Voting. Youre going to have a catastrophic situation. With universal mailin votes. He doesnt want an election. Our Convention Coverage starts this morning with senator Bernie Sanders, top Trump Campaign strategist jason miller. Nate silver. And insight and analysis from our powerhouse roundtable. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, and welcome to this week. Four years ago, on the eve of the democratic convention, we were in philadelphia as the delegates gathered. All set to broadcast from the Convention Hall as all networks have done since the dawn of the tv era. Not this year. The pandemic thats upended so much of our lives has essentially cancelled the convention, the delegates wont beeakers will be taking a virtual stage. Beaming in from all over the country. In an epic display of social distancing. One thing that wont change from four years ago, the kickoff speaker will be the runnerup of did nomination, Bernie Sanders
Now. Broader markets also higher. Take a look at futures, dow futures currently up 250 points, thats about 1 , nasdaq futures up 92 and s p futures up 25. Stimulus standoff leading to the nasdaq lower by 185. Gold losing some of its shine. Tumbling 4 and a half percent yesterday. More tiktok security concerns this morning. The popular chinese app reportedly tracking user data for millions of people in violation of google policies. Plus College Football taking time out, the big ten and pack 12 postponing the fall season due to coronavirus. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria and global marks this morning are mixed. Ftse 100 in london is up 48 points and uk economy falling into a recession after shrinking more than 20 in the Second Quarter, largest contraction reported by any major economy so far. The cac quarante in paris up 12 and dax index in germany lower by 18 points this morning. Check asian markets mostly higher on the session. Kospi index was higher as well as hang seng,
Is expected to make trump the 3rd president to be impeached and u. S. History well the democratic speaker of the house nancy pelosi opened the debate she called for both sides to put aside their pastas on differences and vote in the interest of the country it is tragic that the president s reckless actions make impeachment necessary he gave us no choice what we are discussing today is the established fact that the president violated the constitution is a matter of fact that the president is an ongoing threat to our National Security and the integrity of our elections the basis of our democracy hundreds of historians legal scholars and former prosecutors but darlas of party had stated that the president committed impeachable offenses. Now republican senator Lindsey Graham says he wants to say see a quick trial in the Senate Without any new witnesses presented i think this exercise in the house is beginning to weaponize impeachment the Intel Committee could ducted the fact finding elemen
Their case about whether donald trump violated the constitution hes accused of both holding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating his political rival joe biden and of obstruction of congress well the democrat controlled house is expected to make trump the 3rd president to be impeached and u. S. History. But at the same time donald trump is about to address a Campaign Rally in battle creek michigan right now the Vice President mike pence was on stage earlier the u. S. President dismissed the impeachment process as an assault on america and his Republican Party. But we will get you back to the debate in a moment but 1st she has with how the 8 hours of debate has played out. I mean the research gentleman from new york over several hours the democrats repeated arguments that have now become very familiar the president needs to be held to account many speaker the house of representatives has now considered 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump the 1st article charges
Christmastime. Well bring you all of the details tonight and Deputy Attorney general rod rosen stein testifying today that he will not fire special Council Robert mueller as republicans ripped into the 375 texts many of which ripped into President Trump, from two fbi officials assigned to muellers russia probe that would be peter strzok and lisa page. Their texts are viral against President Trump and they call him an idiot and they are supportive of Hillary Clinton at the time when the fbi was investigating her private email server. The texts began as early as december 2015. Strzok has been reassigned in the fbi but now these texts are drawing the attention of congressional investigators plus its official in terms of the seed of its rocket ship rise on the term bitcoin now surpassing the infamous 17th century mania, one analyst says and we will break it all down for you, so is it time to buy or sell . Were watching your money weve got an allstar guest line up including former Senior Ad