Will leave this program to go live to a conversation with florida senator marco rubio. Good morning. Im bob costa, National Political reporter here at the Washington Post. Welcome to Washington Post live in another special any for the Texas Tribune festival. Today my guess is senator marco rubio, republican of florida. Hes been summit ive been covering for over a decade since he first ran for the use senate back in 2010. Senator rubio, thanks thanks for being your. Good morning. Thanks for having me. We are 49 days away from the election. You serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. From that seat what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference . I think first we have to break up foreign interference into two categories. One is meddling and the actual architecture and mechanics of election. And then the other is sort of af the message, sort of the psychological operations and a war for design to divide against each othe
Get started now. Folks are still arriving which is fine. But we want to get started because weve got a fantastic program for you and not a lot of time. This hour is going to flyby. Toms book is really a fantastic read. But i do think that folks especially in the United States are going to find the book controversial. Thats a great thing about a book. If the book doesnt generate a conversation then it may not be worth reading. This is a glass halffull story about chinas economy in the management of the Financial System. Its offered at a time when u. S. China relations are declining. And attacks from all different corners in the United States of china system are growing. And theres this argument that chinas economy, how it manages that economy, is incompatible with the international system. And as a result the u. S. And others need to reduce their exposure to chinas unique risk. The book tries to answer the question, how did china japan should do it . How did they manage to continue to g
Right, i think the obvious answer to that is absolutely. The members of the subcommittee, both the democrats and a number of the republicans really focused in on the power of these corporations over the way we communicate and the way we engage. That was the dominant theme of the hearing. They also got into the god of how these businesses work and how they use their dominance and how theyre engaged in predatory behavior and how they are hurting other businesses, small, medium and everyday families. It was really quite remarkable hearing, night and day from the hearings that we saw just a couple of years ago when members of congress were grilling Mark Zuckerberg. Yesterday was i think a pretty remarkable moment in the Ongoing Investigation into monopoly power in general, but especially in regards to tech platforms and Digital Markets. Host congresswoman comstock. Guest i think yesterday we saw with Congress According to gallup today had an 18 Approval Rating and was attacking four of the
U. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer is making his second appearance on capitol hill today. This morning, he was before a House Committee and was answering questions from the Senate Finance committee on President Trumps trade policy. Ourselves in future crisis, but we have to find a Smart Solution that accepts the realities that trade is fundamental to our survival and prosperity. In the long term, trade is a key part of the solution because it promotes freedom. It provides customers for our best in the class Agricultural Products. It promotes entrepreneurship and independence. And particularly trade empowers Small Businesses that are the backbone of our communities. In fact, 97 of the u. S. Exporters are Small Businesses. A good start to empowering people and fixing our economy is making sure as many people as possible have the option of being their own boss. We owe it to them and their communities to press for even more opportunities. This is especially true because our tradi
We welcome you in different localities around a beautiful and recovering new york city. You see that on the stock market this morning, with equities up nicely, and yields higher. Safe havens a little bit in retreat. Jon, what is your observation on a tuesday as we move through the week on how this market is doing . Jonathan the focus quite clearly, reopening. Views are still polarized because the near term are so binary. Either reopening is a success, or it fails and we get a second wave. It is one or the other in a nearterm, at least. Tom one of the things that is so important is when i look at the recovery that we are in, it is predicated on the next round of stimulus. Why do i need a round of john norman at j. P. Morgan is telling me we are in some form of recovery . Lisa a lot of people are expecting the federal government p enhanced Unemployment Benefits. There is expectation baked in that that will continue. My question is, how much pressure will they be on washington to continue