My friend chuck for their remarks. I will have more to say to them later. On march 9th, 1967, senator howard baker junior, the newly elected senator from tennessee made his maiden address, his first speech on the floor of the senate. He spoke for too long. The republican leader of the senate who was also bakers father in law, walked to congratulate him and said howard, occasionally you might enjoy the luxury of unexpressed thought. Which is good advice for farewell address as well. Senator bakers legislative assistant, i was also a speechwriter that made an address, or at least i thought i was. He developed a bad habit of not saying what i wrote for his speech. I asked to see him, do i have a problem with our relationship . Write what you want to write and say what i want to say. I learned a couple other things about saying what i want to say. One came from alex haley, the author of roots, you heard him speak once and said may i make a suggestion . If when you begin a speech you would
Businessweek is really taking everyone by storm. Tom they mentioned all the right schools as well. I think it is true probably in every urban area, but after real estate it is the focus of new york city, what to do with the cherubs in not only the private schools, but i would also mention the stateoftheart anything,ools are, if even more competitive. The schools with a heritage up in boston, boston latin. They are just as hard to get into as the other fancy schools. Do spend a lot of time thinking about education for our kids, and these fouryearolds actually have to do tutoring, but also applications and interviews to get into these kindergartens. I find that fascinating. We will talk about Central Banks much more. Thats get to bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump has fired a Homeland Security official who contradicted his unfounded claims about election fraud. Christopher krebs is a former Microsoft Official who the president named to a top security job.
Contributor, karl rove. Futures are pointing to another rally, extending yesterdays gains of 315 points on the dow futures right now, all three major market gauges finishing in the green yesterday, boosted by positive news on the vaccine front from astrazeneca this time. Best buy, burlington and Dicks Sporting Goods are reporting this morning, all the numbers as soon as they hit the tape. Were keeping an eye on the Holiday Shopping season thats largely shifting online. How you can protect yourself against cyber criminals looking to hack the holidays. And replacing an icon, or trying to. Jeopardy will be seeing a show alumnus as its new interim host, making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. New york, concrete jungle where dreams are made of. Theres nothing you cant do. Dagen weve got a rally on deck here in the United States, same story in the european markets. Gains across the board, up about 1 in england, france and germany at the moment. In asia overnights, mar
Nasdaq. Now, here are the negative for stocks today. Dr. Fauci suggesting a lockdown christmas. Why . With all the traveling and celebrating we did over thanksgiving, its expected to produce a new round of infections that will in turn require a new round of restrictions. Well have more on this throughout the show. I get the impression were being treated like children, punished for celebrating our national holiday, but dont get me started. One more item. The biden team takes shape, very similar to the Obama Biden Team that left Washington Four years ago. Neera tanden could go to the budget office, Jared Bernstein expected to become a president ial adviser, he was Vice President bidens chief economist, and back to the future . Sure looks like it, doesnt it . On the show today, the priceline ceo offering deals to get people back to travel. The waffle house ceo, hes pounding the table, keep dining rooms open, hes pleading. And mrs. Fields cookies, their ceo somehow has to replace the reven
Democracy itself was at stake in this election and then she went on to mention these essential values rule of law human rights democracy she did that 4 years ago as well but it was quite interesting because there was a difference when she offered her congratulations in that statement to donald trump she said on the basis of those values we wont work closely together here she didnt consider such conditionality or this kind of a warning apparently necessary but essentially listed the topics where shes hoping to Work Together something that she also mentioned quite in phatic leave was she could graduated kamel harris Vice President elect who no matter what your politics are i mean it is just a fact this was really a historic moment for the United States 1st woman 1st person of color to you know when as v. P. In an election in the United States a big moment wasnt thats right and the fact is that the chancellor is generally quite restrained and understated but that moment was really a perso