Markets this morning are lower. Mixed picture at the start of trading, dow industrials down 68 points. Nasdaq up 30 and the markets were able to cut losses almost by half. Dow, s p 500 are on track for winning week despite 140 points lower for the white house. Battle for the white house goes prime time. Biden breaking down the election as scranton versus park avenue. Power panel hour. Cohost of the 5, Juan Williams is here and joe concha to tackle what is going on and backlash of facebook spying on instagram users tapping into your phone camera. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets this morning look like this. European indices are mix. Cac lower by 15. We did get positive news on the brexit front. European Commission President saying shes convinced a deal is possible following a round of informal talks in europe. Take a look at indices. You will see the shanghai composite was up better than 2 . Some op the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump
Off your cell phones or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. We are thrilled to tonight to welcome acclaimed historian mary beth norton, the author of five books and coeditor of several others inn her textbook people n the nation a survey of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and has sold mores than a 500,000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and 201 in the 2,018th president of the american historical association. She is the Professor Emeritus at cornell university. Her new book 1774 the long year of revolution is available for purchase following the program. So now please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause] its really nice to be here. I want to make sure the clicker is on. It doesnt seem to be. There it is. Okay, great. I dont want to show that one quite yet. It is in the collections in the historical society, and it claims the label that is impossible to read unless so theres a quite wellknown object
We are thrilled to welcome a claim historian mary beth norton. She is the author of five books and coeditor of several others at her textbook of people and a nation a survey of u. S. History. Her new book 1774 the long year of revolution is available per purchase following the program. Please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause]. Its really nice to be here. I want to make sure the clicker is on. It doesnt seem to be. I dont want to show that one quite yet. I want to show you the cover of the book briefly because the little bottle on it is famous if youre colonial historian. Its in the collections of the map of the society and it claims on the label on it which is impossible to read alas that is contains t picked up from Boston Harbor or the day after the tea party. Its a quite wellknown object in the colonial america. I wanted to start with this verse from a poem i discovered in the new york journal which is a newspaper that coordinated with the sons of liberty in new york
Joining me today. Ill see you back here next saturday at eight Easter Smerconish starts right now a republican and an independent walk into a libertarian establishment. Youre going to have to wait for the punchline. I, Michael Smerconish in philadelphia. Thank you for joining me. This Memorial Day Weekend in an unusual move tonight, former president donald thatll trump will address the Libertarian National convention in washington, dc and independent rfk junior spoke there on friday after having flirted with running as a libertarian earlier in the cycle this morning, the Drudge Report leading with his appearance saying rfk jr. Slams trump locked down standing o from libertarians. He spent a lot of his hourlong speech criticizing both president s trump and biden President Trump said that he was going to run america like a business. He closed down 3. 3 million businesses with no due process, no just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment with a lockdowns, the mask mandates the
Country . Those in the eastern and central time zones can call 2027488000. Those in the mountain and pacific regions can call 2027488001. You can also reach us on social media, on twitter and on facebook. Good morning. The wall street journal has more about yesterdays inauguration address by President Trump. President donald trump delivered what historians and speechwriters set was one of the addressesus inaugural ever, reinforcing familiar Campaign Themes of american decline while positioning himself as the protector of the forgotten men and women. Lets take a look at a bit more speechident trumps yesterday when he talked about american carnage. [video clip] President Trump a different reality exists. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities. , scatteredfactories like tombstones across the landscape of our nation. An Education System flush with cash but leaves are young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge. And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that