[applause] ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out on yet another rainy day in kentucky in 2019. Let me take a moment to ask you to take your time now to check your cell phones and make sure it is turned off. Thank you all for coming out today to another historic moment for the history of the Mcconnell Center here at the university of louisville. Ive decided to handle it this way. I will not call you out. Thank you for bringing her today out in the rain or dragging her through the rain here today. This is a historic moment for the center, one of many in our history. I was thinking about it this week the very roman statesman, one of those important and one of the most important statesmen of all time in his book on duties as it seems if we were going w to live in a free socie, we would have duties. One it seems to me is to remember, to learn from our past and pass on to the rising generation. The two authors today have done that with the buck that we launched to the world. We also
House, now that we been able to reopen and have you all here. I hope you take time afterward to walk around if you have another chance to see what weve done. By the end of this year we will have brought over 15 authors to toledo and thats made possible through generous report of the Library Legacy foundation and gifts will allow us to not only bring world are nine authors to toledo but also help the library to be at abthat includes things like homework helpers, the ready to read program and our summer read. Speaking of summer read, we will soon be announcing a winter read so keep an eye out for that we will try to get our Community Reading just like we do in the summer through the month of january. In addition to the Library Legacy foundation we owe a debt of gratitude to our presenting media sponsor. Buckeye broadband and the blade supporting sponsors peer group and hcr manor care. And Community Sponsors runs of the library. As i mentioned, weve had a great year of authors so far and
Christmas. You can see we are set up for a lower open generally speaking on the major averages, s p showing a little more signs of life. European markets, most have been closed for the Christmas Holiday or boxing day as well. So not much to speak of there. Lets get to our own 10year note yield though as we take a look where we stand right now. 2. 483. Crude oil, wti up a few cents and just out the latest shill erin dex shows home prices up 6. 2 in october. That of course year over year from last year lets get to our road map this morning. It does start with apple largest market cap out there, shrinking in the premarket on some reports about next years iphone sales, were going to fill you in. Will this years rally continue as we close out 2017. Finally a retail rebound, how the struggling sector is faring so far this Holiday Season as you may know not too bad. Lets start with apple shares, they are under pressure in the premarket. Reports of sales of the new iphone 10 are slowing accord
Situation can turn tragic. And how it should be stopped. Im chuck todd. Joining me to provide insight and analysis this morning are Jonathan Martin of the New York Times , Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post, the cook political reports amy walter and manu raju of politico. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. And good morning. It is the kind of story that has a lot of people here in washington, democrats and republicans shaking their heads and saying here we go again. We learned this week that Hillary Clinton went around the government and set up a private email system when she took over as secretary of state. Well, last night at a meeting of the clinton global initiative, she didnt address the controversy. In an interview with cbs, president obama did, saying he only learned about the story this week. The policy of the administration is to encourage transparency. Thats why my emails from blackberry that i carry
Jonathan martin of the New York Times , Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post, the cook political reports amy walter and manu raju of politico. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, this is meet the press with chuck todd. And good morning. It is the kind of story that has a lot of people here in washington, democrats and republicans shaking their heads and saying here we go again. We learned this week that Hillary Clinton went around the government and set up a private email system when she took over as secretary of state. Well, last night at a meeting of the clinton global initiative, she didnt address the controversy. In an interview with cbs, president obama did, saying he only learned about the story this week. The policy of the administration is to encourage transparency. Thats why my emails from blackberry that i carry around to all those records are available and archived and im glad that hillary is instructed that those emails that had to do with