that's how jim jones would accomplish things. not by tearing down, not by threatening, it's look at all the positive things we can do together. do toge i have to ask you, you are intelligence folk. your readers and socially committed.y if there was someone in san antonio in those tumultuous years who said i really can bring people together and we will do fine things, we are not going to tear down, we will build up, it's pretty persuasive don't you think? that was jim jones. . >> the other side of that coming out over time talk about the services later he talks about of an extraterrestrial and as you pointed out some of his followers were called mindless sheep but how was he would go on these tangents his followers were rolling to stick with him may assume they had seen his good work and reduce to those strange if things coming from him but talk about in the early '70s his use of amphetamines as tranquilizers. how much of that dark side was there heading that direction anyway or how much was fueled by the drug use crack. >> jim jo

that is how jim jones accomplishes things. not by tearing down or threatening the will caterwaul of positive things we can do together. you are intelligent your readers and socially committed. if there was someone in san antonio who said a really am bringing people together to do things we will build up and not tear down the that was jim jones. >> the other side of that coming out over time talk about the services later he talks about of an extraterrestrial and as you pointed out some of his followers were called mindless sheep but how was he would go on these tangents his followers were rolling to stick with him may assume they had seen his good work and reduce to those strange if things coming from him but talk about in the early '70s his use of amphetamines as tranquilizers. how much of that dark side was there heading that direction anyway or how much was fueled by the drug use crack. >> jim jones always believed to some extent it has been preordained he would be great. he always lies. he is cool to his wife. he is selfish

if i'm writing about jim jones and people's temple, where was jones born, where did he grow up? try to go there and try to get some sense of him as i try to begin to understand. i'd also like to point out and i think douglas and annie would agree with the, none of us claim we are she absolute expert on our books. one thing that is exciting is we get to learn, hour vows broaden and we sometimes fine out we believed one thing and were dead wrong. as authors we're not experts. we're fact-gatherers and we try to present those in a way that others can share those facts with us. >> you know incooperate agree more. and also i try to report the breadth of the story. in other words, when i wrote "area 51" i interviewed the pilots and planes and also the security guard who looked over area 51 found that readers responded most to his story. he was standing there, eyes on the ground, and what he saw was remarkable. was different from the birds eye view and i've done that with all of my books since. i go with the ground warriors and then the smartest men in the room, the president's science

but of the rest of the people, certainly some believed in jim jones, would do anything he wanted themo and voluntarily committed suicide. others had bought into what jones bieved and had told them that enemies were approaching any minute and who destroy them. but there were certainly a large contingent who didn't want to do that, but there were guards holding them at gunpoint, and those who wouldn't take the poison voluntarily were held down and forcibly injected. we know this because their bodies had abscesses, and when they were discovered later, a couple days later, this proved that many of them did not die voluntarily. >> what are white knights? >> white knights were something that jones declared when he'd call everybody in jonestown just under a thousand people to the main pavilion, claiming that there was some new emergency. usually it would be that there were enemies approaching and they had to get ready to defend themselves. at a white night a few months before november 18th, 1978, he actually told his followers that he had poison drink that they must take because their enemie

withther worked in chicago jim jones. not the jim jones in california. they called him the program priest.- the hoodlum i've been following draws on my life. i think the consumption concept is very good, but using narcan. if an individual was to graduate intentionally or unintentionally, i say allow them to graduate. i think it's more humane than going to the battle. the primary problem i find his money. it is a business. an individual it, has to, if you want to say, put bread on the table. -- there areey do no jobs. it sounds rather ridiculous but it is true. it is just like any other business. mattel toys or whatever. i think we have to hit the source from that aspect of it. when it comes to shaping behavior, shaping behavior is very good for the individuals that want to do it. if not, allow the individual to graduate on their own. that's about all i have to say. thank you. guest: i think you make a good point about what you might call the upstream causes of addiction. you mentioned jobs. by thent report princeton economists, they call these deaths of

withther worked in chicago jim jones. not the jim jones in california. they called him the program priest.- the hoodlum i've been following draws on my life. i think the consumption concept is very good, but using narcan. if an individual was to graduate intentionally or unintentionally, i say allow them to graduate. i think it's more humane than going to the battle. the primary problem i find his money. it is a business. an individual it, has to, if you want to say, put bread on the table. -- there areey do no jobs. it sounds rather ridiculous but it is true. it is just like any other business. mattel toys or whatever. i think we have to hit the source from that aspect of it. when it comes to shaping behavior, shaping behavior is very good for the individuals that want to do it. if not, allow the individual to graduate on their own. that's about all i have to say. thank you. guest: i think you make a good point about what you might call the upstream causes of addiction. you mentioned jobs. by thent report princeton economists, they call these deaths of

