Wade, gun control and a host of other policy issues, she patiently explained that none of that is her job. I interpret the constitution as a law, and its not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it. As ive also said repeatedly, any policy preferences that i have dont matter anyway. Theyre irrelevant. So making that law, thats sure job. Gerry what we saw on display were the two very different visions of the role of the courts. Conservatives believe in judicial restraint the, interpretation of the law by judges. Democrats want to use the judiciary to make policy. Its why they object to judge barrett and why they plan to pack the court if they win the white house and senate next month. Democrats dont really want to talk about this, so of course what they do is attacked judge barrett on a range of other, frankly, completely extraneous things. The most bizarre was the condemnation this week of her for using a particular word when she was talking about sexuality. I have n
Again for the second day violate and break their own biden rule which says theyre not supposed to ask the Supreme Court nominees about that. Also tonight, the latest on what democrats are now outraged about as they plan a new complicated line of attack against republicans. The question is this. Instead of being so in the, instead of stomping your feet, steamrolling buffaloing everyone to bet h get your way, how about common sense . Winning the first place with policies people like . More on newly declassified fbi documents showing the fbi was tracking the media and talking about media leaks behind the scenes. This is bigger than realized. Was all this about validating and justifying surveillance on the Trump Campaign by using leaked store race this they were the source of when they could not verify things like Hillary Clintons disinformation with her own shoe leather intelligence . Is this now a bigger story about the medias own role in this trump russia narrative that traveled only on
Understand itse true impact whh has been particularly devastatingar to countries and e most vulnerable communities, women, youth, the elderly. But most importantly, we are here to find Innovative Solutions to i creating change. This is precisely the focus of this Years World Bank which wilwill takeplace starting octod Global Leaders of the government, business and civil society. Just at the stage for the evening we will hear today from World Bank Group david and whato it will take to tackle this crisis and how we can turn this into an opportunity for an inclusive recovery. We will be joined in conversation with the president school of finance and joining from his office in sanford doctor redman has been president of the German Central Bank and is a member of the governing council, represents germany and the imf and other National Bodies and has been chairman of the board of directors of the bank since november, 2015. Welcome. The floor is yours. Thank you for your kind words. Ladies an
Item makers on this weeks edition of the talkers. How do you feel about the issues that you are expecting tonight. Listen, the reality is the president s been practicing every day for this. I mean, hes running the country. Hes doing an amazing job of that. Hes getting peace deals done in the middle east, pulling us out of endless wars or, combating coronavirus. Maria how come nancy pelosi wont allow democrats to be part of this task force . They dont want to focus on where the virus came from, thats china. We want things to be made in america. Maria ratcliffe outlines that Hillary Clinton approved a plan to link thencandidate donald trump to putin. Its something that weve known all along, that this designed for some type of october dirty trick, some type of october surprise. It had all the markings of some type of disinformation operation. Maria who do you think the mastermind of this was . Was it Hillary Clinton or somebody else . From what ive seen, john brennan was right at the midd
Week as traders rotated in and out of sectors. And amazon prime days kicked off an unusual Holiday Shopping season with retailers adapting to the challenges of the covid19 crisis. Which companies will benefit . Apple unveiled its new iphone 12. Will 5g drive a phone sales super cycle . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, lets start with you. Mr. Market is sometimes described as manic depressive, but this week it was more sort of schizophrenia that we saw. Whats going on . Yeah. It was just a very indecisive market. There were days when investors flocked to tech, and other days the nasdaq went down, other parts of the market went up. It really just depended on the news of the day. Early in the week we had plenty of things that could have caused the market to sell off including drug trials at johnson johnson, eli lilly for Covid Treatment being halted, and we also saw, you know, cases of covid rising. But the market actually pulled through all that and even g