Its really on all kinds of sweetened beverages fruit juice, iced tea, energy drinks, you name it. If its got sugar in it, 3centsanounce tax. So, were starting to see some of the pushback against it, the teamsters having an oped today, saying, its a regressive tax. Heres why were against it. Yet last weekend, we saw the mayor have a sitdown with people in the beverage industry, powerful forces, and a person that is known well in union circles, John Dougherty, was part of that meeting and seeming to be on the mayors side. How do we read this when were told unions could be against it but then you have John Dougherty . How do all of these pieces come in to play . What does it mean for the prospects of what the mayors trying to do . Well, theres a difference between John Dougherty and the teamsters, right . The teamsters made the wrong bet. This is politics 101, right . The teamsters were on the wrong side of the convention center, as jim kenney would see it, and they were on the wrong side
Choice and the history of entertainment at the dinner. Heres a bit of that conversation. For awhile they used to do musicalabilities, and believe it or not a juggling act at some point. That was a long time ago. But since the association started having come eedians come and serve as the entertainer shell be the fourth woman to have done that. I dont know its always a latenight white guy. Which is great. Those guys are funny. But its really important to have different perspectives represented at a podium like that and i just think shes funny. And i think shes shes sharp and cutting and i think shell bring it down to size a little bit. Thats part of the fun. Watch our live coverage of the white house correspondents dinner, starting at 6 30 p. M. Eastern saturday on our companion network cspan. In 2014 the department of Homeland Security was rated the worst federal agency to work for, with nasa being the best. Thats from a recent survey by the office of Personnel Management. The survey us
Trade data out of china. And bernankes fed speech later on today. Tenyear note, one to watch as Mortgage Apps down four weeks in a row. And well keep our eye on europe. Mostly in the red. Our road map begins with the markets, rates are rising, but dont tell the bulls, the dow is 109 points from its alltime closing high. Following in Rupert Murdochs footsteps, the Tribune Company planning to split the broadcasting and Publishing Business taking the same path as murdochs news corcor. And coach gets initiated with an outperform. Well, the dow in the midst of the first foursession winning streak since the end of april. But stock futures are mixed after a surprise drop in june imports and exports adding to concerns about a slowdown in that country. Wall street is bracing for the 2 00 p. M. Eastern release from the minutes of last months fed policy meeting. Traders looking for further clues on when the fed might scale back the bond buying. Also, ben bernanke scheduled to address an economist
Ezra klein will join us tonight at the end of this hour. He is outraged that donald trump is more eager to try to avoid a recession than he is to save lives. Congressman Eric Swalwell will also be joining us to explain how the influence of nancy pelosi on the House Democrats has changed the economic aid package being considered by the senate tonight. And massachusetts senator ed markey will be voting on that bill. He will give us the latest developments with the senate legislation. But we begin tonight as we always must with the numbers. As of today the United States has 53,441 reported cases of coronavirus and 693 reported deaths from the coronavirus, but there is good news tonight. The president of the United States is not in charge. Now, that would be bad news in a pandemic if the president were anyone other than donald trump. So the good news is that the worst, most corrupt president in history is not in charge of what he referred to today as opening up the country. Donald trump di
Recession than he is to save lives. Congressman Eric Swalwell will also we joining us to explain how the influence of nancy pelosi on the House Democrats has changed the economic aid package being considered by the senate tonight. And massachusetts senator ed markey will be voting on that bill. He will give us the latest developments with the senate legislation. But we begin tonight as we always must with the numbers. As of today the United States has 53,441 cases of coronavirus and 693 reported deaths from the coronavirus, but there is good news tonight. The president of the United States is not in charge. Now, that would be bad news in a pandemic if the president were anyone other than donald trump. So the good news is that the worst, most corrupt president in history is not in charge of what he referred to today as opening up the country. Donald trump did not close down the country, and so donald trump cannot open up the country. If youre at home in America Today and you didnt go to