Inside bay area politics talked to political consultant David Mckeown he says that President Trump desperately needs another debate. The president is ready from behind a any political fat salt worth their salt would say look you got to get back out there and you got it you got to debate and if he doesnt want a virtual debate because he can the moderator 145 time does he that tuesday debate and yes, the find another avenue another way and tell us why it matters david, you know there are at least a few voters saying you know what were good but the debates weve seen enough and thanks that thats enough and why does it matter. All right so in general, we think that money doesnt matter in camp is this is the Political Science that money doesnt matter that campaign so matter that debates dont matter that Vice President ial selection sell better donald trump through all that out the window in 2016. And what it means is those things do matter in terms of setting the tenor and tone of the race d
Not a surprise if you look to see whats happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. Taking a look at the tenyear this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0. 735 at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. And then wti is the other big story today. Joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by onetenth. Well talk about this in a few minutes. Wti is up by 1. 5 to 23. 11 a barrel. We have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including Mohamed El Erian, Richard Preston and dr. Scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. Andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. Lets bring everybody an update on the pandemic. Of course, the number of confirmed cases in the United States now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more
Hour. Ladies and gentlemen, the governor of the great state of alaska. [applause] thanks, everybody. The first thing i want to say is thanks for putting up with a little move yesterday. I want to thank you for working with your legislators. Thank you very much. So, thank you Lieutenant Governor and members of the legislature. Before i continue i want to do something important and recognize my wife and the mother of our three daughters, my wife of 36 years, first lady. [applause] i would also like to recognize the members of the cabinet in attendance tonight and could you please stand as well. Thanks for everything you are doing. [applause] and to the members of the legislature, welcome and thank you for stepping up. We can never forget why we are here and we are here to serve the people. Serving the people of alaska as an educator into governor is one of the greatest honors of my life and a privilege none of us can take for granted. Every year on these nights when we squeeze into the c
Those who are at the lower end of the economic scale, and i think thats appropriate. So its middleclass tax relief but heres how it works. The share of federal taxes paid in 2019, which is a year after this is implemented, it starts right away, by the way, so middleclass families are going to get that relief right away. Currently is in the red and then our proposals in the blue. If you make, again, zero to 20,000, its very unlikely that you have income Tax Liability. But some families do and the average is. 1 . If you make 20,000 to 50,000 a year, your share of federal taxes goes down from 4. 3 to 4. 1 , in our bill. If you make 50,000 to 100,000, your share of the federal taxes goes from 6. 9 to 6. 7 . If you make 100,000 or above, your share goes not down. It goes up. From 78. 7 to 78. 9 . The top percent of wage earners in this country, earners, top 10 pay approximately 70 of the income taxes right now. After our bill is passed and implemented, they will pay more than 70 . So it is
Thank you very much, ivanka. She worked hard. Shes a hard worker. All of our kids work hard. We love to see it. Theyre doing a terrific job for our country. Ive come to the great city of pittsburgh to stand with people, and those people are incredible workers. And to show the world that america is back and that we are coming back bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And were making our own product again. And t and were opening up our factories again. I mean, you take a look at whats going on where toyotas coming in and the other day you just saw chrysler announce theyre moving from mexico back to michigan. You dont hear that too often. With a monster factory theyre going to spend a lot of money. At the center of americas resurgence are the massive tax cuts that i just signed into law. And its also reform i usually just say tax cuts. They dont want to hear about the reform believe me, the reform is very important. We dont have to get into it but the tax cuts are the most sig