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. >> from san diego 24-year-old captain john sweeney shipped out with the first fattbattalion.e just didn't know where he was headed. >> beyond the seas were the orders we received. we didn't know at that time how we were going to be used. we were called a mobile reserve for a larger force. >> unlike sweden, 24-year-old sergeant mitch page already knew the enemy from his time in china. >> many of them were mongolians and many were over 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds. they would run bayonets through you and shoot you. i wanted to be honest. i wanted to share everything i knew or heard about or saw in >> john sweeney and mitch page found themselves attached to a hastily created new marine division under general major arch. a virginiain' with a liquid drawl was given the orders. >> he was given high marks for what he did and how he did it. >> how much time does the first ma marine division have? >> one of the things about guadalcanal, the order is listed on the fourth of july, the land is on the 7th of august. that's five weeks to land, plan, coordinate. it's absolutely astonishi

what do folks who responded to john sweeney's survey indicates. they indicated two-thirds of them were going to put money into u.s. stocks. mr. sweeney, let me ask you, do you see what brian sees in your complex there at fidelity, namely that people are still underweight u.s. stocks compared with what they ought to be, and is that behavior changing? is the flow of funds more into equities so far this year or not? >> it is, tyler. we're seeing more flows into equities this year which is a good trend. obviously, we've seen a cycle over the last four years, and that's really rocking the boat. and what we need to do is get people back to the middle. think about a diversifiy eied portfolio, we'll see people continue to buy as the population ages. we need to keep inflation in mind. equities are the only place that is really going to outpace inflation over long periods of time. and people investing in whether it's for accumulation or even income distribution, you need to be thinking about inflation when they think about their allocation to equities. >> br

will now to a man who knows all about putin's plans, john sweeney is an investigative reporter, the daughter of killer in the kremlin about hooton's regime. thank you very much for joining us, john. how did put in get to this position that he is in now of having the whip hand not only over russia, but of europe to because of 2 things. one western timidity in the 2nd western greed for a long time. the west people on politicians in germany in brooklyn, the united states, catalyse looking the other way when vladimir putin murdered people. he's a serial killer in my view, and the west kept on looking your way and letting him get away with murder after murder, the murder, because we liked cheap russian oil and gas. the city of london likes dark russian money and created a kind of fog machine. so this money could be hit and nobody knows who the, who the true owners of this russian dollar money is, where it, where it actually is. and germany, in particular like cheap oil and gas, and one of the, one of the dark ironies of the war so far as much money that the west is given to ukraine to help ukrain

we'll speak with fidelity head of retirement and investment strategies john sweeney. >> hospital sticker shock. why do hospitals across the country charge vastly different prices for the very same procedure? >> on the front lines. we'll take you inside the computer lab where a cyber war is being waged against sophisticated hackers in order to protect businesses and you. we have all that and more tonight on "nightly business report" for wednesday, may 8th. good evening, everyone. tyler and i overheard some not other day will the stock market ever go down? it sure doesn't look like it. >> it never will. >> it absolutely will. we just don't know exactly when. it does seem like right now like nothing can stop wall street's bulls from pushing this market higher. in today's sessions, gains were modest, but they were enough to send the dow and the s&p 500 once again to fresh all-time closing highs. the dow was up 49 points today and the record there, 15,105 and the s&p was up by six points and helped by encouraging data on housing and on another round of strong, corporate earnings and more on t

john sweeney hopes a renewed focus on independence will get it back on track.ck, bbc news, edinburgh. christian: the good news for richey soon act today was that inflation has reachedhe 2% target set out by the bank of england but if that was the good news, it was quickly superseded by news that a police constable serving in his close protection team has been arrested for placing bets over the timing of the general election. the metropolitan police said the officer was taken into custody on monday in connection with an allegation of misconduct in a public office. he has since been bailed pending further inquiries. we will get more on that very shortly. in 2018, donald trump went to singapore to meet the leader he dubbed the little rocket man. in the months preceding that visit, the rhetoric with north korea had been ramped up to such an extent that the american base in guam was being put on high alert but the summit in singapore brought about a rep #. -- rapprochement. there was almost a rreal atmosphere in which the american side projected this idea that north

