Tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Up next on American History tv douglas wrinkly, author of the wilderness warrior recounts Theodore Roosevelts time in the west and how his experience there shaped his presidency. We also hear about roosevelts charge of San Juan Hill in the spanishamerican war and how his conservation efforts led to the protection of over 150 thousand acres 150 million acres of american land. This is about two hours. Doug good evening. It is an honor to be here at the New York Historical society and try to shed some light on one of my heroes, Theodore Roosevelt, and why hes considered a great leader. When the schwartzes wanted to make this series go, they really want us to focus on leadership qualities. And im telling you theres no president quite like t. R. To get to talk about that. I wanted to begin thinking about roosevelt being new york citys president. Being born here in 1858. Because in his household growing up in new york, he had a father who was a dutch
It was where we were doing this. This is the cbs evening news. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. The highestranking u. S. Military officer took questions today on the deadly ambush in the african nation of niger 19 days ago. But he had few answers on what went wrong in what was supposed to be a lowrisk operation. Four american soldiers were killed, and among the Unanswered Questions why it took two days to recover one of the fallen americans. Nancy cordes begins our coverage. The perception is the department of defense has not been forth coming. Reporter the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff tried to dispel that perception today. The assessment was that contact with the enemy was unlikely. Reporter general Joseph Dunford said a group of u. S. Soldiers and 30 may jeerians had been on a reconnaissance patrol 35 kilometers from nigers capital city. They came under attack from approximately 50 enemy using small arms fired, rocketpropelled grenades and
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One of them, bill shine was ousted. Jack abernathy remains as president of the company. Today the nations highest military honor awarded to mike gary rose for extraordinary acts of heroism. His love for fellow soldiers and devotion to the country inspires us all. David martin introduces us. Mike gary rose was a Green Beret Medic in 1970 when he and 15 other americans, were sent on a Top Secret Mission inside laos. This was a relatively cleared area. Helps explain why it took so long to award him the medal of honor. It wasnt what we were doing, where we were doing this why it was classified. Laos was officially a neutral country where the u. S. Military could not go. But the north vietnamese were using it as base camp from which to launch attacks into south vietnam. The u. S. Military went in secret. All rose was told was to bring extra medical supplies. What does that tell you about the mission . Going to be a tough one. Proved to be. Helicopters carried the americans and company of 12
We will have more on it with bloomberg politics. Definitely stay tuned for that. We are halfway into the trading day. Lets head over to julie hyman. Julie thanks, guys. We had Economic Data later today. We see the 10 year yield taking a leg lower earlier. That is when we got the retail sale data lower than estimates. ,etail sales unchanged overall but if you include auto sales, they fell. We also saw inflation falling. 1. 49 is the yield on that 10year note. After we got these earlier numbers, we got Consumer Confidence that came in a little worse than estimated. The dollar fell. It is lower on the day. It had a sharp move in the wake of that earlier data. We are watching fed futures. The way we track that and the probability that is baked into that that the fed is going to raise rates. You see how that economic side affected it. What is the read through two stocks . Not much changed today. Dipped today. At the moment, not doing much at all. We are also watching the commodities complex