Thank you very much for coming. We are very pleased to have paul with us here this evening and was reported from the Los Angeles Times and writing about Foreign Policy with the pentagon and the state department and other important assignment along assignments it with that paper four years ago. As one of those journalistic pros on National Security affairs. To have that knowledge of National Security. And then ryan crocker. Of how senior skills state Department Officers and those intelligence communities like iraq and syria and pakistan olivia one libya to combat terrorism. Have declineo testify. We will be in conversation here with someone else who knows the way around atheir way around thn and state department but as an insider. He spent 29 years in the navy specializing in Public Affairs and rose to become the navys top spokesman and chief spokesman for the department of defense. After retiring from the military in 2015 with the rank of rear admiral, he shifted to the state departmen
The United States trillion dollar war has served its arch rival. I think the reason the americans are so surprised at the amount of influence iran has is basically because iran has done everything the americans have not done. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers li
The United States trillion dollar war has served its arch rival. I think the reason the americans are so surprised at the amount of influence iran has is basically because iran has done everything the americans have not done. Woodruff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers li
Anna welcome to countdown. Ryan we will be talking to the ceo of this swiss drugmaker later in the day. Just missing sales the estimate on sales coming in at just over one billion swiss francs. The expectation from analysts was 1. 3 billion. Anna the swiss drugs giant considering reporting what they call a good Second Quarter. That number is for the Second Quarter and that is actually 12. 69 billion compared to 12. 7 2 billion that was the forecast. A touch shy or broadly in line with analyst estimates. A lot of focus on where this business is going and where theyre going to guide the market. Deutsche bank and ubs thought there could be room for an earnings upgrade. Core ets for the Second Quarter coming in at 1. 37. It this will we will have to wait and see whether we get anything of that ilk coming through. On that core operating income number 3. 5 9 billion in the Second Quarter, just a touch ahead of the estimate of 3. 58 billion. Ryan Deutsche Bank talking about that ahead of this
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