Talk Business & Politics Daily Digital: The low gas, travel to Europe, get your Brummett fix edition
by July 11, 2016 4:36 pm 187 views
In today’s Talk Business & Politics Daily, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette political columnist John Brummett offers his take on how and why Democratic presumptive Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton escaped prosecution in the email scandal tied to her time as Secretary of State.
He also discusses the medical marijuana initiatives that look headed to the November ballot and previews his Tuesday political column which reflects on the progressive era of Arkansas politics in the 1970’s and how Gov. Asa Hutchinson fits into this calculus.
Also on the program, our top stories of the day – including the latest fundraising numbers from incumbent Republican Sen. John Boozman – a look at gas prices and trends in the Natural State and a preview of Gov. Hutchinson’s trade trip to Europe. Does he expect to bring a major jobs announcement back to the U.S.?
You can watch the full video of today’s Talk Business & Politics Daily at the end of this report, or download it through the iTunes store under Talk Business & Politics.
ASA IN LONDON, BERLIN
Gov. Asa Hutchinson is currently overseas at the London Farnborough Air Show, the largest aviation and aerospace trade show on the planet. After the air show, Hutchinson heads to Europe to meet with German leaders in Berlin to discuss Arkansas manufacturing operations and to open a new regional trade office.
“Opening up a European office is very important for us as a state. We have one of our best global trading partners in Germany, France, the U.K.,” he said. “We want to be able to expand on that. We’ve got a great opportunity – whether it’s the steel industry or whether it’s aero-defense to be able to expand those opportunities in Arkansas. So down the road – whether it’s one year or two years – I expect certainly production to come out of these trips, but sometimes you just do the hard spade work and that’s what we’re doing this year.”
Watch his full interview as well as more from John Brummett, an analysis of pump prices and today’s top stories in the video below.