Commercial for the Sherrod Brown campaign, admits he has kind of a gravelly voice. We are going to show that later in this hour, for anyone who has been wondering why does he sound like that . You had me so worried that there was something terribly wrong. I was like no, its just he has an adorable voice. He does. I like it. Andrew weissman is back. Donald trump is 71 days away from discovering whether he will spend the rest of his life as criminal and civil defendant donald trump in trials and Appeals Courts or whether he gets to wipe away most of that if he becomes president. But, they are ready to take a look for us. If the harris momentum continues, what it means for Defendant Trump Next year. Ever since i saw, today, unexpectedly that jack smith filed an appeal with the 11th circuit, i did not expect that to happen today. They found the appeal on whether or not judge aileen canon is going to be allowed to have the last word informing out of the classified documents case. Ever since
Concede and what this means for trade deals with china as well. Don i read about the trade deal. It is on the back burner for americans because both candidates, both parties are reticent to sign those deals. We can touch on that, but front and center in the nation is the stepbystep, the back, tweet by tweet with the president , but er than that is the pandemic. It was the oddest of weekends. Francine it was a busy weekend, and here in the u. K. With news that Boris Johnson, who contracted the virus in march, even went to icu, now having to selfisolate after coming into contact with someone who tested positive. We will have plenty more on that , and the consequences for brexit. First lets get to bloomberg renews with ritika gupta. President elect joe bidens top coronavirus advisers say a National Lockdown is not on the agenda. One of them, the former surgeon general, who says the approach to fighting it is a dial that we turned up and down, depending on the severity. U. S. Case records
College we need to focus on. Tom not only be Electoral College but the outcome. Divya weston gets to Election Results on the west coast tonight. There are any number of ways to slice it. My opening comment for the next 30 hours is simple. We have seen this force. This is part of america, it deeply divided america. There is nothing new about that. What is new is the social media, the cable tv concentration, the emotion in your face. It used to not be that way. Maybe we can all get comfortable by milford, New Hampshire, where they voted early, probably without tiktok or twitter. The last when its time we talked about a not so peaceful transition of power in the u. S. . We talk about possible social unrest in the u. S. I was speaking to a senior banker yesterday at one of the largest swiss banks, and he said the Trading Floor is fully prepared overnight to see whatever happens, they are prepared. It could become if there is a big surprise, it could be see extra so we will market checks to
And say there was not a lot of politics or policy. Look at the post to see who won, but the wider implication is that it was chaotic. It was acrimonious. Think it is going to be hard to get a clearcut winner, or certainly it will be tense. Coverage in washington, driving the story forward to october 15. A town hall meeting in miami. First world news in new york city, here is ritika gupta. Ritika it was billed as the first president ial debate, but last nights event in cleveland quickly slipped into chaos. Insults drowned out ideas. At one point, President Trump and joe biden battled over coronavirus. He knew it was a deadly disease. What did he do . He is on tape acknowledging he knew it. He didnt give us a warning because he didnt want to panic the people. You dont panic, he panicked. The only thing i have not done a good job, thats because of the fake news. Better what you say, they give you fake press. They give you good press and they give me a press because that is the way it is.
Will mean then. A lot of earnings out there. Without question the ecb meeting is front and center today. A change after what chairman powell said yesterday. Absolutely stunning the difference between the u. S. Central bank in the European Central banks. Its could be a radically different press conference from lagarde today than what we saw from powell. Francine many people say its a different economy and cycle. Im excited to be talking about that. First lets get straight to new york city. Trumpbegin with president blaming chinas Coronavirus Response on politics. He says beijing would do anything to see him lose the election. The president did not provide any evidence china would liberally mishandle the outbreak. He says he is considering various ways to punish the chinese government. Chinas response, it has no interest in interfering in u. S. Internal affairs. Chairmanderal reserve jerome powell, he worries about the longterm economic damage of the coronavirus. If the economy starts to