The reopening of america. Take a look. Dow futures turning negative down 19 points but the nasdaq is up 9 and s p 500 is also negative down about 1 point, mixed story this morning, dow and s p 500 snapped 3day winning street yesterday turning negative by the close, dow down 170 points, nasdaq was up 14 but s p down 11 and a quarter. Secretary mike pompeo meeting with chinese top diplomats as issue on trade, human rights and coronavirus heat up, john boltons new bookmaking claims about President Trumps relationship and xi jinping. Protests in atlanta to report. Meanwhile an Capitol Hill Senate republicans unveiled Police Reform bill as House Democrats call for more action. Coming up at 7 00 a. M. Eastern this morning new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani will join me with his valuable insight on policing in america, the former mayor today telling us his reaction to all of this. Then cracking down on big tech, Justice Department looks to limit protections enjoyed by Technology Companies as c
Just interviewed the president , blake. Reporter melissa, we did indeed speak with President Trump earlier this afternoon for about 12 minutes or so here at the white house. Covered a host of topics with the president. First and foremost in that interview the president says he will be talking about Mitch Mcconnell tonight regarding next step face four relief measures and the president says he does support another round of direct payments to individuals let me start with phase four and what might potentially come later this month. Another round of direct payments for individuals, do you support that at this time . I do support it but it has to be done properly. I support actually larger numbers thant democrats but it has got to be done properly. We had something where they wanted, it gave you a disincentive to work last time. It was still money going to people and helping people i was all for that but we want to create a very great incentive to work. Were working on that. Im sure well a
Centralized government, for bigger government and less liberty, demand, demanding of course, gun control, amnesty for illegal immigrants, unrestrained voter fraud, a judiciary that must be packed with activist judges and now massive Corporate Funding of leftwing political organizations such as black lives matter and the defunding of Police Departments. The lefts politics of destruction follow marxist doctrine and socialists or communist philosophies. They manipulate, intimidate, infiltrate every facet of american life. Whether our schools, public or private, globalist corporations, wall street, the leftwing National Media, hollywood of course, and driving group and identity politics, racial politics, radicalism and in nearly all of our societys institutions and the leftwing media, unrelenting in its corporate funded radicalism. They mean to transform this, the greatest nation on earth, no matter the cost, no matter the pain, no matter the violence, no matter their lies. Former nfl quar
Strongs comments yet on ties to beijing. Debates travel bans. Job numbers underlie the impact on the economy. Do a quick check of trading atarkets are the moment. U. S. Futures are flat after stocks ended mixed in the regular session. We had markets really searching for a catalyst. Sentiment was a little bit pressured. Trading at u. S. Weekly jobless claims above one million for the 13th week. Andad gains in Energy Consumer staples on the s p 500, but at the same time, real estate industrials weighing on the index. The nasdaq composite did gain and ended at the highest level in a week. The dow lost about 40 points. Take a look at what oil is doing. Prices finished higher in the regular session. It is up and trading above the 38 a barrel level. We did get opecplus looking to make up for mixed Production Cut targets, boosting prices to the highest in more than a week. Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian markets now. We are looking at a mixed session for this friday. Volumes
U. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer was on capitol hill to testify on the Trump Administration trade policy. The use of tariffs, trade with china and implementation of the u. S. Canada trade agreement. Mr. Lighthizer was asked about the Global Supply chain of the inquisition of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate Hearing is just under three hours. Im pleased to welcome ambassador lighthizer. Thank you for joining us. We need to have you here because we face great challenges whether its the murder of floyd or whether its the economic downturn we had because of the pandemic or the pandemic itself. We have a lot facing our country. Its not going to be easy to bring us back on the course of iran and their brave but good trade policy will be one important part of doing so so im glad we have that discussion today. Trade policy is immediately significant because we need to make sure we dont have any unnecessary taxes on goods g2 the recovery or i