Why is it appropriate now to not let the Voters Decide . Sen. Romney at this stage it is appropriate to look at the constitution and precedent since the beginning of our countrys history. In a circumstance where a nominee is from a Different Party than the senate, more often than not the senate does not confirm. So the garland decision was consistent with that. When there is a nominee of the party in the same party as the senate, typically they do confirm. So the garland decision was consistent with that. The decision to proceed with president trumps nominee is consistent with history. I came down on the side of the constitution as i studied it and make the decision on that basis. Reporter you said in your release you would look at a nominees qualifications. What would make you not consider someone . Sen. Romney it is straightforward in terms of qualifications, someone who is an expert in the law, a record of fairness and judgment consistent with the law. I prefer choosing those folks
On september 15, we witnessed the results of President Trumps vision and perseverance which brought israel, the united emirates and bahrain to sign the Abraham Accords that peace innew era for the middle east. This offers the region and its people the first new hope for peace in a generation and the United States invites the palestinians to seize this opportunity to engage in that spirit. Earlier this month, President Trump also brokered economic andalization between serbia kosovo, a breakthrough towards reconciliation for the people in the balkans, a region that has suffered too much bloodshed. On north korea, the president s fearless vision has shown remarkable progress. President trump is the First American president to meet with north koreas leaders. Americans held captive have come home. There have been no new nuclear initial ongrange missile tests, a dramatic lowering of the temperature in the region and opening for a lasting agreement that brings peace to the peninsula. It is cl
Mcshane. Didnt quite get there on the s p. Were live from joe bidens hometown. Scranton, pennsylvania. Ahead of the presumptive nominees speech tonight at the Democratic National convention. I spent a lot of the day speaking to owners and Business Leaders in the area. You will hear a lot of that throughout the hour. First the top stories. Fox Team Business could have with gerri willis keeping an eye on markets blake burman at the white house as usual gerri, we start with you. What a difference in the markets and what a difference the a day makes. They are shrugging off recovery concerns. The dow powering ahead. The dow on pace to snap a threeday losing streak. It did just that. S p up three of the last four sessions. Nasdaq was the star here. You remember back in march we were under 7,000 . Closing at 11,264 to be exact. Apple, guess what, they have the two trillion dollar crown. That is new market cap for apple. Shares hitting alltime high. Unbelievable at 2,012,000,000,000. Apple is
Diplomats accusing them of spying its not about calls the allegations baseless. Of the race to find a vaccine for the coronavirus has never been more crucial for ruled parts of south africa and its for the england cricket board say the series with pakistan will go ahead despite pakistan announcing that and if that play is of tested positive for corona virus. A watershed moment that will cause the boast serious violation of International Law thats how u. N. Secretary general antonio ted as has described israels plans to addicks parts of the occupied west bank members of the u. N. Security council of the arab league have been meeting to discuss israels move which could be put into motion as soon as next week most of them were united in their opposition with warnings that israels unilateral action could trigger a major escalation in the region. If implemented these steps could dramatically alter the local dynamics during instability across you dont quite understand. And maybe all this cul
Reopening on hold. The bank of japan is expected to leave policy unchanged later while reassessing measures already taken to help the virus hit economy. Look at how take a markets are doing on boj decision day. We had that ricocheting session in the u. S. Overnight. If you needed further conviction as to the hand the fed intentionally has when it comes to showing up market demand, you have the announcement from the fed really causing that gain back into positive territory after we had declines of more than 2 in that trading session for the s p. Futures are looking positive. About. 25 in the green. We are looking at chicago nikkei futures trading higher by about. 3 . We are expecting just more operational steps from the bank of japan in terms of providing support to Small Businesses to be able to ride out the pandemic slowdown. In sydney, we are looking at a pop at the open. 2. 5 higher when it comes to futures, with indicated upside of two point 5 when the cash trading session begins,