and dupont has since morphed as well. what was left of dupont then merged with dow chemical and then split into three new companies, one of which is the new dupont which is very different from the dupont that existed during the time frame we're talking about. but you now have chemors suing dupont saying this was all a fraudulent transfer, the creation of chemors was a fraud. there are claims being pursued about that right now. so we'll see how that plays out in the court system. but all of that happened right about the time this was finally coming out into the public view. [applause] >> we want to thank you so much, really, for your talk and your dedication. we thank you very, very much. everyone, please, the yellow buckets outside, thank you for coming here and please help donate to keep this free. [inaudible conversations] >> we'll be back with more live from the savannah book festival in a but the minutes. in a few minutes. >>> author and white house correspondent april ryan will be our guest on "in depth" live at noon

and dupont has since morphed as well. what was left of dupont then merged with dow chemical and then split into three new companies, one of which is the new dupont which is very different from the dupont that existed during the time frame we're talking about. but you now have chemors suing dupont saying this was all a fraudulent transfer, the creation of chemors was a fraud. there are claims being pursued about that right now. so we'll see how that plays out in the court system. but all of that happened right about the time this was finally coming out into the public view. [applause] booktv continues now on c-span2, television for serious readers. [applause] >> thank you, hello to many friends in the audience and thanks to don't and calmly for making the trip down here to be with us tonight. "human diversity" is a big book and we don't have much time. my job is to give you an overview of the main findings of the bon

in'93, 27, 000 people went to work that day for dupont. today 4, 000. the we is what do you do about that? how do you deal with that? we had a lot of dupont employees who were let go, a lot of them had phds at the end of their name. and created amazing things that dupont was famous for. then they were without a job. we created this innovation space station on the campus of dupont and it's a whole new creation, great jobs. eda has played a very significant role in helping us to make sure that the innovation space is open for business, helping local entrepreneurs including some former duponters. start ups, small businesses got off the ground. down at the other end of our state at the southern end of our little state is a place called georgetown. it's the county seat of sussex county, delaware. sussex county is one of the largest counties in america. they raise more chickens than any county in america. they may raise more soybeans than any county in america. owens campus and they were fortunate enough to receive about $2 million from eda in a grant last ye

his rolether cementing as the architect of dupont past and future. he oversaw the merger with dow chemical and the subsequent split. dupont is in the middle of an efficiency drive. shares of intel side are soaring. appaloosa hedge fund has taken a stake in the company. they want more money for the proposal which involves giving up some of its airwaves. the company considered filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy over the matter. that is your business flash update. french train maker alstom has agreed to by the rail unit of the barnier 46 $.7 billion. this makes them the clear second and rail equipment behind chin'' s company. for more, we have miriam on the line. previouslyn alstom make an attempt to bulk up. they didn't because of antitrust concerns. how do we know this will go through? >> there is still a bit of a cloud in the deal, and it is down to antitrust. in this particular case, the parties are a lot more confident that this deal will get over the line, cleared by the commission, just because the overlapping areas that we are seeing with alstom a

there is the s&p up 23% dupont and hal i burton both down 28. totally different patterns one bottoming one making lows. they need a little love and right to love them. >> carter worth on dupont and hal i burton carter on "options action" in a couple of minutes. >> we love carter. >> i like the sweater today too exactly. the gap called jeff mills do you like either name. >> i'm with bk on the energy story every time i start to fall in love with energy i get heart broken it failed again in the beginning of the year. oil is structurally in the band where the commodity doesn't move higher on dupont i like more from a technical perspective because it looks oversold opinion and i could get behind the snap back up to 200-day moving average. >> good stuff, jeff. pot stocks surging thanks to canopy growth. is this a sign the worse worst might be over for the this sector and the energy sector, could it fuel a major rally we are breaking down what's going on in the long struggling space and whether or not it turns around watch us live anywhere on the go on

