Complicated and controversial building of a memorial to president James Garfield on the u. S. Capitol grounds. Well hear from Matthew Gilmore who edits a washington, d. C. History blog. Those of you probably know matt by name, if not in person. He runs a blog, the matthew b. Gilmore press blog and also hes an author of the column of the intowner. If you follow d. C. History, hes been integrally involved. Anything history in d. C. Oh, you also run the d. C. History list. Thank you for that on behalf of the city. Today hes going to talk about James Garfield, his death and efforts to commemorate his life and death here in washington, d. C. I wont say too much more about it. I dont want to steal his steam. Please join me in welcoming matt. [ applause ] thank you very much. The story im going to tell might be ripped from todays or recent headlines. There was a president ial memorial delayed for years caught up in congressional infighting. Legislation pending. A powerful lobby behind the mem
Service. Thank you for that on behalf of the city. Today is going to be talking about james garfield, his death and efforts to commemorate his life and death here in washington d. C. I wont say too much more, i dont want to steal his steam, please join me in welcoming matt. applause thank you very much. The story im going to tell might be ripped from todays recent headlines. There was a president ial memorial delayed for years. It was caught up in congressional infighting, and replace it with another. A powerful lobby behind the memorial had chosen this site, the designer, the design criticize in the press. The site was very close to the capital on maryland avenue. If the years 1887, not 2017, and the memorial was one to president garfield and not president eisenhower. James garfields death was a national shock. He is been a compromise candidate for the presidency and had won the closest election in american history. It was a difficult life but his rise up was the rags to riches story.
we have a big show ahead, including a possible vice presidential pick. florida congressman byron donalds will be with us. but we start with breaking news tonight out of israel where four hostages are receiving medical attention in tel-aviv hours after being rescued in gaza by israeli security forces. and eight months after being kidnapped by hamas at an israeli musical festival on october 7th, president biden earlier today in paris applauded the rescue alongside french president emmanuel macron. before i begin my remarks, i want to echo president macron s comments welcoming the safe rescue for hostages that were returned to their families in israel. we won t stop working until all the hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached. that is essential to happen. that was president biden that was president biden alongside of president macron in france, but first let s go to the breaking news out of israel earlier today with emotional moments as four hostages were reunited
Lets see what happened overnight in asia. The flnikkeiclosed down. Hang seng down by 5 points the shanghai composite up by a third of a percentage point. In europe in some early trading, looks like the dax is up by a third of a percentage point. The cac is up bay half py a half percentage point finally check out crude Oil Prices Crude Oil yesterday down by 1. 4 on some questions about u. S. Supply and also doubts about whether russia is going to be cutting output whether it will stick with that. This morning down 1 couple big stories were watching japans softbank offering to purchase shares of uber at a valuation of only 28 billio 4 . Thats a huge drop of the most recent valuation of 68 billion. Ubers board approved the investment in october. It would expand the board and cut the influence of founder travis kalanick. Big question about whether people will tend near this offer. The consortium is led by softbank, and they plan to take a stake of 14 in uber if they dont get it at this pri
0. 75 . No real shockers. Will they or wont they raise rates come september . Some of the language seemed to be upgraded. Some games before raising rates. What will that word mean . Youve got breaking news of u. S. Gdp later today, spain, austria, sweden, all giving us their gdp. Spain rising 1 as expected. Lets have a look at how the euro is faring. We saw the dollar rally on the back of that positive language on the job market, saying the improvement is solid. The Federal Reserve said yesterday, euro lower. Look at the dollar, up 0. 4 at the moment. We are currently seeing u. S. Dollar on a tear. Dollar is going to its biggest monthly gain since march. Lets also check in on oil. We are seeing a bit of a bounce up 0. 3 . Supplies cut in the United States. That seems to be pushing up oil. No relenting to the pain for the oil majors. I could have told you about so many earnings. I could have told you about the biggest Engineering Company in europe, siemens. Thats a beat. Ab inbev, thats