Worn surging numbers may undermine a Global Recovery. Plus, we discussed prospects for the u. S. And the wider picture with the atlanta fed president , who joins us this hour. Haidi lets look at the sydney staggered open, the friday session muted compared to the street we have had in asian stocks, asiapacific stocks seeing 13 consecutive days of gains broken by the thursday session, the longest winning streak since 1988 coming to an end. A flat stock a flat start in sydney, kiwi stocks up, muted start in japan spite heavy inflows of foreign buying. We are seeing a further downside when it comes to trading in the futures session. Getting secretary mnuchin speaking at the moment. He is speaking in an interview with Bloomberg News, saying financial conditions are quite strong, that companies that are need grants,covid not that. We heard secretary mnuchin earlier asking the fed to return unused coronavirus money. We will get you more as we get those comments. This is coming at a time when
Good morning. My name is Kirsten Carter and i am the supervisory archivist at the fdr president ial library, and on behalf of the library, id like to welcome you again to the 2017 roosevelt reading festival. Fdr plans for the library to become the premier Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The librarys Research Room is consistently one of the busiest of all of the president ial libraries. And this years group of authors reflects the wide variety of research down here. And if you love the roosevelt reading festival, and want to support this and other programs that we do here, i encourage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today at the membership table in the hall or online at fdr library. Org and if you havent already please do go see our new special, temporary museum exhibition, images of internment, the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. So let me quickly go over the format for the festivals sessions today. At the top
Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change his vote . Are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote . If not, the yeas are 52, the nays are 44, and the nomination is confirmed. Under the evious order, the motion to reconsider is consideredade and laid upon e table and the president will be immediately notified of the senas actions. A senator madam president. I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call wit respect to the shelt nomination be waived. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk clotu motion, we, the undersigned setors, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22, hereby bring to a close debate on the nomation of judy slton, of califora, to be a member of t board of governors of the Federal Reserve system, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is,
Celebrate. It is hard to imagine now a period where we wont have to get up every morning and ask ourselves what crazy thing the president tweeted. I like to think it will be a of calm and ordinariness in our politics. Trueis probably not either. We are headed towards a period of great unrest and dissension. My fear is many who supported trump will take this election and say it proves that politics no longer works for them. He has been telling them for a couple years that any outcome that does not result in him winning is proof that the system is corrupt, it was rigged, it alone aand that lot of them will say after this election we lost and we will try to win the time. Politics doesy not work, we need to do something else. On the fringes, some may decide violence is the answer. A very dangerous situation. It is good to hear joe biden come out into say i will be a president for all americans. We need to unify. Barack obama said he would try to unify the country, george bush said it befor
For what they called irregularities and fraud in the voting process. If you support president elect biden and Vice President harris, 202 7488001. If you support President Trump, 202 7488000. If you support another candidate or perhaps did not vote, 20262802 05. Twitter is available to you at cspan wj and you can post on our facebook page. Was last night where president elect joe biden appeared in delaware alongside his running mate, Vice President elect Kamala Harris, to give a speech on the way forward and what to expect in the days ahead. You can see the complete speech on cspan if you which, cspan. Org. Heres a portion from the speech last night. [video clip] wanted thistset, i campaign to look like america. Administration to look and act like that. For those of you who voted for President Trump, i understand the disappointment tonight. I have lost a couple of times myself. But now, lets give each other a chance. [cheers] time to put away the rhetoric, lower the temperature, see eac