Then, what is russias response to Robert Muellers indictment of russian nationals . Will the charges have any effect on moscows meddling . Well explore. Also, the ongoing war in america over immigration. What does the Trump Administration want the face of america to look like . How should the democrats respond . But first, heres my take. A few weeks ago the Economist Intelligence unit published the tenth edivision its democracy index and for the second consecutive year, the United States failed to make the top bracket, a full democracy. And was grouped in the second one, flawed democracy. Americas slide is part of a global trend. In this years report, scores dropped for more than half the worlds countries. Larry diamond described ten years ago as a democratic recession shows no sign of ending. The nature of this recession is perhaps best seen by looking at the state of the free press worldwide. Take kenya. Until very recently considered a hopeful story of democratic progress. Last mont
meantime, more than 150 points here to the downside. and we re down in the double digits right now. up ahead, we re also going to be speaking exclusively with house majority leader, eric cantor. he has vowed to get to the bottom of the irs scandal. as new developments unfold, we ll get an update from representative cantor anymore. do you remember when bruce willis landed on that asteroid to save the earth? well, there s a company called planto plantory resources and it plans to mine asteroids. and before you laugh, they have some very big investors, including googles eric schmidt. we ll be talking about the ceo, coming up. and as we approach this final stretch for the week, for the month, the dow jones industrial average down 90 points. you can see this in the chart in the final hour at 15,229 on the dow industrials. the nasdaq look los like this. a decline of 17 points. we had that big rebalance coming up at the end of the day here. that s going to create a lot of volu
universities, if he had been raised in the hood, the odds are greater that he would have been stopped, he would have been frisked, he would have would have been searched and he would have been caught and far from being president of the united states today he might not even have the right to vote depending on the state he lived in. cpu can watch this and other programs on line at booktv.org. googles eric schmidt and jared cohen lay out their vision of the future world in which everyone is digitally connected. this event is a little over one hour and starts now. welcome everybody. leave it to eric schmidt and jared cohen to draw a crowd like this at the aspen institute. their book is the new digital age. eric schmidt is a software engineer by upbringing, was chief technology officer with microsystems and the ceo of novell. he has for those of us who love the digital age and even the old digital age as well as the new digital age, he has a nice of having worked at the la