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Should be defunded, the left is worried that the president may rally the countrys morale and they cannot have that, Speaker Pelosi, treasury secretary mnuchin, they will talked again about the stimulus plan, the far apart on the size of the package but they agree on extending emergency payment, they are still talking, nbc held a town hall for joe biden last night, no questions about packing the court, offering statehood to puerto rico in washington, d. C. , who the democrats were put on the Supreme Court, it really was soft ball city, maybe that changes in the Vice President ial debate tomorrow night, mike pence faces off against Kamala Harris, plexi glass screens will separate them. 910 minute segments, the president s leadership on covid and mike pence pushing hard on the issues, this could be the turning point in the election which is four weeks away. All of that is politics, now money, big gains across the board monday for the stockpackas morning, the dow industrial looking at 130p
Thats still a threat a new stimulus plan high seed out still but maybe this is a buy on the dip day for big tech. The big five are off to a good start, you will see it all in a moment, plenty of green on the screen this morning, the debate joe biden says the president is not smart and he does not know much about Foreign Policy or domestic policy and he will come out swinging in the debate tomorrow night. The president wants biden to take a drug test before the debate and hes asking where is hunter biden, 36 hours ago, get separate tv ratings record, judge barrett facing harsh personal criticism, democrat activists are calling her a white colonizer for adapting to haitian children in senator feinsteins attack on her catholicism keeps popping up all over the place. Judge barrett starts makin meetg tomorrow and several refused to meet her including senator schumer, the hearings can begin in two weeks around october the 12th getting close, what a day and what a week, jobs day friday and Va
And the u. S. Keep talking trade, we dont know when this thing ends or how much further it goes. Sit back and enjoy the ride, today is august 25, the dow of 378, yesterday up another 150th opening bell today, the s p record high close up some more this morning. The nasdaq looks like its going to be down a few points. Were going to show you apple, premarket trading worth 2. 15 trillion and there is speculation that there is iphone production to mexico, more of that in a moment. At the convention the republicans attacked the biden harris ticket as a looming disaster. Dynamic speeches from tim scott and nikki haley and the president as surprise appearance and a vocal audience preview will see it. Day two, melania speaks tonight, rand paul, eric and tiffany trump, you will see that too. I gotta say this, our heart goes out to louisiana, mississippi, texas and neighboring states. Marco faded but here comes laura. Landfall probably tomorrow, could be a cat two or three storm the people of ga
8 pm here in moscow wherever you are in the wild thanks shes an international this thursday. Lots of stories for you this hour starting with this one the u. S. Democratic president ial candidate Michael Bloomberg has admitted his campaign make use of prison labor over the billionaire claims he was unaware it was happening his team hired a firm to help with his 2020 and actually run which in time employed female inmates to make Campaign Calls we learned about this when the reporter called us which as soon as we discovered which friend a subcontractor had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hire them imagine being so rich you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you. Being so rich you dont even bother to share what you are spending millions of dollars on. Rita reading we sad indeed when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor use prison labor we did know about it and we never would have allowed it we dont believe