Cspan radio app. By coversnt next menchu a garcia congressman chuy curcio. With the visit yesterday of the mexican president lopez, over a meeting with President Trump and holding a briefing with reporters. Also talking about the beginnings of the u. S. Mexicocanada agreement. Let me read you from the Washington Post article. They say that trump was elected on an antiimmigration platform and said he would build a wall on the u. S. Mexico border and force mexico to pay for it. Mexico rejected that idea outright. U. S. Taxpayers have funded the barricade, which is under construction. Last year President Trump threatened to impose tariffs on mexico if the leaders did not do more to keep migrants from entering the United States. A deal was struck but not without hard feelings on both sides. Yet President Trump and president lopez op obrad or have a good relationship. Why do you think that is . Guest i think the meeting for the most part was a dog and pony show. President trump has insulted
House. And later, advancing Health Equity founder and ceo dr. Uche blackstock joins us to discuss covid19s impact on minority communities. Another ruling on the Affordable Care act, the Supreme Court ruled 72 yesterday in favor of a 2017 Trump Administration rule extending the exemption to the Affordable Care acts birthcontrol mandate. It is thursday, july 9, 2020. Good morning, and welcome to washington journal. We open the show and ask whether support employers decided denying contraceptive health care to employees. Here is how to join the conversation. If you support the exemptions, two of 274s 88000. Two748pose, it is to 80001. Commentsost additional at facebook. Com cspan. , specificallyting on that case, the New York Times this morning with a graphic on how justices voted and how people for it feel about where the public stands on this issue. They write the Affordable Care act requires Health Insurance plans for women include coverage for contraceptives, Birth Control, but the Tr
Facebook premarket, zooming after a big gain yesterday. Its Financial Report suggested some stability returning to the advertising market. Facebook getting 98 of its revenue from ads. This company is a truly global platform. Over 1. 7 billion daily users. Stocks up another 6 this morning after a gain yesterday. Look at microsoft. Big gain yesterday, modest gain this morning. Its close to its alltime high. It says the virus had little impact on its business. Up 1 , microsoft, this morning. Its true to say these trillion Dollar Tech Companies are again pulling in a big chunk of investors money. One more for you. Tesla. Yep, another big gain. Elon musk is furious at the california authorities for keeping his fremont plant closed. He calls them fascists. More on that in a moment. Look at tesla go, 854, up 54. Overall trn overall, its a down day. The dow is looking to be down 280 points. The s p down 33, and the nasdaq, despite the success of big tech companies, thats going to be down as we
We also have with the cnn business and politics correspondent, Vanessa Yurkevich. Migrant issue is affecting how they cast their ballots while Immigration Top of mind, especially for Republican Voters here in texas. And weve heard that from voters here this morning who are Casting Ballots in the republican primary, where one of the Polling Locations in el paso, texas, one of many border communities have been affected by the ongoing immigration debate. We know the Republican Party intact x is also finds itself in the midst of a civil war. And this election day will really be an interesting test of the influence that donald trump has on texas republicans. Hes been very involved in actually somewhat lowerlevel races here in texas. Hes been endorsing candidates for State House Races and that sort of thing. So it is really interesting to see this tension that is going on between the donald trump wing of the Republican Party and what would would have been the old bush wing of the Republican
But the recent protests have blocked Distribution Efforts leaving some food despoil. Its frustrating for the wfp officials as they know. You dont have to look far to find hunger here. These farmers pointing to their stomachs lifting their shirts to us. Hungry a lot of folks will look at haiti and theyll say, its heading issues the question that no doubt people in the us will ask is, well, why should we while there are two reasons why you need to l, first of all, theyre on humanitarian grounds but then theres also her only selfinterest in the us. So the longer you wait to act on haiti the more migrants there will be on our southern border. Its that simple many here, search for normal seat where they can, even with the threat of violence, missing mass for some, is not an option. They wear their sunday best and unite in prayer places of worship are not immune from gang tear. They at least off for a moment of training and hope for now. David culver, cnn, portauprince, haiti im john berman