Hill. I thank you very much for the time to be with us today. A. It is a pleasure to see you virtually. I cant wait until we can see you in person sometime. I look forward to updating you. Good. I look forward to that as well. Let me jump right into it with may be the most obvious question you can give all of us the lay of the land for so many things happening where are you right now in response to the pandemic and can you give a quick overview and we will jump into the thoughts and the analysis. Relief from the start we prioritized the safe return to school even during the period last spring when School Districts were closed for instruction across the country we encouraged districts to open their buildings and safeway is meaning each was deciding what to do and we encouraged them to do the necessary special work in small groups, to work with thirdparty providers. Now most of our schools are back across the country in a safe way i visited schools and many schools in the denver area, Co
Coronavirus outbreak in berlin and a whole compartment blocked quarantine stories are putting it down to crap Living Conditions of a growing complacency about the panda. And a charge of murder against a white Police Officer in atlanta who shot a black man in the back and prosecutors say the key witness will be another Police Officer a rare breach of police all of that. Im brian thomas great to have you with us today germany sasser on a macro has urged the e. U. To agree on a Pandemic Recovery package for the block before the end of july she made the call there she told the german bundestag about her vision for germanys e. U. Council presidency that begins on the. Ly the 1st he said europes Recovery Plan will be limited in time and will involve borrowing on International Money markets a lot of the pandemic and the economic fallout is the biggest challenge the e. U. Has faced in its history and she stressed that all Member States need to approach goes against the spirit of compromise. He
Done here you see the home builders, weve had a terrific rally in the builders in the last few days but hovnanian was 29 just a month ago. Its a 9 stock right now. Yes, weve had a great rally, but bear in mind how far weve come and how many more headlines we have yet to get through a lot of people are also optimistic watching the vix drop it has dropped exactly in half since march 15th it was 86 on an intraday basis march 15th, you see it at 43 exactly a 50 drop thats making a lot more people a lot more optimistic. A lot more arguments that the markets are higher have been mitigated by the fact that weve just had such a big rally and its hard to push against this rally right now. Look at these stocks right here and how much they have moved since the market bottomed, the february 21st close, which is when things really started get getting bad. Walmarts up, verizon is only down 1 . Merck and 3m down a few percent. This is when things started getting really serious you see how much the ma
Lyndon johnson was certainly an imperial president. I think what we see in johnson we start to see the cusp of the end of the imperial president s in the United States. There have been president s the acted in three fleet since then. The bush, no doubt about that. But he was the last person i think to understand the use and abuse of power. Unfortunately, he abused it in many respects. As did many of the president s who succeeded him. But he wasnt the last person who understood because of his constant demand of power within the United States he understood much better how to maneuver power overseas. He was less interested in what went on overseas and, unfortunately, his presidency was really defined by his adventure in vietnam which were almost less than in many respects. He inherited that. He did not making any better, no doubt about that but he did understand the use of power and especially within the United States. He was i think one of the last president s who did it truly understand
And we kind of stay there for some time. Why did it wane . Look at drug patterns. They remain there about 15 or 16 years and a run in 20year cycles. The crack cocaine cycle is no more. There are still people who use crack cocaine. It is nowhere near where it used to be. In the absence of that driving the violence, and then we are down in the 200 range and we got stuck there for a long time. Even when i took over in 2007, in 2006. 69 one hundred 81 in 2007. We are persistent with yang violence. And violence was born accelerated during the crack cocaine. Even when the crack cocaine one away, the gangs didnt. Coming down from the 186 down to where we are now, about a 54 drop in murders. It has been constant focus on end guns, the high offenders and bring the community into work with us. That is been key in dropping at that last 54 . That was a portion of a presentation of q a. You can see the entire program today at 7 00 eastern here on cspan. Some news to share with you today. Just. S. P