100000 but some say the actual number could be much higher. And 2 dead and 25 missing after a storm hits france and italy sweeping away houses and roads. Thanks for joining us mixed messages over Donald Trumps Coronavirus Infection are causing confusion over the health of the worlds most powerful president so officials and doctors are presenting contradictory explanations of when the u. S. Leader was infected and how sick he actually may be trump himself has tweeted from hospital that hes feeling well he thanked medics at Walter Reed Medical Center thats where hes been since friday and the president s own doctor Sean Connelly also said that he was doing very well and had been fever free for 24 hours but minutes after that an official close to trump said some of his vital signs over the past 24 hours have been very concerning and the next 48 hours are critical well Senate Republicans have now canceled all legislative work until october the 19th as the virus sweeps through the partys ran
Support. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance, im Francine Lacqua in london. Lots going on on the markets. Lets get straight to what the european stocks are doing. Down 0. 5 . Stocks are falling with u. S. Futures, as well. Oil dropping below 40 a barrel. Economicl says the rebound likely needs more support and that leaves a lot of questions about what Central Banks could or could not do. To have ans good idea of what is going on with the german economy, the german Business Confidence index aligned with expectations. Get straight to the bloomberg first word news in london. Leighann gerrans. Good morning. Protests in louisville, kentucky. One officer is undergoing surgery and a suspect is in custody. The latest violence was sparked by a grand jury decision not to file murder charges against Police Officers involved in the Fatal Shooting a Breonna Taylor. One officer faces a lesser charge of wanton endangerment for firing into neighboring apartments. Itsu. K. Is considering first vaccine st
But most importantly please find a link to pauls book, you can click on the link and purchase please go ahead and purchase pauls book and help support the discourse that hes hes lending to all of us in the next few months and beyond. I just want to say that any night of the week we would be thrilled to have one of our guests but together is a hallelujah movement. I dont know if youre counting or shows the days, minutes and seconds until the election but if youre not counting there are 88 days remaining. Personally i wish that the election was today but we have to wait 88 days and as i said given whats riding on the outcome, trust honor and pleasure to introduce my old colleague and friend paul begala for tonights events. He will tell us how democrats can win in november, that would, of course, if we are successful, leave one of the two plagues ravaging our nation. [laughter] paul will be explaining new book. When you read it, you will encounter some of Electoral College and trump tramp
Mac will john, thank you for taking this opportunity to discuss your new book. I am delighted by the opportunity to have some questions about it. I reddit a few days ago. Had a little bit of time to prepare for this interview. I want to start because he wrote a peace in 2017 that unloaded pretty strong on President Trump for various overreaches for the exercise of executive powers. Now youre presenting him as a defender of the traditional Constitution Order regarding president ial powers. I want to ask you what changed your view . How did you move from where you were before to what you have presented in your new book . Guest thanks for inviting me to it come on with you. And really looking forward to this conversation. As you know ive been an admirer of your work on executive privilege, this should be a lot of fun. I started out wary of President Trump. I was not a supporter of his and the 2016 election. And the thing that worried me as he was a populist. In the constitution seems desi
Edward lawrence is live in d. C. Hillary vaughn live on the ground in wilmington, delaware. Susan, start with you. Were seeing a record close for the nasdaq and s p 500 as well. Now one star stock performer today, we have to bring updraft kings, dont we . It rallied almost 14 in presession. Not a bad 8 gain today. This is after bringing Michael Jordan on board as stakeholder, investor in the company and special advisor now to the board. Jordan brings his brand name along with him star power and strategy and sports knowledge. We have news from the worlds Biggest Company apple, today. Yes, a bit of a drag. Giving back some of the advance, not all the advance weve seen on monday. Worlds Biggest Company, 2. 3 trillion. That is bigger than the entire European Market and the ftse 100. They created 100,000 new economy jobs during the pandemic. That brings it up to 2. 1 million. That is 15 up in the last year. Biggest states with jump in app economy jobs, not talking california, new york. Texa