and jim jones provided that. >> reporter: today, a memorial in oakland serves as a remembrance for thosehe elderly, whose jones initial message resonated with. >> i think the message of jonestown is to go within so you don't have to go without. >> it's better to live for a cause than die for it. >> reporter: despite what happened, the minister's son still goes by the name jim jones jr. >> i'm proud of the upbringing and the education i was given. that's a lot to be proud of. i have to accept the horrific tragedy that my father caused. but he caused me, not me. >> reporter: for "today", joe fryer, nbc news. >> looking back, i remember the headlines around that time. and it was -- you almost couldn't even get your arms around the idea of what had happened there. >> it's unfathomable. i don't think there's been anything like that since. >> and so many minors. over 300 children. >>> just ahead, a thought-provoking new project from david schwimmer. >>> clever tricks to spruce up your spring garden. we're fixing up around the house. first, local news and weather. >>> very good tuesday morning

jim jones and the people's temple is a book that will be discussed. also the inspiring story of the team that barn stormed its way to basketball glory. tim hernandez, author of all they will call you and at 4:30 p.m., the book there goes the neighborhood, how communities overcome prejudice and meet the challenge of american immigration. at 5:15 p.m. eastern, author of 26 seconds, a personal history of the zippered or film. then seven skeletons, the epilation of the human fossils. >> now, a look at how gender and race affect the presidential election. the trump cabinet choices and the 115th congress. the university of minnesota humphrey school of public affairs hosted this discussion shortly after the inauguration. speakers include authors and academics from case western reserve university and the university of minnesota. this is about an hour and a half. >> has all of us know who are here in the united states, or even from abroad, during the fall of 2016, we had campaign that was permeated by issues of gender and race and class.

in his book the texas slave became a millionaire. 2:50 jeff with his book the road to jonestown, jim jones and the people's temple. 3 p.m., lydia with her book the inspiring story this was held last weekend we hold off the day with carl jacoby tells the story of william ellis who later became known as the lead co a slave turned wall street.

we are joined by our attorney general jim jones, he's a formal national security adviser to presidentnato supreme, thank you for coming in. >> hi, wolf. >> do you think president trump have learned from the experiences of president obama in failing to live up of that red line threat? >> i think so. if nothing else, that is moment of clarity for the first time and several years of i think the decision to not intervene in 2013 was a very big mistake, precipitating with the decrease in the amount of influence and respect of which we are held, i think now we are putting an end. >> was that president obama's mistake? he went to congress to get legislation but he did not get the legislation. >> whatever the cause was. our failure to enact on the presidential global decree of the red line that's tolerated. >> and you said that was a mistake. >> i believe it was a mistake and -- our historical decision and caused many of our friends and allies in the region to question the commitment of the united states to their own security. >> president trump has now of all practical purposes drawing his o

being published this week, authorer and former investigative reporter jeff begin recalls the life of jim jones who was responsible for the deaths of over 900 people in the road to jones town. new york university public policy and economics profess jonathan more duck and center for financial services innovation senior vise president rached synder followed the spending habits of over 235 families over the course of a year in the financial diaries. and journalist drew phillip chronicles rebuilding an abandon house in his hometown in a $500 house in detroit. look for these in bookstores in the coming week and watch were the authors on booktv on c-span. >> good frafternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation.

--en -"jef t jim jones." hernandez, and a nurani with "there goes the neighborhood." at 5:15 p.m.astern, alexandra's approver -- zpr "ruder, and lydia pine with the evolution of the most famous fossils." that's today at 1:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. sunday night on afterwards, washington times national security columnist bill gertz with his book about modern warfare involving from the technologies. is interviewed by congresswoman the least of phonic of new york, number of the house select committee on intelligence and chair of the armed services subcommittee on emerging threats and capabilities. >> it to look at what i feel is the new form of warfare that emerging in the 21st century. i have covered national security affairs for over 30 years, been all over the world covering these issues. i think it's a reflection of the information age that we are now looking at this new form of warfare, which i call information warfare. i define that as both the technical cyber we have seen so much of in terms of cyber attacks on the russians and chinese. as well as the content influ