it's do you, it's dupont, and they put the agricultural businesses together and created that dupont has not performed well at all. the question becomes how much is unexpected concerns about liability. how much of it has been the lack of execution on the part of the ceo and cfo, both of whom have left ed breen coming back in as ceo, jim. >> what's important is the company did buy down three times. three times is not a charm if you're a guide down. i question whether mr. doyle gave the board an accurate read. i believe ed breen is like this is not a temporary ceo i think he wants a shot at fixing it. i know the sales were down, there was no lever am. i thi lever am if you own the stock they have china exposure they have nobody who has coronavirus who works in china exposure 13 facilities in china can't get them running at the speed you want i think this is good metaphor, running with a third of the people showing up. one of the reasons it's so hard to show up the chinese don't want you to leave your place and you have a lot of people working at home which is why zoom should continue to go

and we had a lot of dupont employees who were let go. a lot of them had ph.d.s at the end of their name and all of a sudden they were out of a job. we created a space on the campus of the experimental station of dupont, it's a whole new creation of jobs. and we're excited about that. eda has played a very significant role in helping us to make sure that the innovation space is open for business, helping local entrepreneurs, including some former duponters, launch their startups, get their small businesses off the ground. down at the other end of our state is a place called georgetown. it's the county seat of sussex county, delaware. they raise more chickens than any county in america. i think they may raise more soybeans than any other county in america. they'll be home of a technical community college, owens campus, they were fortunate to receive $2 million from eda in a grant last year. this grant supplemented -- my remarks here, they supplemented almost $1.5 million in local investments. what it did was leveraged from auto dealers, fr

we had a lot of dupont employees who were let go, a lot of them had ph.d. s at the end of their name and created amazing things that dupont was famous for. then they were without a job. we created this innovation space station on the campus of dupont and it's a whole new creation, great jobs. eda has played a very significant role in helping us to make sure that the innovation space is open for business, helping local entrepreneurs including some former duponters. start ups, small businesses got off the ground. down at the other end of our state at the southern end of our little state is a place called georgetown. county seat of sussex county, delaware. sussex county is one of the largest county in america. they raise more chickens than any county in america. they may rays more soybeans than any county in america. owens campus and they were fortunate enough to receive about $2 million from eda in a grant last year. this grant supplemented about 3 1/2 my remarks here this grant supplemented almost 3. 5 local investment. it leveraged. we got the money from ed

on the 20 year legal battle against dupont. dupont. at 1245. they recount the journey of 18 black men admitted into harvard in 1959. at 315 diaz on identity in a race into the experiences of growing up in puerto rico. michelle sullivan on leadership and philanthropy. the savannah book festival live starting saturday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. and we will be sure to watch the live coverage with the tucson festival of books. >> the un security council met in new york city to discuss a proposed plan. we will show you a portion of the meeting with the palestinian president in the u.s. ambassadors to the un. in the name of god your excellency foreign minister president of the security council secretary general your excellency's

dupont are building the midnight oil to improve the production of protective gear. seema mody is there. >> reporter: protective garment suits. here in richmond, dupont's largest manufacturing facility here is where it starts. the fabric is being rolled from here, sent to a warehouse and shipped to one of nine manufacturing facilities around the world. as factories in china return to full capacity, dupont says it's increasingly relying on its operations in vietnam to meet the demanding surge in china. >> we were able to, within one week, provide more than 30 times our traditional volume that we supply to china, more than 30 times within one week. >> kelly, there are a number of different protective garment suits, but dupont says this suit that is increasingly used in high-impact regions in china, specifically in wuhan, can cost anywhere between $5 and $15 and much more higher industrial hazmat suit can cost over $1,000. >> seema, it is loud as heck there. i can't imagine what it must sound like inside that factory, basically running at full capacity around the clock?

i just mentioned dupont. i'm not a fan because i don't like the commodities and there are some issues involving a verdict that could come up soon so take a pass there that is a form of pollution that does hurt ground water to lee vonn in new york. >> caller: how are you >> i'm good. how are you. >> caller: i'm good. first call and my question for you is about ericson communications because it is possibly a 5g turn around and -- >> well ericson is okay. my problems with ericson and nokia are these are companies swamped by -- crushed frankly by huawei and the western nations in europe don't seem to be interested in helping their own which is wrong susan in california. susan? >> caller: jimmy choo, thank you for searching for great advice. >> chill man is in the house what is up >> caller: i've been watching a fortune 500 science and technology lead got a contract with cdc and goes head and head with northrup and lockheed and just rose $11 today in the middle of a down -- it is named ldox. >> such a winner we ha

