Also weighing on investors, continued protests in hong kong. All remaining flights today out of hong kong have been canceled, as demonstrators are occupying the airport there. It follows a violent weekend of protests, including clashes between demonstrators and police, beijing officials condemn the violence and linked violent protesters to terrorism. A bad sign. Also, low Interest Rates affecting the market. Check the tenyear yield. Its 1. 69 now. The other big story of the day, the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Were learning that epstein was not checked on for several hours leading up to his apparent suicide in his prison cell. Attorney general william barr is furious and says there will be a federal investigation. Theres a lot of news to go at today. You dont want to miss a moment of it. Varney company starting right now. David a quick look at stock futures and they have improved a little bit from where they were. Lets go right to susan li at the stock exchange. Whats the buzz, susan . S
It is about half past four in the morning. You are up to date with the headlines. Now on bbc news, Stephen Sackur speaks to us republican senator rick scott on hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im at Stephen Sackur. Donald trump is the most unpredictable of us president s, as this is the briefing. Im sally bundock. Is evident from his policy approach our top story to north korea, china trade, iran, north korea accuses the us and a host of other domestic and of being hell bent on hostile actions, just days after a Meeting International challenges. I guess between the countries leaders. Todayis international challenges. I guess today is the republican senator from lauren day, rick scott. He was a the un security councilfails to reach an agreement on whether to issue a statement strong supporter of donald trump condemning the deadly air strike on a Migrant Centre in libya. Bacchin 2016, now he has created a distance between himself and the a volcano in italy erupts without warning. President
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Donald trump is the most unpredictable of us president s, as is obvious from his policy approach to north korea, china trade, iran and a host of other domestic and international challenges. Well, my guest today is the republican senator from florida, rick scott. He was a strong supporter of donald trump back in 2016, now hes created a distance between himself and the president. So just how solid is republican support for donald trump . Senator rick scott, welcome to hardtalk. Its nice to be here. Youve been in europe for a few days, youve been meeting politicians, youve been meeting diplomats, how hard is it being a senior us politician defending the Trump Administration overseas right now . You know, i dont look at it that way. I dont defend, you know, the Trump Administration. Id try to explain, you know, both what President Trump is trying to do and what i believe in. So Something Like now its a positive that were having conversation with nort
Now on bbc news, Stephen Sackur speaks to us republican senator rick scott on hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur. Donald trump is the most unpredictable of us president s, as is obvious from his policy approach to north korea, china trade, iran and a host of other domestic and international challenges. Well, my guest today is the republican senator from florida, rick scott. He was a strong supporter of donald trump back in 2016, now hes created a distance between himself and the president. So just how solid is republican support for donald trump . Senator rick scott, welcome to hardtalk. Its nice to be here. Youve been in europe for a few days, youve been meeting politicians, youve been meeting diplomats, how hard is it being a senior us politician defending the Trump Administration overseas right now . You know, i dont look at it that way. I dont defend, you know, the Trump Administration. Id try to explain, you know, both what President Trump is trying to do and what i
Are you gonna run for president . Think i just got an f from you, actually. audience applauding kurt andersen, welcome. Happy to be here. Good to be with you, congratulations on this book. Well talk about it first, fantasyland, the timing of this book is exquisite. Im assuming its not entirely accidental. It is entirely accidental. It is entirely accidental. It is entirely accidental. I started thinking about this book many years ago. Really decided that it was a book i was going to write as my next book in 2013, started writing in 2014, still no donald trump on the horizon. No one had talked about fake news . No one had talked about fake new or post truth or any of that. Alternative facts . Alternative facts was not yet a phrase. And then, really as i was finishing the draft, i put him in the book. I dont think he, donald trump that is, would have appeared in this book had he not run for president. And this book would have appeared without donald trump. This book indeed would have app