Director of national intelligence. Watch online on seesmic the oracle or listen on the free cspan radio app. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced monday the state legislature will debate a bipartisan proposal to help Small Businesses during the pandemic. The governor was joined by state officials who announced a new app to help with state covid19 Contract Tracing efforts and to provide an update on covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations. This runs 40 minutes. Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are
Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are doing everything they possibly can. There are reasons to be optimistic over the horizon with a vaccine. There are reasons to be optimistic now that we have new therapeutics. There are also reasons to be optimistic because the data shows if we change our behaviors and take some of the mitigation efforts, there is a cascading effect that keeps people from being infected, keeps people out of the hospital, which saves lives. It is what we asked last week. I want to b
President , he has announced hes free of the virus in immune and up dressed in airport crowd in florida today. This is important, the virus and how to deal with are central issues of the election. The president is taking the lead in opening the economy and returning to work in promoting the successful treatment, that is important stuff. Meanwhile joe biden always wearing a mask except for when hes coughing is bogged down with questions about packing the court in fracking, he will hold to events in ohio, lets see if he answers as important questions. Lefthand side of the screen, Supreme Court hearing for Amy Coney Barrett started an Opening Statement the judge said she learned from her mentor, Justice Antonio scully out. A judge must apply the law as written, not as a judge wishes it were. Vice president ial candidate Kamala Harris will participate virtually for safety reasons. Lets get to the market, the dow industrial is up for 50 on point, the s p up 20 thereabout look at the nasdaq,
Thats still a threat a new stimulus plan high seed out still but maybe this is a buy on the dip day for big tech. The big five are off to a good start, you will see it all in a moment, plenty of green on the screen this morning, the debate joe biden says the president is not smart and he does not know much about Foreign Policy or domestic policy and he will come out swinging in the debate tomorrow night. The president wants biden to take a drug test before the debate and hes asking where is hunter biden, 36 hours ago, get separate tv ratings record, judge barrett facing harsh personal criticism, democrat activists are calling her a white colonizer for adapting to haitian children in senator feinsteins attack on her catholicism keeps popping up all over the place. Judge barrett starts makin meetg tomorrow and several refused to meet her including senator schumer, the hearings can begin in two weeks around october the 12th getting close, what a day and what a week, jobs day friday and Va
Have to act. Unless we get more support, i think the u. S. Will go back into recession. Isathan joining us now gershon distant belt. People, hey for many was asking fiscal policy makers to do more. Iu were the one person that have read in the last couple of days that believes that was a dovish news conference. Tell us why. Do agree with a lot of the clips you pointed out, ive been saying it for a long time. You need fiscal support. This belief that the fed or Central Banks can solve problems by themselves is silly. This is not a classical recession. There is nothing Central Banks can do to get people to go there is a supply shock aspect as well. Restaurants are not fully open. You cannot go to the sporting event. The fed can do all that wants but you need the fiscal side. In terms of the relationship to the dovish side, there were several indicators. The fed was clear, chairman powell was clear he was willing to do more quantitative easing if necessary. He didnt say anything about pull