Youre watching Worldwide Exchange on cnbc top of the morning to you in for Brian Sullivan today kicking off this monday morning with stock futures indicating declines. The nasdaq up about 48 points as you can see but the nasdaq composite overall over the last two days has seen some of that positivity posting a 1. 5 gain with the help of blowout quarterly numbers from amazon. Com, facebook as well the latter coming off of a gain of 10 peculiar on friday for the best one day performance since march 13th of 2020 you can see apple shares over the last couple of days in the green. The major averages coming off their fourth straight months of gains. The s p 500 seeing its best july since 2010. You can see here 20 gains for the dow industrials. 26 gains for the s p and the nasdaq up 40 just over that span alone now in yields they continue to hover near historic lows ticking slightly higher to 54 basis points or. 54 ten year note yields around 11 basis points and the 30 yearlong bond on that t
Kayleigh all eyes on the border today as President Biden and former President Trump head down for dueling visits as immigration is the top issue for 2024. This is outnumbered, im kayleigh mcenany, with Harris Faulkner and Emily Compagno and host of the Michele Tafoya podcast, Michele Tafoya, and former gubernatorial candidate lee zeldin. There is President Biden boarding Air Force One on route to brownsville and former President Trump is going to eagle pass, texas. Just 46 apprehensions this week In Brownsville compared to 2100 in eagle pass in last five days. I wonder why biden chose brownsville . Youre looking at it. We have bill melugin, but we begin with Griff Jenkins with the latest. Griff the latest is President Biden will soon be at brownsville Border Patrol station accompanied by Dhs Secretary Mayorkas and will dpet operational briefing from the chief of the Border Patrol and officials who will bring him up to date and learn 5 00 a. M. This morning, 100 migrants crossed in this
Half. [applause] everybody have a seat. So, what has been going on while i have gone . [laughter] it is wonderful to be home. It is wonderful to be at the university of chicago. It is wonderful to be on the southside of chicago. It is wonderful to be with these young people here. What i want to do is maybe speak very briefly at the top about why we are here and then i want to spend most of the time we are together hearing from these remarkable young people who are representative for some amazing young people in the audience as well. I was telling these guys that it was a little over 30 years ago that i came to chicago. I was 25 years old, and i had gotten out of college filled with idealism and absolutely certain that somehow i was going to change the world. I have no idea how, or where or what i was going to be doing. I worked first two payoffs and student loans, and then i went to work at the city college of new york on their harlem campus with some student organizing. Then there wer
President obama there were a grup of churches on the south side who tried to deal with the steel plant that had closed in the area. The economic station that had been taking place but also the racial tensions and turnover that was happening in these communities. So they formed an organization. They hired me as what was called a community organizer. I did not really know what that meant. Or how to do it. But i accepted the job and for the next three years i lived right here in hyde park but i worked further south in communities like roseland and west pullman. Working class neighborhoods. Many of which had had changed rapidly from white to black in the late 1960s, 1970s. And full of wonderful people who were proud of their communities, proud of the steps they had taken to try to move into the middle class, but were also worried about their futures because in some cases their kids werent doing as ell as they had. In some cases these communities had been badly neglected for a very long tim
A show you some examples. How did this become an important issue, this is a famous picture, who knows what this is. Los angeles immigration rally. Excellent job. Must be one of your students. In 2065 and 600,000 people rallying against hr 33 seven. Eventually they turned into thousand 10, the momentum continued. This was an app put together by republican candidate in nevada. Racializing the immigration issue, harry reid responded by leaning in very forcefully on the issue of bringing the panel together again. Now with maria was former reed staffer and campaigning with louise on behalf of immigrant rights. That puts us at the forefront it , it all came together with dock. Thats how how got on the issue. I would be remiss not to mention it. But then we have these pictures. Anyone read the shirts . Obama deep ports parents. Thats what we say about emotion, this is an issue people are passionate about you dont see rallies about this about changing the tax code. So this was in 2013 and 13 a