And here to help us with that throughout the morning is john. Good morning, pedro, viewers should know were going to be using the Associated Press numbers for calls and results. So viewers may hear about different numbers being reported but were always going to be coming back to the Associated Press numbers. So lets start off with where the president ial contest stands this morning. The key state of wisconsin there on your screen, a state thats being watched closely this morning, its 49. 4 for joe biden, President Trump, 49. 1 . That number has been flipping back and forth throughout the day. That is just one of six key states were watching this morning. The other one, michigan this morning in the wolverine state. The numbers in michigan, President Trump 49. 8 , joe iden, 48. 6 . And then the third state in the Northern Industrial midwest area , once known as the blue wall for democrats. That blue wall that President Donald Trump broke through, pennsylvania, the other key state, 55. 7
Away from the alltime record high, there you have it the worlds most valuable company, apple the stock is up again, the worlds most innovative dynamic seller, amazon the stock is up again. The market, that is digested a lot of Bank Earnings already, goldman did very well in the dow is looking at 80point gain and look at the nasdaq up about 26, 27point again, i see a lot of green this wednesday morning. Heres the headline dueling townhouse tomorrow night instead of a second debate, mr. Trump working with nbc, joe biden working with abc, obvious question why not reinstate the debate, the Electoral Commission really blew it by insisting on virtual. Did you see Speaker Pelosi getting rattled on cnn, in primetime will blitzer asked her what was wrong with the president 1. 8 trillion stimulus plan, why not pick up the phone, call the president and make a deal. She became very flustered and accused blitzer and his colleagues of being an apologist for republicans. Have you ever watched online
Journalist lies a monday, talks about her book cold girls. The American Woman code breakers of world war ii. The next session is one that i had mentioned earlier, unfortunately lynn olson could not make it and our other panelists, lies a monday has agreed to expand on her original top. Weve asked catherine to lead this section this session. Shes been involved with the museum for over a decade, and just a month ago she had organized a joint program with our museum and the Second World War research group, where we had everyone come for a deallong program. So catherines information is in your program, and i would point out in addition to being a professor at the Mississippi State university, shes an author of two books. One called a curse, and the other one strategy and tactics. Ladies and gentlemen doctor Catherine Barr b. A. And liza munday. Good morning, happy to see all these nice faces up in front, this is a fantastic event and im excited to be part of it, i would like to introduce l
Peters, and delivering the opening statement, a minute to acknowledge the United States passed another milestone that we have lost 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren and grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight to stop the virus from spreading, to protect millions more from experiencing this loss. As members of congress we will go to republicans, all united to be our part. We turn to opening statement, unlike every hearing, in the u. S. Congress economic committee, simply explore economic issues. We will focus on Public Health. With the closing of coronavirus is in march causing unemployment in april, democrats reset some of those Public Health experts in the country. Two all two nobel prize laureates, 5 former chairs of the president s council of economic advisers and 3 were president of the National Economic association over 2 dozen in all. Every one of them have the same urgent mess
And state coronavirus response. Former Trump Administration Economic Advisor Casey Mulligan on President Trumps economic record heading into the final days of campaign 2020. Is the washington journal for wednesday, october 21, less than two weeks until election day. President trump campaigns in gastonia, Kamala Harris in asheville, North Carolina today. President barack obama campaigning in philadelphia. We invite you to answer this question. What is motivating you to vote this year . Perhaps it is an issue you are passionate about, you do not like the other candidate, maybe it is due to who you think will handle the pandemic better. Heres how you can let us know this our what is motivating you to vote. 202 7488001 if you support President Trump and mike pence. 202 7488000 if you support joe biden and Kamala Harris. Areare decided undecided or supporting another candidate, 202 7488002. cspanwj. Cial media pew in august, it was the organization that took a poll on those issues important