The new Congress Starts tuesday, opening day the events and activities on cspan. Were live from the u. S. Capitol starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Representatives and hear from new members. Opening day business includes of the house speaker, his address to the later debate and rules for the new congress. One rule in particular is attention. A proposal to fine members who live stream video from the house floor. Response to last summers democratic sittin that was streamed by several democrats. 2, our live coverage of the Senate Starts at noon astern and includes the swearingin of senators. Opening day continues on cspan live coverage of the ceremonial swearingin of members of congress. Eastern, Vice President joe biden presides over the swearingin of at 3 00,l senators and Speaker Paul Ryan swears in house. S of the well have a full replay of opening day on 8 00 p. M. Eastern cspan and cspan 2. Having a little bit of technology that puts tweets on air for you. You can post to the site. E
Giant. Plus, courtroom grilling the Trump Administration defending its use of executive power and the travel ban before a federal Appeals Court. Social medias in focus. Facebook and twitter getting some upgrades ahead of earnings tomorrow. First up though, a bunch of earnings to get to, time warner a beat on both the top and bottom line. Alaska air also beating the street announcing an increase in the Quarterly Dividend ahead of the meeting with airline ceos at the white house tomorrow. Big report focused on is disney, revenue falls short of consensus, rising costs as we said, declining viewership at espn weighing on the results. Here is bob iger last night talking to our Julia Boorstin. I think theres way too much pessimism about espn because espn is still in demand from three constituents you want to be in demand the most from, one, distributors, two, consumers, and three, advertisers. And the reason its in demand is the brand is still strong, the product is still good. Weve invested
Eva click a. M. Across the emirates, 4 00 a. M. In london. In hong kong, it has just gone midday. Gold Holding Steady after surging in the previous session, japanese yen is coming down from those eyes. How long will this last given that donald trump could to eat anytime . Anytime . Tweet yousef the u. S. Treasuries are up. There is a tone of caution in these asset classes. This tells the story of how the trump euphoria is starting to fade. This is interesting because we have contrasted this with other victories. You can pull this up on your bloomberg. This yellow line is the s p 500 post the trump election victory. The line is blue are after the victory after shinzo abe. We ask how much further this can go. They asked that investors shift to emerging markets and that the honeymoon is pretty much over at this stage. Bonds inybe corporate emerging markets. Look at my bloomberg. Investors are taking the smallest returns since september 2014 to open corporate bonds. Take a look at the seco
Security adviser in the Obama Administration and has met the president of china a number of times. I am pleased to have him back on this program. Welcome. As National Security adviser, you made china a particular area of interest for yourself. What do you think the chinese coming here are expecting . What do they hope to accomplish . Is anor both sides it important meeting. It is the most important diplomatic meeting that President Trump has had so far in his presidency by far. On the chinese side, their approach would be to have a successful meeting. I think they put a high premium on having a successful medium. Particularly moving forward towards the fall when the chinese leadership change takes place. In october this year you will have changes in policy on the standing committee. The next five years of president xi jinpings tenure. He will want to have a successful meeting. They want to show that they can operate effectively on the international stage. I think he will try to get thi
That syria is more of a con undrum, more of a quagmire than even iraq. But there are lots of ways to support the Syrian People if you want to support the Syrian People, right . You can actually bring over more as refugees. You can actually provide more humanitarian aid. You can establish a safe zone it is not at all clear to me that going after the a sad regime directly militarily is the way to go. Rose we conclude with bernard henrilevy, the french filmmaker and author whose most recent film is called the battle of mosul. The famous question in 1943 in america, why do we come back, why do we fight. The kurds ask the same question and they say we fight for freedom. We fight for america. We fielt for france. We might gengs jihadism. And this is a great thing to see. Most they are devouted muslim, pious mus lum, try muslim fighting against radical islam 6789 this is a great experience and great proof that the battle is not between the west and the rest. Rose tom done illon, ian bremmer a