As a matter of fact. As it closes it is closing lower, dragged down by renewed weakness today in the big tech stocks. Also energy was weak. So all of that, we will have in detail for you. The dow down about 400 points. Welcome to the show, everybody, im connell mcshane. Melissa wow. That was quite a press conference there. Im Melissa Francis and this is after the bell. The dow and the s p 500 closing down more than 1 after the biggest rally in at least two months. The tech selloff pushing the nasdaq deeper into the red after its largest gain since april. We have a lot of news to get to today. Fox Business Team coverage to cover it. Lauren simonetti following the markets. Blake burman is live at the white house. Hillary vaughn has latest on covid relief package. Kick it off with you, blake where all the action is now. Reporter we saw President Trump here as the closing bell hit and the topic again was tapes and conversations that the president had, 18 conversations, nine hours worth wit
Acting deputy Homeland Security secretary Ken Cuccinelli and the head of the National Counterterrorism center. The fbi director said at the hearing that the fbi has not seen widespread voter fraud. Wisconsin senator ron johnson chaired this two hour, 40 minute hearing. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, christopher miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism center, and kenneth cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary. This is our annual threat hearing. When i take a look at all of the threats that this committee has considered and all of the threats facing this nation, i think its pretty interesting, you know, how many hearings weve held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for unanimous consent to have my written Opening Statement be entered in the recor record. If you consider t
Ronnatee headquarters is mcdaniel. I want to begin with the issue that is a key part of your job to make sure voters get to the polls either in early voting or on election day. This coronavirus in key states of michigan where you are from, how are you dealing with that . Guest we were virtual and state are shutting down in down in the coming ofand wewere coming up of particles to make sure they both available and now weve switched back to a fully enforced ground game. Knocking on doors and all the in all the battleground states. We have the infrastructure in place already and now we are knocking on about a million doors a week. Host are you worried about this before and taking precautions with coronavirus . Guest we are taking the safety and Health Precautions necessary. We made sure that there was ppe available and that all the procedures were being put in place and now weve gone to the full ground game and we feel really good about it. We obviously are cognizant of the homeowners and
President donald trump. Yesterday, at a news conference, President Trump refused to commit to the peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election in 41 days. Let me repeat that. Yesterday at a news conference, President Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election in 41 days. Quotes well, were going to have to suit happens but ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots. In ballots are a disaster. Pressed further the president said get rid of the ballots, there wont be a transfer, frankly there will be a continuation. Get rid of the ballots and there wont be a transfer, there will be a continuation. All his words, get rid of voting, get rid of the ballots. Just let him stay in power and whatever illicit way he chooses to do so. That is what he is saying. Now, everyone from schoolchildren to the most senior among us know that the peaceful transfer of power is one of democracies court attributes. There is no democracy without it. And
Mr. Joy thank you very much for giving us your time today. Thank you for having me. I want to thank the Economic Club of washington for paying attention to me at this time racemic so thank you for attending. Briefly for those who may not know your background, you are the 75th postmaster general. The first one is behind you i can see, Benjamin Franklin. He was the inventor of the post office, Postal Service. And you are a native of new yor york. He went to college in florida, and then he went back to your familys business and you built it up, he moved to greenso , North Carolina build into a Logistics Company ultimately merged with another company. Given very involved in philanthropic activities at my alma mater, Duke University with other plates so thank you for giving us your time today racemic let me ask you, at the outset, when you agreed to be postmaster general, did you realize you would get this much attention because it not normally the most famous position in washington d. C. I