And securing the blefg of liberty blessings of liberty for all americans has taken a long and bumpy road and we still have a lot further to go. It starts with that one step. But at this moment the country and the world are demanding we pick up the stride. Lets follow iowas lead. Lets come together and take meaningful action. And to be clear, the passage of a single bill is not going to suddenly reverse centuries of injustice. Passing laws are a simple part. If we really want to change behavior, we need to commit ourselves to changing our hear hearts. The best way that we can personally commemorate the life of george floyd and the many others before him who lost their lives or suffered injustice is to open our own hearts. Chaplain black summed up the solution best when he quoted to me mark 12 31. Love your neighbor as yourself. Its both that simple and that challenging. So im asking all of us in this body to be more like iowa. Lets find a solution. Lets take that first step and begin ou
States Supreme Court ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protecting americans from workplace, discrimination also extends to those who are part of the Lgbtq Community this ruling is expected to have a major impact for an estimated 8. 1 million workers in the u. S. Thats because most states do not have protections for lgbtq people from the workplace discrimination. The ruling is considered a defeat for the Trump Administration for more on the ruling we talked with Shannon Minter legal director with the National Center for rights. Unfortunately, i the current president has done a lot to try to restate new ties tbt to people in kind of with first cody unbiased with their community and it really means a lot that the Supreme Court of the United States, including justices appointed by this very president. We are being sent a very clear powerful message to the president and to our whole country that the court is not going to go along with that kind of scapegoating her attempts to foment divi
Additional federal assistance. Later, pbs frontline correspondent talks about pbs frontlines latest documentary host good morning, everyone. Confirmed cases of the 780 7000,s stands out 960. Conversation our with hazard pay for frontline workers. You think they should get paid more than their hourly wages or their salaries as it stands right now . We want to know your opinion. Other essential workers, 202 7488001. Business owners, is this feasible . 202 7488002 al , first also text us name, city and state. We will post your comments on twitter. We will get to what you have to in just ahazard pay minute. Some front page headlines we want to share with you this morning. Oil street journal, u. S. Costs less than zero after a sharp monday selloff. There is nowhere to store the oil that is being pumped. The president tweeting out late last night in light of the attacks from the invisible enemy , i will be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend emigration into the United States. N
Despite it all, were close to record highs. Free speech is in the news. Nba commissioner, he stood up to china. They wanted the Houston Rockets general manager fired after he tweeted support for the hong kong protesters. Adam silver told them were not going to do that. Free speech item number two. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, he says hes not going to Police Political speech, and hes not going to ban Donald Trumps tweets, as Kamala Harris demanded. Big deal. Big show. Youre going to hear what the president had to say at his big rally last night. The brits, well, theyre on the brink. The brexit vote is hours away. And alec baldwin slams the demonization of wealth. What . Varney company, the very special friday edition, is about to begin. After decades of economic surrender, i have taken historic action to confront chinas rampant trading abuses and weve made great progress and our relationship with china is fantastic. But now were taking in billions of dollars. Theyve had the worst year the
Percent. Nasdaq down 53. Major Market Indices falling better than 1 yesterday, the selloff coming after surprise decline in Manufacturing Activity after the World Trade Organization cut global trade forecast for the year, we told you about that yesterday, joining us hodges capital manager, craig hodge. What did you make of manufacturing data and what do you think that tells us about the economy and the markets. Its obviously not positive, we put all the manufacturing, its only ahird of the economy, we are a service economy, consumer is over 70 , one data p, as we go, the consumer what youre talking about the jobs and payroll, that would be more important as we go along. Maria look at the reaction, we have been talking about manufacturing weakening for a little while, dagen, but the market was sizable decline on this news. Dagen because this index contracted in august and expect today rebound above 50 plus and came much worse than expected, worse than literally every estimate that was o