in 2007, i was appointed by john sweeney to serve up linda chavez thompson's term when she decided totep down from her position. i served in that position. it was in 2009 32013 that i served alongside rich trumka as his executive vice president. during that period of time history was made because so many things are happening in the country, particularly the electionf back obama. we were pushing fo that. burich trua understood you couldot be silent. you could not be silent when it came to race. and his boldness and he stepped out and he spoke to a convention in 2008 and put it all on the line a said if you are not willing to vote for this man who certainly has supported workers rights and everything we believe in, it can only be chalked up to racism. the boldness, the willingness to speak tru to power the matter where was, and speak truth to our union. the other piece of this that's important is that rich understood the diversity of the labor movement had to be reflected and muste reflective of our membership. women and ung people and people of color. also when the team was liz schumer

. >> john sweeney was there commanding his own rifle company right alongside red mike on bloody ridge that september 13th. by some accounts they were outnumbered 6-1. >> henderson field is located in the area just behind where the artillery was established for this particular action. about a thousand yards from this spot. on this night some 600 marine raiders and 300 pair troa troop defended this particular portion of the airfield. >> cam guc one gets lost in the jungle. the other two flounder around and the combat is pretty fleeting that night, although it's bad enough to drive back the initial marine line. >> i can visualize going through it. i think one of the fears that i had was the darkness falling, knowing that something was going to happen right after dark. >> it's incredibly steep to go up that ridge. it's like your face is almost facing right into the ground your head is bent over so far. >> it was hell. flares flying overhead in order to illuminate the target. >> during the two-day battle the handler to hand-come want was as fierce as any they had ever seen. >> the troops w

there success or failures or john sweeney's record? orfailures orjohn john sweeney's record? there success or failures orjohn swinney �*s? of course i am part and parcel of the snp. i've been part and parcel of the snp for over a0 years and it's been my privilege to be in government. i've had what i didn't quite think was going to be a sabbatical year, but it's turned out to be a sabbatical year and i'm now back in office as first minister of scotland, but i'm crucially wanting to build on the record of the snp government because i think the record of the snp government is a strong record where, for example, we have transformed the availability of early learning and childcare in scotland. we are in it since we came to office, that's doubled. so for families in scotland, they are saving over five and a half thousand pounds a year because the snp government has put in place 140 hours of early learning and childcare. the basic proposition in the whole of the united kingdom. so we're going to come to your record in a second in government,

john sweeney is the executive vice president of fidelity. john, i remember going into the recession five years ago, we americans, we weren't afraid of personal debt. we had a negative savings rate in this country! and i know that has, in fact, changed. - you know, it is interesting to see investors changing behavior 5 years later. when we surveyed investors, we found 58% of people actually felt more confident today than they did going into the downturn. and they have changed their behavior around spending and savings patterns, which is a very positive outcome. - so is this be reflected in the all-time highs on wall street right now? - i think that certainly the recovery of the stock market has helped to increase investor confidence. but more importantly, when we look at the behaviors that investors are able to control, when they look at their own personal economy, they can control savings and they can control their spending. so what we see is half the people we surveyed actually increased their savings rates, and 42% of the people we talked t

john sweeney has been looking at some of the footage. a warning that you may find some of these images distressing. john: imagine if your local hospital looks like this. no water, no time to clean up the blood and where the living lie cheek by jowel with the dead. this is aleppo under siege in an underground hospital. the war in syria gets more pitiless by the day. the bombing is relentless. blasts from a bomb caused concrete to fall on the hospital's intensive care unit and knocked out as oxygen generator. on sunday, cluster bombs blasted free aleppo. the hospital had 180 patients, 10 of whom died. on monday, 27 patients died, seven children. we can't check those numbers, but these images are not make-believe. this is brain surgery carried out on the floor because all the other beds in intensive care have been taken. >> a cluster bomb fires all ball bearings in all directions. one ended up here in this little boy's spine. a second came to the back of his voice's head to end up behind his nose. so, what are we looking at? andorks at the b

