Release. More on fight for freedom. At 8 00 a. M. Congressman devin nunes and we will go inside of the investigations of the origins of the russia probe and find out what the House Intel Committee is doing and who could be held legally responsible. At 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Senator rand paul on stimulus battle and concerns about our rising debt. This morning markets are trading mixed. Take a look at futures right now indicating a decline at the start of trading, nasdaq futures down 7 and s p down 3 and a half. This after a big rally yesterday. U. S. Markets rallied strong with the s p 500 closing at 6 points away from a fresh record high. Dow industrials up 289 points at 4 00 oclock on wall street. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria Global Markets are negative. Red across the board in europe. Cac quarante in paris down 7 and dax index in germany lower by 26. The u. S. Announcing it is keeping tariffs on 7 and a half billion of european and uk products. All that coming up this mo
Looking to open off 37 points. The 10year note stands at a point. We are looking at. 672 melissa lee in the house that was a major move we are back up towards those highs right now. We saw lots of ramifications in the market looking at how quickly it moves higher. Im trying to watch whatever information i have is about 12 seconds old we are all in a house somewhere. Just not together. It is good to see you although i cant see you now. Im looking at the board from 15 seconds ago. We are going to power through this well up an update on why we are all doing this new case numbers have been declining across the country but testing shortages are calling those numbers into request the average number of covid cases down 19 from july 28 but testing has declined over the same time period amc to reopen u. S. Theaters august 20 and hopes to have twothirds of theaters open. Says all staff and customers must wear masks. That is the change from comments in june that mask wearing would be encouraged b
Taking away Police Protective Gear and nonlethal weapons. Or at least trying to. Anarchists, leftwing activists this weekend attacked Law Enforcement officers as they seem to do every weekend now. They tried to destroy Federal Buildings and local police precinctings. Dozens of people were shot. Violent mobs attacked Law Enforcement officers all across the country. And lawless activists rioted in at least a half dozen cities. Much of the weekends violence once again concentrated in the Pacific Northwest where thousands gathered overnight outside the federal courthouse in portland. There radical antifa anarchists, black lives matter activists started fires near the federal courthouse before agents fired tear gas against them to disperse the crowd. Disburse the crowd. The Trump Administration ordered 150 more federal agents into portland to protect the Federal Building and those Law Enforcement officers who are under siege. The citys radical dem leadership continues to escalate their war
Joins us now via zoo for zoom. Senior economist at the nonprofit Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in kalamazoo, michigan. Christopher oleary, lets work away backwards. Can you explain what president trumps executive action when it came to unappointed insurance he signed this weekend, what it did in how it compares to what was offered under the cares act . Guest good morning, john. Thank you for having me on. Pleasure to be on washington journal. Certainly i can address the executive order. I read it. Theink i understand objective. Up and talke back about this whole idea of supplementing unemployment. It is interesting. There have been eight recessions since the eisenhower administration. Every one the federal government has extended the duration of regular state on employment insurance benefits. There was a modest additional compensation added during the Great Recession in 2009. 25 added. Check. D to every benefit it went largely unnoticed. Recognized the existing unappointed i
Full court has now reversed them as well. Without basis in law and precedent any where in our court system and has sell oral arguments for august 11th to effectively retry general flynn and persecution of him as of 3 years has not been more than enough to watch as a corrupt politically corrupt department of justice and federal bureau of investigation needed the help of the leftwing judges who make up the Dc Circuit Court of appeals. 7 of those 11 judges appointed either by bill clinton or barack obama. Thats right, this is an obvious and outrageous politically motivated judiciary. 7 of the 11 judges left wing and acting as if they not constituted a leftwing organization. It is a disturbing trend to say the least emerging in our legal system, progressive groups and leftwing billionaires like george soros are packing courthouses and district attorneys offices with leftwing sympathetic judges and prosecutors all across the country, all who support the radical lefts agenda and then most ca