Marketsal rallied hard this week. After the fed came out with a stimulus plan to back up the government. The dow and nasdaq were up more than 10 for the week while the s p saw its best week since 1974. But are these bailouts enough to get the economy back up and running, and could a rocky earnings season spook investors . Joining me now to discuss this and more from santa fe, Thornburg Investment president and ceo jason brady. Jason, good to see you. Thanks for joining us. Its a real pleasure. Thanks for having me. David the administration is already looking ahead about how to fire up the economy once we emerge from our shelters. How precisely do they do it, who makes it and who does it as we try to fire up this economy again . You know, its a great question, and Vice President pence is obviously leading that effort. Looking at the commentary there, it seems to be driven by health officialses and their determination, obviously, those are the experts. When i think about that and startin
Here are in the bay area, five counties saw up takes in confirmed cases, there are now close to 8000 confirmed cases. A number of states are beginning to reopen despite failing to meet the standard of a twoweek steady downward trajectory in cases as fox news reports that led to a patchwork approach. The nations governors are taking different approaches to reopening states sending millions of americans back to work and keeping millions about it others at home. We have to make decisions based on the science, data, facts, they also just as you rightfully point out, you are not out of this yet. Guidelines expired on thursday leaving the path forward in the hands of the states decisionmakers. However, none have met the two weeks downward trajectory leading to a patchwork approach to reopening. The they are pretty firm policy on what we think, roughly 30 states, have lifted restrictions while other are being more cautious. Mississippis governor backed off his plan to move into the next phase
humanitarian and disaster relief mission. reading up to the job, volunteers put up donation boxes, sorting through donations, and gruesome the u.s. partner companies put together pallets of supplies to help decorate them with messages from the holidays. finally, aircrews look at the palace on to the plains and dropped more than 200 packages and supplies and toys to over 40,000 people, living on 58 different islands. the operation took six days to complete and covered 1.8 million square miles. now, that is what i call spreading christmas cheer. and on that no, i wish you all, a very good night. from all of ourolagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow in the year 2000, george w. bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016, donald trump became the second. now, what made both the two responsible at the expense of the popula
democracy that nobody is above the law. and that applies to presidents too. this is the ultimate test by kevin, how committed you are to that principle. 7 to 2. lisa rubin, thank you very much. that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. i m just waiting for the next kate shaw op-ed in the new york times. next kate shaw op-ed in she . she is probably better than beyond. thank you. thanks to you at home joining me this hour. in the year 2000, george w. bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016, donald trump became the second. now, what made both the two responsible at the expense of the popular vote was the electoral college. but in 2000, it wasn t just that electoral college, it was also the supreme court. the 2000 election came down to the state of florida, the margin between al gore and george bush was 537 votes, a number that remai
And now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. We hope youre doing well. And now if you dont mind, were going to get to the news President Biden hosted a state dinner tonight for australian Prime Minister anthony albanese, and the menu included Butternut Squash soup and roasted beet salad. Which is weird, because i was under the impression that australia was our ally [ laughter ] beet salad [ light laughter ] the house of representatives voted today to elect louisiana congressman mike johnson speaker of the house and apparently this election result he will accept. [ light laughter ] thats right republicans today elected mike johnson speaker of the house. While the speaker race was so embarrassing, theyre not even giving their real names anymore. [ laughter ] mike johnson is the name you give when you check into a motel with your mistress [ laughter and applause thats what Spirit Halloween calls their Michael Jackson costume. [ laughter and applause during t