Today President Trumps request was answered by none other than senator ted cruz. Cruz announcing that if the u. S. Supreme Court Decides to take up the pennsylvania mailin ballot case, he stands ready to make the oral arguments on behalf of the petitioners, congressman mike kelly and republican congressional candidate sean parnell. And by extension, the president himself. Senator cruz is considered to be not only one of the smartest people to ever graduate from harvard law school, but also a brilliant debater and litigator. His offer to champion the president s fight for a free and Fair Election in court couldnt come at a more propitious moment. It comes as several key deadlines are rapidly approaching in the certification of the president ial race. Every state the is expected to certify the Election Results by tomorrow, and next monday the Electoral College is scheduled to meet to cast their votes for either President Trump or joe biden. President trump says he expects big things to c
I am proud to say it led to the first bipartisan package in decades. It took time and a willingness to acknowledge that no party has a monopoly on good ideas. M proud of what we are what we created together. Although we were already holding these hearings in our committee, we require that others hold them also so that all members have a chance to be heard in front of congress. Hopefully, more good ideas have the chance to see a light of day. I couldnt ask for a better partner than our Ranking Member, tom cole. We come from different parties, but we share the same dedication to this institution. What this is really all about, a wellfunctioning house allows us to tackle the issues that can make a positive difference in peoples lives and that is why we already for prep congress and the first place. Before i turn to our ranking on the job to for the house of new parliament parliamentian. Mr. Jason smith. Mr. Cole and i have said a lot about him to his predecessor. And he and his predecesso
There, about 30 points, 25 points now below that benchmark. That is in part thanks to boeing, that is the dows gain that stock is up about 7 after one of its biggest customers, ryan air, near lily doubles its order of the plagued 737 max plus texas roadhouse that stock is up 200 since the march lows can you say that about many other restaurant chains . I dont think so also near its record high, the ceo, ken taylor, will be with us interesting, engaging guy. Hes going to tell us how he pivoted the business to thrive in this new normal as power lunch starts right now. Hi, tyler. Hi, everybody. Stocks are off the highs of the session but all the major averages are on track for their second week in a row in the green. Lets go to bob pisani for whats driving us higher today im a little disappointed with the action. The comments a stimulus deal was in reach helped early on but has done nothing in the afternoon. Were moving in a narrow range, kind of flattish all the right stuff is moving. De
For right now. We want this to be as interactive as possible and i hope youll all join us in the questions as you can bring to our guests and planning to ask you a couple of questions. We are going to take advantage of the Polling Technology this afternoon. As i said, this is a conversation ive been looking forward to all day and for many weeks now. We are joined by bill gates, somebody who needs no introduction. Ive had the privilege to know bill for quite some time and talk to him throughout this pandemic and he is far and away the smartest person i know about really helping us set the table understanding where we are. Ive called him a National Treasure and now hes a global treasure. Donated more than 400 million to Covid Research and called this, i hate to say it, in advance back in 2015 whene warned about a possible pandemic of ts sort. I should also note hesrying to get into the journalism business to start a podcast this week which you can go out and get as well. I should also in
He is expected as a virus numbers continue to spike around the nation to give an update on operation warp speed and talk about new developments in the race for covid19 vaccine. At the close you look at the numbers, the vaccine helps as well with upbeat corporate profit a rally not far away from a record high, it was flirting with the record, needed to be 470 but lost a little steam in the final minutes of trading, a strong day, the s p that is a recordsetting, closing up by 48point, as it settled in what appears to be the 23rd record close of the year for the s p 500 and we want to monitor the smallcap stocks today and the russell 2000, the russell closing in record territory what is significant for the smaller stocks, the first time in more than two years we have seen a wrestled record, the s p up in the second straight week, adding more than a thousand points. We canoes and big tech brought the nasdaq into the red, those are your numbers as we come to you on a friday, im connell mcsh