Here at smu. Let me start by thanking the many people. Well at least a few of them who at least a few video who have helped make this evening possible starting with our friends at the center for president ial history with whom we are cosponsoring this event tonight. Particularly jeffreyrt engel, Brian Franklin and rhonda spinster elected thank ruth ann elmore who coordinates things on our end for the clements center. So was my pleasure to introduce Cameron Blevins who braved last night whether to fly in from denver where he teaches u. S. History and digital humanity at the university of colorado campus in the mile high city. Before moving to the front right she was assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in boston and a core faculty member at the schools in the lab for text maps and networks. I learned last that cameron is a native of nutmeg state your for thoses of you who dont know but the nutmeg state, a number of you, so there is going to enable to invite you. Alt
Good evening. Thanks so much for coming out my name is andy grayville director of the Clemen Center for southwest studies here at smu let me start by thanking many people or at least a few of them who have helped make this evening possible starting m with our friend at the center for president ial history withor whom are cosponsoring this event tonight. Particularly jeffrey ankle Brian Franklin and ron that spitz i want to thank ruth and who coordinates things on our end for the Clemen Center so my pleasure to introduce Cameron Blevins who braved last nights weather to fly in from denver teaches digital humanities at the university of colorados campus in the mile high city before moving to front range he was assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in boston, and a core faculty member at the schools mu lab for text map and networks. They learned last night cameron is a nativity of the nutmeg state for those of you anybody knows what that is number of you ii was hoping
Is outside the white house, elon is there in washington standing by with the latest on the tax bill itself. Lets start with you, what do we know about this event coming up . Reporter theyre not actually going to do a bill signing. The sbil not ready to be signed just yet, but this is very much a Party Atmosphere here on the south lawn of the white house. We have the marine band going through a list of Christmas Carols a few moments ago theyre serving hot drinking over here. Some of the vips and dignitaries have gathered in the audience. You can see behind me, republican members of congress lined up on the steps just above the south port co. Here on the south lawn of the white house. This is a unified Republican Party right now. Theyve been through a lot of tough infighting particularly over obamacare, this is a big win. This is a moment in which youve seen the president of the United States already today handing out praise to republican leaders, some of whom hes been attacking earlier
Lets look at some of the headlines across newspapers. The Chicago Tribune is topped by the comments from senator dick durbin, saying trump used hate filled language. The president denied volterra vulgarity in a comment on twitter. The miami heralds lead with the immigration discussion, saying the ballot will not say whether trump disparaged haiti in that meeting. Lawmakers said they did not recall the comment that President Trump is reported as saying. The Atlanta Journalconstitution is topped off with a poll that shows President Trumps Approval Rating robbing in georgia, a state where he had strong support in the 2016 election. The arkansas democrat gazette is topped by the iran deal, saying how the president has put a run on notice to fix the accord, or the United States will pull out. Diana is calling from livingston, new jersey on our democratic line. Caller i am calling primarily my alarm that the russian , andng is still going on there was an article by the Associated Press yeste
Good morning, everybody. We have got, right here. I maria bartiromo. Top stories right now 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Markets are off to an ugly beginning of the week worldwide could take a look at futures right now after the horrible selloff on friday. Words this morning the booming economy will drive Interest Rates higher in spark inflation. Industrial average down 129 points in terms of features one half . The biggest oneday decline for the dow since brexit tumbling nearly 700 points in the s p 500 and nasdaq both down 2 down 665 of 65 on the dow. 145 points lower in the nasdaq. Tenyear treasury yields still climbing up to a fouryear high of 225 . As you see there one of the underlying worries. Of course heres to seeing a typical followthrough from what we saw friday on wall street. 5187 points in the dax index down three quarters of 1 . Markets are mostly lower. Nikkei average down 2. 5 . Janet yellen, officially trying to an end as jay powell prepares for his first as chairman