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dupont is in the midst of an efficiency drive. cut renault's to jump. firstt just posted its annual operating loss. that is your business flash update. zuckerberg calling for more regulation. after years of the facebook ceo lobbying against it, he is now pleading for new rules. for more, let's bring in sarah miller, executive director of the american economic liberties project. also, cochair of freedom from facebook, progressive groups who brought the idea of breaking up facebook into the mainstream. thank you for joining us do you put any stock when a tech ceo goes to government and says, please, more regulation? >> no. we have seen this before. we want to see basically government take what mark zuckerberg is saying and largely do the opposite. it is a roadmap for what we don't want to do. they are trying shape the narrative and lay the parameters. if you look at the white paper facebook put out a few days ago, it does not talk about antitrust or digital advertising. things, it tries to push they are already doing, enshrined into regulation, would actu

a shakeup at dupont. they have removed their ceo and finance chief. executive chairman ed greene will take over, for the summit will take over, further cementing his role as the architect at dupont. two pond is in the midst of an efficiency drive. california utility pg&e has taken a pretax charge for claims from deadly wildfires. the company says it is now on track to get a bankruptcy reorganization plan approved in june. if it gets the ok, pg&e can take advantage of funds that would protected from future wildfire liabilities. that is your latest bloomberg business flash. let's look at where u.s. markets stand. we've been losing ground as we progress through the morning, and that has increased in steam. the dow jones industrial average down 0.8%, the s&p down 0.6%, the nasdaq down 0.4%. dow chemical is the worst performer, down 2.6%. guy: over here in europe, hsbc taking a big chunk of change out of the ftse 100, also the stoxx 600. more broadly, what we are seeing is a risk off story feeding into the car sector, the mining sector, the banks as well.

i've spent a lot of time studying a couple companies, dupont and 3m and p fas. this is a huge issue can anyone else handle p fas besides clean harbors? >> we're well positioned, waiting for the regulatory framework to be formed so that we can really go out and help those customers with those forever chemicals that you're hearing about now that need to be properly disposed of. we've got the largest network of incinerators in north america, we've been expanding those facilities, added new capacity, put a brand new $130 million plant in down in eldarado, arkansas our environmental business is really strong right now and we anticipate it to be continuing to be strong throughout 2020. >> now, are you surprised at all, as i am, that even though the president is allegedly violently anti-regulation, your industry's regulation has only increase third-degree who increase ed this whole time? >> it really had, we're going to continue to see more business coming into our network as we see captive incinerators continue to wind down and the chemical industry to continue to gro

david: was it dupont? >> yes. david: you the sixth of eight children. >> yes. david: you have a children and you share a lot? >> yet to be very aggressive about getting your share. [laughter] david: he went to brown university and with the cocaptain of the rugby team. rugby is a tough sport. i assume that is not as tough as banking? >> there is nothing more powerful than to see if scrum and i was never in there because is not big enough. team but it is a fantastic teamwork game. i think that is consistent. all 15 players participate fully. david: ever break any bones? >> i got knocked out once by my own teammate which irritated me. i was getting ready to score any kick me in the head on the way to the goal. [laughter] david: you want to law school at notre dame. >> yes and i played rugby there as well. david: did you get more of us started notre dame or brown? >> i don't know. david: you want back to rhode island and practice law and you are a corporate lawyer? >> corporate security private equity deals. david: the highest calling. private equity. [laughter] >>

david: dupont? brian: yeah. david: you were six of eight children. i guess you share a lot. brian: you have to be aggressive getting your share. david: ok. you went to brown university. you're the cocaptain of the rugby team. brian: right. david: rugby is a tough sport. is banking tougher? brian: there is nothing more powerful, but i was never in there because i wasn't big enough. it is a fantastic teamwork game. all 15 players participate fully. david: ever break any bones? brian: i got knocked out once by my own teammate, which irritated me, because i was about to score. david: ok. you graduated and went to notre dame. brian: i played rugby there. david: where were you more of a star? brian: i don't know, but we had fun at notre dame. david: you went to rhode island to practice law. you were a corporate lawyer? brian: private equity deals. david: the highest calling of mankind, private equity. [laughter] brian: one of the reasons why i quit being a lawyer is i had worked with our private equity firm, fleet equity. i structured deals with them. that is what led me to work w

