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First, lets check in with mandy at the new york Stock Exchange. Hi there, tyler. Hello, everybody. We have a selloff here on the street. The dow is back in correction territory although we are off the very worst levels of the day. The dow is down by about 284 points. Now its down by 235. S p down by 24 and the nasdaq off by 48. I have bob pisani on the floor of the Stock Exchange to explain what is going on. I guess maybe for one day weve got a reprieve where we can stop obsessing what the fed i...

Ben bernanke will be overseas. Taking us overseas to the investigation of what brought down a russian charter jet and now its looking like a bomb may have been the cause. We have the details on that story in just a bit but before that well go over to michelle with a round up of the days top business headlines. Thank you. Expedia is buying home away for 3. 9 billion in cash and stock. This is the largest acquisition and come ace year after they bought orbitz. It values the socalled alternative lo...

History of the black panther party, and groundwork local black history struggles in america. Dr. Morris is a board member of women have options, ohios statewide Abortion Fund and has worked with the Fanny Lou Hamer National Institute on citizenship and democracy at Jackson State University since 2005. Dr. Tiyi morris. Jon hale is assistant professor of history in South Carolina. His research focuses on the history of student and teacher activism, grass roots Educational Programs and segregated h...

Paul. And that is on the Violent Crime side, we tend to have a lower crime rate than a lot of other states while at the same time keeping our incarceration rate lower by using more probation and using more treatment options. So thats why im a fan of the work thats been done here. And my first question is really along those lines of drug courts. Ive led some. Efforts here on drug courts and getting funding for drug courts carrying on the work of many that came before me, including ted kennedy and...

Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the...

The tone of the 2016 campaign. What is your view in the way the candidates are engaging with each other. Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. If not by phone, you can weigh in on social media. Cspanwj twitter. Com cspanwj. Journal cspan. Org. Ben carson sidestepping a clash with donald trump. A story out of South Carolina. Ben carson is quoted this way soundedomething that like i was questioning his face. I was not. I was talking about mine. It was said in...

Forward, but also to people who were convicted and sentenced under old laws. Inmate sentences under the old mandatory minimums can ask a judge to sentence them in accordance with the new mandatory minimums. But a prosecutor gets to weigh in also. And the inmate will only get a lower sentence if the judge agrees it is appropriate after the judge has considered factors like the inmates danger to the community. But others have raised concerns about the department of justice going to stand idly by a...

Is that something the president thinks he can get done in his time in office . Josh earnest it took us more than five years to negotiate this ttp agreement. It was worth the effort and investment. It does ultimately allow u. S. Inds and services to be sold one of the most economically dynamic regions of the world. That is a good thing for american businesses and for american middleclass families. Negotiations are not quite anadvanced, but if there is opportunity for us, based on our consultation...

Cspans landmark cases series continues next monday. Scott was enslaved by dr. John emerson. Scottemerson died, mr. Tried unsuccessfully to in freedom for himself and his family because he lived in illinois territory for four years where slavery would be legal. Will it back at the scott versus sandford case. That is live next monday at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan3 you can learn more about our landmark cases series which explores the human stories and constitutional dramas behind some of th...

Senatorgrassley whitehouse. Whitehouse let me thank you for your chairmanship of this process. You brought very distinctive use of your own, and youve facilitated all of us coming together in making this happen. I also want to mention, although he is not here today, the graham brought Magic Springs is a military prosecutor. Thanks to both of them. The department of justice as we work through complicated issues. Anator feinstein asked question about making sure when , the unitedas made states att...