General motors negotiations resuming next hour. The strike coming as gm faces declining sales and is closing plants with uaw leadership while facing an fbi corruption probe. Have news on vaping, opioids and chinas economy as well but im david asman in for stuart today. Good monday morning with varney co. Start right now. David lets get right to oil. Studies have shut down 5 of the production after two drone attacks. West texas crude and brent crude surging on that news over 10 . Here are dow components exxon and chevron free markets. They are unchanged but those situations could change dramatically when you have the opening bell. Stocks are a big along with the entire Energy Sector of the orbit here is President Trumps latest tweet on the subject because we have done so well with energy over the last few years, thank you mr. President , we are a Net Energy Exporter and now the Number One Energy producer in the world and we dont need middle eastern oil and gas and in fact, we have very
Hear two cases targeting Birth Control coverage. Two Companies Want to deny their employees the right to contraception. They are arguing their right to the exercise a religious objection. The two businesses bringing the suits, the arts and crafts chain, hobby lobby and conestoga woods. Lets talk about hobby loby, an arts and craft chain started in oklahoma city. Now with 500 stores, 13,000 fulltime employees. The 10th Circuit Court of appeals rules hobby lobby should be exempt from the Affordable Care act. Hobby lobby claims the aca requirement violates the companys religious principles because the owners believe some forms of Birth Control are ta tantamount to abortion but they have none with dye programs and Birth Control pills. T one issue is rather for profit operations have the right to religious freedom like an individual does under the first amendment. Hobby lobbys owners say they should be protected as their Company Operates in a manner consistent with biblical principles, for
Could be facing a very long trip. A huge winter storm is causing problems in at least 34 states. Aaa estimated more than 43 million beam will travel this holiday weekend. Most travelers are driving, and the storm is having a huge impact on the roads. Robert ray is in atlanta, we will get to him in a moment. We begin with what is happening on the roads. It has been snowing here all day, and the National Weather service predicts by the time the storm blows through, it will have dumped up to a foot of snow on pittsburgh. Pittsburgh greeted the snow storm with plows, salt, shovels, and aceps of humor. Its fun. Its fun. Yes, it is fun. Its pittsburgh weather. The storm that pummeled the mid section, barreled east today, coating highways with a sleet and snow. In washington, icy roads snarled morning traffic. In pennsylvania the department of transportation put road crews on 12 hour shifts to keep highways clear for Holiday Travelers. The sidewalks were bad. The week of thank giving is tradi
[applause] our coverage of the International Summit of the book continues now by a panel called the publishing world yesterday and today. It about one hour 20 minutes. Good afternoon, ladies and supplement. Its a pleasure see so many of you, so many old friends here. I have a great privilege of being Senior Consultant for the librarian of congress, and i am also a writer and editor in chief and the world. And also a veteran of the publishing world. I have worked for many years as a Senior Editor and also at Simon Schuster as well. I have been around the block. A bit of a veteran in august. But we have learned so many things in this conference so far. Such a delight in such a pleasure to have heard the wonderful keynote speech. The report from the frontline with so many countries like russia and south africa, to learn that the First Encounter between europe and the new world, but between the conquistadors and into was over a book. With Thomas Jefferson and the wondrous discussion regist
You are watching booktv on cspan2, as 2012 draws to a close one of the things we like to do is look back at the year in Nonfiction Books and look ahead to 2013. Joining us to help us are two guests in the new york studio, Sarah Weinman is news director for publishers marketplace, Bob Minzesheimer is the book reviewer and reporter for usa today. Sarah weinman, lets start with you. Give us your general assessment of 2012 for the book industry especially when a comes to Nonfiction Books and what are one or two Nonfiction Books you want to talk about . Let me start by saying 2012 was a very eventful year in the Book Publishing world between publishers consolidating the department of justice, doing five publishers and apple on ebook pricing and later into the program, amazon expanding its publishing operations, the google settlement moving forward in different directions. Those alone account for a substantial portion of publishing news. On the nonfiction side it was a very strong year. In p