Leave barcelona. Claire after being mocked by Nicolas Maduro in the wake of sanctions, donald trump said he holds venezuelas president personally responsible for the safety of the two Opposition Leaders seized from their homes and hauled off to jail. Big protest is planned for thursday, which is when the controversial new assembly, which could change the constitution, will get to work. Alison sargent reports. Allison the people in this crowd are Holding Photos of antonio medina, the former mayor prisoncas was taken to in the early hours of the morning on tuesday, as well as former Opposition Leader leopoldo lopez. Or, it was not a surprise. Already under house arrest, were lopez made this video one week before. If you are looking at this video now, it is because they came and illegally imprisoned me again unjustly. I am a prisoner of conscience, a prisoner for my ideas, a prisoner for wanting a better venezuela. Alison the Supreme Court accuses the two Opposition Leaders of violating y
Welcome to our kenyan election review. We did a kenyan election preview. I am not sure many of our forecasts or predictions came to pass which is maybe a good thing. I will introduce, very happy that we have a panel this morning consisting of two distinguished journalists who have been in kenya following the campaign in kenya and i will introduce them in just a moment. My name is mark bellamy, Senior Advisor for africa at csi us, ambassador in nairobi, i had the good fortune to spend several weeks in nairobi prior to this year at the election. I want to start with a few opening remarks to frame this mornings discussion and turn to our guests. As all of you in this room know, last week 15 million canyons went to the polls to elect a president , to elect members of parliament, to elect governors to 49 counties and a number of other officeholders. By any standard and certainly by african standards this was a remarkable event. If only because of the thousands of Campaign Appearances by dif
Center forthe strategic and international to our kenyan election review, some weeks ago, we did a o pass. Which is maybe a good thing. Im going to introduce i am very happy that we have a panel this morning consisting of two distinguished journalists who have been in kenya, following the campaign and election in kenya. I will introduce them in just a moment. Name is mark bellamy. I am a Senior Advisor for africa cfif. I had the good fortune to spend some weeks there prior to this years election. I want to open with remarks about this mornings discussion and then turn to our guests. ,s all of you know, last week some 15 million kenyans went to the polls to elect a president , to elect members of parliament, to elect governors to 49 counties and a number of other officeholders. By any standard, by african standard, this was a remarkable event. Thousandscause of the of Campaign Appearances by different candidates because of the passionate participation of such a large part of the kenyan e
Center forthe strategic and international to our kenyan election review, some weeks ago, we did a o pass. Which is maybe a good thing. Im going to introduce i am very happy that we have a panel this morning consisting of two distinguished journalists who have been in kenya, following the campaign and election in kenya. I will introduce them in just a moment. Name is mark bellamy. I am a Senior Advisor for africa cfif. I had the good fortune to spend some weeks there prior to this years election. I want to open with remarks about this mornings discussion and then turn to our guests. ,s all of you know, last week some 15 million kenyans went to the polls to elect a president , to elect members of parliament, to elect governors to 49 counties and a number of other officeholders. By any standard, by african standard, this was a remarkable event. Thousandscause of the of Campaign Appearances by different candidates because of the passionate participation of such a large part of the kenyan e
Election day. President trump is one of the biggest cheerleaders of its success. Lets go to cnns allison cozsyk. The index hit 22,000 for the first time ever. Its a new record high. It is the dows sixth record high in a row, and its the 49th record high since the election. In fact, the dow is up more than 3,600 points since the election. Investors have been shrugging off turmoil happening in washington and instead theyre focusing on big name profits. They had beat expectations like apple last night and was actually a bump in apple stock today that pushed the dow over 22,000. Apple is one of the 30 stocks in the dow, and when it moves, it can impact the entire index. What youre really seeing, jake, is a rally thats less about investors hoping President Trump will deliver on massive tax cuts and more on solid profits. Jake . Once again touting the dows rise and the success of the overall economy. As i recall, though, alison, countertrump dismissed rallies as a bubble. Is there anything t