Melissa francis. Hey, connell. Connell im connell mcshane. Hey, melissa, we start instead of focusing on markets and wall street and with blake burman as we come out of that announcement at the white house. He is there live and, you know, it was interesting, blake, because the president was asked right off the bat as we were joining it whether he misled the public and essentially he said yes, i did but it was, as melissa points out in his view to prevent panic. Take it from there. Reporter 18 different interviews President Trump gave on the record taped to bob woodward. Absolutely no dispute what was said on the tapes. President said it. Some have been published. Well get to see and hear potentially more of it in coming days as Bob Woodwards book is soon to be released. In one of those interviews on march 19th, is talking to bob woodward about the preeminent issue of that issue at that time, covid19 and everything going on then. The president in that interview acknowledged he was purpo
Rips into Silicon Valley and defends the companys government work and no symptoms, no test. Why the cdc is quietly updating its coronavirus testing guidelines normally, jim, i wouldnt start there, but you were just tweeting a moment ago about how important testing is as the number the sevenday average of new tests in this country is the lowest since early july. I just think that the main gap in the system is you hear people say, well, my daughter just got it from college and weve been all trying to test in the family, its five days, we dont know what to do. I think that that halting nature of what to do has gripped this country and has changed it from a country where you go places to a country where you stay at home its a country where you do not travel overseas, its a country where youre frightened over a five and sevenday period endlessly and we live with the tyranny of it. Testing would end it, but its got to be instant. Cant be a lab a lab is a big, big obstacle. Yeah. We will talk
The fed warnings on risk theres a lot to watch the and an airbnb ipo is now officially in the works. You were just talking about becky about claims and this onagain narrative, the split between Public Companies and smaller businesses. When you keep thinking about what target said, brian with a tour deforce performance, talking about taking 5 billion in share you know he took it from somebody i keep thinking about that, thats the 5 billion that probably would have gotten into Smaller Companies that dont trade or companies that are starting to lay people off or file bankruptcies. The i call to attention estee lauder today you dont expect that perfume or skin care gets hurt. Hopefully lipstick sales are better usually when other things are weaker were not seeing that. Were ripe for stimulus, but nobody is talking. Yeah, jim, thats interesting, estee lauder layoffs, american dropping 15 minutes. But covid cases are lit rally collapsing shouldnt this be going in the other direction . Yes, b
Devastated from the coronavirus from being evicted from their homes. We have the details coming up for you. Americas biggest chip maker rolling out its latest chip sets. Code name, tiger lake. Intel ceo bob swan here to tell us how its going to help it maintain dominance in the microchip world. Plus we will introduce you to a company shaking up shakes. The cofounders are here to explain how the reopening of gyms around the nation can help boost sales of its plantbased protein shakes. Less than an hour to the closing bell, im Cheryl Casone in for liz claman today. Lets start the claman countdown. Cheryl lets make you smile. Smile direct club investors are grinning from ear to ear as the stock sets its biggest oneday percentage gain ever after executives bought up millions of dollars in shares and as the company pulled the plug on manufacturing, a manufacturing facility in texas. Right now the stock is up a little more than 25 . A record ride for peloton interactive, hitting another high
Weaker byh pound is 9 10 of 1 . Picture withig tina fordham, avonhurst partner and head of Global Political strategies. She joins us from london. States we are 57 days away from the election and still no stimulus insight, even though the senate is back. It does not look like the president and democrats are ao any page that would be considered similao similar. Where do we go from here . Tina i think another round of stimulus should be a foregone conclusion. This haggling we are seeing, Congress Just back from recess, is what you would expect to see. Each side wants to see they are driving a hard bargain. Look at the language used by the two different sides. Republicans say the president wants nothing more then to write checks for american families. Democrats say the stimulus is not just skinny, it is emaciated. But we are going to get there because we have to. Ands a political imperative not just an election year, but with an election coming days nobody wants to pull the plug. Vonnie it