we need to study the likes of jim jones to learn lessons that would be helpful to loss-making choices today. [applause] [inaudible conversations] . . >> i would like to welcome you to the san antonio book festival. the signature event of the library foundation. i we want to thank the library and the southwest school of arts and craft for opening up their spaces for us today.of and for helping us present this amazing day of literary events, which i hope you all have lots of time to enjoy for the rest of the day. we will be having a signing directly after the session if you would like to get a copy at the barnes & noble book tent and visit with lelia and get her signature.ge we will do that immediately following this. we will have a little discussion and show you some pictures about the book and open it up for questions. i hope you are have some things to say and i want to introduce you to lidia who is the author of this great book. i will let her read the rest to make sure i get it. >> it's called the inspiringnspi story of the teen that barnes stormed its way to basketball glory, but

remember jim jones? he claimsed to have visions that the world would end on july 15th, 1967. it didn't. yet far from abandoning him, his followers doubled down, moved together to the jungles of giana. and build a commune called joan's town. a few years later the end did come. jones convinced his congregation to drink kool-aid laced with cyanide. over 9 million men, women and children died in that jungle. then there was david koresh. >> i'm sorry you got shot. >> his followers, called the branch devidian gathered to prepare for the imminent end of the world. >> it's true i do have a lot of children. it's true i do have a lot of wives. >> he believes he himself was the second coming of the mess h messiah. >> it says in the future god will sit on a thrown and he'll have a book with seven seals in his right hand and he gives that book the lamb. >> your followers believe you are the lamb, correct? >> there's a reason for that. >> when they learned of the huge amount of weapons he had stock piled, it didn't end well. four years later, the world met marshal apple white. known as dou

jim jones and others put together an example that starts to tease getting to that point.uggesting -- why don't we start by consolidating the state department commands and military commands? that's one of the problems today. you have the state department carved up in a way that doesn't overlap with the way that the u.s. military command structure is set up. one person at the top of each regional command overseeing the regional response and non-regional response. that might be a start. question right here in the middle? >> hello, nathan hostetter, church of the brother d.c. office and i convened a working group on nigeria. much of our work is around the ongoing crisis in boko haram. we have raised concerns around the accountability of the nigerian military and the need to increase humanitarian assistance. one of the pieces of that, as you mentioned, is flexibility, the need to work in on the ground places that are difficult to get to for larger organizations. sen. murphy: so, i don't know nigeria as well as others, but it strikes me as a place where our current toolkit has

jim jones and others put together a proposal that sort starts to tease getting to that point. they suggested why don't we start by consolidating the state department commands and the military commands. that's one of our problems is you have the state department carved up in a way that doesn't overlap with the way that the u.s. military command structure is set up. they have a wonderful proposal out there that talks about consolidating the commands and have one person at the top of each regional command overseeing bo both the military response and the nonmilitary response. that might be a start. >> question right here in the middle. >> hello. church of the brethen. the working group has raised concerns around the accountability of the military and the need to increase humanitarian assistance. one of the pieces of that is -- you mentioned flexibility. the need for flexibility to work with smaller ngos or on the ground organizations in a place that is very difficult to get to for large organizations. >> i don't know nigeria as well as others, but it strikes me as a place in which

depoliticizing the nsc, there were some 20 channels or even more than that of information flow leading up to jim jones, national security advisor in the initial days of the obama administration, finally to susan rice, in a statement, steve bannon says "susan rice operationalized the nsc during the last administration. i was put on to ensure that it was de operationalized. general mcmasters, hr mcmaster knocked national security advisor, has returned to the nsc to its proper function." so the white house as there is no need for steve bannon to be on the nsc principles committee anymore. another interesting development is foster, homeland security advisor remains on the principles committee, but his role has been somewhat diminished. he is still able to chair homeland security council meetings, though. that authority would have to be designated to him by hr mcmaster, national security advisor. there's another headline coming down to the white house today, "the new york times" did an interview with the president a short time ago in the oval office. the headline is a statement the president made that he b

jim jones and others put together a proposal that sort of starts to tease getting to that point. they suggested why don't we start by consolidating the state department commenced in the military commits? that's what a promise to do if you have state department carved up in a way that actually doesn't overlap with the way that the u.s. military command structure is set up. they have a wonderful proposal after the talks about consolidating the commands and have one person at the top of each regional command that is overseeing both a military response and the nonmilitary response. that might be a start. >> a question right here in the middle. >> the church of the brethren, d.c. office. i convene a working group on nigeria. there's a church of the brother much larger than use church in northeast nigeria and so much of our work is rubbed on point crisis of boko haram. the working group has raised concerns around the accountability of the nigerian military as well as need to increase humanit humectant assi. one of the pieces of that is, you mentioned flexibility. the need for flexibili

