8002. U are unsure, 202748 you can text us at 2027488903. On twitter it is cspan. Wj. And facebook. It is republicans only for that question. We will open it up tomorrow for democrats only in our first hour of the program as well. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. One of those former supporters and fox opinion commentator opinion writer in the wall street journal. Bases his peace. The headline, this election result will not be overturned. Occasionally change margins in the hundreds but not in the tens of thousands. It has been an unsettling year, at deadly virus claimed almost a quarter million lives, a lockdown demolished personal routines and left us gasping for normality, a sudden deep depression snatched newfound prosperity for families, so why not finish out with a miscast election as the finale . Trump is that mr. Pursuing legal challenges in pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, arizona, nevada, and there will be an automatic recount in georgia given bidens. 29 lead.
Organization youre involved with and what your efforts have done so far in the 2020 election. Guest sure. So about four months ago, a number of us former federal officials pulled together the National Council for election integrity. We now have over 40 members of this council. Its evenly divided between republicans and democrats. It includes former members of congress, like bill frist, dash ill, tom ridge, a number of others. We also have former cabinet secretaries, like madeleine former department of Homeland Security secretaries. And weve got three former fourstar generals or admirals. Weve got a pretty broadbased group. And our concern four months ago was that with the pandemic and with the high volume of mailin ballots required because people didnt want to vote in person as much as usual, and because of the possible closeness of this election, we knew that this could be a problem having a successful election. And getting both sides, whatever happened, to accept the results and to h
Well in many states. Businesses are holding back from spending amid the pandemic and stimulus talks appear to be at a standstill once again with leaders from both sides accusing one another of moving the goal posts in the negotiations. Unlikely we will get a stimulus before the election. 59 minutes to go, dow down 2. 2 . Lets get to the stories we are watching right now as stocks fall sharply mike santoli is tracking the market selloff for us. Which parts he is watching in particular meg tirrell digging into the latest covid numbers mike, whats the broader take on what is happening today average bit of a rethink on a mull pent fronts the idea that covid might cause more business disruption last week the s p 500 was skirting this boundary between this sort of breakout level we had and around 3,400 we are actually below that right now. Did a little bit of damage s p and the nasdaq fell below the 50day average the s. A. P. Warning probably evented the nasdaq from doing a better job of sup
We . President trump threatened to release the full tape of his 60 minutes interview before the edited version and sunday night. He wants to show the leslie, interviewer was hostile and dismissed allegations of hunter biden as unverified. The media stacks the deck against the president. 60 minutes also interviewed joe biden. I wonder if he was asked about the emails which are being confirmed by fox that suggest china paid off the bidens with millions of dollars. So far he has not answered those questions publicly. He should because we may be electing a president under the influence of chinese money. Theres another court ruling that could they an election result in North Carolina absentee ballots may be counted 9 days after election day so long as they were mailed by november 3rd. Pennsylvania counted the count deadline by 3 days. Bottom line, if its close theyll be a delay. And if theres a delay, itll be contested and thats when things getting usually. Its time we dealt with your money
Stephen mnuchin speaking on the phone today regarding stimulus negotiations with a promise to speak again tomorrow and new york city is back in had the coronavirus spotlight. People refuse to wear a mask still to come, coming up on todays show, embattled e. V. Maker nick la with new lows. Well ask the former auto executive what it all means for nikolas pending deal with gm. Plus, well speak with the newly minted president of shopify about the run that stock has been on. Up more than 150 . Well ask about the recent news of rogue employees stealing some Customer Data. Harl Harley Finkelstein will be our guest. We have the latest headlines coming out of washington, d. C. For us start with you, mike a little bit of low volume churning going on today. Maybe a little apprehensive. Kind of Holding Steady ahead of these couple of known potential catalysts, of course the president ial debate and the jobs number. After 4 two day rally, s p 500 year to date, train day, we kind of had that half 1