Handling the pandemic. Polands conservative government remains defiant as protests well against a courts ruling that severely restricts abortions. Wildfires force 100000 people to leave their homes in Southern California. 7 days to the u. S. President ial election and both candidates are making their final pitches to voters democratic candidate joe biden has gone on the offensive on coronavirus making his 1st campaign visit to whats normally the republican stronghold of georgia but where polling now shows a tight race this administrator yet to offer a single plan. Thats one of the reasons why the most one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world the new england journal of medicine call the president quote dangerously incompetent went on to say president turned a crisis into a tragedy im ready to act i know what to do starting on day one of my presidency we will do it meanwhile donald trump is maintaining a hectic schedule hes held rallies in michigan and wisconsin and hes
Small businesses. The airlines in dire situation. United and american saying they have to cut jobs, tens of thousands of them, as borders remain pretty much locked down. Yvonne you are seeing the president trying to do at least some damage control after he talked to negotiators to pull out of talks for a stimulus. Perhaps we are seeing some targeted measures. You have seen the market impact. The nasdaq and futures reversing the losses we were gaining. U. S. Futures are up. We will see if this bodes well for the rest of asia. If you look at the rest of the asia region, it looks like risk assets are looking less entire than the wall street session. We are seeing a bid for aussie against the japanese currency. When it comes to u. S. 10 year yield, we are holding steady, but the move up in yields on the announcement from trump. Stocks have been lower. Jakarta life coming back online. We are heading lower in jakarta. Hangseng up about 163 points. A touch higher for some markets. The rbi is
Time zones, 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001, and you can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on social media. N twitter, facebook good sunday morning. You can start calling in now as we have a civil discussion about civility in politics. Having this discussion in a week that saw another residential battlescongressional over coronavirus really funding, and it also saw this, a series of Public Service announcements released by the candidates for governor in utah. Here is one headline, the straight noting that two candidates, the lieutenant governor, and his democratic opponent, appear together in a Public Service announcement on tuesday promoting civility in politics saying you talk and set an example for the rest of the country. Here is one of those announcements released by the candidates. We are currently in the final days of campaigning against each other
Russia hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton email scandal. No redactions. And breaking this hour, the director of National Intelligence, john ratcliffe, put out a somewhat confusing statement in which he expresses his support for john durhams investigation into obamagate. Dni ratcliffe said at my direction, the office of the director of National Intelligence has now provided almost a thousand pages of materials to the department of justice in response to mr. Durhams document requests. I will continue to insure the intelligence communitys responsiveness to the doj request. We also look forward to supporting the doj in further declassifications consistent with their investigation. As the president has made clear, we must be appropriately transparent with the American People. And give them the confidence that the extraordinary work of intelligence professionals is never misused or politicized. I w recent obamagate materials declassified, by the way, include susan rices email about the Obam
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