. >> reporter: not only that, president trump has echoed some of jones' claims, says jim rootenberg. >> when president trump said that the main stream press is covering up terrorist attacks to cover for islamists, that was directly out of alex jones. when president-elect trump raised the possibility that some 3 million people voted illegally, that had been on info wars. >> reporter: but now his own lawyer suggests jones shouldn't be taken at his word. his comments came during jones' custody battle over his kids. according to one report, attorney randall wilhite said jones is playing a character on his radio show. that he's actually a performance artist. today jones defended himself this way. >> you know? i am an actor. we're all actors, but i believe in what i stand for. >> reporter: but rootenberg says questions about jones could raise some for mr. trump, too. >> we've never seen a president embrace a conspiracy theorist like alex jones before, let alone talk to him on the phone or mimic some of the reporting from said conspiracy theorist. >> we reached out to jones for comment, but

at 2:00 p.m., jim jones and the people's temple. at 3:00 p.m. lydia reeder with her book "dust bowl girls" the inspiring story of the team that barn stormed its way to basketball glory at 3-45, and at 430 with his become there goes the naked. how communities overcome prejudice and meet the challenge of american immigration. at 5:15 p.m. eastern the aujtor of "26 seconds" a personal history. and at 6:00 p.m., lydia pine with her become "seven skeletons" the evolution of the world's most famous human phossills. watch it on saturday at 1:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >>> one hundred years ago this month the u.s. entered world war i with a declaration of war on germany. 4 million americans fought in the war and 100,000 of them died in combat. american history tv marked the anniversary with the visit to the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri. this is 2.5 hours. >>> 100 years og an april 6, 1917 president woodrow wilson signed a declaration of war against germany. more than 4 million american men and women would

jones. appreciate that. jim? >> those tweets can come back to haunt you. right, fred? >> yes, they do. >>> phil black is in moscow, monitoring the russian response to the u.s. strike in syria. so, this hotline that the u.s. and russia have had is frankly helpful to both sides. it's intended to keep both u.s. and russian aircraft and u.s. and russian ground forces safe from accidental strikes by the other side. so how is russian responding to that new reality? >> well, jim, you're right. from a certain point of view, it seems like a self defeating move. russia has today confirmed that it is suspending these deconfliction lines of communication between the russian and american forces over syria that are supposed to ensure they don't accidentally bump into each other and create some sort of incident that could rapidly escalate. they're doing this as a protest because they say they feel so strongly against the american strike on that syrian base. in doing so, they still acknowledge that this, in fact, does raise the possibility of unintended conflict between russian and am

. >> reporter: not only that, president trump has echoed some of jones' claims, says "new york times" media writer jim ruettenburg. >> reporter: when president trump said that the mainstream press is covering up terrorist attacks to cover for islamists, that was directly out of alex jones. when president-elect trump raised the possibility that some three million people voted illegally, that had been on info wars. >> reporter: but now his own lawyer suggests jones shouldn't be taken at his word. his comments came during jones' custody battle over his kids. according to one report, attorney randall wilhite said jones is playing a character on his radio show, that he's actually a performance artist. today jones defended himself this way. >> i am an actor. we're all actors. but i believe in what i stand for. >> reporter: but ruettenburg says questionsut >> we've never seen a president embrace a conspiracy theorist like alec jones before, let alone talk to him on the phone or mimic some of the reporting from said conspiracy theorists. >> reporter: we reached out to jones for comment. he and his lawyer told

