Maria good monday morning, everybody. Thanks very much for joinings us this morning. Im maria bartiromo. It is monday, march 18, you 7 0. Time for the hot topic of the hour. Ducking the American People, hunter biden is not expected to appear for public testimony this week, his lawyer dismissing the whole thing as a carnival side show. James comer joined me yesterday on sunday morning futures, he thinks hunter will show up his week, comer also told me he is preparing to send out multiple criminal referrals now. Watch. Had were massive discrepancies between what three of Hunter Bidens Business Associates said pertaining to hunters involvement and pertaining to President Bidens involvement versus what hunter testified the. I fully expect hunter biden to show up. If he doesnt show up, then its not going to end well for the bidens because we have three witnesses that are testifying what have already testified under oath. Maria how many criminal referrals are you expecting to make . There wi
I hope you are all having a good time we will start her second panel today. First i want to introduce the moderator or very own Colleen Shogan the Senior Vice President at the david m. Rubenstein National Center for white house history of the White House Historical association. Dr. Colleen shogan is a trained trained Political Science with a ph. D. In american politics from Yale University as well as a bachelors degree in p politil science from boston college. She has almost 15 years of service in the federal government including prominent roles at the t u. S. Senate as ws the library of congress. Dr. Shogan teaches government students at Georgetown University that serves as vice chair of the womens Suffrage Centennial division and another feather in our is that she currently serves as the cochair of the board of directors of the womens suffrage national monumentnt designated by congres to build the first memorial in d. C. Dedicated to the history of the movement for womens equality. T
Irs employees living in the lap of luxury. David oh, great. Melissa perfect. David of all the agencies to waste money. Back to the markets. Well get to those stories in a minute. The dow ending in positive territory but not high enough to score a new record at the close. Were back to 140 points from 20,000. Still pretty high. Gold taking a huge tumble today. Phil flynn has the very latest on that from the cme. Lori rothman on the floor of new york stock exchange. Lori, what was holding the dow back . Couple specific names, david. Breaking earnings news from oracle. If you like i can get with those. These are headline downers if you will. Nike off 1 . United technologies off 1 . Ge also off. Boeing down half a percent. Many names are considered consumer second calls or economically sensitive. Even though we saw gains there was probably a little bit of hesitation here in terms of getting to the key psychological dow 20,000 milestone everybody is so anxious to get to as well. On the other
Another guilty verdict for amanda knox. The Italian Appeals Court reinstated her murder conviction for killing her roommate in 2007. Nothing will bring meredith back. Knox was home in seattle when a judge announced the verdict. Shes vowed to fight extradition. The super bowl even the utmost attention by the fbi and faa. 4,000 Security Officers will be on hand to monitor the 80,000 fans expected just for the big game. Nobody can give 100 guarantee. This is pretty close to it. A school in utah apologizing for trashing the lunches of Elementary School students for money owed on their accounts. There shouldnt have been food taken away from these students once they went through that line. American athletes are beginning to arrive in sochi. The u. S. Is sending the largest delegation in winter games history. After a rare ice storm paralyzed the south, the governor of georgia has issued his clearest apology yet. I accept responsibility, we did not make preparation early enough to avoid these
She has almost 15 years of service in the federal government including prominent roles with the us senate as well as the library of congress, dr. Shogun teaches government students at Georgetown University and served as vice chair of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Another feather in her cap in an illustrious resume is that she currently serves as a cochair of the board of directors at the womens Suffrage National Monument Foundation designated by the congress to build the first memorial in dc dedicated to the history of the movement for womens equality. Its a huge deal. To begin with our panelists we have elaine rice bachmann, who is the state archivist of maryland and a coauthor of a wonderful book designing camelot published by the White House Historical association, and im proud to say it was launched in this very room on july 28th, which happens to be Jacqueline Kennedys birthday. I was there for that event and when im tired of practicing law i go into my study and i lo