17 educated in indonesia and a remarkable mother and father tell us i know we will talk about immigration and the policy issue with your Public Service lets start with what that was like. You are right is to nice to have an indepth conversation with a colleague and something we just dont get to do. And landed here a few minutes before i turn 17. I came by myself. My dad had 5000 in his bank account and used all of it to send me here because he really believe this is a place i would get the best education with the best opportunity. I showed up at my two suitcases thats all i could bring without having to pay for more baggage so i write about this in the about how strange it was that we were used to seeing even though its diverse in the grand scheme of things and the smells at mcdonalds and burger king and the smells you a dream about they had not made it yet and a completely new place with a completely new environment. I went to georgetown undergraduate here in the nations capital. Land
About, i know we will talk about immigration because immigration has been a policy issue that has fueled your Public Service but lets talk about you say in the book you landed in the airport with two suitcases and that was it. Guest that is right. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. You are right. Its such a pleasure to have an indepth conversation with a colleague and something you just dont get to do. Yes, i landed here a few months before i turned 17 and again by myself. My dad had about 5000 dollars in his big account and used all of it to send me here because he really believed that this was the place i would get the best education and have the most opportunities. I show up at jfk airport with my two suitcases because that is all you are allowed to bring without having to pay for more baggage we did not have money to pay for more baggage. I just remember and i write about this in the book is how strange it was to see, first of all, not the diversity of people but its
We have blake burman at the white house. We begin with gerri willis. We finished with the s p at new record highs for first time in six months. Above the prepandemic highs. Think about that. That is the 14th record close this year. Turn to the nasdaq as well, also at a record high today, second Straight Record close for that index. The 34th record close this year. 174th record close since election day. Good news there. Market keeping an eye as you said on two big earnings reports today. One was walmart. Shares down after the nations largest employer reported eps of 31 cents a share, blowing out estimates samestoresales up 9. 9 . Online sales up 97 . Even so the stock is down. Dont know what it takes to get walmart up today. Home depot that stock up as well. Blowout Second Quarter with the sales up 23. 4 . Americans are remaking their homes as they are forced to live there, stay there, work there all the time. Finally weve been watching apple shares closely. They are higher today as the
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