david: for dupont? brian: yeah. david: you were sixth of eight children. i guess you share a lot. brian: you have to be aggressive with stuff, at least getting your share. let's say that. david: ok. you went to brown university. and you were the cocaptain of the rugby team. brian: right. david: rugby is a tough sport. i assume that is not as tough as banking. or is banking tougher than rugby? brian: there is nothing more powerful to see one of those scrums push, but i was never in there and that was one of the rules are played on the team. it is a fantastic teamwork game. you want the game where all 15 players participate fully. david: ever break any bones? brian: i got knocked out once by my own teammate, which irritated me, because i was about to score. the guy kicked me in the head on the way to the goal. david: ok. you graduated and went to law school at notre dame. brian: correct. i played rugby there. david: where were you more of a star at notre dame or at brown? brian: i don't know, but we had fun at notre dame. david: you went to rhode island to practice law. you were a c

david: dupont? brian: yeah. david: you were six of eight children. i guess you share a lot. brian: you have to be aggressive getting her share. david: ok. you went to brown university. you're the cocaptain of the rugby team. brian: right. tough sport.is a his banking tougher? brian: there is nothing more powerful, but i was never in their because i wasn't big enough. it is a fantastic teamwork game. all 15 players participate fully. david: ever break any bones? brian: i got knocked out once by my own teammate, which aired tainted me, because i was about to score. david: ok. you graduated and went to notre dame. brian: i played rugby there. david: where were you more of a star? brian: i don't know, but we had fun it notre dame. david: you went to rhode island to practice law. you are a corporate lawyer? brian: private equity deals. david: the highest calling of mankind, private equity. [laughter] brian: one of the reasons why i quit being a lawyer is i had worked with our private equity firm, fleet equity. i structure deals with them. led me to work with him. david: it was an

dupont, mosaic mosaic a couple days ago referenced the supply chain disruptions and said an extended production down-time in china due to the coronavirus, that stock among others like dupont, freeport mcmaran and others down 2% to 3% >>> now it's time to get to the cme. rick santelli has "the santelli exchange." hey, rick. >> good morning, jon before i start, i want to make sure, okay, 1.33 in 10s. we were close to 1.30 at point this is a 50-year chart going back to 1970 on 10-year note interest rates you can see it's a very unusual chart. i did that for a reason. we had a lot of volatility prior to the crash in '87, and we made a high right around 16%. we came back and made another high around 14%. basically after the crash, the reason i drew it like this, we basically went down a nice angle, consistently, until we came to july of 2012 and july of 2016 okay now we were talking a lot about this one because this was right around 1.35 plus arguably it's a double bottom. this was higher at 1.38. for double bottoms or tops, as long as they're close. i drew this because we may indeed exte

and the way i started off with , and i come from the corporate state of america, dupont, delaware. it used to be the eighth largest corporation in the world. it no longer is. but the point is we reduce the corporate tax to 21%. i raise it back to 28% and i think we could get republicans to support that, as well. that raises $740 billion over 10 years. raises $740 billion over 10 years. i have a $1.3 trillion infrastructure plan that breaks out in a whole bunch of ways. there are a number of corporations that are not paying any tax at all. there should be a minimum 15%. when they report earnings to wall street to keep their stock up, whatever that number is, they have to pay 15% of that, no matter what exemptions they have. a 21%y are paying corporate tax rate across the board, they don't have to pay that. but a minimum 15% is another $420 billion. i know you are looking at me like how will bite in make -- b iden make that happen? republican voters are going, wait a minute, you have this $1.9 trillion tax cut that did not help me a hell of a lot if i am not the top couple percent. a

