Futures at start of trading as businesses reopen this morning, dow industrials up 350 points, 1 and a half percent. S p is up 41 and the nasdaq higher by 114, this after the dow, nasdaq and s p 50 finished down in the week despite fridays days as you can see, dow industrials were down 2 , 2 and twothirds percent, the nasdaq down better than 1 , tensions between the United States and china continue to rise, lawmakers looking to offer big incentives to move supply chains from china to america. President trump versus president obama. President trump calling predecessor incompetent as president obama says they leaders pretend to be in charge. Sports is coming back, the roar of the engines returned this weekend as checker flags dropped on nasdaq, caused drivers to hit the brakes, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria Global Markets this morning look like this, major areas of the world are reopening for business leading to gains across the world, as you can see in europe theres a stro
This on top of slight gains yesterday at 4 00 oclock. Markets were up. As you see dow industrials up 33 points and nasdaq up 139. Getting america working once again. President trump announcing plans to reopen the economy in phases. The president went through it yesterday. The Small Business aid program has run dry on capitol hill. The battle is waging on how much money, how much to add to funds to help business and American Workers now. Coronavirus is taking a toll on the chinese economy. It has contracted 6. 8 in the First Quarter. First ever quarterly contraction and wuhans death toll revised up 50 adding fuel to questions of beijings actual reporting on the virus. Secretary of state mike pompeo live at 8 30 a. M. Eastern on the possible origins of the virus as more people focus on the lab in wuhan, something that ive been putting the spotlight for months. What actions can be taken to china for lack of transparency. Mornings with maria begins now. Positive news on gilead. You saw the
Complaint. Florida senator rick scott joins me to discuss the Senate Impeachment trial to begin this week as articles being sent. A lot more right now as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Maria begin in the middle east this morning. The Trump Administration is ratcheting up sanctions against iran after tehran targets american troops with missiles. Protesters are now rising up in the streets of iran, against the ayatollah, after iran admits mistakenly downing the ukrainian airliner. Meanwhile in asia voters in taiwan reelect the incumbent president supporting her tough stance against mainland china. We look ahead to this weeks signing ceremony for the phase one of the u. S. China trade deal. All of this coming amid a record stock market performance. More signs of job growth in america. Joining me exclusively this morning is treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin. Mr. Secretary, good to see you this morning. Thanks very much for being here. Thank you, maria. Great to be with you. Maria
That we right now have 42 freshman in the Democratic Caucus who were in some of the toughest districts anywhere in the country who have proven themselves to understand what is important back home. Before we started airing this we talked about something i do at home called supermarket saturday. You can multiply that by all of these freshmen who go home and do things, whether they call it supermarket saturday, they are using their two ears and one mouth proportionately. The people want health care, not impeachment. They stay hyper local focused. Isn i advise anybody who running for congress or anybody who will be running for their first reelection i always say run your office like you are a mayor and run your Campaign Like you are running for mayor. Everything has to stay hyper local. Impeachment is not hyper local and it is not a thing people sit around and talk about day in and day out when they dont have Health Insurance and cannot afford to go fill their prescription at walgreens aft
Campaign committee. We appreciate you being with us. Joining us in our studios in washington is josh who covers politics for the National Journal and she covers washington and politics for the washington the articles of impeachment will be delivered on tuesday. Did you look at the 435 house seats up for grab, from the democratic perspective will impeachment be a factor in democrats keeping the majority in congress . Bethe biggest factor will that we right now have 42 freshman in the Democratic Caucus who were in some of the toughest districts anywhere in the country who have proven themselves to understand what is important back home. Before we started airing this we talked about something i do at home called supermarket saturday. You can multiply that by all of these freshmen who go home and do things, whether they call it supermarket saturday, they are using their two ears and one mouth proportionately. The people want health care, not impeachment. They stay hyper local focused. Isn