[inaudible conversations] welcome, everybody, todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant house rules some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webex. Since some members are appearing in person let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person. You will see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when youre speaking in what is known in webex as active speaker view. At time is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely i know you are all familiar with webex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing. Whether they are in person or remote, as long as you have your webex set to
And at 9 00f truth a. M. , biographer and president ial historian Craig Shirley Discusses Campaign 2020 and the history of postconvention president ial campaigns. Host three months until election day, the candidates and issues come under more intense scrutiny. Joe biden making his First Campaign speech since the convention accusing the president of stoking violence in our cities and that the president forfeited any leadership in our country. Welcome to washington journal for this tuesday, september 1. We will spend the first hour getting your thoughts and reaction to joe bidens speech and we will hear from joe biden, play you this speech and reaction from President Trump. Here is how we are breaking the lines up. If you support joe biden and Kamala Harris that line is 202 7488000. The president and Vice President mike pence, 202 7488001. If you are undecided or supporting another candidate the line is 202 7488002. You can always send us a text, 202 7488003. Make sure that you tell us y
Live streaming and ondemand at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Joining us next is the host of cnns reliable sources and author of the brandnew book, top of the hoax. Thanks for being on washington journal this morning. How soon into Donald Trumps presidency did you realize you wanted to write about his connection to fox news . Guest i was fascinated by this from the first week of his presidency when he started tweeting the banners on the bottom of the screen on fox and friends and when he started chatting with the hosts in ways that were so more casual than other president s have had. I didnt decide to write the book until later on when the impact of fox Foreign Policy and fox influence became more clear. Last year, in my research, talking to sources at fox and the white house, it was clear to foxifi of americac is a bigger storyation in his book and the word hoax is related to the pandemic because President Trump used the word the democrats raising alarms about
Presidency did you want to write about his connection to fox news . I was fascinated about this from the first week of his presidency, when he started tweeting the banners at the bottom of the screen on fox and friends and started chatting hostsosts and ways the in ways that were much more casual than other president s. I didnt decide to write the book until the impact of fox foreign and fox influence became clear. Last year in my research talking sources of fox and in the white house, it was clear to me that america is aion of bigger story than many realize. I tried to put it all in this. The word hopes is related to the tot word hoax is related the pandemic, President Trump decrying democrats raising alarms about the virus. He used the word hoax, sean hannity used the word hoax, suggesting this was an attempt to take down the president when at the time the virus was spreading across the country. Terriblevery real, event, not a hoax. It tells the story of fox and trumpin a new way in
As the action ultimately turned negative today down. S p declining. 80 and believe it tech and 234nasdaq plunging 1. 6. This month the market is led by the covid winners, the names that do fine when the economy is frozen those are not the stocks that lead us higher when times are good but as we saw today, covid plays could lead lower when the economy is improving are we finally emerging from the trough lets consider the case here first, you need to know. Were in a dangerous place its dangerous to be where we are because you can never tell if the economy is really at an Inflection Point until after and even if it is, covid stocks make up the average and drag down everything were now in the third day of this rotation with the Fastest Growing covid winners, industrials, travelers, retail these groups struggled to find their footing because they are covid losers but now in the morning today but the last two days, they are on fire i mean, did they give up the ghost at the end of the day . I