Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, alison stewart. Stewart good evening and thank you for joining us. Less than a week before he takes the oath of office as the 45th president of the united states, donald trump is signaling shifts in u. S. Relations with russia and with china. In a new interview with the wall street journal, mr. Trump said he would maintain, at least for a period of time, the russian sanctions imposed by president obama for interfering in the president ial election by hacking Political Party computers. But the president elect also said hed roll back those sanctions if relations with russia improve. The newspap
By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thank you for joining us. The Democratic Party has a new leader. At its winter meeting in atlanta today, the Democratic National committee elected tom perez as its chairman. 55yearold perez has served in the Obama Administration as labor secretary and as head of the justice departments civil rights division. Hes a buffalo, new yorkborn son of immigrants from the dominican republic, a graduate of Brown University and harvard law school, a former federal prosecutor, and onetime aide to the late senator, edward kennedy. The runnerup was minnesota congressman Keith Ellison, who is serving his sixth term
Theranos with John Carreyrou and Michael Siconolfi of the the wage wawj. She came out of stanford with this vision of trying to revolutionize medicine with blood testing that would be done on very small samples of blood, either priked from the arm, at first prked from the arm then priked from the finger and the test would be done quickly, off just this painless pin prik, and then you would be able to diagnose a bunch of conditions from that. And that was pretty transform tiff, if it was achievable, if the company could do it, it really meant big changes in medicine and in the Laboratory Testing industry. So the vision was a powerful one that a lot of people bought into. But again, the people who invested early knew they were facing a young lady who had just graduated and who might fail as most entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley failed. We conclude with amy adams. She spoke to a. O. Scott at the New York Times about her two new films, arrival and Nocturnal Animals. Im definitely hard on my
Theranos with John Carreyrou and Michael Siconolfi of the the wage wawj. She came out of stanford with this vision of trying to revolutionize medicine with blood testing that would be done on very small samples of blood, either priked from the arm, at first prked from the arm then priked from the finger and the test would be done quickly, off just this painless pin prik, and then you would be able to diagnose a bunch of conditions from that. And that was pretty transform tiff, if it was achievable, if the company could do it, it really meant big changes in medicine and in the Laboratory Testing industry. So the vision was a powerful one that a lot of people bought into. But again, the people who invested early knew they were facing a young lady who had just graduated and who might fail as most entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley failed. We conclude with amy adams. She spoke to a. O. Scott at the New York Times about her two new films, arrival and Nocturnal Animals. Im definitely hard on my
Thousand manufacturing jobs at a furnace plant in indiana. More on that in a moment. First to the bigger picture. There were signs today that americas long suffering Manufacturing Sector isnt quite so long suffering anymore. Factory activity expanded in november more quickly than in any month since early last year. The closely watched institute for supply Management Index showed a pickup in production and new orders, a sign that demand will likely remain solid. The positive news follows a rocky few years for manufacturing companies. Theyve been hit by weak business spending, a sluggish Energy Sector, and a strong dollar. Todays report is good news for the more than 12 Million Manufacturing workers in the United States. About 9 of the nations workforce. And it comes ahead of the release tomorrow of the Monthly Employment report. Thats the last major piece of data before the next fed meeting. But it was in indiana where manufacturing workers may have been the happiest. Today, president e