Zblfshgts the president s unprecedented refusal well see what happens. Two days before the first debate. Hes got 47 days. Ive got 3 1 2 years. Well see. Im prepared to go out and make my case. Our powerhouse roundtable takes on all the weeks politics, plus, nate silver and a closer look at battleground michigan. Announcer from abc news its this week, here now chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, and welcome to this week. Eight days after the death of ruth bader ginsburg, two days before the first debate, another unprecedented twist in this unpredictable campaign. No Supreme Court justice has ever been confirmed this close to the election. Republicans are already closing ranks behind judge Amy Coney Barrett. Hoping to jolt the election. Democrats are calling the process a sham, warning that a Justice Barrett couldor threat ase me on the air this morning, our brandnew poll with the rity of americans believe the president elected on november 3rd should fill the Supreme Court
Overcrowded rescue ship while others find themselves stranded in bosnia people in israel are out again on the streets calling for Prime Minister netanyahu his resignation and now theyre attempting to globalize their campaign. In tanzanias president draws big numbers for an election rally as opposition parties say their candidates have been blocked from running. And i may well into the store snoozes the torture front starts the n. B. A. Gets ready to resume and a mark of respect from Lewis Hamilton to dedicate public position to active Chadwick Boseman. Is tightening its media crackdown this saturday is protests continue against president Alexander Lukashenko accreditation has been withdrawn from some journalists the ones working for foreign outlets still though people are out protesting on saturday led by thousands of women as our report. Defying what looks like a crackdown on dissent in belarus these women chanting we wont forget we wont forgive a part of what they call a peacekeeping
Alphabet is up about 11 year to date amazon is up 50 this year you have to wonder if it is the revenue that will be hit particularly hard as travel remains under pressure and they get a good chunk of revenue from that sector. His tweet was on may 1st, the stock closed at 701 that day, were getting new details on the ppe program. Yeah, were waiting the release of loan recipient names. That should be about 13 of the recipients in the program. Here is what we know about ppe after as you mentioned the president signed that extension over the weekend 4. 9 million loans were guaranteed the average loan side was 107,000 about 30 billion in loans have been returned or canceled. Those that fall into the category will not be on the list that we are supposed to get today. This is supposed to be how many employees were in the company when they applied for the loan many businesses are facing deopenings, well be back with more as soon as we know it thank you, kate. That is a good way to get into sto
Charles at this moment all eyes on the Federal Reserve as coronavirus fears rattle the market. Breaks news from boston fed president aaron, give us the news, jennifer. Good afternoon, charles. Boston fed giving a speech in new york this afternoon saying the fed should consider buying a broaderrange of assets besides treasuries should rates go to zero. That policy would require change to the Federal Reserve act, rosenbrend says a facility that could buy assets if treasury agrees to backstop it and offer and hes one that is caution that lowering rates at the risk of pushing investors into riskier assets could lead to bubbles in markets and now suggesting this policy really taking a page out of japans playbook. That would not stimulate the economy. All of this, of course, on a yield when the year on the 10year hitting alltime new low. This is the last time that fed officials will talk before they meet for their policy meeting next week to determine whether to take further policy action, c
Technology law and policy. Okay everybody, time to be seated. So our next panel as you can see, this is the only flight you will see for the whole panel because youre breaking free of powerpoint area theme of this panel is Voter Suppression and voter turnout and in particular, the roles that Network Technologies play in Voter Suppression and voter turn out from a variety of different perspectives. Another way to think of it is pulling back the curtain of it and getting into the technological underbelly of some of the things that the prior panel discuss. Once again, we have a fantastic panel of experts from multiple perspectives, backgrounds and disciplines and im not going to repeat everything thats in the program. But just briefly, to my immediate left here is Karen Bonfield who is a senior policy analyst in the Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative right here at georgetown law and our center on poverty and inequality and she comes from a Public Policy background. We have been