he cut his teeth in labor organizing at the feet of john sweeney when john sweeney was the head of the service employees international union. it was with john sweeney's blessing that ron bloom went on to harvard business school. their intention was that he should insinuate himself in the business world, understand how their antagonistic enemies work and go back into the labor union and use what he knew to shake down and to make them bend to their will, and that's what he has done over the last several decades. glenn: i think what president obama and his team misunderstand is this is not about the democrats or obama. this is about the democrats and the republicans knowing, knowing in their gut that big labor is not the answer. this is actually from a new book that comes out at the end of this month. that's me, the book czar! buy the book, he commands you to! he commands you! we made this book so you can give it to your kids and your grandkids to understand what is going on and make it entertaining, because quite honestly, i'm riddled with a.d.d. but here is obama as spider-man. these ar

john sweeney is executive vice president of planning and advisory services with fidelity investments. john, certainly this is a big threat for all investors, all income earners, how big is it for long-term investors? >> thanks, tom. a lot of our investors are asking us for help, trying to navigate the tacks tax landscape. and people are asking how they might adjust their portfolios. a couple of things to keep in perspective. when you think about constructing your portfolio, you want to be focused on your long-term goals. if retirement several years away, you want to make sure you have enough earnings power to outpace inflation. equities are going to play a large role in anyone's portfolio. for folks in retirement, they're obviously concerned about income in their portfolios. so we've seen a tremendous shift into fixed income over the last several years. but as people lost sight of the ability for equities to outpace the earnings power of fixed income, and we've seen that a trillion dollars has flown into bond funds, but a lot of the investors have missed out since the lows of '09. >>

john sweeney from fidelity investments, planning and advisory services is here to offer only insight on that. welcome back. >> thanks for having me, sue. >> let's start with who are you are hearing from. >> so we heard from three different kinds of investors. the nervous investor and bold investors. on monday, people were concerned about the information coming out of shea, concerned about oil and the impact on the federal reserve. people were looking for information. the nervous investors, very few of them, said maybe it's time to take some profits off the table. the vast majority were confident and the people who had plans, retirement plan, plans for college, and understood the roles of asset allocation in the portfolios, they were confident and the very bold, they stepped in and they bought on the dips and they took advantage of the low prices. >> what about those who might not have a plan because markets like this and volatility like this certainly rings home the fact that you don't have a plan and the market basically is controlling what you do. >> well, it's interesting. like a

>> john, j. sweeney. as a champion for the american worker, john j. sweeney has strengthened our families, our economy and our country. the son of irish immigrant his worked his way up in the labor movement, serving as president of the service employees international union and president of the american federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations, all the while reaffirming our nation's commitment to rewarding the enduring values of hard work and responsibility. the united states proudly honors john sweeney for a lifetime of courageous service on behalf of working people. [ applause ] >> i know that people try to observe decorum went they're here in the white house. but i'd welcome everybody to stand and acknowledge these extraordinary men and women, 2011 medal of freedom winners. [ applause ] . >> again, we are watching as the president -- let me listen in again here. >> i hope everyone has a wonderful time during receipt ception. thank your for your attendance. to our honorees, thank you for setting an extraordinary example to all of u

john sweeney is an executive vice president at mutual fund giant fidelity investments. he joins us from boston. john, it's great to see you again r most of those mutual fund investors taking too much risk with bonds? >> well, tom, the important thing to think about with bonds is that we've had a flight to bonds as a safety mechanism. people have gotten concerned about the volatility in the equity markets and moved their portfolio to bonds. what we ask folks to i have about is how much bond portfolio dow need in your portfolio. has to be a balanced mix and we ask folks to think about the time horizon in which they need to use the money. most people obviously focused on retirement. i think with the demographic shift of people ageing in america we going to continue to see people continue to buy bonds as they put more ballast in their portfolio. i want to caution though and say that at the same time you need to have some significant equity exposure on rising that investors might make as they approach retirement is they need to have some equity exposure to make sure they can

in that row continues because john sweeney as saying taxpayer.he recommendation of a parliamentary committee to suspend mr matheson from parliament for 27 sitting days. that is a lot of detail but the point is it's another event, another challenge for the snp that has the potential to blow him off course. i suppose that underlines a particular issue for the snp is distinct from other opposition parties opposing the uk government at westminster is that the scottish government and i suppose labour in wales as well and not only fighting the uk government but they are trying to defend their own record as well. in but they are trying to defend their own record as well.— own record as well. in that sense there is the _ own record as well. in that sense there is the same _ own record as well. in that sense there is the same fundamental. there is the same fundamental challenge with the voices for change. just in terms of scotland, the importance for the labour party given what happened in the last election and the amount of seats potentially up for grabs

