Jonathan ferro and Lisa Abramovitz are off today. Joining us today is anna edwards from a simulcast. Dow futures up 62. All the politics in america. Milwaukee in a virtual convention. David westin leading our coverage on that. What i find absolutely interesting and i think london has done a better job of this is the shutting down of our economies. Our coverage of the tourism in , all the beaches in the summer, how shutdown is london . Anymore, all that much it has opened up, in theory. This is a services economy, and plenty of people, including myself, are working from home. In terms of the shut down, we have lifted a lot of the lockdown measures that had been in place. What is on my mind from a market nightclubs and aviation. Those are really driving sentiment across the european continent when it comes to our freedom of movement. It is being eroded, perhaps rightly, because of the virus. That is not good for nightlife or the aviation stocks we see under pressure. Tom we have been wat
The focus has been on what is happening in washington. It was fascinating to see the fade on equities today. European equities are off session lows. We faded pretty precipitously earlier on. The pound is also off its earlier session highs and has certainly faded the early move. A similar story in brent as well. The initial burst of enthusiasm around that deal starting to ease back a little bit. The real question, this is just dealing with the here and now. Are we going to need further help from washington and other governments around the world to get the bounceback that may some people are looking for . Vonnie just getting a headline now that german lawmakers have approved a 156 billion euro stimulus. A few things happening in europe as well. Back to washington, the white house and senators have finally come together in an effort to bolster the economy. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell spoke earlier on the senate floor. Sen. Mcconnell at last, we have a deal. After days of intens
Leadership as at all other interAgency Meetings on this topic of which i was aware the National Security Community Expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding as in the u. S. National security interest at the july 26th meeting there was also a discussion of how ukrainian anticorruption efforts were making progress do you do you reiterated what we had said and our earlier certification to congress stating that sufficient progress in defense reform including anticorruption had occurred to justify the usa i spending. I and others at the interAgency Meetings felt that the matter was particularly urgent because it takes time to obligate that amount of money and my understanding was that the money was legally required to be obligated by september 30th the end of the fiscal year in the ensuing weeks until the hold was released on september 11th i pursued 3 tracks 1st starting on july 31st and an interAgency Meeting i made clear to the interagency leadership my understanding that once
When . Weeks and still has not ruled. Nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. Where do things stand after todays arguments . Reporter judge Aileen Cannon said she would rule promptly on these two motions to dismiss and seemed skeptical this afternoon of the argument about the president ial records act. Remember, what donald trump is saying under the president ial records act he could deem any record in the white house whether classified document about Nuclear Secrets or identity of the cia officer, foreign asset, he could deem that a personal record, take it home and store it in his bathroom. Special counsel jack smith says than an absurd argument and eastern the judge said i dont see how that gets dismissal of the indictment. That one. Another argument, motion to dismiss on the grounds the Espionage Act is unconstitutionally vague. Argued that this morning. A long shot. A law used hundreds of times to prosecute people who have taken home or leaked classified docu
The Special Counsel charges donald trump with conspireing to shatter the american experiment. The ha 45page indictment nar tat rates a plot to stay in power after losing an election. And it does so with some new evidence, including realtime notes from then Vice President mike pence. The politics, the third Trump Indictment slipped the field into familiar camps. The charges will also test joe bidens resolve to do what is sometimes unnatural. Stay quiet. The consequences, how the prosecution plays out in court may determine the future of both donald trump and american democracy. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Tomorrow a court date for the former president here in washington. Today the country gets a line by line look at The Plot Against America and the alleged crimes of donald trump. Central to the indictment is the Special Counsels assertion that trump knew that he lost the election and pushed lies to stay in office any way. Describe d in the indictment