Phone lines split up as usual this morning. Democrats, 202 7488000 is the number to call in. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text. That number, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. You can catch up with us on social media, twitter and facebook. A very good monday morning to you. You can start calling in now. Theheadlines on this topic, first use of the vaccine maybe december 13. 40 million doses said to be available by the end of the month. That from the front page of usa today. Frontline gets the first vaccine doses, but then who . Thats the question we are asking this morning, asking you to be in the position of setting the priority, how would you do it . Turning to the cdc webpage there, i q a on how the cdc is making its covid19 vaccine recommendations. Making those disease vaccine recommendations based on the input from the Advisory Committee on immunization practices. Its a federal Advisory Committee
The various heroic people working at mount sinai hospital, i am tom keene, Francine Lacqua in london. Cavendish,d to baron it is an interesting mix in the United Kingdom of the politics of the government and the fairly grim pandemic statistics. Seenine we also havent from Boris Johnson and a while, so the daily briefings are led by various cabinet ministers, and yesterday we had the further three weeks of lockdown expansion extended. As baroness cavendish was saying, maybe we need more testing. What the markets are looking at, they are looking through the number of cases that are slowly increasing in europe and still increasing in the u. S. , they are looking through the deaths and infected cases, and chinese gdp was horrific, the first contraction in a decade, and they are focusing on the positive. We could have a drug that is working, from gilead, and President Trump has given a timeline and thought on how the economy could reopen. Tom i really want to emphasize, every politician in
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Eye on even keep an as we see stocks continue to rally. All three major averages trading higher with the dow leading gains in terms of the pace. Lead. Logy continues to we have seen that thus far this year particularly during the rebound from the recent selloff we have been seeing. The stocks with the exception of facebook have been strong. The out performers include qualcomm, which says now it will engage with negotiations with rob kropp broadcom overpricing. The current offer stands at 79 per share. Rising in the market cap surpassing ninth 900 billion per share. We are on record watch for apple. If you are doing that kind of a 17937. It was the record close, 17853. Being upgraded to overweight from neutral over jpmorgan in the wake of hps earnings report, rising 3. 5 . Were taking a look a look at rates and the dollar. All of them were lower earlier. The dollar was lower and they need a little bit of a comeback back right now. It is little changed. The twoyear and the 10 year yield
We have three states that will be a little tough for us, that is west virginia, montana, and south dakota. Im sure we will talk about south dakota. But we have strong incumbents in the red states. We have two more tossups, iowa and colorado. Our candidates are running very strong but they are very tough. If you talk to anybody on both sides of the aisle, as he races tighter and tighter, the maps become narrower. What gives you the confidence if you look at all the , all sayaround town that the republicans are favored. Youre going to have to run the table in places like North Carolina, iowa, colorado. Where is your confidence coming from . Out of those six races, they have to pick up four of them. Races, the at the ,emographics, kay hagan somebody who, 18 months ago they said there was no chance she would be winning. Here she has, to five days out, and she has a small but steady lead. Phenomenalve a infrastructure. If you look at the early vote numbers, absentee vote numbers, those are