Trevor it has now been four, or possibly 12 days, since joe biden was declared the next president elect and Kamala Harris sassy white friend. And he has been busy trying to prepare his team for office, but its not going smoothly, because donald trump, oneterm president and tenant from hell, is still going through all the stages of grief denial, rage tweeting, undermining democracy, and back to denial. The president s latest moves indicate that he is not ready to concede any time soon and that he may not leave all that gracefully. Several sources throughout Government Agencies indicate that President Trump has put out the word through his staff that he does not want any federal agency cooperating with the biden transition team, and further, that he doesnt want any Government Agency doing anything that would imply that biden won the election. Were also learning that the white house has started to press these agencies to come out with a budget for next year, as if there will be no change
Lashing today over how their companies handled 2020 election. Heck out few hours indicating a decline as we await october retail Sales Numbers out this morning at 8 30 a. M. Dow industrials down 88, nasdaq is up 14 and s p 500 lower by 14. Record day in wall street to start the week yesterday, dow finishing at its first alltime high in 9 months boosted by the positive news on modernas phase 3 vaccine trials. At the close up 471 points, nasdaq up 95, almost 1 and s p higher by 41, better than 1 . Big day for retail earnings, walmart and kohls and home depot all reporting this morning, we will have the numbers as soon as they give hit the tape. Holidays in digital world. Zoom is helping you and your family out if youre planning on a virtual turkey day, its making a buzz, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria home depot earnings hitting the tape right now and european markets are lower, cac quarante down 9, dax index lower by 25, take a look at home depot numbers, revenue above exp
Coronavirus cases in the united states. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 21. I am sam baker coming from my home in washington, d. C. I would like to thank United Health group for making these conversations possible. I would like to welcome our audiences. You can follow along on twitter using the axios events. Over the next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to unpack Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the united states, and what that path forward looks like both following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic that is getting worse every day. Our first guest today is senator thune smith of minnesota. Smithr, senator tina of minnesota. Thank you for joining us. Sen. Smith thank you, sam. It is terrific to be with everyone today. Sam i would like to start off to frame this conversation obviously, Health Care Access and Health Insurance coverage has been a very hot topic for a long time, but i think the pandemic has set of
A virtual rally, senator Kamala Harris will be speaking, hosted by bernie sanders. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We deserve to be protected and demand the protection we need to get through this. Many of us dont have pto or six time. We are struggling to get paid time off to take care of our families. If i took unpaid time off to protect myself, i could be penalized or fired. The American People are sick and tired of subsidizing the largest some of the corporations in this country. Workers fighting for a higher minimum wage. To providehe ability for my family. Trying to balance between meals today. Then i can go to work or i skip a meal and i can pay my rent. Does it scare you . Billionaires while my family struggles to know where our next meal was coming from. It is sad. Pay your workers. A living wage is 15 an hour. Mr. Sanders good evening and thank you for joining us for what i think is going to be a very interesting discussion. Let me think the workers that have particip
We are in the midst of this terrible pandemic. So many people have lost their jobs and income. We are worried about climate change, systemic racism. We are worried about so many things. Tonight, we are going to be asking, how does this happen . In the richest country in the history of the world, half the people are living paychecktopaycheck. The billionaires are doing well. Does that make sense . How does it happen in our great country, we have millions of workers earning starvation wages. You just heard that on the video. You cant make it on 10 an hour. You cant pay your rent. You cant feed your kids or take care of yourself. How does it happen that the United States of america, our great nation, is the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right . Were spending twice as much per capita on health care than any other nation. 90 million are uninsured or underinsured. How does it happen that today in the midst of a pandemic, becomes because Rep