Welcome to the journal editorial report. After ducking the press for a month, vice president kamala harris gave her first interview with the campaign to cnn on thursday sitting down with tim walz in the battleground state in georgia where she defended herself from accusations she has flipflopped on key issues including fracking and immigration. My values have not changed. You mentioned the green new deal. I have always believed and i have worked on it that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the inflation reduction act. My value around what to do to secure the border, that value has not changed. I spent two terms as the attorney general of california prosecuting transnational, organizations, violations of american laws regarding the illegal passage of guns, drugs and human beings across the border. Paul: let s bring in dan heninger and bill mcgurn. Did you lear
Or highs just yesterday alone. Bit of a pullback today. As for the nasdaq, yeah, it closed above 12,000. There was a massive runup in tech stocks again, a pullback is to be expected, and take a look at that, thats what weve got. Got it. Next, vaccine news. Very positive. The centers for Disease Control is telling states to get ready for Vaccine Distribution on a large scale come november the 1st. Which vaccine . Dont know, but this is a firm date and, of course, its right before the election. And it is exactly two months to the election, and the two campaigns are in high gear. Joe biden has reversed himself. He will travel to kenosha today. He said he wouldnt go, now he is going to be the comforter in chief. What will he say to the burnedout Business Owners . President trump goes to pennsylvania. Hell speak at Arnold Palmer airport just east of pittsburgh. Ive got a feeling hell talk about fracking. Stay with us, please. Youve got to say what Speaker Pelosi is saying about her break th
Than 300 candidates gather to kick things off. Any moment now, the president will appear with six american hostages. During his time in the white house, held captive. Tonight, the famed land of promise, speakers include the former ambassador to the u. N. , nikki haley, the president s son, and one of the leading voices on Race Relations in the Republican Party. They all have a prompt and position this evening. We have reporting from senior Political Correspondent mike emanuel standing by there in washington and analysis from dan heninger and marie harf. Good evening to all of you. We will get a comment in a moment here, and i want to bring our audience up to speed, a video at the moment is about to play out called bring them home that goes directly to the lives of those held captive overseas. I thought i had been forgotten. I nearly gave up hope. I was so afraid. I believed i would die here. American hostages. For cotton and wasting away in faroff prisons. Wrongfully detained foreign g
Ah but have a look at tesla. It made a profit. Its opening a factory in texas. It hopes to sell a half million vehicles this year and the stock is up again this morning. Elon musk now leads, im going to say he leads the technology economy. The stocks up 64 bucks now. Microsoft down. Whys that . Im told its because their Cloud Business only grew 47 . First time the growth rates been below 50 . Well, sell that thing. The stocks down nearly four bucks. Theri cnhe tin in po rt landrtla oregonor a44th offf inriing. Th ayor or jtl jedostl bedy b b pst at th supporsupp the anarc ahinast anast anaaken ne inne t ihen theheneworkork ity i nows theshehe wororst pl ac businebuness retairsrsrsrsrs sarsy. Now, tnohaw,tw,w,s a is. Th e new cold war, china and andhe s. A a fitivs researcher linked to chinas military is reportedly holed up in the chinese consulate in San Francisco. The president s considering closing that consulate just like the one in houston. And now look whats lapping on happening o
Evidently investors like what they think they will see. 2. 1 million jobless claims reported about a half hour ago. That means 40,740,000 have been thrown out of work in the last ten weeks. Big number. Yet the economy is contracting at an annual rate now of 5 . Thats a big number. And orders for big ticket items absolutely plunged. Okay. Got all of that. But the dow jones average up nearly 1100 points in the last two days, going up again at the opening bell. Were looking at a gain of over 200 points right now for the dow, and the nasdaq is going to be down, down 80 points. That tells me big techs having another difficult day. Then we have the opening up movement. Its rolling on. Vegas and disney have dates for its partial reopening, but theyve got the dates for reopening soon. Boeing, theyre going to restart, wait for it, max jet production. Were not back to normal but we are clearly well into the reopening phase. Now this. Watch out, social media. The president s going to sign an exec