Christine lagarde, president of the ecb, moderated by Francine Lacqua. Francine what a great pleasure to be here with Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central bank, and welcome to the forum here at bloomberg. Everyone is talking about the vaccine. How will that actually change your forecast and the economy if we do get a vaccine early next year . Ms. Lagarde it is lovely to see you and to participate. To your question, i am not sure it is going to be a major game changer for our forecast, simply because what we had anticipated in our baseline was that some stage in the first half of 2021, there would be a vaccine, and that it would be rolled out in the course of 2021. So it might be a little back celebrated a little bit accelerated given the news we are receiving from the various horizons, germany, the u. S. , but i dont think it is going to be a game changer, so to speak. I think that our forecast is being revisited all those times we speak, and we will be releasing on dec
Charge of the recovery act, and it was hard as hell to get the votes to begin with, and then it was hard as hell to get the numbers we got. One thing we learned is we cant do too much here. We can do too little an and sputter. The speech youll hear follows the jobs report this morning. Yes, the Employment Rate is down, but only 40 million jobs was added to the American Economy. That makes it clear that the impacted American Economy is still very much in trouble. The Senate Meeting ended early this morning with the Senate Passing a budget resolution. This morning the house will take up that resolution and it will clear the runway for democrats most likely to go it alone with a covid relief bill that is very much on top of the wish list. Theyre meeting with the president this morning at the white house, and the Committee Chairs said they will start Writing Details of the budget plan next week. With us to share their reporting and insights, phil mattingly, Christine Romans and sun moon ki
Majority opinions, different aspects. You have been warned about your cell phones and apple watches so i will not repeat that but you will be in the doghouse if it goes off during the time of our evening. I also want to thank our host Justice Stephen breyer who against all odds agreed to come and introduce our speaker on the first day of a busy term. Justice higher is one of the most Justice Breyer is one of the most faithful friends. When we have called on him, he has shown up and done a wonderful job. I want to thank him for taking time away from his busy schedule on first day of term. I dont want to be too much on his time, so i will abbreviate the introduction of Justice Breyer. He was born in San Francisco and received an ab from stanford, llb from harvard. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1964 term. After Justice Breyer pursued a teacher teaching career, president jimmy carter appointed him to the court of ap
Colleagues an n r t correspondent becomes one of the 1st in the country to get the job as part of phase 3 trials. This morning and i got a call from the creamy stain i am an ideal candidate. This is your vaccine theres not much in there looks like a couple of jobs ok im ready. To international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. Russia and germany are continuing to trade accusations and demand answers over the alex who not only case the opposition activists has been discharged from hospital in berlin after his alleged poisoning and germanys refusal to hand over evidence to russia has sparked an angry exchange between the 2 governments in this league. It is not the responsibility of the German Authorities to conduct this to get should the crime was committed in russia and thats way urgent appeal to russian side used to comment on the matter with germany refusing to share samples or in a familys treatment details were later russian inves
Different as republican senators voted to acquit last time. Ben sass is squarely placing the blame on trump for the deadly capitol riot. As republicans like sass and Marjorie Taylor greene struggle for the partys identity after trump. Politics isnt about the weird worship of one dude. The party is his. It doesnt belong to anybody else. Were going to first begin our coverage with msnbc news correspondent kristen welker. Thank you for joining us. Lets talk about that jobs report not necessarily looking good the first month of january here. How is the president going to use this when it comes to his major Stimulus Bill . Hi, great to see you. Well, what we heard from President Biden today was essentially his strongest push yet for the passage of his covid19 relief bill. We saw him say in some of the strongest terms that he is prepared to go it alone without republicans signing on to his bill. Of course, he has always said yes, he wants bipartisan support but it seems increasingly likely t