Well, good evening, everyone, welcome to nbc news live coverage of night one of the Republican National convention. As with the democrat last week, this convention will look a lot different than the ones in the past, of course, due to the pandemic. The republicans make their case to hit back at joe biden and the democrats. We will be hearing from a variety of speakers over the next four nights, office holders, family member, trump loyalists. We start with the headliner governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. We will also hear from the president s oldest son, donald trump, jr. And republican senator tim scott. We expect to hear from President Trump. On each of these four nights, including in a video with american hostages freed during his administration earlier in charlotte, north carolina, where the entire convention was originally scheduled. They will renominate donald trump and mike pence for president and Vice President. We will start with chuck todd and andrea mitchell.
Agenda on the postelection economy, we are joined i larry kudlow, who is very kind to join us from his vacation time. We are thankful for that. He is President Trumps chief economic advisor. Larry, thank you so much for joining us. Mr. Kudlow thank you for having me, ben. Prof. Peterson i will also have a separate ben i will also have a separate conversation with pat mchenry. You can follow along with the h tag rncpolitico. I want to ask you about what President Trump said in 2016 and even before that when he was running for president. He called the stock market a big fat bubble blown up by the fed that was set to explode. I wonder why it is not the same thing now, given the fed is pumping huge amounts of money into the economy. Why is the stock market not a big factor like you said it was in 2016 . Mr. Kudlow it is a completely different situation today than it was in 2016, dealing with the pandemic. And the resulting Economic Contraction permitted getting the pandemic. Premitigating
Quarter of 1 . The backdrop to this is the Republican National convention that kicks off today. We are going to have more on that later on today. Ags investments will be joining us. I want to stick with the president and politics. We know the virus is related. Yesterday, President Trump making an announcement on a has to tracking of convalescent plasma treatment. Listen to what he said yesterday. Pres. Trump through this study, over 100,000 americans have already enrolled to receive this treatment. It is proven true tease to reduce mortality by 35 . Joining us is tobias levkovich. Thank you for joining us. How should the market price of vaccine and a treatment differently . I think the market is looking for both, in many respects. In other words, vaccines that are being discussed are more about protecting the person from getting the infection, but not transmitting the infection. On the other hand, therapeutics are treating the actual infection. We need a mixture of both results in orde
President Donald Trumps family are set to take center stage including a speech from the 1st lady millennium. Turned. Into 2 or 3. And Christopher Nolans new spy thriller 10 and finally hits the big screens its the 1st hollywood blockbusters them to the coronavirus endemic closed fears has around the world in march. Im told me a lot of well welcome to the show we start in the u. S. Where the family of a black man shot several times in the back have said hes paralyzed and will likely never walk again officers in the city of camillas show wisconsin shot 29 year old jacob blake multiple times from behind as he tried to get into the s. U. V. Ways children were sitting a black family has appealed for calm after tonight. Its of clashes between protesters and police on the streets of can osha i think it began as the mournful cry for help of a community suffering under the weight of injustice but as anger grew so did the tension some protestors aimed bottles at the police and police fired tear
Mary, what does ill tell us it tell us about the economy . Mary i think its good news and what we had to say in all of this is we are not getting back to february any time soon because unless we have the virus basically solved, there are lots of economies that are not going to open and the fact that we are doing better than just threading water here, make gains, thats good news. In the in the half halffull camp i would say theres less momentum. We had better momentum in june and may and we are still down 13 million jobs and as we try to get below 10 unemployment, now at 10. 2, thats where it becomes more difficult to restore those jobs short of a vaccine. Paul jason, it would seem on marys momentum point that the flareup in the summer to have virus in the south and South Western States did seem to slow the growth of of jobs, you did see a lot of restaurant jobs, a lot of Leisure Hospitality jobs come back but theres still millions that that are on the sidelines. Bill yeah, striking in