We can half after the first televised debate, john f. Kennedy Richard Nixon debated for second time. They took questions about cuba, soviet union, and civil rights. This is frank mcgee, nbc news in washington. This is the second of a series of programs. Never have so many people see the major candidates for the president of the United States at the same time. Never until this time of americans see the candidates face to face. Tonight the candidates have agreed to devote a full hour and answering questions on any question. Here tonight are the republican candidate, Vice President richard and nixon and a democratic candidate senator john f. Kennedy. Now representatives and of all the raz radio and Television Networks have agreed on this network rules. Either candidate each will be questioned intern. It will have an opportunity to comment on the answer of the other, each reporter will ask only one question in turn. He is free to ask any question he chooses. Neither candidate knows which q
I think it is a mistake that because we helped the wealthy we shouldnt do it. The reason they did it is because of that. If you dont lift up the economy, the people who suffer the most are the poor. The fed is thinking about how do we lift up the economy they shouldnt hurt a wealthy person to make them feel good. They are doing the right thing now which is to let them get through this there are going to be serious situations thats kind of a secretary dairy problem right now. We should get through this and kind of unwind some of this stuff wisely there are huge incomes you could have negative imcome tax, fix education there are a lot of things we should be doing to help the poor federal policy is not the thing they should focus on letting the economy grow they dont focus on Growth Strategies they have policies that dont help growth. If you had 1 growth in the United States over 10year period, that would be 4 trillion gdp thats like 10,000 a person extra. That pays for a lot of social sa
They should spend money on the Green Economy. California governor gavin newsom announcing he will says out sales of gasoline powered cars by 2035. To replace them, significant investment will be needed. We saw tesla and volkswagen making announcements in electric vehicles. Sell green eu will bonds as part of its recovery. The ecb will start buying bonds leading to environmental goals as part of its stimulus. It helps the climate and economy. As more job losses potentially become permanent, new green opportunities could be the answer. You will find parallels in history where Government Spending restructures the entire economy, especially when you look back at world war ii. What california announced today could be the beginning of this green restructuring. Joe california on its own one of the biggest car economies in the world. That state has often come out ahead in terms of green standards. Gavin newsom saying any car sold by 2035 and beyond has to be a zero emission vehicle. At new hea
We saw a poll coming out of the weekend on sunday, a couple polls, actually, saying a majority of americans that were surveyed had very strong feelings about the fact that the president himself managed to contract this virus. Emily to a certain extent, it has served as a little bit of a wakeup call, if you will, that the president , with all of his security, testing, and the people that have been around him, even the most powerful man in the world can contract this virus. Can contract the virus. You see republicans. They have been sort of pushing forward and saying we are going to go ahead, continue with the debate, continue from what they can do with campaigning. Look over in the senate, where there is a huge debate going on right now about filling the Supreme Court vacancy. We have not seen any changes to that schedule despite the fact that we have three republicans who currently have the coronavirus and a couple of them sit on the committee that is going to be responsible for having
In 34 states, the 70 average of new cases is higher than a month ago. Australia set to lay out a big spending budget to revise the economy and generate jobs. Today. Also makes it shery heres how markets are looking right now. U. S. Futures opening flat after u. S. Stocks rose in the regular session. They ended the session at a three week i. We have the s p 500 and the nasdaq and the dow beginning more than 1 . The nasdaq composite so its best in almost a month. We have the s p 500 closing at session highs. We had optimism over a potential stimulus package. Nothing mentioned President Trump being released from hospital tonight. Regeneron rallying after President Trump was given their experimental antibiotic treatment. Energy was a big gainer. Take a look at wti which is above 39 a barrel and continues to gain ground at the moment after the largest jump since may, rallying in tandem with the equity markets. Lets see how things are shaping up for the asian markets. Here is Sophie Kamarudd