Minutes of trading. President trump about to address supporters at a Campaign Rally in california which is about four hours north from where we are in miami, his opponent joe biden is in another battleground state pitching the Healthcare Plan to voters in michigan. We have fox Business Team coverage of her top stories with blake burman standing by the white house, we start today with jacqui deangelis and the new york newsroom as we wrap up with a volatile week on wall street. Good afternoon connell, two out of three bad of what weve seen weve seen three Straight Days of losses for the dow was positive for the week and you mention the retail sales, t 2 jump, the optimism was important because it speaks to the consumer, also you have vaccine optimism weighing over the stimulus pessimism in the dow roughly 3 below its record closing high back in february, its pretty remarkable when you think about that. Today was industrial stock, the healthcare stock that led the way were so used to focu
Lauren simonetti watching the market action. Blake burman on the white house beat. Hillary vaughn on the scene of the big debate, the vicepresident ial debate in salt lake city. Well get to all three of you. Blake, with a lot to cover. The first things first. The president in the oval office right now . Reporter he is indeed, connell. I was talking to a white house official probably about 20, 30 minutes ago who told me the president is indeed in the oval office. I was told according to the white house official the president was being briefed on two matters. One, the monster hurricane out in the gulf right now that could potentially make land shore friday, texas, louisiana, mississippi, hurricane delta the president is briefed on the latest on the relief talks seemingly over at this point. The president wants stand alone bills. Well get to that in a second. We also got a Health Update on the president today as he is now back in the oval earlier today from his doctor, who said the follow
Competing candidates townhall forms, joe biden may have got the better of the president s ratings, ive not seen an official reaction but the dueling in separate separate town halls got a little heated. Take a look. The president was informed how dangerous his virus was, americans dont panic, he panics. We were expected to lose 2,200,000. You were asked pointblank to do now White Supremacy. Id noun White Supremacy for years, you did not asked joe biden whether denounces antifa. We are hearing the senate is busy not only dealing with the nomination of judge barrett but separately taken up the issue of jack dorsey, they want the twitter ceo to come and talk to the committee and he will not do that voluntarily, they will issue a subpoena to make sure he does, in the meantime, the cool front in all places happening in West Virginia, the hyper loop one, supposed to be the future of modern transportation, they have this and brought in europe and asia but nothing quite like this, we will explo
Be a comber affair, sometimes when youre sitting down her brother standing, makes a difference, itll be a little bit for their part 12 feet than the customary virus world which we live in 6 feet plexiglass and all of that. It could be interesting, Hillary Vaughn and Salt Lake City, where this goes down later tonight with the very latest. The Biden Campaign says senator Kamala Harris tested negative for covid yesterday, she is in the clear for the debate tonight, so is Vice President mike pence who the cdc cleared yesterday saint several negative test it is safer than bp to participate in tonights debate even though hes had a few close calls coming into contact with the virus after the president tested positive, white house advisor Stephen Miller did to who is married to mike pence spokesperson katie miller, both candidates will have masks during the debate but as you can see alive look inside the debate, there are two plexiglass partitions set up for the guest on the candidates Kamala
Russia hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton email scandal. No redactions. And breaking this hour, the director of National Intelligence, john ratcliffe, put out a somewhat confusing statement in which he expresses his support for john durhams investigation into obamagate. Dni ratcliffe said at my direction, the office of the director of National Intelligence has now provided almost a thousand pages of materials to the department of justice in response to mr. Durhams document requests. I will continue to insure the intelligence communitys responsiveness to the doj request. We also look forward to supporting the doj in further declassifications consistent with their investigation. As the president has made clear, we must be appropriately transparent with the American People. And give them the confidence that the extraordinary work of intelligence professionals is never misused or politicized. I w recent obamagate materials declassified, by the way, include susan rices email about the Obam