Sure to join the conversation with your calls, texts, and tweets. Announcer as the Republican National Convention Gets Underway tonight, we will hear from prominent speakers from past conventions. Senator howard baker from 1984. Then pat buchanan in 1992. , retired general colin powell in 1996. And former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2012. Howard baker had already been Senate Majority leader for three years when he addressed the 1984 Republican Convention. He became 18 years, known as the great negotiator, including passage of the Clean Air Act and the clean water act. Senator baker was vice chair of the committee that investigated whitewater, president nixon, and members of his administration. 35 years later during the impeachment trials of president trump, intelligence chair adam schiff asked, where is howard baker . Where the people willing to go beyond their party to look to their duty . Senator baker spoke to delegates in dallas. Sen. Baker thank you very much. Late is a
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A global coronavirus cases past 20000000 russia becomes the 1st country to approve a vaccine its taken just months to develop so how to say effective is it. Professional wrestlers in mexico say theyve been pinned down by the coronavirus restrictions or put all fights on hold leaving thousands of them out for the count. Im so gail welcome to the program we start in balad ruz where the top opposition candidate in sundays president ial election has left the country amid a Massive Police crackdown on antigovernment protests in a video message from to kind of skier said she was safe with her children in neighboring if you weigh in here she also wrote supporters to end their protest against the election. Result which gave president Alexander Lukashenko a 6 but mystic kind of skys ally say she was pressured into her latest moves. Yet proud of the president on sunday in minsk for the election. By monday she was gone her whereabouts on earn her team unable to reach her. Now svetlana taken off s
Andrew is out, so i have to find a way to annoy you what you asked for. Your birthday is tomorrow, right . Tomorrow, not today tomorrow. Its friday. Everybody deserves to be embarrassed. Well do it anyway this is the last day youll be 19 23. Exactly. Anyway, lets check out the futures this morning as joe mentioned, youll see the dow down slightly by about 26 points s p down by four s p off by eight getting ready to wrap up another week the dow up by 2. 5 over the last four days. S p is higher. On track for a Third Straight positive week. A little different story for the nasdaq tech has been on an incredible run. Many of those names have pulled back not by a lot nasdaq down by 1. 4 this week. If you are watching it, the index is up nearly 17 for the year thats about 58 above the march 23 low and above the march intradate high we hit on monday. We are continuing to watch that. The 10year is the one we watch so closely it looks like the 10year is sitting at the 0. 604 . The bottom level o
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