. >>> jim cramer jones us from the new york stock exchange.ril 11th today or something? isn't the quarter over? aren't earnings coming like they normally do? isn't that something we should be paying attention to? >> yes, but it's the season is a little later here, i would have expected a couple of companies started to report including the alcoa. very interesting. >> like acme. lately we've been seeing, i don't know whether we call it listless but this should give a guy like you something to at least be able to explain some market moves based on earnings finally, because it's been hard to interpret what the heck is happening for the past couple of weeks. >> it's true. see what delta says. american had good numbers last night released this morning. obviously united has another kettle of fish there but we'll get delta and then we'll get the big banks all at once, which doesn't really help except if you're bank of america. wells fargo trying to get ahead of the news issuing the negative stuff ahead. maybe they have some positive stuff, i don't kno

jim sciutto. >>> let's go to athena jones. she's outside of mar-a-lago in florida where president trump is waking up this morning. athena, you know, you couldn't have helped notice that ambassador nikki haley said we're prepared to do more. do we know what she's signalling? >> reporter: that's the big question here. what will the next steps be for the u.s. government? according to secretary of state rex tillerson who briefed reporters, a small group of reporter at mar-a-lago yesterday, next steps would depend how the syrian government responds. he said the future will be guided how we see their reaction. he said the u.s. is monitoring the syrian response, whether they try to attack u.s. forces or coalition forces. whether they attack the syrians may be considering launching another chemical weapons attack. thursday's strike were targeted to degrade syria's ability to carry out these attacks but didn't completely destroy. military strikes avoided that area on the airbase where they believe the nerve agent was being stored. so u

. >> athena jones, thank you so much. jim? >> fred, thanks a lot. i want to talk now about what's next in syria. that key question. what follows this isolated air strike? what is the strategic change? we have lieutenant colonel francona who served in syria. lieutenant colonel, i know you have even been to that air base that was struck. you know about the area there. looking at the photos of the damage, are you supplirprised t airfield is back in operation today? >> not really. if you look at how many hardened aircraft shelters are there, 59 tomahawks would not have shut down the base. wouldn't even have destroyed all of the aircraft. although i'm reading different numbers. we're saying 20. syrians say ten. either way, it's a loss of some aircraft. the mission was actually to send a message. shutting down the air base entailed cratering the runways. the tomahawk as you mentioned earlier is not the best weapon for that. you probably want to bring in manned aircraft and drop specific weapons for that. tomahawk they were taking out other facilities on t

keith jones and aaron coleman are live from our draft view on the parkway. tomorrow, jim and i will take over for our draft day special at 7:00. sunday night, we will recap the event with our eagles blueprint special. >> so much going on and when it comes to football, of course, the weather is important, when we have to play those games. same with the nfl draft. >> so much is said outside there. and that's why we're glad the nbc 10 first alert glenn "hurricane" schwartz is our weather quarterback, if you will. glenn, don't throw any interceptions, please. >> yeah. i don't think we've got a problem in this case. and we've been telling you this for over a week with our ten-day forecast that the weather was likely to dry out and warm up by the time we had the draft and that is going to happen. this big upper air storm that's background plaguing us for the last few days is finally starting to move out. the dryer air from the west moving in. it's taking its good old time, but by the time we get into tomorrow, we're okay. noon time, 69 degrees. we have some clouds, especially t

jim and jan. futures are now pointing to a bit of a higher open. dow jones yesterday fell down 118 points, the second consecutive triple digit loss, nasdaq gained 13, a data breach with the inter continental hotel group is bigger than first reported. the chain now says hackers broke in the computer system, stole credit card numbers, expiration days and even security code between september 29th and december 29th, 2016 over 1200 locations. they own holiday inn, crowned plaza and among others. not every location was affect. about 12 in philadelphia were though. >>> facebook wants to read your mind. social media giant is working on a project that lets you type, with your brain, and pretty crazy. facebook says technology is many years away but researchers at stanford have created a system that lets a paralyzed patient type eight word a minute using only her thoughts. >>> and ikea's beloved meat balls could get their very own store. ikea says it makes a billion dollars a year in food sales and realized some people go to the furniture store just for the food, and s

jim rosenfield. he claims the restaurant where this all happened is at fault as well. keith jones is outside the restaurant and those pictures get your attention so what's the story behind them? >> reporter: i got that one tonight. according to this lawsuit right here, the guy was sitting down at the bar, pad did i whack, he claimed the guy behind it was ignoring him when he finally got served that the guy through a glass at his face. >> it hits my topped teeth and nose and it shattered across my face and i had one of my cuts was right here that i had to get stitched up. >> reporter: bruised and bloodied this is what he looked like after the september incident. >> i have to look in the mirror and i see all these scars and i'm just like it brings me back to that moment. >> reporter: doctors worked on him at the hospital. he was studying to be a physici physician's assistant. he needed 20 surgeries. the video system wasn't working the night the glass was thrown and seeks more than $50,000 in damages. i want the other side of the story so we paid a trip to the bar in question on sout

