It s jd vance versus tim walz, the ohio senator, and the minnesota governor sharing a stage for the first time after weeks of hostility and making the case for their running mates in prime time. I say we get a president who knows what the hell he s doing. I say we get donald j. Trump back in the oval office. We are not satisfied with putting cracks in the glass ceiling. We re pushing president harris through the glass. The vp picks of kamala harris and donald trump are about to be tested as they ve never been tested before just five weeks before election day when we fight, we win. It s debate night in america. And cnn s live coverage begins right now political spotlight is on new york city as vice presidential nominees j. D. Vance and tim walz are about to confront one another on the debate stage. We are standing by for the start of what is likely to be a contentious faceoff that could have a unique impact on the 24, 2024 presidential race. It is debate night in america on this special
Into Tonights Debate, showing this race remains as close as can be. And what do voters want or need to hear from the stage . The effort to reach that slim group of undecided americans. Good morning. It is 10 00 eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera joined by my Colleague And Friend chris jansing, reporting from philadelphia today, ahead of tonights pivotal debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. It is so great to be sitting next to you on this enormously important day in politics. Can we take another look at The Room . Where were sitting has a couple of purposes. One, it is the file room, which is an old phrase they use where people used to file their stories. Those chairs will all be full tonight with members of the media, who will be watching the debate from here, because, remember, there is no audience. So there will not even be members of nbc team, other teams, other many Media Teams there. But in the middle, thats where the Spin Room is going to be and each side will
Let s turn our attention to us as well and talk about the us jobs data, that s out this friday. Will that have any impact on what the fed decides to do? we know they re meeting in a few weeks. We are looking at potentially the highest risk economic event of the year so far. Because what we have seen so far, august was unprecedented for some global markets volatility and one of the catalysts behind this was concerns that us economic momentum after being very robust and resilient for the past 18 months or so is showing signs that those rocks are falling and the momentum is falling with it. We do expect the fed, the us central bank, to cut interest rate this month but what s concerning is that fed policymakers have had a pokerface of not giving too much away until recently. We had a weak economic data release for the monthly jobs report in august and we have also seen a data revision where up to 850,000 jobs were potentially overestimated between april of last year and march of this year.
That are being organized on facebook and read it buying the stock, bidding it up, causing those institutions to lose money here. Talking to the tune of billions of dollars over the past week or so for the sec, Securities Exchange commission is watching this and a sec regulator told me you might be hard for them to find a violation. Listen. I think when it comes to regulating the speech or regulating content, thats a huge challenge and certainly from a securities regulation perspective. I dont think the sec can regulate speech which everyone has the right to regulate in the sense charging a crime for doing it. What has lawmakers concerned is that robin hood is billed as a free Trading Platform had actually stopped or halted trades on gamestop and some of these others that were shorted which allowed the institutions to make back some of their money in those shorts yesterday. If robin hood said it needed the pause to collect collateral for its clearing house. They raised A Billion Dollars
Donald trump rejects democrats requests for him to testify at his Impeachment Trial. The question is, will the senate issue a subpoena . And Johnson Johnson asks the fda to okay its singleshot Covid Vaccine. With demand high and supply still short, the question is, how long will it take to get this third u. S. Vaccine on the market . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early, the show that has had plenty of practice factchecking false claims. I am kasie hunt on this friday, february 5th. Well start with the news. Well begin with the unprecedented move by House Democrats to strip congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene from her committees and her pretty unprecedented comments as a congresswoman. It came after house gop leadership failed to take action in response to her inflammatory social media posts and sprea ing violent Conspiracy Theories. 11 republicans joined democrats in backing greenes removal from her committees. 199 republican lawmakers voted no. Speak