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Writes about his military career and offers his thoughts on leadership in the memoir, called sign chaos. [inaudible conversations] i run the International Security program here and it is an honor and a privilege to introduce jim scuitto, who of course many of you know is the chief National Security correspondent and also cnn anchor and the author of this new book inside russia and china secret operations to defeat d america. The book was extracted in various forms in the atlantic and f also the wall street journal and its had a lot of goodad critical success. Jim you may not know was also the ...

Many of you know is the chief National Security correspondent and cnn anchor and the author of the new book shadow war inside russia is operations to defeat america. The book was extracted in various forms in the atlantic and most of the wall street journal. And its had a lot of good critical success. You may not know jim was also the chief of staff at the u. S. Embassy in china. Hes a graduate of the university in washington with his wife and former journalist for abc news and they have three children and he is reported hed around the world in asia and europe and the middle east and made some...

Constructive. It needs funds to help reduce a crippling total debt of 130 billion. The streets of hong kong, demonstrators clashing with police for a 16th consecutive weekend. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. Seeing u. S. Futures gaining ground,. 5 . This after the s p 500 lost ground on friday. We have seen stocks higher throughout the session. The we got reports that chinese delegation in the u. S. Had canceled their visit to u. S. Farms. That led markets lower. We had trade sensitive stocks, like consumer stocks and tech, leading the declines. The nasdaq fell the most...

Weakest number in 17 years. This is below that number. Retail sales also weaker than expected. The expectation was for 7. 9. You are looking at 7. 5 year on year for august. Again, below the july number as well. In terms of fixed asset investment, we are focused on the private sector and estate sector, also missing the surveys. 5. 5 . The survey had 5. 7 . So this is pretty weak data. In terms of retail data, we have seen month on month auto sales for example, a big component and retail sales, falling almost double digits. In terms of Industrial Production you have seen the impact of tariffs, ...

To enable them to buy iranian oil. Those waivers went away. Those countries had to diversify. Those waivers might be given. That could be a potential rollback but not a full rollback. Nick inets turn to washington. How likely is it the president might be changing his position on iran . Is whate big question the president s position was in the first place. He has always wanted a meeting with the iranian president because that plays into his brand of personal diplomacy and believing inserting himself into these negotiations and looking a foreign leader in the eye can produce breakthroughs. What ...