david: dupont? brian: yeah. david: you were six of eight children. i guess you share a lot. brian: you have to be aggressive getting your share. let's say that. david: ok. you went to brown university. you were the cocaptain of the rugby team. it is a tough sport. i assume that is not as tough as banking. brian: there is nothing more powerful but i was never in their and that was one of the rules are played on the team. it is a fantastic teamwork game. were all 15 game players participate fully. david: ever break any bones? brian: i got knocked out once by my own teammate, which irritated me, because i was about to score. i got kicked in the head on the way to the goal. david: ok. you graduated and went to notre dame. brian: i played rugby there. david: where were you more of a star? at notre dame for at brown? brian: i don't know, but we had fun at notre dame. david: you went to rhode island to practice law. you were a corporate lawyer? brian: corporate securities, m&a, private equity deals. david: the highest calling of mankind, private equity. worked with our private equi

david: dupont? brian: yeah. david: you were six of eight children. i guess you share a lot. brian: you have to be aggressive getting your share. let's say that. david: ok. you went to brown university. you were the cocaptain of the rugby team. it is a tough sport. i assume that is not as tough as banking. brian: there is nothing more powerful but i was never in their and that was one of the rules are played on the team. it is a fantastic teamwork game. you want the game were all 15 players participate fully. david: ever break any bones? brian: i got knocked out once by my own teammate, which irritated me, because i was about to score. i got kicked in the head on the way to the goal. david: ok. you graduated and went to notre dame. brian: i played rugby there. david: where were you more of a star? at notre dame for at brown? brian: i don't know, but we had fun at notre dame. david: you went to rhode island to practice law. you were a corporate lawyer? brian: corporate securities, m&a, private equity deals. david: the highest calling of mankind, private equity. [laughter] bria

environmental lawyer on his 20-year legal battle against dupont. at 12:45, kent garrett and gene elsworth recounts the journey of black men admitted into harvard. and he hed larson on the partnership between benjamin franklin and george washington. identity and race and here experiences growing up in puerto rico. at 4:30 p.m., michelle sullivan on leadership and philanthropy. the savannah book festival live starting saturday at 9 a.m. eastern. and be sure to watch our live coverage of the tucson festival of books next month on book tv on c-span2. >> sunday, at 9 p.m. eastern on after words, sally pipes makes the argument against medicare for all in her latest book "false premise, false promise", just in december there were over 4 million brits on a waiting list to get treatment and the cancer treatment is not supposed to be delayed from seeing a general practitioner to general treatment more than 62 days. they haven't met the u.k. that standard for over five years and more important, under the world health organization study, brits are the bottom o

david: dupont? brian: yeah. david: you were six of eight children. i guess you share a lot. brian: you have to be aggressive getting your share. let's say that. david: ok. you went to brown university. you were the cocaptain of the rugby team. it is a tough sport. i assume that is not as tough as banking. brian: there is nothing more powerful but i was never in there and that was one of the roles are played on the team. it is a fantastic teamwork game. you want the game were all 15 players participate fully. david: ever break any bones? brian: i got knocked out once by my own teammate, which irritated me, because i was about to score. i got kicked in the head on the way to the goal. david: ok. you graduated and went to notre dame. brian: i played rugby there. david: where were you more of a star? at notre dame for at brown? brian: i don't know, but we had fun at notre dame. david: you went to rhode island to practice law. you were a corporate lawyer? brian: corporate securities, m&a, private equity deals. david: the highest calling of mankind, private equity. [laughter] bria

david: for dupont? brian: yeah. david: you were six of eight children. i guess you share a lot. brian: you have to be aggressive getting your share. let's say that. david: ok. you went to brown university. and you were the cocaptain of the rugby team. brian: right. david: rugby is a tough sport. i assume that is not as tough as banking. or is banking tougher than rugby? brian: there is nothing more powerful but i was never in there and that was one of the rules are played on the team. it is a fantastic teamwork game. you want the game where all 15 players participate fully. david: ever break any bones? brian: i got knocked out once by my own teammate, which irritated me, because i was about to score. i got kicked in the head on the way to the goal. david: ok. you graduated and went to law school at notre dame. brian: i played rugby there. david: where were you more of a star at notre dame or at brown? brian: i don't know, but we had fun at notre dame. david: you went to rhode island to practice law. you were a corporate lawyer? brian: corporate securities, m&a, private equity de

