Good morning, welcome to todays hearing. Its no exaggeration to say that americans love sports. We love watching them, playing them, collecting sports memorabilia, and even arguing about our favorite teams and athletes, whether its watching the super bowl with friends, joining an office bracket pool for march madness or stretching out for the turkey trot 5 k races on thanksgiving morning, we love our sports. Personally, im a dodger and a packer fan and some of my best moments have been spent competing in sports or cheering on my two daughters at their meets and games. This committee is committed to promoting american success in international competition, ensuring exciting play in our professional leagues, providing opportunity for our student athletes and maintaining a vibrant sports culture for the benefit of all americans. At the same time, protecting the health and safety of american athletes of all levels, professional, amateur, student and youth, is a longstanding priority of the
Thusburg maryland book festival. Starting at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, not the cleaver family. At 10 35, Melvin Goodman author of whistleblower of the kraimt yts author Sharon Weinberger at 12 15 p. M. Discussion her book the imagine nears of war, the untold story of darpa, the Pentagon Agency that changed the world. At 1 0015 eastern, the decisive years, 1970 stoichl 1980. At 2 15 p. M. Sidney blumenthal, the political life of Abraham Lincoln 1849 to 1856. And at 3 15, a missing naval officer in the pacific and his familys quest to bring him home. Watch our live all day coverage of the book festival starting saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 2s book tv. Next, the Inspector General for the Transportation Department gives an update on the federal aviation administrations nextgen projects to modernize and change to a satellitebased air Traffic Control system. Other topics include whether the air Traffic Control system should be partially private advertised. Congressman bill shuster cha
Thusburg maryland book festival. Starting at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, not the cleaver family. At 10 35, Melvin Goodman author of whistleblower of the kraimt yts author Sharon Weinberger at 12 15 p. M. Discussion her book the imagine nears of war, the untold story of darpa, the Pentagon Agency that changed the world. At 1 0015 eastern, the decisive years, 1970 stoichl 1980. At 2 15 p. M. Sidney blumenthal, the political life of Abraham Lincoln 1849 to 1856. And at 3 15, a missing naval officer in the pacific and his familys quest to bring him home. Watch our live all day coverage of the book festival starting saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 2s book tv. Next, the Inspector General for the Transportation Department gives an update on the federal aviation administrations nextgen projects to modernize and change to a satellitebased air Traffic Control system. Other topics include whether the air Traffic Control system should be partially private advertised. Congressman bill shuster cha
Of u. S. British relations for decades to come. Major averages climbing into the close. Nasdaq ending at another new record. Apparently this is not that much worry out there. Im melissa francis. David im david asman. So glad you can join us. This is after the bell. We have a show for you. From wall street to washington to london we have you covered on all the big stories this hour. The dow ending off its highs after hitting a brand new record during the comey testimony. Go straight to Nicole Petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. Some wild swings. What happened . They were taking in testimony. No doubt every trader was watching and list eing. In the end they saw it was favorable for President Trump. They had nothing to worry about at this time. They went right back to trading. Markets moved to highest point, 12 30, just before hearings wrapped up. Traders said there was no smoking gun. Everything is fine. Took banks higher. We saw nasdaq move to a high. It is closing at 32nd r
Between President Donald Trump and the president of mexico. We are waiting to hear how that conversation went. Amazingly despite questions about what will happen with the trade agreements and whether or not there will be a border tax the markets are pretty quiet digesting the news and staying close to record highs. We are noticing mexican stocks. Actually doing fairly well. Would you say that it is a positive sign that at least the two sides are speaking behind the scenes . I think that absolutely is a good sign. We are going to have peter navaro. He said the vix isnt looking like anybody is worried. The markets are signaling that perhaps they are less worried about the talk. As you pointed out before and we certainly thought about often over the past year the lesson has been when things happen our Immediate Reaction is bad things are going to happen or whatever. It turns out that the market sometimes has gone against what the, quote, smart money would say and here may be yet another e