As we now face a battle over the vacancy in the u. S. Supreme court, we want to focus on what senator joe biden said back in 1992 on the senate floor. Senator biden it is my view that particularly if the reality of a divided government during the time of great change at the Court Continues in the next administration, future confirmations must be conducted differently than the preceding ones. Mr. President , the president s intentions on the existing process which exploded during the thomas nomination fight make restoration of what came before judge thomas nomination even if it was desirable, a practical impossibility. Having said that, mr. President , we face one immediate question, can our Supreme Court confirmation process sow discord and bitterness in an Election Year . Mr. President , history teaches us this is extremely unlikely. Some of our nations most bitter and heated confirmation fights have come in president ial Election Years. A bruising confirmation fight over roger taunys
All the major f. A. N. G. Companies. They are set to release their numbers and guidance. Thank you for joining us im Brian Sullivan lets talk more about your market setup you have dow futures indicating a gain of about 100 plus points at the upside. 200, as a matter of fact, stock futures are well in the green despite the fact that oil has come down significantly. The price of oil down again right now. Remember, we are in that june contract it is off about 13 this morning, down to under 15 and change so, watch oil. There is a story in the oil patch to Pay Attention to as well that is Diamond Offshore Diamond Offshore, a major oildrilling contractor, obviously like the name immris, off the coast. An offshore company has, indeed, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection the Company Simply not able to meet its obligations so Diamond Offshore has filed for bankruptcy protection. Keep an eye there on that story as well. Also you want to watch the stock of loews, ticker l, not the Home Imp
Time for Global Exchange and bring you todays market moving news from around the world from hong kong to frankfurt to london to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Were going to start with the latest in asia. Trade uncertainty appeared to take its toll on china. The countrys economy losing more steam in october, factory input and fixed asset sales missing estimates and joining me from hong kong is bloombergs chief asian economics correspondent. Give me the rundown of the data weve got. It was a mix across the board with a slump in investment and industrial output miss expectations and on the retail spending part of things we saw the weakness go from auto and turnt and cuggetting the consumer is starting to book now none the pressure of trade war and slowing economy. There were two big takeaways from economists and onen one hand the numbers suggest were probably looking at 6 growth in this Current Quarter and probably shows the
Tonight, join jimmy and his guests celine dion, tig notaro colin obrady, magician shin lim, and featuring the legendary roots crew questlove 1157 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause jimmy welcome. Thank you very much, everybody welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome to the tonight show. Thank you so much. [ cheers and applause my guest tonight is celine dion, everybody steve oh jimmy oh, my goodness. [ cheers and applause celine has played giant arenas, small venues, and a residency in vegas the only place that they wont book her is a cruise ship. Steve wow. [ light laughter ] there you go its going to take a little bit. Jimmy of course, celine sang the theme song for titanic. Which is also now the theme for trumps presidency [ laughter and applause well, the impeachment hearings are in full swing. And next week, well hear testimony from jennifer williams, an aide to mike pence right now jennifer is like, if you think the hearings are boring, try being an aide to
Needs and the bus representatives of the Syrian Government the opposition in the end Society Needs in a bid to finally bring peace to their war ravaged country. Bid to finally bring peace to their war ravaged country. Also this hour a scathing new report by Human Rights Watch says u. S. Sanctions are all for this hour a scathing new report by Human Rights Watch says u. S. Sanctions are preventing ordinary iranians from accessing lifesaving medicine. Venting ordinary iranians from accessing lifesaving medicine. And american journalist Max Blumenthal claims he was arrested on false charges and american journalist Max Blumenthal claims he was arrested on false charges of assault for his reporting on venezuelan opposition violence we hear from his lawyer because of assault for his reporting on venezuelan opposition violence we hear from his lawyer. He was denied access for a phone call. He was denied access for a phone call to contact an attorney or his family these charges are blatantly f