jim, rahel. futures right now pointing to lower open. the markets finished yesterday, just about where they started, the dow jones rose little over a point, nasdaq was up three-point. shares every united airlines, though, unexpectedly finished the day higher, up about 1% despite dealing with fall out from video, which showed customer dragged by police from an over book flight. social media users threatened to boycott the airline, shares initially fell, but united ceo apologized, some investors think the company will bounce back. tezsla now the most valuable us auto make earl, valuation of nearly $51 billion based on yesterday's closing price, that puts it slightly ahead of general motors. tezsla, though, only been around for a few years, still doesn't turn a profit, inch he esters are betting on ceylon for electric vehicles. up might associate halloween with candy. but when it comes to sweets, another holiday takes the cake. the national retail federation discovered sugar loving americans spent about $300 million more on easter candy than halloween. i find it hard to believe. but -- >> i'm with you, jill. >> now, see, i think that's accu

the dow jones down a little over 40 basis points on those jim -- geopolitical turns weighing on the marketerg. ♪ julie: welcome to bloomberg markets. equity risks the manager, steve, thanks for taking the time. the last time we spoke it was about the lack of volatility but here we are two weeks later and there's a lot of volatility at levels last seen in last november around the time of the election. what is happening here? >> things can change quickly, that's one of the great things about the market. this is a lot of anticipation and a lot is worry, even though were seen the more volatility in the market, were still not seeing the movement commission -- commensurate with where the vix is. there's more of a fear premium still not that much actual fear. oliver: when you look at the pop in the vix here, it still below 16. i wonder if their pain being fund managers who are selling volatility as a way to that, if there was a bet volatility is not going to rise. >> part of it is how they were selling the volatility. you have two things working in your favor, the market has flattened out so the

jim and rahel. futures pointing to a higher opened, yesterday was another late day of trading ahead of the easter weekend, dow jones fell six points, nasdaq fell 14. president trump met with top ceo's at the white house to talk about creating jobs and also wall street. it it is his administration working to do streamline of the dod-frank act perhaps eliminating it, dod-frank was passed after 2008 financial crisis. >>> don't count p.c. out just yet new numbers from the international data corp found p.c. shipments jumped in the first quarter by 1 percent compared to the same time last year. this is first increase in five years. most of the computers will get to businesses, in the individual. >>> and instagram's new feature may look familiar to people, who have used snap chat, instagram users can now send direct messages, that dis appear after a short period of time. shares of snap inc. felon word of that update, jimenes and rahel. >> we have seen that before. full disclosure i don't have snap chat but what is the purpose of that features unless you are sending photos. >> anything. >> i asked a millennial my cousin be

>> athena jones, keep us post there had in south florida. appreciate it. back to you, jim, in d.c. >> thank you, fred. i realized i placed you in atlanta when you're actually in new york. >> that's okay. we move all over. >> we do. i want to bring in former u.s. ambassador to syria as well as the united arab emirates. ted, thanks for joining us on this saturday. i want to ask you about this u.s. military strike at that syrian air base. we're seeing attacks in that same rebel-held area that we saw the horrific chemical attacks earlier in the week. from your perspective, what does this say about the success, the impact, perhaps, of u.s. military action against syrian forces? >> look, i do think it was important for this or any other administration to send a strong signal to both russia and syria that the use of chemical weapons anywhere, any time is intolerable. so i think in that sense, it was the right thing to do even if it will be characterized by many as a pinpredictiick. it was an important pinprick. however, i don't think anybody in the u.s. defense's establishment wo

jim. >> reporter: well, scott, in the 24 weeks since election day, the stock market has had quite eye ride, straight up. the nasdaq supnearly 15 p jones almost 13%, and the s&p more than 10%. now, there are metrics driving this. corporate earnings are better than expect, for instance, but a lot of this rally has been based on what's expected to happen. take the corporate tax cut plan president trump will unveil tomorrow proposing to reduce want rate from 35% down to 15%. throw in the growing likelihood we'll avoid a government shutdown here, and french election results that have stomed the ground shaking there, at least for now, and it's full steam ahead, all of which gives the president a bold-faced talking point as the 100-day mark approaches. >> pelley: jim axelrod, thanks. well, the housing market is also sizzling, and john blackstone has that. >> reporter: in today's sizzling housing market, the first challenge for prospective buyers like lisa swelha is simply finding houses for sale. >> man, i think inventory is just so low right now, that we just don't have very many things to go look at that are suited. >> reporter: across the

