Wenqing ngoei said that the United States was successful in the regional strategy. This is about 90 minutes. All right. Everyone, i would like to call us all to order. Good afternoon. And welcome to this afternoons session of the washington history seminar historical perspectives on international and national affairs. Im eric arnesen of George Washington university and im the cochair of this seminar along with Christian Ostermann who represents the Wilson Center. As you may see, we have cspan taping here today so we would like to welcome those of you who are watching on your computers or on your Television Screens and suggest that you visit the website to learn more about the Seminar Series and upcoming speakers here at the Wilson Center. The washington history seminar is a collaborative effort of two organizations. The Woodrow Wilson international for scholars and history and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. We are in the ninth ye
Cents. The price of gold holding steady. Its up just a little. Have we got a price there . Okay. We will get to it later. Its 1300 an ounce. What did you say . 14 . Gold is 1400 an ounce this morning. Big gain yesterday, a fractional gain this morning. Got that. Investors do not know what to make of this. Chinas leader goes to north korea. Interesting that right after that visit was announced, President Trump called xi jinping and worked out an extended meeting. So its a threeway dance and no one knows whether it helps the trade talks or not. Look at this, too. After a big rally yesterday, no significant pullback this morning. Yes, the dow, the s p, the nasdaq, they will all open lower but all three are still at or very close to their alltime highs, despite whats going on around the world. Go figure, maybe. Friday morning. Varney company about to begin. Stuart want you to see the video. Look at it. Its cooling down a little bit now but that was a massive explosion at an oil refinery in
Welcome to deborah ghost really a. Markets have just come online. Annabelle going down to asias Major Trading open. To top stories this hour. Stocks under pressure amid concern about skyhigh valuations. Apples china what was deepening with a 24 sales plunge. Haidi bitcoin retreats from its first record high in more than two years as investors take the opportunity to book profits. Annabelle Republican Voters in 15 u. S. States expected to back donald trump over nikki haley in a super tuesday primary. Lets kick it off with breaking data coming out of south korea. We had those Inflation Numbers dropping. At the headline level, you are seeing higher levels than what economist had been predicting. The estimate had been for 3 . Higher food prices. You saw a rising retail price. The dynamic playing into the numbers. When you strip it out, you take away food. You take away energy. The core reading. You saw a gain of 2. 5 . That was in line with what the estimate was shared unchanged from the m
Committee vicechair katy tang and jane kim and norman yee and welcome supervisor avalos and thank you our clerk for the committee. I think well be rotating clerks, as well as Charles Kremenak and sfgovtv thank you for this meeting. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be completed as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. We also have oc staff for translation. Okay. Thank you very much. We have translators. Yes. announcement being made . So thanks everyone. Welcome to Public Comment at the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you call items 1 and 2. Item no. 1 is the proposed budget and appropriation ordinance appropriating all estimated receipts and all estimates expenditures for departments of the city and county of San Francisco as of may 31, 2016, for the fiscal years ending june 30, 2017 and june 30th, 2018 and item no. 2 is a proposed the proposed annual salary ordinance, enumerating positions in annual budget and appropriation ordinance formalit
Cup. Protests continue with a day to go before kick off. Welcome to the programme hundreds of thousands of civilians were fleeing one of iraqs largest cities after the army abandoned it in the face of attacks by rebel fighters. Residents of misyou will said that fighters from the armed group known as the imil said they had come to liberate the city. The al qaeda Splinter Group controlled much of the surrounding province, and the oil refinery. The Prime Minister Nouri Almaliki called for a National State of emergency and international support. Mosul was an important focus of the u. S. Militarys effort to stablilize iraq before it pulled out. A white house spokesman said the Iraqi Government must act to restore community. This is a situation that is serious, one that we are concerned about. It is clear that there are serious security challenges in iraq that have deteriorated in an important way. Well continue the important relationship in terms of providing security and military assistan