And at 9 00f truth a. M. , biographer and president ial historian Craig Shirley Discusses Campaign 2020 and the history of postconvention president ial campaigns. Host three months until election day, the candidates and issues come under more intense scrutiny. Joe biden making his First Campaign speech since the convention accusing the president of stoking violence in our cities and that the president forfeited any leadership in our country. Welcome to washington journal for this tuesday, september 1. We will spend the first hour getting your thoughts and reaction to joe bidens speech and we will hear from joe biden, play you this speech and reaction from President Trump. Here is how we are breaking the lines up. If you support joe biden and Kamala Harris that line is 202 7488000. The president and Vice President mike pence, 202 7488001. If you are undecided or supporting another candidate the line is 202 7488002. You can always send us a text, 202 7488003. Make sure that you tell us y
Presidency did you want to write about his connection to fox news . I was fascinated about this from the first week of his presidency, when he started tweeting the banners at the bottom of the screen on fox and friends and started chatting hostsosts and ways the in ways that were much more casual than other president s. I didnt decide to write the book until the impact of fox foreign and fox influence became clear. Last year in my research talking sources of fox and in the white house, it was clear to me that america is aion of bigger story than many realize. I tried to put it all in this. The word hopes is related to the tot word hoax is related the pandemic, President Trump decrying democrats raising alarms about the virus. He used the word hoax, sean hannity used the word hoax, suggesting this was an attempt to take down the president when at the time the virus was spreading across the country. Terriblevery real, event, not a hoax. It tells the story of fox and trumpin a new way in
After hitting another all time high earlier in the session. The selloff coming as California Governor Gavin Newsom rolling back reopening plans as coronavirus cases spike in the state. Bars, gyms, salons, malls, other businesses ordered to close indoor operations in 30 counties that represents 80 of the states population does this officially put a close on the reopening rally guy . I dont know again, i dont know if this was a rally on the reopening or hopes that there was some vaccine out there or the fact that the fed is back stopping this entire thing, but ill play your reindeer game, mel, and say this was the reopening rally. Im shocked that people are surprised that the reopening is not going as well as a lot of people were indicating it would. So it should put an end to it because on top of that, as we just talked about earlier, or sara and wilf talked about, you had one of the biggest reversals in the market. It looks to me eastererily simio some of the moves in late march when t
22 states reporting alarming new increases in covid cases. Florida with the highest daily totals over the weekend. Arizona and texas set a Record Number of hospitalizations, and scenes like this in new york city raising a red flag. You stop doing what youre doing, youll see those numbers turn. Plus, the warning about masks with exhale valves. Do they help stop the spread . Overnight a new report claiming that President Trumps niece was the primary source for the New York Times investigation into the president s alleged fraudulent tax schemes. Mary trump reportedly set to publish a tellall book this summer detailing harrowing and salacious stories about the president , and that bombshell new biography about First Lady Melania Trump revealing intimate details about her relationship with the president , her influence around the white house and the real reason the author says she didnt move to washington until months after the inauguration. Basketball battle. What a pretty play from kyrie
Measures of the Federal Reserve is leading the way, after spending trillions buying Mortgage Backed securities, corn rat securities, Treasury Bonds all that sort of thing this is another arrow in its quiver that is not really been explored or to my ive been following these bites here, even explain what a main Street Lending facility will be, but the very talk of it did bring us off our lows. Again, just throwing that out there as one of the reasons why we dipped from down about 280 points to now down about 180 points. Lets get the read in the meantime about the worries for the Market Going Forward here, and that will be in another couple of hours or so, the president outlining his plans to respond to china, presumably on this crackdown going on in hong kong and throwing in their concerns the president has about how the chinese handled the coronavirus, something is up which has a lot of stocks that depend on trade with china down. Blake burman with the latest. Hey, blake. Reporter hi th