lately he has a good voice. des moines, iowa, i don t know if you watched fox nation i watched speech in des moines. ainsley: what is the red. steve: he i think it s lighting. ainsley: what did you see? steve: red long light. ainsley: in the middle of the post. steve: the way they lit. ainsley: see, right there on the right. what is that, brian? brian: let me get into that. ainsley: is it a crane? steve: it s just the way the light is. ainsley: on the side of that building, i see. brian: looks like they are working on something and took the weekend off and they are not up yet. so, again, there is no water and no there is no sunrise. but i do get the sense that iowa is going to matter very soon. after november, on november 9th it s all going to be about iowa. steve: i used to work in downtown des moines when i worked for woi the abc affiliate. then owned by iowa state university even though it was a commercial thing it was kind of complicated. i worke
this is about 25 minutes. eagles rock band. this is about 25 minutes. ladies and gentlemen, the 2016 kennedy center honorees. martha argerich. [applause] al pacino. [applause] mavis staples. [applause] james taylor. [applause] , don henley, walsh, andmith, joe representing her late husband glenn frey, ms. cindy fry. [applause] [applause] [laughter] [cheers] we love you! [laughter] a president of the united states and mrs. michelle obama. [applause] [applause] [cheers] thank you so much,ump everybody. thank you. thank you. good evening, everybody. good evening! on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. over the past eight years, this has always been one of our ivorite nights, and this year was especially looking forward to seeing how joe walsh cleans up. [laughter] pres. obama: pretty good. i want to begin by once again thanking everybody who makes this wonderful evening possible, rubenstein,ve the kennedy center trustees i m getting a big
column, there s your equity indexes, down for the first .ime, led by the ftse ,enmark, iceland, switzerland all the currencies are rising against the dollar today, led by the sterling, up by three quarters. 4/10 of 1%, we are seeing long bond yields gaining across europe, belgium, france, austria, switzerland. those are the final two columns. just want to talk about some of the individual movers today. this is royal phillips, the dutch company that has agreed to put a majority stake in to its lighting for the apollo global management. a cutprice deal valued at roughly two billion dollars. phillips will receive cash proceeds of 1.5 billion for preferred equity for the 80%. their shares are barely changed. blocking the plan to go scale capital in china and in january. thathief executive says accepting a lower premium offer from the u.s. private equity firm makes sense as it is a safer bet. macro data in the u.k. including house prices where asking prices for homes fell national
the president of the united states and mrs. michelle obama. [applause] [applause] [cheers] [applause] pres. obama: thank you so much, everybody. thank you. thank you. good evening, everybody. good evening! pres. obama: on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. over the past eight years, this has always been one of our favorite nights, and this year i was especially looking forward to seeing how joe walsh cleans up. [laughter] pres. obama: pretty good. i want to begin by once again thanking everybody who makes this wonderful evening possible, including dave rubenstein, the kennedy center trustees i m getting a big echo back there and the kennedy center president. give them a big round of applause. [applause] pres. obama: we have some outstanding members of congress here tonight, and we are honored also to have vicki kennedy and three of her grandchildren with us here. [applause] pres. obama: the arts have always been part of life at the white hous
care act. be sure to watch washington journal at 7:00 a.m. eastern. follow the transition of government on c-span as donald trump selects his cabinet and the republicans and democrats prepare for the next congress. we will take you to key events as they happen without interruption. watch live on c-span. watch on-demand at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio mobile app. and firstnt obama lady obama hosted an event for the kennedy center honorees. they included pianist martha argerich, al pacino, james taylor, mavis staples, and the eagles rock band. this is about 25 minutes. ladies and gentlemen, the 2016 kennedy center honorees. martha argerich. [applause] al pacino. [applause] mavis staples. [applause] james taylor. [applause] the eagles, don henley, timothy b smith, joe walsh, and representing her late husband glenn frey, ms. cindy fry. [applause] [laughter] [cheers] we love you! [laughter] the president of the united states and mrs. michelle ob