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Thank you all. Thank you, thank you so much perrys. Went to welcome it to this session on behalf of humanitys tennessee. Tennessee Arts Commission and a built University Thoughts my honor to host the conversation today between two nonfiction authors who have created what reads as fiction. These are non fiction novels. And i can tell you that by the end of them youll either be rooting for the heroes, hating the villains or weeping with relief that justice is finally been done. So let me introduce you to our authors for today. We have an Investigative Reporter with an author writing arguably about the birth of investigative reporting. So let me bring to the stage the author of citizen reporters, ss mcclure, ida tarbell, and the magazine that re grows america, stephanie bolton. And also joining us today chris ....
Fiction. These are nonfiction novels and i can tell you that by the individual either be rooting for the heroes, hating the villains, or weeping with relief that justice has finally been done. Let me introduce you to our office for today. We had an Investigative Reporter writing a book about lawyers and doctors in minors as truth and justice seekers, and we have an author writing about the birth of investigative reporting. Let me bring to the stage the author of citizen reporters stephanie gorton. And also joining us today, chris hamby who 1800 surprise for his reports for the New York Times on how some lawyers and doctors rigged the system to deny benefits to coal miners digging with black lung disease. His reporting resulted in remedial legislative efforts and formed the foundation for the book that he is written out this year, soul full of coal dust. Stephanie and ....
Jackie deangelis in the newsroom and Edward Lawrence in washington. Lets kick it off with jackie on todays market rally. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon, melissa. Stocks were slightly higher on the blowout retail sales report in may, an increase of 17. 7 , the biggest monthly increase. Aprils sharp decline was revised lower this is good news as states are reopening and economy is getting up and running, there does appear to be a lot of pentup demand from folks not shopping while they were unlockdown orders but buyer beware. As you said in beijing, another lockdown after a cloughster of new coronavirus cases showing reopening may not be as easy as everyone is hoping it will be. Meanwhile stimulus hopes are helping stocks too. Reports considering the Trump Administration is considering a one trillion dollar infrastructure plan to help the conry recover. The money is expe ....
the s&p 500 closing at record highs for the second day in a row. the 10th record of the year. we have fox business team coverage. jackie deangelis on floor of the new york stock exchange. blake burman at white house, susan li awaiting uber s quarterly results. let s start out with jackie. reporter: good afternoon, to you, melissa. a great day across the board. dow closing up 88 points. looks like it will settle out. let me go through these. the dow on pace for the 114th record close under president trump. just gives you a sense after the state of the union, after like connell said, impeachment stuff has been settled, investors feel more confident. that china news helping. that china is implementing phase one deal. that is what markets wanted to see. steve mnuchin was on mornings with maria earlier and he said would china roll back more tariffs. he said we re holding it in our back pocket, as we do the phase two negotiations. something to watch for for sure. things pro ....