The Justice Department into a quote, political Weapon Speech coming less than two months before the president ial election is expected to condemn what he calls an escalation of attacks based on quote, conspiracy theories, Dana Peter is falsehoods. Efforts to bully and intimidate career public servants by repeatedly and publicly singling them out and threats of actual violence. Cnns Jessica Schneider joins us now with more and jessica, this is very unmarried. Garland of berkoff, garland to come out like this. Its notable, jim, weve seen the Attorney General respond to these attacks and congressional hearing springs one questioned by lawmakers, may be in response to questions from the press, but he is going to be making a full throated defense of his employees. Doj officials fbi agents in this really notable speech, hes going to be delivering it around 11, 30 this morning to his employees, two u. S. Attorneys who are in town and its real really incredible. You know, we say we wont let th
Saying china is the greatest threat to democracy worldwide. The u. S. The bloomberg u. S. Dollar index. Crude getting a lift after an opec agreement that came through. Theyre going to be keeping curbs in place in terms of production but we could see on a month by month basis some of those curbs being removed. Agrees to ease cuts more gradually. Gold about 1 10 of 1 lower. Bitcoin using some of its sheen and declinings extensive 1 . With all that in mind, lets find out what is happening in new york. Karina we start with the news on pfizer. It slumped on reported may ship only half of the vaccines it planned to this year. Issues supply chain will cut it to 50 million. Anthony found she is taking the u. K. For rushing to clear the pfizer vaccine. Moderna claims it shows what it claims is durability. Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is calling for a smaller more focused stimulus package for the u. S. Economy as democrats scale back demands to find a route forward. The base
Come whichrevious also been revised higher. There was some expedition that as prices come up because of the fact you can get cheap lending at the moment or cheap borrowing , you would expect that at some have, that would start to an impact on a month by month basis. Nevertheless, the market was looking for this month on month number two actually slow, and that hasnt happened, which is really interesting and the light of what we are starting to see in the employment market. We saw initial jobless claims out a little bit earlier on. Youre starting to see the negative data could begin from the employment side of the economy, starting to come in a little softer. Bloombergs mike mckee joining us now with the details of that. Michael at one point on the housing numbers, existing home sales or closings, so these contracts were signed a couple of months ago when things were a little better in the economy, and we got low mortgage rates, so the one thing the fed has been able to do is stimulate
This, as President Trump remains silent about the alarming surge in covid cases as he pursues false claims on voter fraud. Thanksgiving crackdowns. The states now ordering families not to gather in large groups for the holidays. The furious backlash and the big question, how will police enforce the rules . Plus, the couple behind that superspreader wedding speaking out. Nearly half their guests infected with covid including three of their grandparents. Why they are blaming the dance floor. Prince william breaks his silence about the investigation into that infamous interview with his mother, Princess Diana. Was she tricked . And the blockbuster news out of hollywood. Get used to it. Now how hollywood is planning to lasso in audiences. The highly anticipated hits going straight to your living room, just in time for christmas. Yes whoohoo good morning, america. Good to be with you on this thursday. We have some encouraging news on the vaccine front this morning. And well have more on tha
Surviving. And the future of jeopardy. The show announces a familiar face as the interim host after the death of alex trebek. Why the pick could reflect clues about who the next host will be. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The Trump Administration official in charge of the president ial transition says shes giving president elect biden access to Government Resources and funding. President trump is telling his team they should begin the initial protocols of the transition. But the president is not conceding. Biden announced his Foreign Policy and National Security picks, tapping Obama Administration veterans. You are seeing a team develop that i had great confidence in. Millions of still planning to travel for the thanksgiving holiday despite warnings for the cdc. Chances are youll see a surge, superimposed upon a surge. General motors is recalling about 7 million vehicles saying the takata air bags in the vehicles are dangerous. All that talk about a close ca