Plus price of gasoline continue to go plummet. Mornings with maria begins right now. Lets check markets this morning. Closing out the week in europe, european indices are higher across the board. Ftse 100 is up 173 points, cac quarante up 231 and dax up 349 points. Bank of england cut rates of wasnt tenth of a percent, marks rally in asia overnight. China keeping lending rate unchanged but said the future easing the likely. Markets in japan are closed and the markets were higher across the board. Korea up 7 and a half percent overnight. Hong kong, better than 5 . Check out oil prices. They are surging. The price war is racing on. Take a look at crowd oil, 267 higher at level of 27 a barrel. Yield of 10year treasury currently lower but at 1 even 1. 050 . Thats down 10 basis points this morning on 10year. Senate republicans announcing covid19 relief plan complete with checks to american citizens and Small Business protections. Here is how the direct payments break down. 1,200 for individ
Political discourse with former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile and Mercedes Schlapp who previously served as White House Strategic Communications director for the Trump Administration. They are both asked about the impeachment inquiry, the press and the 2020 election. This is one hour. Good evening, everyone. I know theres some people still coming in, but its time to get on with it. Im david welch, the inaugural director of the Stubblefield Institute for civil Political Communications at Shepherd University, and welcome [applause] and welcome to our first installment of the american conversation series public forums, and eating with Donna Brazile and Mercedes Schlapp, the state of political discourse in todays america, moderated by mary hendrix. Throughout the Academic Year there will be several more forums so please go on our Facebook Page and our website for updates. The mission of the institute is to study and promote how intelligent, authentic and civil political
Good morning, everybody. For those who arent from south side, welcome to the south side of des moines, or as the rest of us like to call it, gods country. [laughter] you are part of a family when you are in the south side, because we on the south side are really a working class family. We are a workingclass family who believes that if you work hard for a living, if you play by the rules, do what is right, you deserve a little dignity in your life. Absolutely. [applause] we are a diverse family, with italians living next irish living next to latinos living next africanamericans living ays, next to straights, next to immigrants, living next to naturalborn citizens, and we are a family who truly believes this diversity makes us a stronger family. [applause] we are a family that looks out for each other. We may not get along all the time, but by god, we are going to make sure our neighbors are cared for and looked out for. We may fight a little bit, but by god, if you come after us, we are
The answer is in this era, as always, we have a chief justice first and foremost the head of and a steward of our three branches of government. I think there are some unique aspects about that job in the sense that the court is not a political branch, but deliberately designed not to be an the chief has in some because a unique job the chief justice is the first. She has had administrative responsibilities but she cannot control the other justices. The chief justice has the power to control but not control. There are some great areas in history that explain that. Role and whove a writes the opinions . Twof course, those were the distinctions as the chief justice. They reside over the conference which is leading on both which cases to take. I think as you know, a very small number of cases that the court actually takes and hears out of the number that are petitioned every year. It is under 10 . Chief has as role in the discuss list. That and itrculates is presumptively denied. The chief
Adam schiff says the transcript from two others kurt volker and u. S. Ambassador to the European Union will be released tomorrow. In response, President Trump tweeted this morning alltime high for the stock market and all the fake news is the impeachment hoax. The Brookings Institution is hosting impeachment foreign interference and how best to safeguard the 2020 election. Cspan will have live coverage of that today at 3 30 p. M. Eastern. Also coming up this afternoon on cspan two. Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile and mercedes former white House Strategic munication director for President Trump will talk about the Divisive Political climate and how to restore stability. You can see that live today at x 30 00 p. M. Eastern. Coming up this evening. President Trump Holding a Campaign Rally in lexington kentucky. Live coverage starts at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all of these events live online. Why listen with the free radio app. Our cspan campaign 2020 team is tra