A virus lockdown winner has emerged. Its walmart. They have had the advantage of remaining open and they finetuned their delivery and pickup services. They have done very well. Look at this. Same store sales, up 10 . Huge. Sams club sales up 12 , even bigger. Ecommerce, now, this is a big one, up 74 , online sales. That is remarkable. The stock, we are quoting premarket now, the stock is up nearly five bucks, 3. 8 . Okay. This is going to be a live action day. Two top money guys head to capitol hill. Speaker mnuchin, jay powell, they will be discussing what they think still needs to be done for the economy. You want my opinion, please give us Liability Protection. The president addresses the nations farmers. What do they need and whats with the Food Supply Chain. We will carry his speech live. Thats in our 11 00 hour this morning. Then theres the market. After yesterdays 900point gain. That rally followed encouraging news on a vaccine from moderna and the rapid reopening of the economy
Pres. Trump p nice to see you. Nice to see you. Thank you very much. Everytything good . Farmers doing good . Thank you, President Trump. Think you very much, all. We are here to announce dramatic action to support our nations open. S as we it is happening fast and with better numbers than anyone would have thought. I want to express our gratitude to the producers across the country who have kept our nation fed and nourish as we have battled the invisible enemy. It is an invisible enemy. It is tough, but we are going to win and we are going to win very big. We can never forget all the people who have been left behind that have died, for some reason that should have never happened. Should have never happened. You know that, i know that. And the e people that caused the problem, they know that too. Thats too bad. You remind us that the American Farmers, the backbone of our country, they are really a great friend of mine and i appreciate all the support and i know they appreciate our supp
Good, that i can tell you. We were able to get them testi testing, and including filling up their stockpiles, which really they should have had do done. Weve made a lot of governors feel very good and thats frankly good because its good for our country. Sandra chief correspondent john roberts joining us now from the north line on this Tuesday Morning. For weeks now the president and white house officials have been saying that the federal government will lay out guidelines for the states to follow in terms of reopening, and yesterday in a situation room teleconference with the nations governors the president again reiterating that idea saying the reopenings will be left to the governors to implement as they see fit. But the governments stance ready to assist if necessary. Each state has given us a plan for what they believe they need for protecting purposes. Weve been able to sit down, and to ensure that we have enough testing for the federal government to come in with the huge audible
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