From the campaign. And i wish them well in their future endeavors. I look forward to announcing new staff roles in the coming days cnn, kfile senior editor andrew kaczynski, who broke this story is joining us now with more details. Andrew, what more are you learning? yeah, that s right. What we are learning that the top campaign staff to lieutenant governor mark robinson, are resigning from his campaign in mass, including the campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, senior adviser, and top consultant to his campaign finance director, deputy finance director, and his direction tour of operations this is a stunning development after our bombshell story that we posted last thursday, his staff are leaving the campaign now, it s unclear where this is going to leave. Robinson were just a month away almost from the election and now he essentially has almost no we ll senior campaign staff now we did speak to robinson ahead of our story on thursday where he denied all the allegations in them.
To pandemic, that there will be little room for a serious discussion either on Foreign Policy issues or domestic issues . That remains to be seen. But clearly back in the day, Foreign Policy matters a lot more than it does now. The republican landslide in 1920 was a direct result of the uncertainties and challenges in the wake of the first world war. Fdr broke the twoterm president in 1940, 1944, and gained enormous legitimacy in response to impending war and war as well. In 1952 korea was the dominant issue, the stevenson ike issue. In 68 lbj was literally drifen from the consequence of vietnam. In the election, vietnam did not play a singular role. Of course, 1980, you have the iranian hostage crisis and afghanistan. Increasingly, though, after the cold war, it seems that Foreign Policy had more or less dropped out of the president ial electoral cycle and the debates. You had the iraq war in 04 and 08 and figured prominently 9 11. August 20, just last month, registered voters on r12
And up to 200,000 deaths. The president listening to his medical advisers and he has adjusted policy. The social distancing rules will be extended until april 30th. Therefore, the shutdown of the economy will continue well beyond easter. The president says the recovery will start by june 1st. On the markets, expect continued volatility. We have certainly seen that already today. At one point early this morning, futures showed a loss of a couple hundred points. Now we are looking at a gain at the opening bell of a couple hundred points. That would be almost 1 . A similar gain, better gain, actually, for the nasdaq, up about 1. 25 and the s p also up over 1 . A rally at the opening bell. Investors seem to like the idea of more pain now so we get out of it faster. The other big financial story is the price of oil. This is apart from the virus. This is the price of oil. Look at it. Its down to 20 a barrel. Earlier it hit 19. 20. 48 is the price right now. The saudis have declared war on Am
people debase themselves. and then you get to say, oh, my god. look at them doing that. i would never do that and you get to eat your popcorn and enjoy it. yeah i can t wait to see what the evolution of what happens with tom. this season. we will stay tuned shotgun. thank you so much for joining us this morning. my pleasure. y all be safe out there. have a good week. you too, will and see it in this morning continues right now. protests engulfing the streets of israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu s plan to weaken the supreme court he fired a key minister who opposed the move this morning. well, netanyahu pushed forward with the overhaul is terrible. it feels as if the prime minister has lost control. it feels as if this country is going down a very dangerous road. it was like no notice. we didn t know what was happening. mississippi cleaning up from a devastating tornado, at least 26 people are dead. there s very little of this community that was untouched by the storm c
Row seat to democracy. Aaron david miller is with the caron get endowment of International Peace, serves as their senior fellow, thank you for being here. Months complicated the issue . Guest three october seven, the israelipalestinian issue had reached what i call a strategic culdesac. The prospects of significant breakthroughs in pursuit of a conflict ending solution were basically undermined by the absence of leadership by either side and the sheer impossibility of reaching agreement on border security. That this conflict would bring to a settlement of existing claims situation with difficult and fraught well before october 7. Now, weve taken the israelipalestinian conflict to a place its never been before. The traumatic impact of october 7 and and the israeli response is created extraordinary trauma primarily to civilian populations especially in gaza. It has created a sense that when this phase dies down, as it will, israelis and palestinians will not sit with one another. The pro