Stay updated with breaking news from Jon stewart. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
where julie hyman has the latest as we are coming back from some of the early losses. there has been a lot of volatility. a lot of bouncing around. it looks better than yesterday with the nasdaq positive and bouncing back after having led declines. the s&p turning into the green. the dow remaining lower as investors are concerned about global growth, and watching what is going on around the world. look at the landscape of the various sectors. is lower, telecommunications as well. financial is weak. materials and consumer discretionary are rebounding. so are the saying stocks, we have been watching the big cap technology companies leading losses, they re bouncing back. not huge gains, but not negative, which is more than we can say for the selloff. netflix seeing a boost of 5%. alphabet all of them gaining. betty: they could be better, but not everything is sunshine and roses. julie: the banks are showing weakness. banks in the u.s. are lower. the bank of america takin ....
interruptions they will be remembered. we have about an hour long presentation and we are past the time given to the speaker and the other to your questions. we have one microphone on the side of it when you have a question you can go up to and use the microphone so we can all hear and it can be on the recording. afterwards if you wouldn t mind holding up your chairs at the pillar, that would be helpful and then we will have a signing immediately following the presentation. now it is my pleasure to welcome you. we have politics and prose love having events because where we can open up the discussion about things that perhaps are not often talked about that are taboo topics in the religion and politics. this evening we are going to talk about both of those things. the book is titled why liberals when the call to war even when they lose elections and the battles that define america from jefferson to marriage and in it he went about the reasons for this kind which generall ....
booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. now we took off the weekend with stephen prothero. his book is why liberals win the culture wars (even when they lose elections). good evening, everyone. thank you for coming out tonight. my name is candace. on behalf of the owners and the rest of the staff, thanks for coming out and welcome to politics and prose. right now i have a few logistics to go over. if you can turn off your cell phone or put them on vibrate so doesn t disrupt our time you. we are recording this event. so any interruptions will be remembered. the way it s going to work is to be about an hour long presentation with half the time given to our speaker and the other half to your questions. we have one microphone on the side. we have a question if you go up to it so we can all hear and it again can be caught on the recording. afterwards if you would mind folding up their chairs and significance of the shells or the ....
with trying to rape a fellow student is due in court tomorrow. as he claims his innocence it, the school suspended his fraternity. for from abc as phillip mena. reporter: the president of an elite ivy league fraternity is in jail, accused of sexually assaulting a female student on campus. 21-year-old wolfgang ballinger, president of psi upsilon at cornell university, surrendering to police four days after the alleged attack. the college junior, seen here in this youtube video talking about his goals. at a young age i was taught to appreciate the value of hard work and especially self-made worth. reporter: ballinger, whose father owns a famous new york music club, is charged with three felony counts. the speed with which they took this case from the university s per view and brought it into a criminal setting suggests that the prosecution believes they have a strong case. reporter: according to court documents, the alleged victim claims ballinger tried forcing ....
but that s what you are, really. if i had to identify with a label, i would use liberal or progressive, because i find moderate doesn t really mean anything and it ends up being used against the muslim community. so how about in-your-face liberal muslim feminist? hinojosa: in-your-face muslim liberal feminist, which is. the feminist part is, you get a lot of followers and you get a lot of attention around that. so for our audience, just, you know, describe what a muslim feminist is, because some people might say, i don t understand that. well, you know, as a muslim and a feminist and an egyptian woman, i have a long history to draw on. i mean, when i look at the roots of islam. prophet muhammad s first wife khadija was a businesswoman who was 15 years older than him, who employed him and who proposed to him. so i m thinking, you know what? i have a feminist role model right there. hinojosa: how come we don t hear about this, though? great question, maria. ....