Well timed. That is how it landed. A book about the Oil And Gas Industry and a big chunk of the book was about the craziness and the corruption in the ukraine. Then it was the playing field. I didnt intend it to land it that way. Well, now of course mr. Trump is being impeached for a second time. And it is kind of uncanny, a lot of the things that i wrote about in the book that came out in the first trump impeachment. The whole reason that i wrote the book is because we were consistently underestimating the sway of this one industry. How much sway it has over politicals and governments here and around the world. I thought there was a need for a explainer and how the industry could explain. If something is happening that does not make sense on the surface it helps to look at the industry and see if they are maybe The Hidden Hand, when politics fail or governments are bad. This is a place to look. One thing to say here is the hidden power that is making it possible or impossible and call
Scandal. Government buildings are being targeted. 2020 race with less than 100 days to go to election day, major Bernie Sanders supporters say they cannot get behind former Vice President joe biden, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley will join me on more on 2020 race. Bringing critical supply chain back to america. Assistant to the president for trade and manufacturing, pete navarro with big announcement coming up plus latest tensions with china. Folks on earnings this morning, we will hear from 3m, mcdonalds. Jetblue among the names reporting before the name this morning. Futures searching for firm direction, we are expecting decline at start of trading, dow futures down 75, nasdaq down 40 and the s p lower by 8 and 3 quarters. U. S. Markets kicked off the week with gains yesterday finishing with near session highs as vaccine trials moving forward. Dow industrials up 115 points and nasdaq up 173 and s p higher as well, covid19 slamming the sports world meanwhile days into th
Close, all the major averages ending the week with significant gains, its a second straight week of gains for the s p and for the nasdaq. We began with fox Business Team coverage, blake burman and edward work lawrence in washington and we will start with blake, what is the latest on the stimulus. I guess there was a movement the democrats say they are willing to lower their number down a trillion dollars, however, no movement at all because it doesnt seem as if either side as if closer to a deal, we had another meeting on capitol hill, the top ford negotiators Steven Mnuchin and meadows, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer for democrats. Democrats say theyre willing to drop the number from three and half trillion dollars to another relief package and down a trillion dollars, so long as republicans move up there 1 trillion, another trillion. For the sake of america, meet us in the middle, dont say my way or no way, thats what theyre saying, they want to come off the number. Walking into that
The running are california representative karen bass former National Security adviser susan rice and california senator kamala harris, South Carolina congressman jim clyburn has been meeting with biden ahead of his announcement and says this kind of important decision takes time for a reason. I think the Vice President is doing what they ought to do and that is allowing is that is to do that work. The couple and that is necessary and then when you go through the results of all of that. You let your heart and you had to go. The Biden Campaign has bedded 11 Vice President ial candidates, potential ones. The announcement is expected soon since the Democratic National Convention Starts one week from today once the announcement is made you can expect full coverage right here on kron 4. Meantime joe bidens wife jill says that she plans to return to teaching if she becomes first lady, this is biden holds a doctorate in education and is a Community College professor. She took a leave of absenc
From san jose. Those impacted by the coronavirus crisis. Some people are them h ty le recenauthod by the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley they found that more than 43,000 families countywide will be at risk of homelessness if current protections arent extended. Sandy perry of the Affordable Housing says more needs to be done related to rent forgiveness. With the pandemic and the layoffs related to the pandemic, people are absolutely destitute. They have no way to pay the back rent. Now, Property Owners are alsd too, n to be p of the conversation. Some have gone months without receiving payment from their tenants and are now at risk of foreclosure themselves. The board of supervisors will meet today and may vote on this issue. Reporting live from san jose, lauren martinez, abc7 news. This morning we are hearing from a single mom who is homeless just six months after she gave birth to twins. This is a rosanna and her twins elijah and elias. She was the property manager at the mobile Home