Good evening everyone. On behalf of carmichaels bookstore welcome to tonights event of a can all take a moment to silence our folder would appreciate that. Tonight we are joined by kathy cassie chambers her book hill women she later went on to receive her degree from harvard law and now works with Domestic Violence survivors in kentucky. She lives in louisville with her husband. Please join me to give her a very warm welcome. [applause] thank you for being here and coming out in the rain it means so much to have people from all different phases and stages of my life. Also carmichael please purchase books if you want to have these independent bookstores and they need your dollars to do that i would appreciate if you purchase your book i will be signing them at the signing table. So what i want to do tonight i will read excerpts of hill women and why i wrote the book and what inspired me to write it and to give you an overview of how the book came to be and into the world and after the i
Saying. We are getting headlines out of the iea. It depends on what is happening in the middle east given what has happened in iran and the last 15 days. The International Energy agency saying the oil supply is a vulnerable as middle east tensions flare up. Ieas always good to see the thinking. You can see the brent. Stocks are gaining 0. 4 . We are we have to see and i will show you later that we have a tight range when it comes to treasuries and dollar pound. Significant one because there is more bets that the bank of england will cut rates in january i believe january 30. Coming up, we hear from the chief executive of allianz. Something you do not want to miss. That is coming up a little bit later. Lets get to first word news. Viviana we begin here in the u. S. , the house of representatives sending two articles of impeachment. It is the first step to begin Donald Trumps trial almost certain to end in acquittal. Chief Justice John Roberts of the u. S. Supreme court will preside over
Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite Public Policy issues. Yeah. Right along there. Thanks so much. Well, great. I want to welcome everyone to this panel. Again, thank you, all, very much for joining. My name is lawrence smith. Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u. S. Department of transportation. It will be three years this month that ive been at the department. Incredibly honored to be part of a great team. Doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts
For joining. My name is loren smith. Itll be three years this month that ive been at the department, incredibly honored to be part of a great team doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Its going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts of the country. Were really, really excited about. I had the honor of serving previously with secretary chow at the labor department. Its been a fascinating experience seeing different cabinet agencies and how the different organizations work. Im joined today by four really excellent panelists i think youre going to enjoy hearing from. I first want to introduce Alex Herrgott who is executive director of the public improvement counsel, fipsi. He has been in that role since september 2018. He had been serving previously as the associate director for infrastructure for counsel on Environmental Quality at the white house. Mr. Herrgott worked for senator james earnhoff in california. He served as primary staff for transportation
Dallas . Years ago. Traveling with a big sales whats interesting is it is a connected supply chain so what were actually discovering here with the coronavirus is those factories outside of china, they person a deal . A few of them i was a stock broker. Also are having supply trouble not able to start production in would you like to buy this or many cases because all it takes would this be better for you is one part to come from china alternative choice questions. So our products are electronics, you do. Fairly complex and parts really she doesnt get on a plane come from all over the world and unless there is money to be those parts that come from china made everything you do should be are affected. Okay. Closing. Bernie, thank you for joining us this morning im closing every day appreciate it. Coming up, can a slick we digress. It is up we are green today multimillion dollar ad blitz translate to success on the up 65 points, the s p indicated debate stage thats the question of the nigh