2. 3 billion trillion dollar stimulus package that is providing relief to Small Businesses. One of the biggest of that is 386 billion set aside to help Small Businesses with loans, checks, money that can be outright grants, Edward Lawrence has been following that because a lot of banks are handling the transactions, bank of america was up and running on this. He has the latest on all of th that. Reporter very interesting, Community Banks have led the charge on the spanking figure going forward, at 830 this morning, Steven Mnuchin has been on top of this to make sure. Look at the latest numbers, as of 1130, there was 2330 banks loans that have been given out for a total of 889 million that is direct stimulus into the u. S. Economy for the Small Businesses to keep people on pay checks and to give people pay checks and keep their lights on and pay the rent. On the jobs numbers, we expected was going to be bad but the number was really a surprise. Look at this a 4. 4 unemployment over all
A very warm welcome to you watching r. T. International with me aaron and we start with news from the netherlands where passengers and crew have been safely evacuated from an aircraft of saddams airport after whats been described as a major security scare earlier dutch police that they were investigating a quote suspicious situation on board an aircraft there its been reported that nice men tried to hijack the plane but it seems that for it is now over the reports of the Emergency Services how to ride on the scene and theres several departure gates have been on lockdown. If it all now general Election Campaigning in the u. K. Has got off to a bad tempered start this wednesday with Boris Johnson launching a series of scathing attacks on the opposite. And leader the Prime Minister appealed to the public to vote for his conservative party rather than jeremy corbins labor which he claimed has failed to take a tough enough line on russia. Come with us a government that believes britain shou
Galaxies when politics, media and the courts are drawn into an existential battle over the white house, the hill, the supremes, donald trump, joe biden, hunter biden and, well, the american way of life. Its the ultimate drama for the main stream media which have practically created Opposition Camps in this president ial election year. Looming over the landscape is the nations highest court which agreed to hear trumps appeal on the crucial question of president ial immunity. Shannon if bream ahead on that. Many in the media see this as the right way to settle such a weighty question while many others in the media are calling this a Stall Thing Tactic to delay the January 6th Case past the election. Its all a been fast and furious. Illinois has become the third state to kick trump off the ballot, and were waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on that. And given the con. Census that this is a consensus that this is a very bad and undemocratic idea, i dont know why scotus isnt moving faster.
he gets elected again? presidential tried to call a witness in our investigation. we will take any effort to and fluids witness testimony very seriously. good morning, it s saturday. july 16th, i am sam stein in from my friend ali velshi. bringing us pressure hour on another week of bombshell revelations from the january 6th elect committee. as the public hearing, the seventh so far focused on far-right extremist groups that participated in the insurrection. and also the direct and then direct correlation between those groups and several of the former presidents minions. they also give us the first look at video testimony given just days before from former white house counsel, pat cipollone. now patrick long was one of the most sought after and vital witnesses today. a person who is not only in the room but was a part of the conversation. offering a critical firsthand account of the final days of the former presidents desperate attempts to stay in power. included and pats
See. Workshop hathaway, Warren Buffett said he needs a quiet 2017. Betty it has been everything but quiet in the equity markets these days. Out, but it to close want to point to you a chart. G btv 9668, which is what we have seen for huge amounts of price swings in the equity market. If anybody doubted whether or not volatility was here to stay, just look at this chart here it it shows you the difference between the highs and lows on average on the s p fearing s p. Right, butett is 2018 is a totally different story. You just saw on the righthand side with how big those differences are in the highs and the lows. You can see that even on friday, the s p rising by 1. 6 . The dow swinging back with these huge gains 350 points. The nasdaq also rising by 2 . It will be interesting to see, with all the news coming up this week, what price action we will get starting monday in the u. S. Yvonne it seems like we bucked that trend selling on friday. The relief are a lot of equity traders. A lot o