Over here in the front row is a big bouquet of white flowers. Its in the place where john usually sat in the front row of a section that many of the members of the congressional ack caucus held forth, conspired sometimes, plotted, and made progress for the American People. Its appropriate that we have those flowers there. Where john sat. For so many years. John meacham who is writing a book on john lewis told us yesterday on a caucus call that when john was born he was born into a garden. He loved to be in the garden. He loved to be with the chicks, as we know, little chickens. And he loved to see things grow. Loved to see things grow. And he lived his life in that way. He loved to see progress grow, he loved to see love and peace grow. He loved to see ideas grow. And he loved to see a more Perfect Union grow. Many of our colleagues will have many things to say this evening and because of the because its the personal order i dont have my usual one minute which is endless so ill be brie
He writes trumps conversations with xi, referring to the chinese president , reflected not only the incoherence in his trade policy also the confluence in trumps mind of his own political interests and u. S. National interests. Trump copling manied permit and national not just on trade questions but across the whole field of National Security. Im hard pressed to identify any significant trump decision during my white house tenure that wasnt driven by reelection calculations. Now, Martha Radditz with abc news has the first sitdown interview with the former National Security adviser that will air sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern time. Network released a clip of her interview. Here is john bolton talking about Vladimir Putins perception of President Trump. How would you describe trumps relationship with Vladimir Putin . I think putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle. I think putin is smart, tough. I think he sees that hes not faced with a serious adversary here. I dont think hes worried a
Let me first say want to thank the chairwoman and ranked member mchenry and my colleagues and Ranking Members of the subcommittee and all my other colleagues for their participation in todays discussion on the update for prudential regulators that this is a timely amid the health care and economic devastation of the covid19 pandemic. In queens and other parts of new york city theyve been very hard hit. Plaintiffs suffered more cases more death than most states in the country. When amid the health care crises millions have lost their jobs and lost income compound in the Economic Impact but thanks to the doddfrank wall street reform and their implementation in the decades that followed the financial crisis the Banking Sector has emerged in a bright spot to buffer the initial impact of the crises and restructured mortgages and loans. I have had serious concerns about the implementation of the program in the road some of the banks in privatizing small distances and minority come into that
Still trying to get the final meetingfrom opec in the that started two hours ago. Those details continue to come through. I want to take a look at the s p 500 on a four day week. It is a shortened holiday week, so the bond markets will be closing in a few hours. It does mean the market is still having some of the best week, going back at one point since 1974. David thank you so much to taylor riggs. As we said, it has been largely a day about the federal reserve. Cioing us is rick rieder, for Global Fixed Income for blackrock and also head of their global Asset Allocation team. Welcome. When i heard this this morning i said my jaw literally dropped. What was your reaction . Rick i am right there with you. This is an incredible amount. It is followed by chair powells presentation afterwards. Not only are they getting into already what they have announced has been incredible. They are going deeper in terms of what they are doing. They are getting at wide swaths of different marketplaces.
Less than a week away, many president ial candidate are accusing all you know Michael Bloomberg of buying his way into the election and spreading his wealth to keep critics silent. The New York Times has some are calling bloomberg a wallett too big to happen. We will speak with a lawyer who would you work for the bloomberg bundy, said she was told remove or revise a chapter on antimuslim bias and surveillance of muslim communities in new york that mentioned bloomberg by name a times. Then to yemen, where 31 people were killed in u. S. Backed saudi airstrikes, including women and children. The United Nations called the atta shockinin here. We are this is one of the cars that were targeted by the saudi americanan air force l last n nt and ththey also tarted vilges in residential areas, causing tens of thousands of martyrsnd ininjuries. This is s a civilians cacar. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The