Texas. 20 people dead there. More than two dozen injured. Panicked bystanders looking for their loved ones in the chaos. Somebody shot somebody. I cant find my mom. Shes 86 years old. The el paso in custody this morning s president ial candidate beto orouke emotional about the tragedy in his own hometown. Im very sad. Its hard to think about it. Two horrific Mass Shootings in america in less than 24 hours. The country again mourning the dead and wondering how we stop the violence today, sunday 4th, 2019. Good morning and welcome to sunday today. Im willie geist. We are waking up to a pair of tragedies in america brought on by men with guns. Two mat sho two Mass Shootings hours apart. A man walked in a walmart in el paso, texas, shooting at families doing backtoschool shopping. And in dayton, the shooter wearing body armor and extra magazines, opening fire at people enjoying a night out, killing people. That happened at just after 1 00 in the morning. Police already on patrol responded
Welcome to countdown this friday morning. Happy friday, everybody. Also coming up on the program, if you cannot face the morning commute on a crowded train, join me on a trip that puts you in the lap of luxury. No worries about getting a seat on the service. This is coming up later. Should we talk about tax and luxembourg . ToJeanclaude Juncker seems be taking a little bit in the press in terms of what is going on with luxembourg. That is whats, might be the title for someone making phones today. This was an investigation by independent journalist that came up with detail and hundreds accompanies that have allegedly to save tax and luxembourg. We have a collection of news organizations, a Investigative Group and i came up with quite some salacious details about the special rates that individual companies were getting to actually cut taxes and have their own personal tax deal in sign of luxembourg. The question is the nexus and the role that we have from Jeanclaude Juncker because many
Is off today. Euro area pmi coming in at 54. 2. Slightly below the estimate. But i think within the plus and minus pmi, rising to 54. 1. I check on the light side. Not too excited about that. Eurodollar is softening a fraction. It is still sub 110. On change. Softening a bit. As the data his of the screen. A fraction negative. As the data hits the screen. Lets get more from hans nichols. He joins us from our land. The number is soft. He joins us from berlin. Hans that is the point. It is expanding. It is lower than what was expected. You look at the spain number and it was 57. 3 up from 56. 2 in february. We may hear about diverted economies. Growth in spain and italy. And people will take a very close look at the numbers in greece and whether you are you can accept these other points and whether or not greece is swept excuse me, slipped into reception recession. Our tax receipts were way down in a january and february. They have seen capital flee the country. 25 billion euros in the f
Prompter. Its 2 00 p. M. At the white house where President Trump wants change when it comes to guns in this country. And he says hes willing to fight the nra to get it. He also went through a laundry list of other actions he thinks the government should take. Bump stocks, im riding that out myself. We have to take steps to harden our schools so that theyre less vulnerable to attack. This includes allowing welltrained and Certified School personnel to carry concealed firearms. We have to discuss Mental Health and we have to do something about it. You know, in the old days we had mental institutions. Dont worry about the nra theyre on our side. Half you guys are afraid of nra. Theres nothing to be afraid of. If theyre not with you, we have to fight them every once in a while. Thats okay. Our big question is will donald trump use his unique power with the gop base to face off against the nra . Theres been a shift in the gun control conversation since the Florida School shooting almost tw
Deemed offlimits. The confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. And Elizabeth Warren appears to make a president ial run in 2020. Trying to put away President Trumps favorite issue against her, the controversy over whether she is nativeamerican. Thats ahead this hour. But we begin with the russia investigation. Were just days away from a key date. September 7th, 60 days before the midterm elections which trumps legal team long portrayed as a line in the sand where Robert Mueller must come to a conclusion or else. The pending date perhaps behind the president s weekend tweet storm taking aim at the special counsels top attorney Andrew Wiseman among others, tactics one prominent democrat warned could make the president s situation even worse. Theyre getting very close to making a case for obstruction of justice. The steps taken in terms of the president demeaning and attacking the witchunt. But also the fact that Rudy Giuliani himself said that the whole purpose of their effort is to un