Steeper falls on this but this is still early doors with what is going on with the benchmarks. Certainly what we also have going on is the treasury market as well. Seen a bit of the paring of the gains we have seen. Yields moving slightly to the upside. 1. 71 or thereabouts on that. Looking at futures. Flat for the s p on the futures. Lending a little bit of support. Cnh pretty much on move, we could see a gradually could get weaker. The offshore yuan 7. 07. Looking at sterling, we have 1. 30. Ver we have continued polls coming out suggesting the conservative well, boris johnson, did with the majority after the december 12 election. Thats what we have at the moment. Lets go to new york and join su keenan. Su we start with President Trump who is done a you turn on nato switching 180 degrees from his criticism to claiming credit for strengthening the alliance. Trump was especially vocal on efense spendingspens complaining that washington bears the burden for your safety. He warns nato me
Markets. Mixed bag after the trade deadlines we told you about. The dow and s p 500 lower while the nasdaq is higher well have much more on this story in a minute. Tyler. For more on those trade headlines holding back stocks, lets bring in kalaa from washingt washington a lot has happened in last 24 hours. It sure has the home stretch that was supposed be negotiated a a good bit of posture larry kudlow said in last 24 hours that any phase one deal would include roll backs it would be a requirement for this first deal. Theres been no agreement yet despite chinese and u. S. Officials yesterday saying there had been the no agreement position is one that President Trump appeared to back today theyd like to have a roll back i havent agreed to anything got a complete roll back they know i wont do it. Were getting along well with china. They want to make a deal they want to make a deal a lot more than i do im very happy thank you todays small pull back just a blip hey, bob i know were flat fr
Cspan. Org impeachment. Kendratic representative horn spoke to constituents recently at a town hall in Oklahoma City. Included Prescription Drug prices, healthcare reform, impeachment d the inquiry. This is about two hours. Call to order. Attention. Order advance. Post the colors. Color scattered please join pledge. E [pledge] color guard retreat. Dismissed. You may be seated. Thank you very much. Scouts a e our girl warm round of applause. [applause] so these young women are senior girl scouts which means hey are in high school, and hey represent a few different troops that are working on learning how to interact with the world. A lot of Different Things but to explore the world and to support younger girls, along. G them a couple of them i know are skoud on their girl Leadership Award thats like its the equivalent of the eagle award. Myself. E just introduce ill let you know how well move through this town hall but first you. Nt to say thank thank you for coming out. For participatin
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Good morning. Thank you all for joining us whether youre here with us in person and youre watching on our webcast or watching on c span. Im john valant at the Ground Center on education policy and were here today to talk about education policy and the 2020 election. As you all know education doesnt always grab headlines and that is certainly the case this time around two and that being said, there are consequential issues and big policy ideas that are being talked about as part of these campaign and to help us make sense of whats going on we have a group of panelist with us today already, arne duncan served as secretary of education from 2009 to 2015. I believe he was the ninth secretary and the department history. Hes a managing partner and a nonresidency and dr. John king served as the secretary of education from 2016 till 2017. And doctor king is the president and ceo of the education trust. To help guide our discussion we have alison klein, the assisting editor for education. Her c