Welcome in to squawk alley. Dow down for a fourth day in a row. Have not seen that since february, but the dow repaired some ofthe internal damage the s p went green the nasdaq getting helped once again by a tech trade that seems almost impossible to kill. Even with invidia and the expectations last night. Yeah, in the green at the moment well see where that goes. Were going to start with some controversial ipo paperwork. It was the ipo that was and wasnt, now it is on again it company was one of the most widely anticipated listings of the area then travel grounded to a halt and with it airbnb bookings. Revenue started to rebound by june and july bookings returns to prepandemic levels. This could be a pandemic come back story, but much still has to be written. The main question will be whether or not investors give the startup a pass for this year air bnb had the record to even out profitability and enough cash on hand at one point to consider a direct listing. As losses have widened t
Cbs Radio Network news and former managing editor for the broadcast division of united press international, the boys on the bus was required reading. And i had the pleasure and the challenge of having on my upi team one of the boys, the legendary chamberlain of upi. A prospect. Sounds like a lot of you knew him. Looking forward to a terrific discussion this evening and now i have the pleasure of introducing the chair of the National Press club history and heritage team, the 87th president of the National Press club the your chief of the gaylord News Washington bureau for university of oklahoma, and a different mr. Gil klein. [applause] thanks so much, mike. The legacy of the club 112 year history as well as to explore the history of journalism especially in washington. We are pleased on april 27 a new book, new history of the club called tales from the National Press club is scheduled to be published by the history press. It explores the events that happened at the club that it had an
Transformative book he has ever written. One thing i can tell you about tavis is he is serious about this museum and he is serious about dr. King. He will often kneel down and pray at this site because dr. King meant so much to his life to continues to mean so much his life. For those of you who never met he is ave got to know down to earth guy. He is just like your brother. He is a person that you want to talk to. My first introduction to tavis mosttavis gave some of the thoughtful commentary i have ever heard. Tavis is a brilliant young man and he has been brilliant for a long, long time. I know in some ways he is controversial. But what i will say to you is tavis always thinks for himself and whether you agree with him or not or like it or not, he does speak for himself. That is what i love about him. Friend. Longtime he is much like a brother. I understand that he did play at. He alpha chapter i could go on about travis tavis. I have loved him since i first him. Him and didnt know
Firestorm on vile remarks caught on a hot mike. Some have had enough and calling for him to step aside but trump said he is not going anywhere. What did you want to say to your supporters . Mr. Trump, are you staying in the race . 100 . Three of the top surrogates, conway, and priebus were supposed to ahere on the talk shows but were replace by july 19, instead, and here is how he attempted to mop up the mess. Im not here to defend the comments if he were he would not defend the comments. They were wrong, very wrong, and he has said that and apologized. This is a man who has gone through 14 months of running for president , understands the weight on his shoulder of all of these people who vote ford him who believe in him and who believe he is, really, has a movement to try to change this country. The point we make is, he has apologize god this and we believe if you get to the issues he is the candidate that is much better suited to run the country than Hillary Clinton. Lets talk strate
A bearing on down ballot racing especially the senate races where think they have a golden opportunity to gain control of the you were chamber of commerce. For this we turn to john i want to start you out by showing what the real clear politics average is showing in the state of New Hampshire where an thats one of the states where there is incumbent republican senator running. That shows thats the president ial preference. Were looking for the senate race. There it is. Kelly ayotte incumbent republican. She is leading maggie hess on the democratic governor obviously running for the senate this time by a cup perform points. How does this race hook to you. This someone of the races where the republican senator has had an awkward relationship with donald trump. At first she said she was goings to support him but not endorse him. At a debate she stumbled over her relationship in terms of the depth of her support for donald trump. After the videos came out she said she cant support donald t