The election conversation right now. Speaker pelosi calling the house back into session for urgent action, she says, on the matter. So urgent they are not coming back until later this week. Meanwhile, the market shrugging off any possible chaos from the election. The s p, in fact, could hit an alltime high today. Goldman sachs is raising its forecast on the s p to 3600 by years end. Its also a big week for retail as well. Several Big Companies reporting profits starting with walmart and home depot tomorrow. Lots to talk about. Im Ashley Webster. Yes, stuart is back tomorrow. Varney company is about to begin. Its been run horribly and were going to make it good. Now, what am i supposed to do, let it continue to run badly so if you fix it they say oh, hes tampering with the election. Were not tampering. This is a con game by pelosi and schumer. Look, the post office, theres 25 billion sitting there but they really want 1 trillion to bail out their badly run states. Ashley yeah, that was
In the pacific. Welcome to washington journal. Washington journal on the 75th anniversary. Guest thank you. I am glad to be here. Host we have heard from harry truman after the hiroshima bombing. From your research and the study of the war and the bombings in particular, why did harry truman do it . I think the decision to use the bomb was really implicit in the manhattan project, so it was really assumed from the time, for the time truman came to office in ,pril after the death of fdr that this weapon, if it worked, it would be used. So it may be more accurate to say that there was a nondecision essentially. Truman did not decide to projecte, to stop a that was very much entrained when he came into office. The assumption had been made that if we had built the bomb, if we had the bomb, we would use the bomb in order to bring the war to an end, but i think from the perspective we have now that the atomic bomb, you know, is different, essentially different, from general weapon, that is s
The eventsmore on that led to the bombings when we talk president Harry Trumans grandson, Clifton Truman daniel. 75 years ago today, the uso and the Nuclear Weapons bureau. Gay,ed from the b29 enola the bomb called little boy would explode with an impact of 15 kilotons and be responsible for the death of 237,000 people. That and the bombing of nagasaki on august 9 would propel japan to surrender and the end of world war ii. Good morning. It is washington journal for this thursday, august 6, 20 20. We are going to spend the entire program on the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki and the end of world war ii. Would like to hear from you. Your thoughts on the decision to use the abomb, the end of the war and hiroshimas legacy. Zones, and central time 2027488000. Mountain and pacific 2027488001. World war ii veterans and their families 2027488002. Japaneseamericans, 2027488003. That line also available for your texts. Make sure you tell us where you are texting from
737 max reportedly set to return to the skies it is monday, june 29th, this is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc well, good monday morning, good afternoon, or good evening. Welcome from where ever in the world you may be watching us thanks for starting on cnbc. Lets get to the money on your markets and futures. Theyre upcoming off a fridays hair cut dow futures implied up 135 points the dow falling more than 700 points on friday dow and s p 500 look on track to snap two month win streaks although we could turn it around tech also taking a beating on friday but its still been a great run so far this quarter. The big 5 fang stocks up an average of 29 since april 1st all of this ahead of a shortened trading week the markets are closed on friday for an early start to the july 4th holiday. Hard to believe that were already approaching july 4th anyway, treasury secretary and fed chair jay powell are set to testify on capitol hill tomorrow with the minutes of the latest Federal Reserve me
Carls in a mood lets get to the news. President trump claimed on friday that the Defense Department had developed a, quote, super duper missile that is 17 times faster than other missiles which is great news unless our enemies develop a super duper infinity notakebacks missile. Oh, i didnt plan for a notakebacks missile. Thats right, trump claimed that the Defense Department has developed a super duper missile. He also said they got to third base with their girlfriend in canada and that their dad can dunk President Trump was presented with the official Space Force Flag on friday man, just look at him. Hes happier than hes been in years. He looks like he just found out he is not the father he looks like a 12yearold standing next to the rock. Though i do feel bad for the flag because we all know where this is headed new york mayor bill de blasio said yesterday that he has ordered the police to stop people from partying outside bars amid the coronavirus pandemic though if de blasio really