Debate are john mashek, correspondent for u. S. News world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, norma quarles, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for knightridder newspapers. Sander vanocur, senior Political Correspondent for abc news, is our moderator tonight. Sandy. Vanocur thank you, dorothy. A few words about the order of our format tonight. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Congresswoman ferraro won the toss. She elected to speak last. Therefore Vice President bush , will get the first question. The debate will be built upon a series of questions from the four reporters on the panel. A reporter will ask a candidate a question, a followup question and then the same to the other candidate, then each candidate will get to rebut the other. The debate will be divided into two parts. The first section on domestic , affairs, the second on foreign affairs. Now the manner of address was decided by the candidates
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Tonight so lets start the discussion with justices. Lets start the discussion over justice. The question do you think he is right should obama wait to do an appointment . Well start with you . Personally i would like to see him wait and i would hope whoa wait. Weve had a discussion about this in the studio during the debate and before the president has the right to nominate anyone he wants to at any point. The senate does the confirmation and they can row jekt or accept it. I dont think that the president this president , is going to nominate a person to pass the 60vote threshold and thats what well see is a battle over the next several months. Right. It is right and i think he should do it and take his definitely beyond a doubt he has favorable candidates in mind he can name . What do you think . I think he should absolutely exercise his right and i was going through twitter during the debate and there was a video i found of ronald regan doing the exact same thing he nominated kennedy
Yesterday it kind of was. Volume still remains below the 20 day average. Dow which fell the most yesterday, its rallying back today. Gains are up 190 points. They are showing relatively strong gains. The s p has a big cap gainers. We have amazon. Thatel advisor reports amazon saw an increase in sales it was a little bit of a slowdown. Uturnis introducing a youtube service. Allergan is introducing its buyback. Companies that are contributing most include Goldman Sachs and owing. We see a broadbased gain a number of different types of stocks. We can take a look at goldman. They are rising today. Weve got a broad rally within the financials today. Thats one of the most heavily weighted groups. It helps the overall indices. If you look at some of the other financials, jpmorgan is among them. To have that . Jpmorgan, bank of america, wells fargo. Breaking newssome in the act sector. Corn prices are popping on the latest usda were. Look at this pop. There we go. This is up 3 . Usda cut brazi
You can see . Morning the nasdaq is indicated higher by about 22 points. Nearing correction territory. Wti trading up about 3 . A pop of 1. 34 to 45. 12. Among the reasons for the surge in prices escalated fighting in libya thats disrupted production there. Some canadian pipelines shut down as the precaution after a wild fire shut down the oil city of forth mcmurray in canada. Weekly jobless claims forecast. James bullard is in Southern California today to speak about the economy and monetary policy. And alibaba and merck reporting results before the opening bell and also news corp, square and gopro after the close. And dont miss an exclusive interview with John Williams. That happens this afternoon at 1 40 p. M. On power lunch. Bullard an here a lot. He comes here a lot. If he wants to Say Something. He could some here and thats it. So many approximate of them the time that the if they really want to Say Something to us. Come here and do it. Else were not going to cover it. Fitbit Fir