[singing] [organ music] [singing] [choir singing] [organ music] [choir singing] this is a celebration of life for george floyd. We are in celebration of life for our brother. [singing] [singing] [choir singing] [choir singing] [organ music] [applause] [organ music] please be seated at this moment so that the family may enter. As you are seated, please respect social distancing. Appreciated. Ly god bless you and thank you. [organ music] please move to your seats swiftly so the service may begin to honor the memory and legacy of mr. George floyd. Your presence here is greatly appreciated. We are asking everyone please be seated at this time. Lived up thine eyes into the hills. My help comes from the lord. Suffer he they keep its made shall not slumber, behold he they keep its israel shall not slumber nor sleep for the lord is the keeper. The lord is the shade on my right hand. Lord shall preserve the from all evil. He shall preserve thy soul. The lord shall preserve thy going out and com
A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from minnesota. Ms. Klobuchar madam president , are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. Ms. Klobuchar madam president , we are here today to vote on a nominee to be a commissioner at the federal election commission, the independent Agency Responsible for enforcing federal Campaign Finance laws. I am deeply disappointed in todays vote which is a departure from the senates longstanding tradition of considering f. E. C. Nominees on a bipartisan basis and another step in eroding the fra decisions of the the traditions of the senate all for a candidate that hold extreme views towards the agency that he would be appointed to. Prior to today, the senate has voted to confirm 47 f. E. C. Nominees and 42 of those nominees have been confirmed through a bipartisan process. As the ranking democrat on the rules committee, i have repeatedly urged my republican colleagues to work with us to get the f. E. C. Running a
Good morning, everybody welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick here with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. A gain of just over 1 the dow now at 25,000. Now the dow is indicated up 162 points the nasdaq closed at its highest day. Now about 2 from its alltime high thats the run youve seen since the lows back in march treasury yields. Theyve ticked a little higher the 10year looks like it is yielding 0. 75 crude oil prices yesterday, crude was up about 4 percent on this expectation that opec plus especially russia will extend those cuts put in place that was good for 4 as seen yesterday. Crude up by 1 to 37. 16 all of this against a tricky back drop. It is powering higher well talk to a lot of folks that will help us through this the need for Solutions Former white house and ceo of j j and they have big news on all of this. Getting an update of what has gone on. Reporting a day of mostly calm in washington, Late Afternoon in st. Paul, staging the protesters protesters ran past the
Macys, looting as well. Tension across the city, no question about it. You opened correctly, which is this is not just about new york. It is not just about washington. It is about cities across the nation, the horrific events in buffalo and those tragic deaths in chicago as well. Jonathan for programs like this where we have to cover the markets, you have to stress to the size that this equity market just feels totally removed from the mood of this country right now. We talked about yesterday, and no doubt through this morning as well. Tom i am not going to mince words. Ive witnessed this before i was born with my grandparents. One set of grandparents completely removed from the depression, worried about the stock market. The other set of grandparents going, what are you, nuts . It is true futures are up. It is truly risk on. I would note brent crude get a near a 40 per barrel print. Jonathan a weaker dollar in the mix as well. Lisa, we heard from the president yesterday evening. A lot
Good evening, everyone and thank you all for joining us tonight. On behalf of carmichaels bookstore, i am delighted to welcome you all to tonights events, if we could take a moment before we began to silence our phones, i would appreciate that. Tonight we are joined by cassie chambers whose honored her child hood in appalachia and the strong women who raised her preacher went on to earn a degree from harvard law and has worked extensively with Domestic Violence survivors in kentucky. She lives with her husband. Please join me in giving a warm welcome to cassie. [applause] thank you all, first off i want to thank everyone for being here and coming out in the rain on a cold night, mean so much to have everyone from all the different stages in my life, it is wonderful to see you all here. I wanted to carmichaels for hosting this event, please, carmichael so, so much for this community, please purchase books if you want to have independent bookstores and use our dollars to do that. Please