Campaignb smith on 2020 and the role of military voters and young americans. Plus your emails, tweets, and phone calls. Washington journal starts now. First Lady Melania Trump closed out day two of the Republican National convention with a speech from the white house last night where she called on voters to support her husband for a second term claiming he will fight for them. Yourll continue with comments and reactions to the Republican National convention with a look ahead at tonights lineup. Here is how we are dividing the line. If you support the president dial in at 202 7488000. If you are supporting joe biden 202 7488001. If you have a thirdparty candidate or are undecided dialing that dial in at 202 7488002. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Join the conversation on facebook and twitter. While we wait for your calls, here is a little bit from the first lady. As you have heard this evening, i dont want to use this precious time attacking t
49 cents today, 3346. You gotta see tesla, jeffries is alien that stock could go to 2500 a share, maybe 3000, its up 23 bucks premarket. As we keep saying, you are watching history. The open today, the dow is going to be down about 20 odd points, then we have the s p, its hit 17 new highs this year, itll be up again this morning, the nasdaq has hit 38 highs and up again first thing this morning. Blockbuster economic news, google good orders come up 11 . That is money, now politics. An audacious second night at the Republican Convention, the president parted a bank robber, then he surprised five immigrants making them instant citizens right there in the oval office. Mike pompeo appeared from jerusalem and niclas salmon said you cannot cancel me. But it was First Lady Melania Trump who stole the show at least for me. She walked down the white house and delivered a speech about growing up economy and is him and yearning to complement america. An immigrant who likes it here. I promise, you
Growth rate and job creation, now if you put the fed statement and higher jobless claims together, thats whats pushing stock prices down this morning. Look at it. The dow is off about 100, s p 60, nasdaq about 31, more on that in a second. All right, did you watch night 3 of the Democrats Convention . It was hate trump night. Speaker after speaker layed into the president in personal terms. He gets the blame for everything. Seems to me like the democrats have not gotten over their loss 4 years ago. The president was live tweeting all the way through. We will show you both sides of this, of course, but seems to me like all of the democrats have is hate trump. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart look at the red ink on the markets, first of all, down across the board but not that much. Lets get right at it. Larry kudlow, director of Economic Council at the white house. Larry, negatives this morning. More than 1. 1 million jobless claims, the fed says the virus is hurting growth, back
Today, the covid and convention, but this is a big deal. Im outside in port arthur, texas. That is the biggest u. S. Oil refinery. That is the motiva refinery. It is shut down, flaring some gas. Just a skelton crew. They cant shut it completely down. That is shut. Oil and gas throughout this region shut. But more importantly the people. Take a look at the latest pictures of this morning people getting, the last plane out of saigon almost. The last few buses out of the port arthur dead center in the cone. Were dead set the eye of the storm could come ashore. If it is a cat4 storm that comes ashore, and youre in the wall, you will get quite a ride. You point out unsurvivable water in terms of storm surge. We talked to some folks that stayed in other hurricanes but after their experience, this time they say, im out of here. Trying to stay, when they said it would be category, would end up being a category 4, the possibility we would be in the eye, that is kind of scary. With harvey, we we
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