for dupont? you are the sixth of eight children. forth.re a lot and so >> you have to be very aggressive with stuff, getting your share. university to brown and you were the cocaptain of the rugby team. rugby is a tough sport. i assume that is not as tough as banking, or is rugby tougher? >> i was never in there, because i was not big enough but it is a fantastic teamwork game. you want teamwork, all 15 players participate fully. bones?you ever break any brian: i got knocked out once by my own teammate, which irritated me, because i was about to score. i got kicked in the head on the way to the goal. david: ok. you graduated and went to law school at notre dame. brian: i played rugby there. david: where were you more of a star at notre dame or at brown? brian: i don't know, but we had fun at notre dame. david: you went to rhode island to practice law. you were a corporate lawyer? brian: corporate securities, m&a, private equity deals. david: the highest calling of mankind, private equity. [laughter] brian: one of the reasons why i q

11:30 environmental lawyer robert balot on his 20-year legal battle against dupont. 1:45, kent and gene recount the journey of 18 black men admitted into harvard in 1989. at 2:00, edward larson on the partnership between george washington and benjamin franklin. at 3:15, author diaz on identity and race and her experiences growing up in puerto rico. at 4:30, caterpillar foundation president michelle sullivan on leadership and philanthropy. live starting saturday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. and be sureo watch our live coverage of the tucson festival of books next month on book tv on c-span 2. >> hawaii's democratic governor david ige delivered his state of the state address in honolulu and discussed reducing homelessness, investing in infrastructure and combatting climate change. courtesy of the hawaii state legislature, this is 45 minutes. >> mr. speaker, president kouchi, former governors, distinguished justices of the courts, representatives of our congressional delegation, members of the hawaii state legislature, elected officials, military leaders, honored guests, and all of you who took t

david: for dupont? brian: yeah. david: you were sixth of eight children. and eight children -- i guess you share a lot. brian: you have to be aggressive with stuff, at least getting your share. let's say that. david: ok. so you went to brown university. and you were the cocaptain of the rugby team. brian: right. david: rugby is a tough sport. i assume that is not as tough as banking. or is banking tougher than rugby? brian: there is nothing more powerful to see one of those scrums push, but i was never in there because i was not big enough to direct that, which is one of the goals i played on the team. it is a fantastic teamwork game. you want the game where all 15 players participate fully. it is a different kind of game. david: ever break any bones? brian: i got knocked out once by my own teammate, which irritated me, because i was about to score. the guy kicked me in the head on the way to the goal. david: ok. so you graduated and went to law school at notre dame. brian: correct. i played rugby there. david: you played rugby there too. were you more of

david: for dupont? brian: yeah. david: you were sixth of eight children. i guess you share a lot. brian: you have to be aggressive with stuff, at least getting your share. let's say that. david: ok. you went to brown university. and you were the cocaptain of the rugby team. brian: right. david: rugby is a tough sport. i assume that is not as tough as banking. or is banking tougher than rugby? brian: there is nothing more powerful to see one of those scrums push, but i was never in there and that was one of the rules i played on the team. it is a fantastic teamwork game. you want the game where all 15 players participate fully. david: ever break any bones? brian: i got knocked out once by my own teammate, which irritated me, because i was about to score. the guy kicked me in the head on the way to the goal. david: ok. you graduated and went to law school at notre dame. brian: correct. i played rugby there. david: where were you more of a star at notre dame or at brown? brian: i don't know, but we had fun at notre dame. david: you went to rhode island to practice law. you were a cor

environmental lawyer robert the loft on his 20 year legal battle against dupont. 12:45, the journey of 18 black men admitted into harvard in 1959. at 2:00 p.m., edward larson on the partnership between george washington and benjamin franklin. at 3:15, the identity and race. and the experiences growing up in puerto rico. caterpillar, foundation president michel suleiman on leadership and philanthropy. liveavannah book festival, starting saturday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. watch our live coverage of the tucson festival of books next month on book tv on c-span2. senator elizabeth warren took her presidential campaign to arlington, virginia thursday. she held a town hall meeting, where she talked about the economy, campaign-finance law, and the green new deal. ♪ so here we are, virginia. the primaries have really started. states,heard from two we have 55 states and territories ready to go. [applause] are super tuesday state, and that means the road to the white house runs right through virginia. [applause] >> so i'm here today to ask you two things. to first one is to ask you get in this figh

