33 points and nasdaq is up 92 and the s p is up 8 points. Yesterday the dow industrials snapping a 4session winning streak with decline of the session with 135 points and nasdaq down 76 and s p lower by 11. Warning on china that i reported here first, attorney general bill barr calling out American Companies for caving into the pressure from beijing. Bombshell allegation, 15 employees of the Washington Redskins said they were harassed for years. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria in europe mixed moves, the ftse 100 is up 21 but cac quarante is down 15 and dax higher by 42. In asia overnight markets mostly higher with the exception of japan, nikkei average overnight down a third of a percent and the other fractionally moving across the board. Some of the top stories we are watching right now, John Hopkins University reporting over 77,000 new cases yesterday. 10,000 higher than the previous high. 969 deaths were also reported. Florida, South Carolina and texas all reporting the
Want to book this week and every weekend here on cspan2. I am very delighted to welcome you to our event today but is on the conservative case for class actions, a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanize this debate. We got three outstanding speakers, panelists, i should say. Our first is the head of the class action practice, he has litigated and defended countless class actions including over 20 dismissals of class action cases. You may have a sense for his position on match. He is a graduate of georgetown, undergraduate and university of Virginia Law School which he was on the law review and he is also the author of a chapter in the popular guided series on [inaudible] so please welcome christopher. [applause] our next panelist is the professor himself who wrote the book, he is a graduate of notre dame where he is a runner up valedictorian but he did offer that when he went to Harvard Law School in one the diploma for being the top student to graduate in his class. He i
Class action and he has litigated and defended countless class actions including over 20 dismissals of less action cases. They may have a sense of what his position is on that. Is a graduate of georgetown undergraduate and University Virginia law school where he was and is also the author of the chapter in the Popular Series on claims. So please welcome christopher. [applause]. And her next panelist is a professor himself wrote this book and he is a graduate of merchant notre dame where he was the runnerup valedictorian but he made up for he went to Harvard Law School and he was the top student to graduate in his class. It is a lot easier. And he has been a lawyer and a professor. It is currently at vanderbilt. And we will hear more from him and just a bit. Our moderator today is judge on the ninth circuit, is a graduate of weltys a korean immigrants who came to this country and graduated from a Blake Cornell and also Harvard Law School. Classmates. Any worked at and was associate whit
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Ainsfieldwolf who had this prize way back in 1985in she understood that literature could serve as the potent elixir in this fight. In the 84 years since the prize was established, our country has made Great Strides forward with regard to respecting and embracing our diversity. But recently we have taken disheartening steps backward. Reported hate crimes have risen sharply in the past several years, including, of course, the mass murders at the Mother Emanuel Ame Church in South Carolina and the tree of pennsylvania. This is a national trend, but it also hits close to home. According to the southern poverty law center, there are more organized hate groups in the state of ohio than in kentucky and West Virginia combined. A great source of re was one, ba clarion call for action. We must rewrite our Current National narrative to vigorously oppose bigotry in all of its forms. [applaus [applause] and tonights ceremony provides an opportunity to energize that sense of purpose. This is the 16t