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Thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight with breaking news. With the election just five days away, zeta, the storm that roared ashore on the gulf coast as a hurricane wednesday night is wrecking havoc up and down the east coast tonight, and throwing a wrench in the final days of the campaign. As we come on the air, at least six people are dead and millions are without power after zeta ripped through homes in louisiana overnight, reports tearing across the south today. Wind gusts in North Carolina are forcing President Trump to postpone a planned rally in that battleground state. Power outages in georgia pushed early voting sites in 17 counties to shorten their hours or shut down. And, louisianas governor now says he is making restoring power at polling places there a priority. While the weather didnt stop President Trump and joe biden from holding headtohead rallies in a sunny tampa, florida, today, going after each other and the few voters who still havent made up thei
To win is because he lost. [ laughter ] [ applause ] and those dont go together. But ill tell you something. Theres no room for pessimism in the white house. Racyism, sexism, yes, but no pessimism. [ laughter ] the big orange guy is said to be feeling blue. Poutus is reportedly dejected and fuming. And soon hes going to understand what it feels like to be evicted from your home in the middle of a pandemic. [ laughter ] we got a brief glimpse of the president yet yesterday at Arlington National cemetery, but he hasnt spoken in public since a week ago. This was the president s schedule today. 12 30, he had lunch with the Vice President. And that was that. [ laughter ] does he know that hes still president for two more months . Or is he just hiding . Boy, i would have loved to have been at that lunch. What do you think they talked about . Mike pence knows whats up. Hes sitting there going, yes, sir, well be here for four more years for sure. Its like going to your grandpa in the nursing h
A hectic month. There is a lot of uncertainty with regard to the world in general. Jonathan jim b juncker joining us now. What a week in this market. The equity market breaking down by a little more than one and a half percent on the s p 500 but it is the absence of the bid in the bond market hitting the attention of you and i and everyone else. We are selling off, not driving yields lower. Yields are higher by four basis points. What is the signal you take away from that . Jim a worrisome signal. You are right, the fed is doing qe, buying 120 billion dollars of bonds a month, the stock market flirting with a 10 correction. That has all the hallmarks of a classic risk off rally, that bond yields should be falling as treasuries catch a bid as everyone rushes into safety. None of that is happening. The take away the market is still worried about uncertainty over next weeks election, uncertainty about the rising coronavirus, and potential or more fiscal stimulus and or inflation. All of t
Pentagons military Commission Defense organization. The show lectures at clumpy law school and a fellow here in the center of National Security and i must mention is a fordham law grad. Karen rosenberg will talk about his book, his awardwinning Senior Reporter for the New York Times working in collaboration with a pulitzer center. [inaudible] she started with the miami herald or before that she recorded from the middle east and moved recently to the New York Times. She has won many awards including the Robert F Kennedy journalism award, and was part of the miami herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize of breaking news in 2001. So, when we tell you the format. Michelle and carol we will talk and then i will come back on and i will pose questions that have come from the audience and if you have any questions at all please feel free to put them in the chat or if you prefer q a then i will get to as many as i can do. Without further ado michelle, carol, take it away. Thank you so much. Tha