Divide. A virtual author event hosted by the bookstore in new york city. Welcome tonight, i saw comments, thank you so much. We work on this, we are very happy to have her tonight. Id like to share a little bit about the history. Its founded in 1927. Union squares active place, gradually going to 40 bookstores. So surrender. Now run by the owner, nancy, i want to thank all of you for your support. An update in the store two weeks on this. Tonight we are excited to have with us julian, celebrating release of the book, burning down the house. Julian is a stephenson 1941 professor of history and Public Affairs university and a political analyst. His most recent book, the history of the United States since 1974, coauthored by our moderator. The best book in congress. Awarded the New York Historical society, the Guggenheim Foundation in america. They will be joined by crews. A political, social and urban suburban history of the 20th century america. Focused on conflicts over race, religion,
Dr. Steve perry. He told me to keep his introduction short. So ill do that but hes a grazz Roots Community grassroots member. Dr. Steve perry is one of the most sought after educators in america. A diverse array from the urban league, even President Donald Trump has reached out to dr. Perry to hear his insights on what matters to parents and children. His unique and powerful voice has been featured on msnbc, fox, cnn, al jazeera, tv one, b. E. T. , and nbc as well as on the Oprah Winfrey network on multiple shows. He provides a fascinating perspective but is not often found in Public Discourse and has been fighting for disadvantaged children and families for over 30 years. Please help me in welcoming dr. Steve perry. [applause] dr. Perry long time no see. Thank you so much for having me this afternoon. Thank you for staying to be part of the extension of this conversation. Dr. Payne, thank you. Sincerely thank you for what you do and what youve done. Its all too easy for us to get caug
It was another record setting day for the s p 500 and nasdaq. Today, something new happened, the dow jones set an all time high too. Sewell tell you in a minute about the specific stock that drove todays record run broadly speaki speaking, investors were cheered by two things, including the Federal Reserves decision to keep rates unchanged. Something well talk about a little later in the program. The Dow Jones Industrial average advanced 97 points to that record 21711. The nasdaq added 10. It was enough for a new high. The stock that fueled the dows gains was boeing. Shares flew higher recording its largest percentage gain since 2008. The reason, strong quarterly results. A close to perfect report. Its profit beat expectations and the company lifted its forecast for the year sales fell, but investors didnt care. Boeing churned out a lot of cash and returned billions back to shareholders boeing today surpassed Goldman Sachs to be the priciest stock in the dow the Worlds Largest Aerospac
The appropriations subcommittee on labor health and Human Services education and related agencies will come to order. Im certainly pleased we could have this opportunity this morning, dr. Collins, to talk to you and the other Institute Directors about the work youre doing and the work youd like to do. Certainly every family faces Health Concerns during their lifetime and there are so many things that can be done by nih that i think cant be done as well anywhere else. A new drug, a new device, new treatment can take anywhere from a decade to longer to develop, can cost billions of dollars on occasion with a pretty high failure rate, even when you think youre on the right path. Certainly its necessary for the federal government to invest in Biomedical Research. It represents the hopes of lots of people and lots of families and particularly now as we see conditions growing as people survive heart problems and stroke problems, we see more people with alzheimers and cancer challenges. We se
This subject, week after next, train and equip, not just iraq. Iraq, syria and afghanistan. Historically in a broader context, what are the lessons . Is it always hard . Are there particular circumstances in every country beyond our control . Are there lessons we can apply more broadly to Different Countries and our efforts to improve their Security Forces . We cant do everything ourselves. So nebraskas gsomebodys got t there helping us do it. Were trying to work with others. You just heard somebody today mention poland. We have allies of different capabilities. How well are we organized, equipped, prepared to work with those different capabilities . I think this is a big, very important question. So is the hearing going to be oversight or education . Both. So were going to have close the roundtable, were going to have outside experts, were going to have administration witnesses at different events. So its try to understand, but its also hone in on what were doing now and is it working