women in space, and at 11:30 environmental lawyer robert balot on his 20-year legal battle against dupont. 1:45, kent and gene recount the journey of 18 black men admitted into harvard in 1989. at 2:00, edward larson on the partnership between george washington and benjamin franklin. at 3:15, author diaz on identity and race and her experiences growing up in puerto rico. at 4:30, caterpillar foundation president michelle sullivan on leadership and philanthropy. live starting saturday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. and be sureo watch our live coverage of the tucson festival of books next month on book tv on c-span 2. >> hawaii's democratic governor david ige delivered his state of the state address in honolulu and discussed reducing homelessness, investing in infrastructure and combatt

dupont. at 12:45 p.m. they recounted the journey of 18 black men admitted to harvard in 1859. her experiences growing up in puerto rico. on leadership and philanthropy. live starting saturday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. and watch our live coverage of the tucson festival of books next month on book tv. i will start with that right now. welcome kevin foul today the federal reserve chairman will update the committee on monetary policy developments and the state of the u.s. economy. it continues to expand in 200019 exceeding 2% growth for the third straight year. as the american people enjoy the longest economic expansion and history. the labor market is strong.rd with the unemployment rate at 3.6% remaining near half century low. wages also grew in january by 3.1 percent from a year earlier. making it 18 consecutive months that pay has grown. according to gallup trends. nearly six in ten americans are 59% now say they are better off financially than they were a year ago up from 50% last year. that reform in 2017 and rightsizing regulations including under the economic growth and regula

chronicles 20 year legal battle with dupont which was the basis dark waters and it's all day live coverage from the savanna book festival and first office roberts wilson. his biography of barnum. this is live coverage of the savanna book festival. [background sounds]. >> good morning fellow bookrs

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at that time, he was working in tennessee for a dupont company. every time anybody was sick, he would always bring up the story about how he got sick while he was in tennessee and how a lot of people from the village that had gone were brought back sick. they were brought back in a train. he said some of them had passed away in tennessee. in 1918, my mother was just 11 years old, but she remembers the lift on the south side of the village. she remembers that church bell would ring every day. there is a certain bell for the death. she said she remembers as a little girl how awful it sounded. [bell tolls] narrator: in 1918, as now, most people didn't think of influenza as a disease that could lead to death. we suffered through the flu season every winter. in the u.s., the flu season usually peaks between january and the end of march. >> the symptoms of a cold are usually running nose, sometimes low-grade fever and just feeling a little wiped out. influenza on the other hand is much more pronounced than that. people will generally have a high grade f

i worked at dupont for five years, great educationally and financially. but the task really was to hand out sugar. sweet statements that sometimes covered up the truth. that's not good journalism and sometimes people are forgetting the divide between good journalism going out and really trying to honestly report what is going on without doing it in a way designed to popularize, publicize, particular group or organization or individual. and sugar isn't very helpful either. just gives us sugar fixes. cover up the truth. no journalism. we try be salt. salt adds taste, also preservative. that's our goal and that makes us unpopular in certain quarter, including sometimes certain conservative quarters because number three, we try to avoid entangling alliances. we can be salt not sugar because we don't have to scratch the backs of other organizations even when they're scratch ours. world -- yes, i am i hope a christian first, conservative second but i am a conservative. world largely can be the same way but not part of the conservative movement. we're not part o

guest: economy wise, other than pete dupont was allegedly the guy who built the wmur-tv studios in manchester because he spent so much money in the day requests really a lot. economy wise, even with 11 serious candidates, they spend some time here, spend some time in iowa. i haven't seen a recent dollar figure on how much that is. i'm sure the state would say it's worth eight zillion dollars. it's a point of pride for the people. the local public radio station in new hampshire did a podcast this year called stranglehold. it's a sears -- it's about the new hampshire presidential primary. all people who listen to that station, what are they getting for their buck? i listened to two episodes and stopped listening because i was no longer interested. it's long, for one thing. maybe they said some good things about it. they unveiled the dixville notch, one of the first towns to vote. doesn't have a lot of people in it. they have to find people to have enough to vote for it. this time they got a fifth guy to come in and register. he happens to own the mothballed hotel. he's trying to revive the plac

