Hasnt stopped my friends that hasnt stopped our brand name and cheap us President Donald Trump from crying foul we think we will win the election very easily we think theres going to be a lot of litigation as we have so much evidence so much proof and its going to end perhaps that the highest court in the land will see what we think theyll be a lot of litigation because we cant have an election still in the like this and i tell you i would i have been going about this for many months for those of you and i have said very strongly that mail in ballots are going to end up being a disaster so yes there is donald once again declaring that this fight for the white house between our 2 geriatric leaders could end up in a legal battle on the floor of the Supreme Court democracy at its finest so what is the wave of litigation as the trump and his supporters are counting on will vox reports that be true. Campaign has filed a wave of lawsuits seeking to make marginal changes to the procedures gov
Forecasts. The top lines are up. Revenues up 4 if you look at the activities. Despite the impact iag luke to raise 3 billion euros and klm unveils an operating loss sending both shares into the red. Six years of growth wiped out in spain as gdp drops in the Second Quarter but the French Economy shrinks less than expected down 15. 8 . Happy friday welcome to street signs. Weve got a lot of earnings to get to lets talk gdp first weve heard from france and spain. Now numbers from italy preliminary q 2 gdp slank quarter on quarter less expected a value. Theyve advised their q 1 estimate of 5. 4 contraction quarter on quarter and 5. 4 year on year. Slightly worse than anticipated. Q 1 marginally worse but q 2 better than expecting. An unprecedented slump for italy but the takeaway better than analysts had feared. Not quite as grim as the market had been bracing for looking at the euro gaining ground currently trades around 118. 77 we have the france and spain numbers. Spains economy shrunk
Billion on amazon during the lockdown. The stock is up 169 per share. Facebook, another pandemic winner. 2. 4 billion people used facebook or one of its apps every day. That is global clout. The stock is up 16. Now, google, that is the exception to the stock price rally. They reported a firstever decline in quarterly revenue with the economy lockdown, advertisers slowed their spending. That stock is down 16 bucks. Overall, stocks are going up this morning. I see green for the dow, green for the s p and especially a lot of green for the nasdaq, up 111 points. No deal on stimulus. Democrats and republicans negotiated last night. Neither side emerged optimistic. Politico reports that offers were exchanged. The white house wants a fourmonth extension of jobless benefits. The democrats want much longer. Perhaps a deal is still possible. Here comes the hurricane. Look at that cone. Probably not going to be a good beach weather up and down the eastern seaboard this weekend. What does that do
Cspan radio app. Earmarks and what is going on with them this morning. Joining us is tom schatz, president of citizens against government waste and he will talk about the 2020 government pig book. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host can you tell us exactly what citizens against government waste is and where you get your funding . Guest citizens against government waste was created in 1984 following the release of the report under praise that in reagan. President citizens against government waste has been issuing the pig 1991, porkbarrel spending or earmarks, so we are funded by the taxpayers. The paper came about in 1991. We worked with the pork busters coalition and created a seven point criteria for determining what would be an earmark or porkbarrel project in the appropriations bill. This year, we have had 15. 9 billion which is up by almost 4 from the prior year. This is going on, by the way, even what Congress Claims is an earmark moratorium. Before we get into what you found,
President of citizens against government waste and he will talk about the 2020 government pig book. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host can you tell us exactly what citizens against government waste is and where you get your funding . Guest citizens against government waste was created in 1984 following the release of the report under praise that in reagan. President citizens against government waste has been issuing the pig 1991, porkbarrel spending or earmarks, so we are funded by the taxpayers. The paper came about in 1991. We worked with the pork busters coalition and created a seven point criteria for determining what would be an earmark or porkbarrel project in the appropriations bill. This year, we have had 15. 9 billion which is up by almost 4 from the prior year. This is going on, by the way, even what Congress Claims is an earmark moratorium. Before we get into what you found, can you define what you are calling an earmark . Guest the seven point criteria includes whether