsonian and national archives. At the Economic Club, the insightful revealing and entertaining interview were, at
Dont think ive ever seen looked at as this fall so thanks for coming. We invite you to listen, watch and follow along on twitter. Its at press club in dc and the hashtag is an pc live. If you have questions, for the authors this evening, please there will be question cards around the room. Write the questions on the card, theyll be collected and sent out to me. And we will leave plenty of time for questions. I just want to take a moment to acknowledge our headliners team, laurie riso and Dc Media Strategies and our staff liaison Lacey Underwood who put this event together this evening. So we are delighted to have with us here tonight, rotted programming and kate kelly, the authors of the education of Brett Kavanaugh. The book is about three days old and its been three days of uproar, controversy and for both President Trump to call for the mass resignation of New York Times staffers and democrats to call for Justice Kavanaugh to be impeached and the New York Times had to retract a poor
And discussed concerns openly in front of the public. Allegations were raised against the justice but none could be cooperated or verified. I know because i had a team of dozens of lawyers and investigators chasing down each allegation that we received. My team spoke to 45 individuals and took 25 written statements. Now, anyone can review the 414 page investigation summary report that i released last november. We laid out the information we received including some of the ugliest of claims. In the endhe there was no credie evidence to support any of the allegations. Brett kavanaugh then was duly confirmed to the Supreme Court by this body as prescribed in the constitution. Now, fast forward to this past weekend. The issues i and a lot of other members of the senate are being asked about thisn very day. It just if theres nothing else going on in this town but you dig up something that happened one year ago. The New York Times published a book excerpt about Justice Kavanaughs younger days