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For the imf meetings but lets get a check on the markets as investors digested the data out of china earnings will be coming through in europe. We struggle a little bit and stoxx 600. Cable is coming off a fivemonth high. A lot of concern going into this weekend and what parliament will vote on in terms of the brexit deal. We are talking about potential rate hikes. Coming up, we hear from the Vice President of the european atmission that 1130 time 11 30 a. M. London time. And still to come, we speak to bank of England Governor Mark carney at 5 30 p. M. London time. Definitely not want to miss....

Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber. And Today Is The Day actress Stormy Daniels taking the stand against donald trump in the trial today. Shes the key witness. So prosecutors had an important goal here today, showing the jury that shes believable, that shes telling the truth, that the facts are on her side. And while defendant trump is not on trial for lying about the underlying encounter. That itself would not be a crime and is not charged, they want to use the d. A. , this testimony to show this was the first of many lies by trump, trump of which if prosecuted are crimes. This is her chance ...

Of white sufficient rah gists and often made the point they did not recognize the way race had created a distinct set of obstacles for black women. And i think somebody in our debate made exactly that point in our discussion. Were going to talk about that in a couple of weeks. Now i want to talk about jacobs herself. The narrative that she composed. I think as you know she wrote that narrative under the name linda brent. She also changed the names of other people that were also in that account. She was born not as linda brent but as Harriet Jacobs in edenton, North Carolina in 1813. Her parent...

To go back against her moral and religious principles to avoid being abused by him and she went and had relations with the other man, mr. Sands. Mr. Sands, right. So yeah. There was the sexual abuse that really threatened her religious principles. So shes trying to kind of balance or deal with this issue of theres sort of the whole question of the morality, the christianity thats connected to it, and this constant threat that shes facing in terms of sexual abuse and how shes going to manage that. So she says, just to kind of refer you to a couple of places, shes sort of very conscious that she...

To whom maybe an important qualifier for this panel. What does it mean to be a bad president . What counts as bad and how do we define a bad president . Specifically, who might have been the worst president ever . Our panelists are david greenberg, are you full position now . Oh, associate professor. Just a little bit inside baseball, sorry guys. Associate professor of history and journalism and immediate study at news brunswick. Hes the author of books of nixon and most recently of a wonderful book of the public of spin. Again, a kind moment, good work, david. This is a history of the white h...