At the Meat Processing plants and meat suppliers at the moment. Chicken and pork as well. These producers are losing a lot of steam here in this final hour of trade. Sanderson farms down 4. 6 . Tyson down 3 . You can see the rest here. The administration in the last hour did pledge 19 billion to support the nations ranchers and agricultural producers. 16 billion of the 19 billion will be in the form of direct payments but as we wait for the Cabinet Meeting to begin, let us bring in the ceo of restaurant brands, the parent of burger king, popeyes chicken, tim horton. Let me just apologize in advance because we will hop to the president as soon as he begins that Cabinet Meeting, jose, but you are live at one of your burger kings in miami, florida. Thank you for joining us. Your restaurants which number some 10,000, you guys sell a lot of meat and chicken. Give us your reaction to the news that 19 billion will go to the ranchers and agricultural farmers there, but not exactly to that midd
Much, everybody. So, welcome to our Cabinet Meeting. Every member of my cabinet is working tirelessly to defeat the invisible enemy that should have never happened to our country, should have never happened to the world. It should have been stopped at the source. They decided not to do that. We opened our country and economy. It is happening very rapidly and it is happening interestingly what numbers are going down. You look at florida, the state of florida, good job. Others, at georgia, some are doing extremely well, far beyond what people thought. And the numbers are going down. It is really terrific. In our drive to crush the virus, the u. S. Has completed nearly 12 million tests, and that number today is almost 14 million. Nobody is close. Germany would be second with approximately 10 million less than us. South korea is doing very well. Their numbers are very small by comparison. ,hat has been done with testing with ventilators, with the distribution of product, has been incredibl
Rally yesterday dow futures are now down. Nasdaq futures lower by 64. Nasdaq up 190. Now this, former Vice President joe biden and the ukraine scandal back in the spotlight, an investigation Just Launched overseas after phone conversations between biden and then ukraine president are released. Meanwhile u. S. Senate taking a major senate in probe of Hunter Bidens role of Barisma Holdings and tesla tapping the brakes in battle with california, dropping the lawsuit after plant is allowed to open. Mornings with maria begins right now. And Global Markets this morning red cross the board, take a look at european indices as u. S. China tensions rise, the cac quarante is down 48 and dax index in germany lower by 174, there are sign that is the european economy is slowly coming back. The euro zone purchasing manager index coming above expectations this morning. In asia overnight, markets mostly lower. Take at the numbers in asia, worst performer half percent lower shanghai composite in china.
Load the liquid oxygen into the booster rockets. Spacex will try again saturday afternoon, 3 22 eastern time. Before leaving for florida this morning, President Trump took direct aim at big tech in this country. President trump is threatening to regulate, to even close down some social media platforms that he says are silencing conservative voices, and the evidence is on his side. The president is angry and, in my opinion, justifiably so. President trumps warning comes only hours after twitter slapped a fact check warning on two of his tweets about potential fraud involving early mailin ballots. The warning linking to Fact Checkers at leftwing, fake news organizations if you can imagine this, cnn, the Washington Post who say the president s claims are false. So we have fake news claims about the president s assertions on twitter. Twitter, however, chose not to disclose that it is an active and premier partner, excuse me, of vote early day 2020. Its an organization, an Advocacy Group pu
America. President trump versus twitter, social media giant factchecking the president s tweets but President Trump is fighting back accusing twitter of election interference and stifling free speech, House Republicans are suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, looking to end proxy voting and forcing members to appear in person. One giant leap for spacex today, elon musk looks to make mystery launching astronauts from florida to the International Space station later today and the nhl taking a shot skipping regular season going directly to playoffs. Martha stewart will join me at 8 30 a. M. Eastern, mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets are higher, take a look at indices, cac quarante is up 87 and dax index in germany higher by 208 points. In europe green across the board as investors look toward stimulus package in the euro zone, reported kristin lagard the u. S. Economy will shrink due to pandemic. Markets were mixed, tensions rise in hong kong, as you can see the hang seng down