Donald trump and joe biden will take the stage for 90 minutes. Six topics on the table. The big question, will the candidates do anything tonight to change the course of this race . President tru behind right now, has been for months. And our statistics guru nate silver at fivethirtyeight calculates that joe biden has a 78 chance of winning the white house. But there are three debates, five weeks to go and President Trump has a history of shaking things up. Our chief White House Correspondent jon karl is on the scene in cleveland. George, donald trump goes into this debate with his back against the wall. By every publicly available measure, he is losing this race. Trailing in the national polls. No consistent lead in any of the top dozen most competitive battleground states. He needs to change the dynamic of this race and tonight is the best chance for him to do it. Hes been here before, four years ago, his campaign was collapsing and he turned it around in part with a debate. And goin
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On that. Lets check on the euro. 117. 5,nce coming in estimation was 116. 7. You can see the leg up for the euro at 11858. If you break it down, he will have the current confidence. You have the Business Climate to get that pretty much in line, a touch better. Thats why we are seeing a bit. F an impact on the euro 118. 50 one. 1858. Nine 30 a. M. London time, we talk about the housing luxury ceo in london, with a thats a 9 45. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. Here is at ludlow. Germanys Opposition Party is opening talks on backing a government led by chancellor Angela Merkel. Social democratic secretarygeneral says the department of ready two start the discussion. The is it and eight hours of talks at the s of the leadership that wrapped up this morning. U. K. Officials have tried to accelerate brexit negotiations by suggesting that rather than wielding a veto next month, ireland could hold fire and block a final accord. Avoid a hard avoiding a hard border and island is
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. I am will roger, director of policy communications at the American Farm bureau federation. Today negotiators from three Member States of nafta will begin renegotiating a treaty that is more than 20 years old. Much is at stake particularly for agriculture. We have with us the three heads of the largest farm organizations in canada, mexico and the United States. The president of the American Farm bureau federation, ron bonnett, president of the Canadian Federation of agriculture. And bosco vega of the conseco national, mexico. They will give their views of what should happen with modernization of nafta. No matter what you have heard there is a great deal our 3 nations have in common and can agree upon. They will give their opening remarks. After that we have assigning and a letter as well as secretary ricardo, chief negotiators for the treaty. After that we open the floor to questions. If you have a question please wait for the microphone so peop