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joseph: you know, economy-wise, other than -- pete dupont was allegedly the guy who built the wmur tv studios in manchester because he spent so much money in the day, was really a lot. but economy-wise, even with 11 serious candidates, they spend some time here, they spend some time in iowa. i have not seen a recent dollar figure on how much that is. i am sure the state would say it is worth $8 billion. but it is a point of pride for the people. the local public radio station in new hampshire did a podcast this year called "stranglehold." and it is a series extensively -- it is about the new hampshire presidential primary. but it is very negative about the primary, and i am wondering, all the people in new hampshire who support and listen to that station, what are they getting for their buck? it was astonishing to me. i listened to two episodes and stopped listening because i was no longer interested. it is long for one thing. maybe they said some good things about it. they unveiled the dixville lodge, one of the first towns to vote, really does not have a lot of people in it, and the

associated press and washington times and i worked the other side of the bus for a long shot named governor dupont from delaware, for a long time i dealt with you guys on that so i wasn't very successful i guess but anyway, my question is in today's world with the focus and use of the term fake news and at first, how do you think the media are dealing with that and what would you advise the media to do to deal with that? >> i think we have to do our job , frankly and there are people in the journalism world who can take on the forums and seminars and tv, the concept but we've got to make sure we don't fall into the traps and start doing things to cater to that or to opposethat . i think most people in this room have a pretty good sense of what makes good journalism. and when political candidates for their own purposes do what the president has done. you can really not counter except by your job the right way. >> is a piece of video that might illustrate my point, i think. every few weeks or however often it is that the president goes off to one of these shows area. >> i have been able to find, the

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insecurity the stocks both trading up he said we den mean our own expectations since june of last year after dupont completed that complicated merger with dow chemical and then split into three separate companies ceo mark doyle was at the helm for less than a year that stock is reacting favorably, up almost 1%. >>> robert frank has the details for us bloomberg made his portion from selling data on wall street. now he's proposing a tax on every trade. and a tax of $4.20 similar to a tax opposed by alexandria ocasio cortez elizabeth warren, "the boston globe" and bernie sanders hav r have -- over ten year, so that's only about a 2% increase in federal revenue. that compares to the $5 trillion that bloomberg's overall tax plan would seek to raise is the bulk of this tax would be maid by the wealthy, saying two thirds would be paid by the top 10% of earners the chaim better of commerce says this is a regressive tax on main street retirement and savings guys, back to you. >> robert, we discussed this earlier, the financial transactions tax, it grabs the headlines as someone who is so linked to the wall

brooke: products depend on components from 3m, dow, dupont, already getting hit by the trade war. this compounds that. what i am worried about is you can have the slow down in manufacturing and not see the consumer sector get infected. if you have a slowdown in the consumer economy, it is inevitable you would get industrials dragged down. becomeoes all of this deflationary at some point? michael: it could because the price will go up. could it be inflationary fast enough that the fed worry about cutting rates? probably not. it is probably not an issue at the moment. alix: it does wind up corporate profit margins would get even more hammered. brooke: it depends on the product. 3m sells facemasks. other products, if you cannot get the parts to make them, it does not matter what you would want to sell them for because you do not have anything to sell. you could see costs to the profit margins. there has already been costs of companies -- talk of companies looking to ruth ok'd to taiwan -- companies looking to relocate to taiwan or vietnam. obviously there is a cost of that. alix: bro

environmental lawyer robert the loft on his 20 year legal battle against dupont. 12:45, the journey of 18 black men admitted into harvard in 1959. at 2:00 p.m., edward larson on the partnership between george washington and benjamin franklin. at 3:15, the identity and race. and the experiences growing up in puerto rico. caterpillar, foundation president michel suleiman on leadership and philanthropy. liveavannah book festival, starting saturday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. watch our live coverage of the tucson festival of books next month on book tv on c-span2.