Chemical ircant tackedic in th spotlight well beyond minneapolis. And later no justice, no peace. Voices from the protest front lines. Broad day light. Good evening. Im Major Garrett. Demonstrations sparked by the death of george floyd while in Minneapolis Police custody 13 days ago have coalesced into what appears to be a nationwide todapl returned to the street falling for Police Reforms and Racial Justice. The crowds diverse and overwhelmingly peaceful. Jamie youkilis tonight where it all began. Rtearks a week since george floyd died at the hands of fighting against Police Brutality and racism. Crowds returned to american streets again today following yesterdays mass demonstrations, protesting the death of george floyd. Overnight it got ugly in portland, oregon and seattle. Washington, d. C. Congressman john lewis joined the citys mayor to visit the site. Going to black lives matter plaza. Its been powerful. An francisco, ppedraffic al iconic gden gate bridge. A rally with nearly 30
About his recent atlantic article aboutthe end of the 9 11 era in a few minutes im going to introduce been. Ben will speak and he and i will havea conversation. We encourage you to post questions through the two and a feature. And we get to the second half of the hour i will begin to wrap up our discussion and start posing some of your questions then and we will run about one hour. So i also want to mention next week, next wednesday in fact were going to do i think our last webinar for the summer. Which will be with our partner, peter singer of near america talking about his new novel burn in which is a kind of look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare in particular so peter does a fantastic thinker and writer and i look forward to seeing that so for today as mentioned ben rhodes. Ben is former Deputy National security adviser in the Obama Administration. Lcurrent cochair ofNational Security action. Cohost of pond save the world which i highly recommend. Both organizations and
Roll out some responses to Chinas Hong Kong law as the showdown with twitter gets escalated around the minneapolis protests oil near 33, the focus is squarely on twitter and this rule violation that the president s account got slapped with, and then the white house account, the official white house account retweets were all kind of confused, as marc benioff, who is against this obscure regulation that gives these companies an exception todo this, many are confused it seems President Trump wants to create his own enemy with if you start regulating these Companies Rather than having the exception, theyre always going to have to put a counter to what President Trump wants. I think what he may not understand is free speech is nasty. What he had until this was a great run of things. Its going to make it tough for him to be aggressive on twitter. He doesnt have press conferences that work because of all the displeasure he had with regular reporters. Hes disintermediating himself from the pub
Economy as well. With concern that it would hurt the reopenings that would have been under way along with another round of infections because of all the demonstrations diane swan tweeted out today, theres little question the events of this weekend will affect the economy what started as a health crisis, but much more. The riots lasted, how long he wrote a long piece saying, its too soon to know how the economy will transition. The timing and trajectory of broad economic recovery will not be altered hopefully we can find ways to expand opportunity, a way that will more effectively tap the potential of everyone. That will be good for the economy long term. The economic story this week, before the issues was going to be about bouncing off the bottom and indeed we have a paradox here bouncing off of terrible numbers to numbers that are still absolutely terrible. The ism today coming in above 43 were looking for 44 its better than the 41 we have. Same story with ism services on wednesday. T
Weve given all of that back and then some. Yesterday, the market was down by 1,861 a decline of 2,443 points. All of that over the previous sessions we had given back futures are up by 626. Normally, thats the type of move that would make you sit up and say wow s p indicated up 69 points nasdaq up 192. Treasury yields have been moving all over the place as well we did see the 10year on monday up 0. 9 . Higher than that this morning, up 0. 2 on trading yesterday. Accelerated on the day everybody was on tender hooks to watch what would be happening here are some highlights of what is on tap car line, former citigroup ceo, former white house chief of staff, founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers joining us there. A lot going on there todays top story, uk gdp following 20. 4 in april the largest monthly fall on record as the pandemic lockdowns have battered the economy. Londons ftse down more than 18 , thats just year to date. Has liesman heard yesterday, the annual kansas fed symposi