No, but i aint going to tell them. laughter them. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The rockbottom Interest Rates that have pulled the economy slowly out of the Great Recession will stay in place. The Federal Reserve said today that the economy is growing but not as much as it expected. The fed predicted that growth could be only 2 this year. It was just a few weeks ago that the fed predicted it could be 2. 6 . So with unemployment still high and inflation low, the fed is giving the economy more help. Well, that news sent stock prices to record highs. The dow gained 147 points to close at 15,676. S p 500 closed at 1,725. Heres Senior Business correspondent Anthony Mason. Reporter wall street was expecting the fed to pull back on its Stimulus Campaign today. But Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke said its still too soon. It was a step a precautionary step, if you will. Reporter the fed in its statement saw growing underly
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America is under siege. We see it on our campuses. We see it in our culture. And we see it in our communications particularly the censorship by Big Tech.
Left-wing professors, liberal activists, mass media, even major corporations are attempting to cancel conservative thought. They don’t want to compete in the battle of ideas because they know they’d lose. They just want to cancel us.
I know what that is like. Ten years ago, the Occupy Movement didn’t start on Wall Street; it started on my street. The big-government special interests tried to intimidate us from doing what was right.
good. 300 agents have been deployed to the area to try to secure it. is that making any difference? it depends on who you ask. janet napolitan toe said recently our southern borders are more secure than they ve ever been and some of the residents told us there s no question they feel a little more secure with the presence of so many additional agents. the sheriff did point out that the county is huge. we re talking about 5,000 square miles, 91 miles that run along that border wide open. and he says you know, consider the fact that these towns on the other side of him have fallen. he worries how long it might take for that to spill over to happen here. thelma, these are great pieces. we ll see you back here tomorrow for part three. thank you. we have heard, parents perhaps you in particular, how colleges are charging a heck of a lot more money for tuition. but one university is actually making tuition cheaper. coming up next, i ll be smoking with the man behind the change. good en