United states, and it is simple. He wants to get this thing done now. Jonathan he was asked specifically about some of the details in a News Conference yesterday evening. He took a sidestep. He is leaving the swing to secretary mnuchin. Weve got a real fiscal test, and yet this equity market is still doing ok. Futures this morning up 11. Tom it is an absolutely fascinating tape. Point, lisa is going to talk italy, spain, something. Look at where the vix is. Crisis over. Jonathan dr. Talk about the data 90 minutes away, initial jobless claims. To seehis will be key the deceleration, potentially even decline in job growth. At 11 00 a. M. , the other backdrop is the widening deficit in the United States. The u. S. Treasury set to announce their plan to set sales of debt. Later today, Major League Baseball is kicking off with a shortened season, the shortest since 1878. The think is against the Washington Nationals cardboard cutout fans. Jonathan it is the shortest season since 1878. Thats
Weve divided the lines this morning this way if you support the idea of a ban, dial in, if you oppose it, 202 7488001 if you can also text us for tiktok users your line this morning is 202 7488003. You can also text at that same number all of you include your first name, city and state or go to facebook. Com cspan. Welcom tonversation. The house vote yesterday is whether or not to force tiktok to sell the company, divest from china, or face a bend in the United States. About banning the app was posed to americans in a survey done by the Public Affairs Research Poll ap centers Public Affairs Research Poll and i found that 31 said they support a ban on tiktok well 35 oppose and 31 said neither. This legislation would not ban it unless china refuses to divest its app. A little bit from the debate yesterday, listen to Mike Gallagher, republican of wisconsin, one of the lead advocates for regulating tiktok. This is what he had to say on the floor. [video clip] tiktok is a threat to National
Candidate in every general election since 2008. This is the second time the president has campaigned in the state th year. Air force one touched down a shortime ago in michigan and we will be bringing to the president s remarks live here on host at our table this morning is the former Trump Administration former u. S. Assistant secretary of commerce here to talk about this debate in washington over what to do about tiktok. The house approved this legislation 35265, overwhelming bipartisan support. Is this significant . Guest given the scope of tiktok users and how debated this issue has been over the last several years, it is really heartwarming and really encouraging to see the government come together on a bipartisan basis about the threats posed to u. S. National securities, absolutely. Host you said heartwarming, why . Guest in todays era, we tend to overpoliticize issues and it is really nice when in instances put partisanship aside and really come together to address National Sec
But it did not close above that level. We saw the major averages give back by the end of the day some off the morning highs well keep a close eye on this this morning green arrows indicated once again this morning dow futures up by 57 points. S p up by 4. 5 points the nasdaq up by 8. 5 points. Look at asia, the nikkei gave back some grounds. Hang seng up by 0. 7 the shanghai was up by 0. 9 . Then if you check things out in europe, its a mixed bag ftse up by a quarter percentage point. The dax and cac are weaker stocks in italy are down stocks in spain slightly higher. Check out crude oil prices you will see that crude oil looks like it is up about 29 cents. 47 57. 45 for wti. We are watching a couple big stories this morning were learning more about that deadly amtrak crash in Washington State yesterday three people were killed, nearly 100 more injured when the train derailed the ntsb confirmed that the train was traveling at 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30mileperhour zone the crash left sev
The s. E. C. Halting trading on a Small Cap Stock called Crypto Company. We got a breakdown on what to look for when considering stocks that are taking advantage of bitcoin mania. There are the four bitcoin prices there. All four of them. All in the red today, by the way. After the bell today, we have stitchfix reporting its first earnings since going public were going to have a debate on whether this recent ipo is worth buying or not. We found a bull and a bear we could get the first Earnings Report of they list is always perhaps the volatile one. They already said what they think the numbers are go iing to be. Right. Looking forward to hearing from them later. Breaking news out of washington right now, as the house votes to pass the tax bill ylan mui with the latest. Reporter we saw House Republicans celebrating their victory here as they passed the tax bill out of their chamber. Members of leadership were literally patti inting each othn the back, shaking hands, hugging even paul ry