The nasdaq holds in the green up by a quarter of 1 for the week and all week long stimulus uncertainty has been hanging over this market and on that point the president elect joe biden is meeting this afternoon, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer, we will have more on that in the other meeting that were going to watch very closely this hour, President Trump has invited a group of state legislators from michigan into the white house. I am connell mcshane, welcomed after the bell we have a lot going on in his time to get straight to the news happening at this hour. Lauren simonetti, blake burman and Hillary Bonner standing by to cover the news, we start with you lauren on the latest figures on the virus, what are we seeing . Their moving in the wrong direction, the grid numbers coast to coast, new u. S. Pieces topping 100,000 for 17 days in a row and over the past week the u. S. Is averaging 166,000, new cases a day, this is happening right before the holidays with families gathered together
The right but San Francisco politics is the politics of left and left her. So she is not left her but she is definitely left. And she is to the left of biden. Reporter jeff rosen began working closely with harris, she became california atty. Gen. In 2011. Reporter she said to me one of the things that is important when you have a job like atty. Gen. Or da, is to figure out your top three or four priorities, and focus on that. To make users as californians rnc committeewoman in says she supported harris when she first became da in San Francisco. She has her accomplishments for people of color. I can tell you who is very active in my community, shes never been active in the community other than asking for money. What is the Political Science professor say about some of her, her missteps come if you will, during the president ial run . Reporter he talked about that moment in the 2019 debates, when the candidates were asked about and asked to raise their hand if they would want to get rid
Sanctions unless he agrees to a cease fire. So far rejected any attempts to broker a truce says and says his country isnt worried about further sanctions the operation began over a week ago after the u. S. Withdrew support for kurdish allies in Northern Syria those fighters are regarded as terrorists by turkey. Well check in with Charles Stratford shortly about the fighting thats happening on the ground hes joining us near the turkish Syrian Border 1st though across over to politico who is monitoring diplomatic developments from washington d. C. And you know just about 24 hours ago when you and i were speaking on the air we heard from pretty much say let them do whatever they want over there let them deal with it by themselves how difficult does that make the job of the Vice President and the secretary of state who are there to on a mandate really to negotiate with on a cease fire. It was head scratching really because it seems that the president s public statements are making pences a
Confliction zones and a safe areas in syria particularly in the last 34 years as dismal none of them have worked and the reason is the Bigger Picture which were seeing right now which is an extraordinary affirmation of the role of imperial powers using local actors in the middle east particularly in syria and iraq and particularly the kurds the russians the americans the british the french now the turks as a Regional Power this is been going on for 100 years so theres nothing new here this is a all the says is a sad reaffirmation of the continuation of imperial manipulation of weak dependent local actors and betraying them time after time after time for the interests of the bigger power and this is i think the sad situation youre in and do you think any of. Those powers that you just mentioned have thought about the hundreds of thousands of not the millions of civilians that are in this area that tookie has said that it wants to create a safe zone in return millions of Syrian Refugees
Sports. To missing a penalty from Manchester United and the u. S. Wainstein get their data in court as a judge decides their gender discrimination case will go to trial next year. We begin in syria where opposition activists say rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of hunch in Southern Province as follows days of fighting which saw them firing rockets into government territory the Syrian Government has told its forces which are backed by russia but the battle isnt over yet. The rebels also retreated from the town of malta coaches in hama and is the site of a Turkish Military observation post. In Southern Province is the main Population Center that used to be a place where 100000 syrians took shelter before the military escalation began in april towns in nearby and northern hama countryside have fallen to Government Forces rebel fighters would have risked being besieged if they didnt move further north but for the Syrian Government the big prize was getting contro