Optimism grows over flattening curve in some areas of the countries. Signs that lockdowns could be having positive impact. 7 and 3 quarters percent yesterday, take a look. Pretty good rally at the end of the day as well. Dow industrials up yesterday, nasdaq up 540 and s p up 175. President trump announcing a deal with 3m to supply medical masks and he said he had a, quote, wonderful call with former Vice President about the coronavirus response. We have you covered this morning about the pandemic and markets and beyond with allstar lineup you do not want to meet miss. Plus what other possible rounds of stimulus might look like, phase 4. The Dallas Mavericks owner mark cuban is here on what should be done to help businesses survive pandemic. Heros stepping forward to help the world on time of crisis. Mornings with maria live now. Big show this morning and big rally underway, lets take a look at Global Markets which are mimicking the wall streets gains today. The cac quarante is up 118 a
Continues. Host Jessica Vaughan is back at her desk. She serves as policy studies director at the center for immigration studies. Not a single democratic candidate thinks the current immigration system is working. President trump has called it broken repeatedly. If it were up to you to fix the system, where would you start . Guest i think i would start nothing why do we have an immigration system to decide which immigrants we want to admit and build from there . We want people to be able to build their bring their spouses and other close immediate family members. We want our employers to have access to a global bullet talent, skilled individuals global pool of talent, skilled individuals. We want to continue to have a humanitarian admission program. How many people should we be offering resettlement to . We could probably do away with programs like the visa lottery and certain other ones that have outlived any useful purpose. Host what should be the goal . What do you think is the righ
It is an honor to welcome the National Space council back to the museum to continue the work of mapping the future of American Space expiration. Surrounded here by icons of our nations highest, proudest achievements. The council is ensuring our future achievements are fully empowered by past achievement. The things you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum. Dont forget about us. We need hardware. Last month at our museum in washington the apollo 11 space suit, Vice President pens spoke about this generations renewed commitment to American Leadership. Here at the national air and space museum we see evidence of that commitment every day. Helpless children have stood in this very spot and marveled up at the Space Shuttle discovery and then turn to the parents, grandparents or teachers to ask how something so big could fly so high. Our museum is where the country comes to understand its heritage of adventure and discovery and to pass that torch on to new genera
Interest rates in over 10 years, since the great recession. It is pretty momentous to see that rate cut happening. It is happening mainly because of the trade war. Jerome powell at his press conference after the announcement said that this was mainly driven by trade tensions and by Slower Growth overseas. Other parts of the world have caught a cold economically and we want to make sure the United States does not catch that cold. In terms of real people, i looked at houses last week. This is very fresh for me. You look up the mortgage rate, the cost to borrow money. What the Federal Reserve did is they took the rates down. It will be cheaper for companies and individuals to borrow money going forward. Host is this only affecting people who are wanting to buy a house and Mortgage Rates . Does it affect any other area . Guest yes, a lot of different people. Auto loans if youre looking for a car. If youre borrowing money to start a business. Credit cardholders. They should go down a little
President trump thank you very everybody, we appreciate it. A wonderful day, and a wonderful deal for a lot of people. Today, we are signing a breakthrough agreement that will make it easier to export american beef into the european union. American beef into the european union. We have been under negotiations for quite a while and our beef farmers we did not think were being treated fair, but the eu stepped up, and we appreciate it and we have great representatives here with us today. This is a tremendous victory for American Farmers, ranchers, and european consumers. American beef is considered the best in the world. We are delighted to be joined today by ambassador robert lighthizer, deputy secretary of agriculture, the European Unions ambassador to the United States, and the representative of the presidency of the council of the eu. I want to thank senator john hoeven my friend for being here. Good job, john. Along with the president of the National Cattlemens beef association, jenn