Another bipartisan spending bill. The battle to replace Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg will be anything but bipartisan. The president said he will announce his pick on saturday. Joining us to talk about how the markets are digesting this news, bloombergs abigail doolittle. This is not what investors to hear. We got that big 200,000 number in the united states. 200,000 americans have died due to covid19. Talk to us about how investors are handling these continued mixed signals. Abigail that is a tragedy in the u. S. In terms of impact on the market, probably not so much. We are looking at the volatility on the backside of the huge rally in august. August was the best month ever going back to 2014. At this point, the nasdaq 100 where it was at the beginning of august. That slump that never deserved to happen according to some strategists has now been erased. Perhaps we are on a level Playing Field that on the day has taken the nasdaq and s p 500 down. You were mentioning the big drop for ap
Restoration is going to happen relatively rapidly, but i cant get a prediction on that. Have wendy of power crews that are here working already. We had more power crews positioned ahead of storm than ever in the history of our state. And i think it was the worst storm to ever strike louisiana. I talked to individuals here who can never remember Hurricane Force winds this far north in louisiana, after the experience yesterday. We have got a long way to go. We will be posting a major federal disaster declaration today and i expect they will turn that around fast and that will enable us to even more assistance and we can start looking for parishes who might qualify assistance. I cant make any representations right now about that with respect to any to killer parish, but we will get all the damage assessments done in some at that donemation assessments and get as much assistance as we can get. Fatalitiesrting 10 across louisiana. Four of those are from trees falling on homes, when individu
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Changes to the Supreme Court and federal judiciary. Later, Jessica Anderson from here to Jackson Anderson from Heritage Action for america talks about top issues in campaign 2020. Is the washington journal for september 9. Joe biden is expected to be in warren, michigan today to talk about jobs and the economy a day before President Trump is expected to visit the same state. The trend campaign announcing stops in reno and las vegas, nevada. Senateant the expected to take a test vote tomorrow on something that would authorize five hundred billion dollars of Coronavirus Relief, far smaller than democrats would like to see. When it comes to congressional spending, is that something you would like to see . Let us know. If you are unemployed, call 202 7488000. If you are a Small Business owner or employee, 202 7488001. All others, call us at 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003 and post on twitter and facebook. Set up theto conversation is zach cohen with National Journal and it cove
I had an opportunity to meet ,ith local elected Officials Police and sheriffs offices, the office of emergency preparedness. We took off and we flew encircled that flew in circles and we flew in come on row and circled back. The devastation is nowhere near what he saw in Southeast Louisiana yesterday. Powermistic the restoration is going to happen relatively rapidly, but i cant get a prediction on that. Have wendy of power crews that are here working already. We had more power crews positioned ahead of storm than ever in the history of our state. And i think it was the worst storm to ever strike louisiana. I talked to individuals here who can never remember Hurricane Force winds this far north in louisiana, after the experience yesterday. We have got a long way to go. We will be posting a major federal disaster declaration today and i expect they will turn that around fast and that will enable us to even more assistance and we can start looking for parishes who might qualify assistance