Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
Supreme Court Nominee is being questioned on the 2nd day of her come from ation hearing in washington d. C. Amy kearney barras has been facing inquiries on major issues including abortion from a panel of senate is u. S. Vice president ial candidate come on horaces one of the senate is questioning the supreme Court Nominee she focused on the issue of health care a Democratic Campaign is basically opposed to an appointment before novembers election. Cyprus has suspended a lucrative program granting citizenship in turn for investments often aljazeera expose and theyve been protests outside the Cypriot Parliament against government corruption. Well crowds shouted cyprus is not yours to sell and demanded a more just state as also outrage on social media with many calling for resignations the Golden Passport Program has netted billions of euros over several years an independent committee has been set up to investigate thousands of applications that were made since 2007. Saudi arabia has fail
For safer areas after days of intense fighting this is Afghanistans Helmand province heavy rain triggers flash floods and landslides we bring you the latest from both vietnam and cambodia. So lets begin with the coronavirus pandemic as the number of infections continues to surge again across europe many countries seeing their highest levels in months lets run through some of them germany where the daily number of cases is now at its highest level in 6 months chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing for states to impose tougher local measures france is declaring a Public Health state of emergency starting from saturday hospital admissions there are at their highest level since june and the u. K. Well its hit nearly 20000 new corona virus infections in a day which is its 2nd highest number so far england has already introduced a new 3 t. Lockdown system to try to curb the worsening outbreak now at the moment the city of liverpool and its surrounding areas are under the toughest rules and weve
Know the identity of the whistleblower and did not fear for retaliation for his testimony lets continue to listen in to these key witnesses in the impeachment hearings on day 32019 in conversations with me following that meeting which i did not attend mr giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigations into what happened in the past and mr year mark stressed that he told mr giuliani it is the Governments Program to root out corruption and implement reforms and they would be conducting investigations as part of this process anyway mr giuliani said he believe ukrainian president needed to make a statement about fighting corruption and that he had discussed this with mr year mark i said i did not think that this would be a problem since that is the governments position anyway i followed up with mr your mom and he said that they would indeed be prepared to make a statement. He said it would reference. And 2016 in a wider context of bilateral relations
Its inflation and employment goals, and the central bank is headed for its expected policy path. More from that exclusive interview with the Federal Reserve vice chair. As we have been reporting, donald trump is to hold a News Conference in a little bit. He told us earlier on in is near its inflation and employment goals, and the central bank is aaded for its listening meeting with congressional leaders that he would have a press conference from 12 00, and a press release from the white house came out and said there will be a News Conference at 12 30. Is ostensibly to name his new labor secretary picked up right lets bring in senior Bloomberg White house correspondent. Margaret, we have some names. Nbc is reporting that Alexander Acosta is going to be the pick. Margaret thats right. That is reported by mbc as well and we are all working to confirm this, the short list you mentioned. , as well as joseph guzman, a reporter and Catherine Templeton from the South Carolina labor department.