jim sciutto, thanks. want to bring the panel in. jeffly record, carl bernstein, juliet kayyem, van jones and jeffrey miller. jeff, it the administration had just from the get-go laid out on the table there was this meeting, this meeting, this meeting, would it have been better? would they have avoided this now 70-plus days, however long it's been? >> if this were some sort of organized event, then probably yes. but frankly -- >> if the transition was organized? >> no, no, no. i mean the whole business about they talked to the russians. >> okay. >> i think these things all happened in sort of disparate connections here, there, everywhere. and so i'm not sure that they know at this point who met with whom. i mean, because they're not watching the private life of, say, roger stone or carter page or what have you. so it's not as if they had like a log of what everybody did so they could just lay it out. >> carl, do you buy that? >> well, the most significant thing that we have seen is the attempt by the president of the united states and those around him to impede and obstruct the investigations. instead of say

jones. >> amid all the fun, there will be some important decisions made tomorrow. keith and erin. >> some huge decisions, jimd jackie. the art museum may be the focus point of the draft, but another center of the attention will be another philadelphia landmark. >> yeah. the franklin institute will serve as the draft selection square as it's called. lauren shows us what we can expect to see unfold there. >> well, the big announcements are made at the theater. the big decisions, they happen right here inside the franklin institute. take a look. you'll see 32 tables here. one to have for each team. over here, that's where the eagles are.. two seats at that table. this is where they will make their decisions. they can watch it from here. when they make that final pick, they'll write it down. >> the team representatives fill out the card. there's an nfl representative that then takes the card from that person, hands it to the head table. the head table verifies it's an will want eligible player to be drafted. assuming everything gets checked out, then it gets communicate down to the theater so it ultimately can b

jim. i'm getting excited about this! we know the future. we're going to be friends! because we're building it. >>> i'm sheinelle jones in new york. high noon in the east. day 93 of the trump administration and earth day being marked in cities around the nation and across the globe today. tens of thousands in the nation's capital with a very pointed message. live reports ahead. >>> and the president is down playing the 100 day benchmark, but at the same time makg a new promise. >> we'll beavin big announcement on wednesday having do with tax reform. >> jump-starting talk of tax cuts and another swing at a health care plant. what does he hope he gets accomplished by day 100. >>> and new word today from one of the central figures in the fbi russia tampering investigation. what is the latest word from him. >>> plus i'll talk with the man who put a scar in a deep red state district. democrat john off n ossoff on w he has chance to win and what bernie sanders said about him. >>> we begin with hundreds of marches marking ertz darth day. their goal, to support scientific research and development. and the usz isn.s. isn't missin. we have

jim hodges, great to have you on the program. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, liz. liz: they know what's easy, they know what's hard. we're looking at you dow jonesndustrials down 67 points. when we come back, charlie gasparino has some breaking news on taxes and what the president may or may not do. stay tuned. ♪ are allergies holding you back? break through your allergies. try new flonase sensimist instead of allergy pills. it's more complete allergy relief in a gentle mist you may not even notice. using unique mistpro technology, new flonase sensimist delivers a gentle mist to help block six key inflammatory substances that cause your symptoms. most allergy pills only block one. and six is greater than one. break through your allergies. new flonase sensimist please repeat the objective. ♪ thrivent mutual funds. managed by humans, not robots. before investing, carefully read and consider fund objectives, risks, charges and expenses in the prospectus at thriventfunds.com. there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of yo

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jim axelrod has the story behind the numbers. >> in the 24 weeks since election day, the stock market has had quite a straight up. the nasdaq is up nearly 15%, the dow jones&p nearly 10%. corporate earnings are better than expected. but a lot of this rally has been based on what's expected to happen. take the corporate tax cut plan president trump will reveal tomorrow, proposing to reduce the rate from 35% down to 15%. throw in the growing likelihood we'll avoid a government shutdown here, and french election results that have stopped the ground shaking there at least for now. and it's full steam ahead. all of it gives the president as a bold-faced talking point as the 100 day mark approaches. >>> the housing market is also sizzling and john blackstone has that. >>> prospective buyers, they are finding houses for sale. >> wow! man, i think inventory is just so low right now. we just don't have very many things to go look at that are suited. >> reporter: across the country, there is a rush to buy. the market an average 84 days. this year it's just 45 days. real estate agent cindy wilson. >> we still have more buyers, currently than we have homes for sale.