john sweeney, executive vice president with fidelity investments and planning and advisory services, e to offer some insight. john, welcome back. the article in the "wall street journal" today was interesting because it points out when people retire typically some of the draws on their income disappear. you're not going to be paying social security tax or maybe not as much or medicare tax or maybe not as much. or contributing to a 401(k). but my question is what should i really be looking at? my gross income? my after-tax income to replace? or do i want to look at my expenses? >> expenses are absolutely the place to start, tyler. when we talk to people about planning for retirement we ask them to think about their essential expenses, food, shelter, and health care. and when we construct an income plan for people often it's centered around the starting number that's like 80% of the last dollar you that made before you retired. and when you think about that number you're exactly right. you're no longer contributing to retirement. so if you've been saving 15% you've already been living o

smith has contributed volumes to her family's outstanding legacy of service to our country. . >> john j. sweeneychampion for the american worker, john j. sweeney has strengthened our families, our economy and our country. the son of irish immigrants, he worked his way up in the labor movement serving as president of the service employees international union and president of the american federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations, all the while reaffirming our nation's commitment to awarding the enduring values of hard work and responsibility. the united states proudly honors john sweeney for a lifetime of courageous service on behalf of working people. >> i know that people try to observe decorum when they're here in the white house, but i'd welcome everybody to stand and acknowledge these extraordinary men and women, the 2011 medal of freedom honorees. >> all right, everybody. now you can see why i love this day, and i hope everyone has a wonderful time during the reception. thank you so much for your attendance. and again to our honorees, thanks for setting such an extraordin

[applause] >> john j. sweeney.pion for the american worker he strengthened our families, economy and our country. son of irish immigrants he worked his way up in the labor movement serving as the president of the service employees international union and the congress of industrial organizations, all the while reaffirming our nation's commitment to the enduring values of hard work and responsibility. the united states honors john sweeney for a lifetime of courageous service on behalf of working people. [applause] >> i know people try to observe decorum when they are here in the white house. but i would welcome everybody to stand and acknowledge these extraordinary men and women. [applause] megyn: what a moment for our former president and 14 others at the white house this afternoon. a non-partisan event honoring the service and contributions of so many. names we are familiar with and some we are not familiar with. the president singling out our former president george herrer walker bus -- georgeherbert wal, gentlema

all right, let's go ahead and bring in our panel in dublin, in ireland, john sweeney is professor emeritus of the newest university and a specialist and climate change and kimmie. this capital nairobi maurice on jago is regional head of disaster risk management plan international. that's an independent development and humanitarian organization. and then born in germany, carlo born tempo is director of the coordinators, copernicus, climate change service. thanks for joining us all today. we appreciate your being with us on inside story. maurice. let me start with you today. as in bob boy has declared a national disaster over this drought and president emerson and god wishes the country needs 2000000000 dollars in a to help millions of people who are going hungry. he's appealed to you in agencies, he's appealed to local businesses. well, the country actually be able to get this aide and just how bad is the situation. thank you very much and i will be leaving the country. so i'm curious the question because essentially you pay for no human being should be dying. wow. that the no child should

counters in florida tried to figure out who won the presidential election, it was congressman john sweeneyk who played a key role in dispatching republican operatives to florida to where the ballot counting was happening, and he famously ordered them to, quote, shut it down. sweeney uttered a three-word order to his troops, shut it down. he was really the orchestrator of what became known as the brooks brothers riot to shut down the ballot counting effort in favor of george w. bush. for his efforts that year, president george w. bush nicknamed him -- his nickname for him was, forgive me, congressman kick ass. congressman sweeney was also known less favorably for his junkets with lobbyists, and in the spring of that election year, he made national news for being spotted as a grown man at a frat party in schenectady. what was he doing there? by the fall, the party was over for him. john sweeney lost his bid for a fifth term in office. his upstate new york district had not elected a democrat to congress in nearly 30 years, but the democrat they picked that year at the time was interesting. sh