To produce policy ideas that promote economic prosperity, National Security and democrat democratic. To talk about this series, this is a time when we have a policy with some of our patients policy figures. Fortunate to have marco rubio to talk about americas future government part of our discussion will take questions from you to encourage you to submit your questions with the q and a button located at the bottom of your screen. Hes a United States senator for florida, he got a number of committee on aging, hes tearing on the committee on intelligence as well as Small Business and entrepreneurship and a leading voice on a number of different issues, thanks for taking time to the. Thank you for doing this. I want to start with what i think is the single biggest you look challenge we face, our relationship with china. A lot of news coming out recently that news this morning the United States asked china or demanding china close in houston, texas because of activity going on there. Recen
Start of trading but nasdaq another record high uncharted territory there. But nasdaq now at 11,046 up 95 points and dow industrials up 164 and s p up 22. This on top of the rally in tech stocks helping to push nasdaq to yet another record close. Thes dow s p 500 also finishing the green, monday. Yesterday, as you can see the nasdaq up sharply two and a half percent on the sessions. The s p 500 is now positive for the year. Unrest in america violence is surging this morning across the country. President trump is warning that he will send federal agents to more cities to bring back law and order. At 8 30 a. M. Eastern Border Control commissioner mark morgan is here with more on rising crime and role federal agents can play to bring safety and security back to American Cities. And the china keeps up on pressure keeps up on china mike pompeo meeting with Boris Johnson today trying to get the u. K. To take a firmer stance on china. Meeting coming week after london banned Huawei Technology
To survive till the end of the year before you can have a vaccine possibly at the end of the year if its ready. All of the experts testified this morning including fauci and the head of the cdc robert redfield, reminding us to do simple things like wear a mask, use common sense. They say some states and americans arent doing that and thats what led to the deadly spikes we are seeing now. A safe and effective vaccine. Theres never a guarantee that youre going to get a safe and effective vaccine, but from everything weve seen now in the animal data as well as the early human data, we feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021. Dr. Fauci speaking right there. So, President Trump watching that hearing. He actually tweeted a compliment something about that as it was actually charts Congress Actually showed, showing the growing number of cases. President trump tweeting out we do much more testing. If we had no testing or bad testing
Theyll be fixed. Theyll be rigged. The bush pac from democrats and republicans. E situation is and have the election on november 3rd as already scheduled. A live report from the white house straight ahead. Breaking news. At least one marine killed, eight others missing after a training accident off the coast of Southern California. A search and rescue Mission Still underway this morning. Home at last. Congressman john lewis laid to rest. Family, friends, and former president s coming together to celebrate the life of a man called a founding father. America was built by people like him. We live in a better and nobler country today because of john lewis. The call to action in the wake of his death. All that plus slam dunk. Puts it up and in lebron james the nbas return doesnt disappoint with two thrillers inside the bubble. And the commissioner of the nhl joins us live on the eve of hockeys big restart. Today, friday, july 31st, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah
A lot to get to so lets get started. A looming deadline for democrats and republicans as unemployment aid expires admin night on friday will the Senate Republicans want to decrease those 600. 00 per week to 200. 00 but democrats that will theyre not settling for less parties are clashing on several sides including Liability Protections for businesses and schools and funding for state and local government now this comes as applications for Unemployment Benefits increased for the 2nd straight week in the week ending on july 18th the number of people receiving those jobless aid well they increased by 867000 bringing that total to 17000000 americans earlier this week Senate Republicans released a nearly one trillion dollar relief package of their own this was to counter the 3 trillion dollars package that the House Democrats passed back in may talks are scheduled to resume through the weekend but a deal still seems pretty far. Commodities in crypto markets are heating up around the world a