Pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Theyre welcome to my home in Fairfax Virginia im josh rushing sitting in for the irreplaceable for me ok and this is the stream today were asking is to dan on the path to democracy still now look if youre watching this on you tube you see that box over there yet right there that is the live you tube chat help me out get in the conversation we have a producer in there thats going to get your comments or your questions to me and im going to try to get them in the show now let me catch you up on whats been happening in sudan were just over a year from omar bashir is government being toppled the new government set a goal of elections in 2022 so thats what everyones watching some of the problems as they were deadlines
Standout. Take a look, the nasdaq closing above 10,000 which is a now record high, the other majors under pressure. Ordering food delivery. Grubhub to be acquired by European Company leaving uber empty handed. Grubhub soaring this morning, almost 50 7 rather on grub hub. Dont miss that. Valuable insight. President trump headed to dallas to talk Police Reform as protestors continue to take to the streets across the country. We have all the latest happenings coming up. The next jobs in america, with more people working from home the cyber threat is growing. The growing demand of cybersecurity. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria and Global Markets this morning are under pressure, take a look at burpan indices selling off the morning, ftse 100 down 122, cac quarante down 101 and dax index down 244 right now. In asia right now its red across the board, we will bring you all of that coming up. Oil prices are also sliding this morning along with stocks. This, of course, indicater, s
Market, one of the largest on the planet because after spike in case there is. This weighs on investors whether good or bad. What alters course of stocks, whatever is altering on the virus itself. Connell mcshane has joined us on that. Hey, con them . Reporter neil, were on pace to have the next relatively significant decline in the markets past three sessions. The virus news, youre right, rattles investors. Maybe a little politics as well. As the dow ask struggling staying above the 25,000 level. It has come down off the lows after being down 760 points earlier in the session. Only down 270 right now. The states on the spike front, big ones are getting a lot of attention. Florida, texas. Texas, as an example had three days in a row with record hospitalizations. Watch that you have more cases like arizona and arkansas and other states. You mentioned new york, which is epicenter of the outbreak here in the u. S. The Governor Andrew Cuomo did indeed threaten to reverse some reopening tha
Susan i wanted to put the cover of your new book, dignity, on the screen. And have you explain its essence to me. Chris it is a book about my five years driving around the United States, spending time in what i would call back road america, the part of america that is everywhere. It is not a red state or blue state thing, it is the towns and communities that have been ignored or left behind or forgotten. Places like selma, alabama, like the north side of milwaukee, places like the bronx in new york city. Places that are kind of stigmatized and defined in various ways as being places where there is high crime or poverty, but places that make up a large part of the United States. Susan that is the back row, the front row is chris the front row is me. Me and my colleagues. I used to work on wall street. I was there for 20 years before i did this. I have a phd in physics. Those are what i call front row professions. People who have harvard degrees, yale degrees, people who make up a large
Was the heroes act and sounds bureaucratic but you understand this money goes to our firefighters and Police Officers and doctors and nurses, Child Protection services and even the people that pick up the trash, the people who make our communities work. And theyre the ones who have suffered. Governor hogan of maryland, a republican, said up to 550 billion is the revenue loss of state and local governments from the pandemic. Host your governor Ralph Northum says the state may keep part of the restrictions underway as reopening gets underway and you represent a portion of Northern Virginia. Why are the concerns of Northern Virginia different than say, more rural virginia . Guest we have the only governor in the country who is also a physician. That gives us a little advantage and i think the governor northum struggle with the fact you get to southwest virginia to wytheville and marion there are very few cases and in Northern Virginia where i live its a hot spot and were not quite as bad