Tom keene, Jonathan Ferro off today, both playing hooky as we get ready for the long Labor Day Weekend in the United States. Im lucky, though. Paul sweeney, my former cohost on bloomberg radio, joining us today. It is so telling that we are showing an image of washington, d. C. Because it was too cloudy in new york city, and perhaps that is a metaphor right now. Very cloudy in new york city for the future for a lot of things. Very much the focus on washington, d. C. As people wait for some signs of fiscal support , as people wait for some signs of just how contested this election in november is going to be. Paul i think all eyes are going to be turning towards washington. This is then thetion, more nearterm fiscal stimulus. The question is, does this economy need more . A lot of folks are saying yes, but we need to get congress back at the bargaining table. They seem to be pretty far apart at this point. Lisa we will find out. Right now, markets unfazed. They are indicated to open at n
St. John stretch reverent rob fischer. Law welcome good evening my name is rob fischer i am the director of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit of a history of this historic room that you are sitting in tonight, and so i will share with you this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henri vitro, and not only did he designs church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 18. 12 in 1818, he built what is now the home of the historical association. And if you go inside the dictator house, and you look up, you see a similar entrance. Its almost like a miniature of this dome of we have in our church space. The Original Church was built as a greek cross, so it wasnt even four sides. In just six years later, in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room f
2017 hour we know bombing as far viber see councillors as to whether it could have been prevented. The European Union has condemned bellos government for what it calls repression of the people following the disappearance of 3 opposition activists kolesnik over who spoke in that many major rallies is missing after being taken away in a van by unidentified people shes been a Campaign Manager for opposition politicians and vocal supporter of svetlana to kind of sky up whos now in exile in lithuania. This is completely unacceptable to you it was very very clear in our statements that to be conceded the actions of the authorities in belarus unacceptable we are deeply concerned about the continued repression and intimidation of the population by unexplained our wrists very often arbitrarily our wrists our wrists of our us which are motivated politically this is unacceptable be call on all people who have been detained based on political reasons and arbitrarily to be deterred to be released i
A beach in demeans the. Protesters in south africa accuse a leading pharmacy chain of posting racist advertisements. And timely harding with your sports news Novak Djokovic is disqualified from the u. S. Open after hitting a ball that strikes a female line judge in the throat. Thanks for joining us they were convicted for their part in the murder of saudi journalist. But less than 2 years after his killing in turkey 8 men have had their sentences reduced the announcement was made by the saudi Prosecution Service which also declared the case closed last year 5 of them were given the death. For the killing but that has been cut back to 20 years in jail the others have been given sentences ranging from 7 to 10 years was murdered by a saudi had inside its stumble consulates in 2018 and saudi arabia refused all coals for the men to go on trial in turkey lets discuss this is that i mean hes the director of Global Engagement at the American University of beirut and the nonresidents a senior f
Accuse a leading pharmacy chain of posting racist advertisements. Hello saudi arabia has reduced the sentences of 8 people involved in the murder of journalist john g. In turkey last year 5 of them were given the Death Penalty for the killing but that has been cut to 20 years in jail the others have been given sentences ranging from 7 to 10 years the court has also declared the case closed he was murdered by a saudi hit seen inside its stumble consulate in 2018 his fiance has called the decision a farce saudi arabia has refused all calls for the men to go on trial in turkey and in a series of tweets the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings agnes calabar said these verdicts carry no legal or moral legitimacy she went on to say that. Prince mohammed bin sandman remains well protected against any meaningful scrutiny in his country and that the verdict cant be allowed to whitewash what happened in jail sean is the executive director of the Arab Center Washington d. C. He says th