Watch live at 7 00 eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Join us from his home in washington dc is political reporter dan balz. Good sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. Only october 4. What a year it has been it. Guest its been an unbelievable year. Nobody could have written the script for this year. As though not every week but every other day something dramatic happens that shakes the country. Weve had unrelenting bad news for most of the year. Pandemic, terrible economic collapse, a recovery that is uneven where the people were stuff are having it the worst at this point. Ande had racial protests violence in the streets. Violence from both sides in the street. We had the death of john lewis, ruth bader ginsburg, now we learned just a couple of days ago that the president of the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus. Get aoes the country ever break from any of this . We are 29 days from the election. Its an unbelievabl
Washington is longtime political reporter and columnist of the washington post. Good sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. Host thank you for being with us. What a year it has been. It is only october 4. It has been an unbelievable year. As i wrote this morning, no one could have written a script for this year. It seems as though not just every week but every day, something dramatic happens. Shakes the country. Weve had unrelenting bad news for most of the year. Pandemic, terrible economic collapse, a recovery that is uneven where the people were stuff are having it the worst at this point. Ande had racial protests violence in the streets. Violence from both sides in the street. We had the death of john lewis, ruth bader ginsburg, now we learned just a couple of days ago that the president of the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus. Get aoes the country ever break from any of this . We are 29 days from the election. Its an unbelievably important election. They
Ahead on washington journal, your thoughts and reaction to the events of the last few days as President Trump continues his treatment for covid19. We are dividing our phone lines regionally. 202 7488000 if you live in the eastern or central time zones. Those of you out west, 202 7488001. Send us a text message at 202 7488003. You can join us on social media, on twitter, and on facebook. Good sunday morning. Thanks for being with us. A lot to get to in the next couple of hours, including this headline from the New York Times, confusion and concern as the president ails. This headline, trump saying he is doing much better. He is not out of danger. That is from white house chief of staff mark meadows, contrasting a rosy picture painted by the president s dr. On television. Saturday evening, the president said he was starting to feel good. The video meant to reassure the nation posted on his website at realdonaldtrump. Com. [video clip] i want to begin by thanking all the incredible medica
U. S. Markets, all three major market gages rising more than 7 . The dow with best august since 1984. Shares of zoom soaring premarket, ceo 4 billion richer in just a few hours after a huge jump in revenue for the company. An Appeals Court delivering setback to Michael Flynn rejecting bid to toss out charges against him. Amazon taking to the skies, drone delivery coming one step closer to reality thanks to the federal Aviation Administration. Mornings with maria live right now. Dagen checking global action, france factory activity slipping back into contraction, the purchase Managers Index below 50. Better use out of uk, rising above 55 showing growth. In asia overnight, markets fairly flat, south korea kospi big winner. President trump heading to kenosha, wisconsin to deliver law and order message. Cheryl casone with the headlines, hey, cheryl. Cheryl the former Vice President blaming President Trump for the uptick in violence in cities across the nation. He doesnt want to shed light,
We are monitoring his comments right now for any news that breaks. We are on this event for you. Meanwhile, got to look at the markets. Kicking off the first trading day of september with new records for the s p 500 and the nasdaq, and the dow is back in positive territory for the year. We shall see if these numbers hold through the rest of the hour. You know, septembers traditionally the worst month of the year for the stock market. But we are going to ask our floor show traders if they expect september 2020 to follow the usual pattern, because nothing about 2020 has been usual, to be clear. And we will get a view from the farm as harvest season is fast approaching. We will talk to one soybean and corn farmer about how he sees the phase one trade deal playing out in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, the state of spacs. A giant in the Media Industry is turning to the world of 3d printing to tell us why he is now taking desktop metal public. Less than an hour to the closing