Okay. Good afternoon everyone. Main purpose today is to follow up on the letter i sent to leader mcconnell about the potential Senate Impeachment trial and rules for them. Lets not forget that there are many other things the senate should be working on right now and this month we recognize the seventh anniversary of the sandy hook massacre in the seven years since that unthinkable tragedy america has experienced countless incidences of gun violence ranging from horrific Mass Shootings to the thousands of shootings that devastate communities every day. The senate has not even debated background checked legislation. The senate has not debated legislation to reduce the cost of healthcare, college educati education, prescription drugs. Reporting and leadership has even refused to work with democrats on Bipartisan Solutions to secure our elections and deter foreign adversaries from interfering in our elections. All the productive activity in the congress is coming out of the house. The Sena
Reform as well as the current currention laws and the climate that immigration has played a part in our country know, america is a melting pot. So i feel like its something that surely has to be addressed you cant ignore whats currently going on as well as we cant hide the fact there are need to be addressed and need to be reformed when it comes to immigration. Recently nt trump recognized jerusalem as capital israel, transferred our embassy there. Wonder if any of the candidates would follow that procedure and continue to jerusalem as the capital of israel or if they it by reverse president ial decision to return our tal to recognition of the capital as tel aviv. And i am interested in about what our president ial candidates plan to hbcus across ur the nation. Historically of a black college from South Carolina State University and ahbcu in loyee of Morris College here in sumter, i want to hear what the candidates will do to these our hbcus in financially challenging times. Voices fro
Lisa but interestingly, they also took down their loan loss estimate, so that basically speaks to the strong consumer. The question is if wall street revenues dont pick up and trading volumes dont pick up, will it be enough to have a strong consumer to drive Bank Earnings Going Forward . David it is not just jp morgan. It is also Johnson Johnson. We got earnings from them, and they beat on earningspershare and revenue. 2. 58,spershare was revenue was 22 billion. It was driven by pharmaceuticals, but most of the queries will be about the legal complications from opioids and talchis asbestos in allegation. Lisa it will be interesting how they frame that. David we will have more on j js earnings later this hour with joseph wolk, Johnson Johnsons cfo. Climbing a little bit. The dollar getting a bid, and to year yields up just a basis point. David at 7 30 this morning, Goldman Sachs reports secondquarter earnings, followed by wells fargo at 8 00. At 8 30, the u. S. Releases retail Sales Num
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Amazon is in the crosshairs facing antitrust. Margaret vester prepares for a summer finale to her fiveyear crackdown on u. S. Tech giants. But first, to our top story, big tech in the eye of the storm on capitol hill. Facebook, amazon, apple, google, all appearing in washington to answer lawmakers questions. The first to be baked over the raked over the coals, facebooks david marcus was the david marcus. The cocreator of the cryptocurrency project. Senator Brown Facebook is dangerous. Now, facebook might not intend to be dangerous, but surely they do not respect the technologies they are playing with, like a toddler who has gotten a hold of a book of matches. Their motto is to move fast and break things. We would be crazy to give them a chance to experiment with peoples bank accounts. David we will take the time to get this right. Wouldnt it be easier and safer if people could inexpensively secure money transfers through their smartphones just like they do for so many things today . Th