Expected to drop 24 year on year. The futures are looking slightly lower, down four points. We are looking at some of the currencies. As david would say in the last hour, the bloomberg dollar index is on track for its worst july in a decade. A more dovish start from the fomc. No big surprises from the fed, but the lower mantra weighing on the dollar. The dollar index is flat, at least for now. Wellussie in his flat as aussieyen is flat as well. We move on to the commodities and the yield story. The question marks around oil were in focus as well towards the end of play yesterday. You saw a reduction in the u. S. By about 10 billion barrels. That gave some support to crude prices and wti, currently flat. Gold is now 5 10 of 1 . The 10 your yield on year, still below 60 basis points. 57 is barely moved, risch. Rishaad yep. Global coronavirus case is approaching 17 million. More than 660,000 people have died now. The states recording 150,000 fatalities. California, florida, and texas post
And so if i wanted to say, well, the presidency in humor, humor in the white house didnt quite do it. But then i thought about it some more and actually it does work because neither of the first two president has a sense of humor. So it gets me out of that problem. But, im going to follow the lead of perhaps the most successful humorist in the white house. It might not be the person youre thinking of by doing what he always did, in most cases what he did at the beginning of a talk, he started with a joke. Again, some of you will have heard this joke, but please pretend you havent heard it before and laugh at the appropriate point. So this is a joke and this is a key to part of my story. That Ronald Reagan used to tap. And the key is, as youll see, Ronald Reagan was effectively telling the story on himself. It related to a time in his career when he didnt know sort what he was doing or where he was going. As you will know of Ronald Reagan, he had two careers primarily. He was a film act
His supporters are going to be behind us. We are going to need everybody on deck. It is going to be hard. We appreciate your support. [applause] for the past year and a half, which is the hardest thing ive have traveled to every city, town and cross roads in the state of alabama. I have listened to stories. I have listened to it all. I have wasnt to the consent i have listened to the concerns of everybody. There are a lot of people hurting. I have been listening. I have not taken anything for granted. I stood in a field with farmers, putting crops in back in planting season a month ago. They are not even planting that crop to feed their family, but they are planting that crop to feed our families. It is important we understand that. I want to thank alfa for their support. They have been huge. I sat with military veterans who simply want their country that they serve faithfully to keep their promises to them like the v. A. I have talked to many of them. I have met with enforcement offic
For independents and others, that is 202 7488002. You can also send us a tax. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. That is 202 7488003. On twitter, it is cspanwj. Lets start with the polling on this. Both cases are the result of cases on the front of the new york time. Present isnt above the law. Custis is decide. Two cases. The court ruled seven to two that new york prosecutors could seek mr. Trumps financial records. Vote they call the liberal block and conservative block, those considered in this decision that voted for this. Same result in the second case, and the same majority ruled mr. Trump, for now, could block disclosure of his financial records to House Committees, returning the case to lower courts to narrow the scope of the records sought. Both of those cases in the polling on the cases from the New York Times shows in obtaining the right to the president tax records, most people,ulled most 61 , polled the prosecutors have a right in the president
Managing editor of the beat in d. C. , and author of the book, say it louder black voters, white narratives, and saving our democracy. Welcome to washington journal. Guest great to be with you this morning. Host tell us about your new book. What is it about . In media anded politics for almost 20 years now. Feel free to gasp. I have been in this space for two decades. What i discovered in my time and working in different capacities at cnn, as a field producer and executive producer running the d. C. Bureau is black voters have an inordinate amount of power, as does the media. Sometimes these powerful entities are running parallel, but frequently they are running contrary. Recently every political conversation we had in the media has been about why people. As the demographics change and we are in a cultural shift i wanted to write something that highlighted the unique black experience in the unique black patriotism that exists in this country. I was writing this before ahmaud arbery, be