Garfield is one of the most intelligent president s we have ever had. He is up there in the top half dozen and when we go through his life, by the end of the middle of it, and youre going to say no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field. Its just not possible, and then well find something else, and youre going to no. He is just incredibly bright, and the hope for his presidency was enormous, and were going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before, and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. I dont know how you test Something Like that, and its not as if you give president s iq tests. Its a lot easier with things that are easy to measure, tall ask short. We all know that madison was our shortest president , lincoln was our tallest president because thats easy. I dont know how you know who the most intelligent. Certainly the two adams, jefferson, madison and Lincoln Garfield is right up there. So one of the reasons
And at 9 00f truth a. M. , biographer and president ial historian Craig Shirley Discusses Campaign 2020 and the history of postconvention president ial campaigns. Host three months until election day, the candidates and issues come under more intense scrutiny. Joe biden making his First Campaign speech since the convention accusing the president of stoking violence in our cities and that the president forfeited any leadership in our country. Welcome to washington journal for this tuesday, september 1. We will spend the first hour getting your thoughts and reaction to joe bidens speech and we will hear from joe biden, play you this speech and reaction from President Trump. Here is how we are breaking the lines up. If you support joe biden and Kamala Harris that line is 202 7488000. The president and Vice President mike pence, 202 7488001. If you are undecided or supporting another candidate the line is 202 7488002. You can always send us a text, 202 7488003. Make sure that you tell us y
Gilead sciences, as you heard from maria, positive news from a government trial of their remdesivir and also from two of their own trials. Positive news on a treatment. That sent futures straight up earlier this morning and look at the stock, also straight up, 6. 8 . Thats the effect of this effective trial of remdesivir. Up go futures, up goes gilead stock. More on this in a moment. A second reason for the dows gains, investors expect a strong recovery for the economy starting in the summer. The market always looks to future conditions. Theres a third reason. The Federal Reserve is likely to say today they will do whatever it takes to stabilize your money. Wall streets expecting more stimulus. The dow will be up close to 550 points at the opening bell, close to 2 . The s p up 2 . The nasdaq solid indeed, up over 2 . We had boeings numbers out this morning. Continuing problems, but its cutting 10 of its work force and investors like that. The stock is up nearly 6 . Okay. More on all th
Fate of the homeless. Homelessness is a growing problem in the united states. Around 500,000 people in america are homeless, which is around the same population of wyoming. ,he proposed budget for hud housing and urban development, the department that deals with Affordable Housing and billionness is 44. 1 grants received only 2. 6 billion. Some people believe America Needs billions and billions of dollars to end homelessness, but the opposing view of the National Alliance to end homelessness is they only need 3 billion. All we know was the current budget proposed by the president. According to the new york times, homelessness and afford will housing have gotten less speaking time. The reason it matters is so much is because an expresident , whether it is a republican or democrat will determine the budget for housing and urban development. To see how president ial candidates thought it placed on a local level, interviewed cedric greer. Im a las vegas city councilman. President ial candi
That is pretty stupid. Host thank you for the call. Stephen hammond has this on our Facebook Page we need to practice social gov. Cuomo good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. I want to thank our hosts very much, northwell. Ishael dowling to my left head of northwell. They have done an extraordinary job all through this situation. They have an extraordinary leader in Michael Dowling. Michael dowling ran health care for the state of new york, social services for the state of new york. He worked with my father, came for one year, wound up staying with my father for 12 years in state service. He is one of the really beautiful and brilliant leaders in this state and it is a pleasure to be with him. I want to say to all the people of northwell who have done extraordinary jobs, thank you so much and thank you for having us today for for my to my right is Melissa Derosa, secretary to the governor. To her right is what is your name . Cuomo, who is part of my team and it is a