good afternoon everyone and welcome to the sign institute of policy and politics summer series sign of the time. i m amy, executive director and at the sign institute we are a laboratory for university wide collaboration and incubator for policy innovation. it can mean the best and brightest of the public, private, academic and nonprofit sectors as well as journalism and its program is only possible by a generous gift from our alumni, jeff simon and his wife meera for today s topic is the path to recovery, what is the true state of the u.s. economy and it cannot be more timely. we would like to take a moment to acknowledge our cosponsor for this event, the school of business at american university and to think the dean for his support and also thank the distinguished leaders joining us today from our board of trustees and alumni board members. it is my pleasure at this time to introduce the people who will be leading this incredible conversation. sylvia matthews burwell is
erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump s pressure campaign, the former president wants nikki haley out calling her bird brain and questioning her fancy clothes and says he doesn t get mad. he gets even. haley is defiant and is live at this hour. 14 people on board a plane killed and questions behind who was behind that crash, and a passenger notices missing boards on a plane of a wing that was board that had was ready for takeoff. tells the crew and the flight was cancelled. why didn t the airline notice it first? he s my guest. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight, trump bullying haley. trump calling her a bird brain who can never lead and is bullying on gop leaders is working. they are all getting on board. listen to the chairwoman of the rnc who had once vowed to stay neutral in this race. i m looking at the math and the path going forward, and i don t see it for nikki haley. and that just follows repu
man s best friend was okay, business owners gave a sigh of relief knowing no one was hurt. it was scary, very scary. i have never been through anything like that before. we re lucky and fortunate we re all here and alive. kimberly kuizon in venice. it was not a tornado it was damage from straight line winds. six people are recovering after experiencing heavy turbulence on an american airlines flight into miami. a wind gust over jacksonville was to blame. a flight attendant suffered a broken nose. there were 159 passengers and six crew members on the flight at the time. here is a view from the station here on kennedy boulevard. the rain moving in and then it leaves as fast. the skies are clear now. it is beautiful out there. it may not last. we could be in for rough weather mike been knit is in for paul dellegatto. it is nasty early on. as you mentioned, not too bad looking. this is the satellite and the radar and we started at 6 a.m. light rain, you had to head to
and a greece exit of the euro weighing on futures this morning. mcdonald s struggles continue. asia continues to drag on results. and twitter now lower in the pre-market. we re going to get jim s take on those earnings from last week in just a few moments. but first up futures falling as we enter a new trading week. greece s new prime minister vowing to roll back austerity measures and ruling out any extension of an international bailout. eu officials pushing greece to stick with those terms. also chinese trade data showing exports fell 3.3% last month while imports tumbled by almost 20%. meantime, the dow is coming off its best week since january of 13, a 3.8% gain. for the year, jim, dow is up one point. right. one point. you ve got to give us something good overseas. there isn t a single area other than maybe india, where you re getting any good news at all. china the import/export numbers were not good. what s going on there in china? i mean knock knock
closing below 1400 for the first time since june. markets around the world are holding their cheollective brea as the allies and the u.s. weigh options against syria. and such at a tack on syria could send crude surging to $150 barre barrel. and jpmorgan is going to settle lawsuits settled from subprime mortgages. the nasdaq and the s&p coming off of the worst levels. and the fears of u.s. may attacking syria in the next few days, stocks are posting the biggest drop in eight weeks on the syria concerns. there is some line of thinking, jim, because today is a big event on the national mall anniversary of the i have a dream speech, that the president may not act today and he is overseas and so a window of thursday and friday where if they are going to dit, they will do it. i read the speech again and i have to go listen to it. i do, too. and we listened to it tomorrow. yes. it is on youtube and even though it is online, it is not part of the public domain. t