Introduce sabine weyand, who is the new director general for trade in the e. U. In that you commission. She took over the position a month ago and this is her first visit in washington. Csis is happy to have her here to make some open remarks, then she and i will have a conversation that will touch on a number of issues. Then we will open it up for your questions. Dr. Weyand for trade. Prior for this, she was the deputy chief resident negotiator for two and a half years, which had to the one of the difficult jobs in the e. U. I told her that if we invite her back a year from now, we will ask her who was harder to negotiate with, the british or the americans. I am sure we would get a polite answer, but, she has a history in a number of positions of significance inside the european commission. As i said earlier, one of my personal favorites is before she was a brexit deputy, she was Deputy Director general of trade. Those of you who are european know exactly what that means and how impor
Questions. Land for trade. Prior for this, she was the deputy chief resident negotiator for two and a half years, which had to the one of the difficult jobs in the e. U. I told her that if we invite her back a year from now, we will ask her who was harder to negotiate with, the british or the americans. I am sure we would get a polite historybut, she has a in a number of positions of significance inside the european commission. As i said earlier, one of my personal favorites is before she was a brexit deputy, she was Deputy Director general of trade. Those of you who are european command, know exactly what that means and how important it is. I have no clue, but it certainly sounds impressive. She has numerous positions going back more than 20 years with the commission. She has a doctorate in political science, her phd thesis was on the, transport policy, a study in au policymaking, and she also studied political science, economics, literature and linguistics at Freiburg University in g
President for his war with the press. Thats how dictators get started. Caught on tape. Chilling video showing what appears to be the fatal airport atock on kim june ans half brother. Bothering his face with a toxic chemical. This morning investigators hoping that video could lead to more arrests. And breaking her silence. Angelina jolie opening up for the first time about her high profile split from brad pitt. What shes saying and how they are coping today, monday, february 20, 2017. Announcer this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this president s day. Im craig melvin. Matt and savannah enjoying this day off. Keeping the seats warm for them. Good to see you. You too. Looked like it went well. It was fun. We had a crowd with plenty to talk about. Well get out and the talk to our crowd. The top story the dangerous storms across parts of texas. Mr. Roker is here with more. Thats right. Weve got severe thunderstorm
Press. Thats how dictators get started. Caught on tape. Chilling new video emerges showing what appears to be the fatal attack on kim jonguns halfbrother. This morning, investigators hoping that video could lead to more arrests, as the manhunt for more suspects intensifies. And breaking her silence. Angelina jolie opening up for the first time about her highprofile split from brad pitt. What shes saying about the bra breakup, their family and how shes coping. Today, february 20th, 2017. From nbc, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthr guthrie. Welcome to today on this president s day. Keeping the seats warm for them until they get back. Looks like it went well. It was a lot of fun. A crowd in the plaza. With plenty to talk about, too. Our top story, the dangerous storms that are rolling across texas overnight. Mr. Roker is here with more on that. We have thunderstorm warnings right now. The same line that caused big problems in san antonio. Weve already got so many people, at
Julie see more selling pressure start to build up. Closer to record a couple of days ago. All three averages pushing toward the lows of the session. Still not seeing huge declines. The nasdaq leaving toward half of 1 as investors await fed minutes. Comments from bill dudley yesterday that september could potentially be on the table. Lets take a look at the two day chart of the s p 500 as we see the backtoback pullback going back to the beginning of august now amounting to about 1 . We are still on the streak of no one percent moves on a daily basis. I believe it is 28 sessions now unless something changes radically by the close of trading. Take a look at the imap. Some subgroups are in the green. , materials, Consumer Discretionary amtech are doing and tech are doing worse today. See the at t down. Verizon and frontier as well. Bloomberg intelligence saying we are not going to see as many bid or as high as had been expected unclear what that means for the spectrum ownership by the vari