Iste house chief of staff first famously the gatekeeper, which means giving the president time and space to think. He is the broker of information, he made sure everything is teed up with information on every side. Takinghe heat shield, the incoming artillery for the president , getting all the blame and none of the credit. At the end of the day, the chief of staff is someone the president counts on to execute his agenda. Him importantly, to tell what he does not want to hear. Host you begin the book by writing about what appears to be an extraordinary answering of chiefs of staff from the past. They were meeting with rahm emanuel, who was working for barack obama. Tell us about that meeting. Extraordinary scene that took place in december 2008, when rahm emanuel was about to start is Barack Obamas chief of staff. We were on the verge of the great depression. Two wars, a bloody stalemate. It was a real crisis and former white house chiefs of staff on every side of the aisle from the ch
Theres plenty to choose from here. The folks from Huffington Post have this headline about one of the top stories of the year. International womens day was the most talked about moment on facebook this year. 2017 was quite a year for women. It kicked off with the inauguration of President Trump, who was elected despite being accused of more than a dozen women of sexual assault. Millions of people took to the streets for the womens march in cities worldwide. As the year unfolded large numbers of women indicated interest in running for office. The final months have been marked by dozens of women courageously coming forward to call out sexual abuse by powerful men. As the year unfolded large numbers of women indicated interest in running for office. Earlier this year as we saw live on cspan. Part of the story takes us to capitol hill as well. A series of Sexual Harassment charges on the hill. The household hearing earlier this year. One of the people who testified at this hearing was jack
Man becomes ape. And spen becomes trump. As donald trump great, the best. 0k, movie quiz time. Five points if you can name this film. Correct its raiders of the lost ark. No, that is not harrison ford, that is the face of nicholas cage. 0k, try this one. Yes, it is the fellowship of the ring. 100 points if you spotted nicholas cage, nicolas cage and nicholas cage. So, what on earth is going on . Were just about getting used to the idea that there are loads of fakes online. Fake news, fake tweets, fake photoshopped images, but these videos are a whole level above anything that weve seen before, and they may have consequences that go far beyond just switching out a few movie stars. A lot of what we talk about over the dinner table is, you know, we live in a diverse world. Researchers at the university of washington released this video last year, which used a Computer Vision algorithm to very convincingly doctor 0bamas mouth movements to make him lipsync to something he said in a differen
Is seems to be working. Oil and the energy sector. We have Oil Trading Slightly Higher up about 0. 4 after a bigger than expected drawdown for Oil Inventories and a small build from that oil reacting favorably up for the first time in three days or it three days. The s p 500 not so much. Down five days in a row. Streak. Losing perhaps helping energy stocks. And look at some of the Industrial Metals. Big gains for copper, zinc, nickel. Dollar, just about flat, giving up some gains. We have pretty decent movers. The top percentage mover for the s p 500 is freeport, very solid. Told methese, mike, that this has to do with the strength in iron. Bank a dramatic nejra somewhere shorting the metals because of concerns of china. Here is hot equities are looking around the close of as and the trading. Green across the screen. Germanys dax, ftse 100 hitting their highs in at least a week in todays sessions. Most of these benchmarks of 0. 7 1 like ftse. By in a the fx space, Dollar Strength ahead
Rise and shine tampa bay, its sunday. This is a look at downtown tampa on this first day of spring. Im candace mccowan. Thank you for joining us. Lets start by checking on our forecast with debra shrills. Good morning, candace. As you said, its the first day of spring. Certainly some springlike conditions outside at least as far as the temperatures go. Were in the upper 60s to around 70 degrees around the bay area. Were seeing a few showers and a lot of clouds around. The showers are very, very few and far between. In fact, our rain chance is 30 orless per or less and will continue to drop throughout the day. Theres a cold front just to our north that will push through our area around the noontime. Then as we head into the afternoon all the rain clears out. The clouds will probably hang around for a will reach the mid 70s. The rain and winds will pick up as we head into the afternoon but we do have some big changes in store in the way of some cooler temperatures. Ill tell you all about