A signal we are entering a new phase of our economy and our recovery. I believe it is important for the country to recognise this progress because if we do not, progress made will remain locked in the fear of negative mindsets that dominate our economic outlook since the pandemic began. Investors are cheering the federal reserve s rate cut. Here in asia, japan s nikkei 225 index added around 1. 5% in early friday trading. Us stock markets have also jumped, with the dowjones industrial average and s&p 500 rising to new all time highs. The bbc s ritika gupta has more from new york. Us stocks reached a fresh try and the 500 rose 17% extending the year again to 20% and the dowjones surged over 200 points topping 42,000 for the first time in the majority of industry groups closed out the session higher and big tech outperform dusty rate spurred investors to investors to return to a risk on mood and tesla gained 4%. Stocks traditionally tied to economic growth also jumped traditionally tied
and members of his inner-most circle. we re talking about the slates of fake electors set up in battleground states. they set up as the spark for the rest of the plan as conceived by john eastman. from the very beginning from when the plan was first conceived days after the november election, attorneys for the trump campaign were well aware of the fact that their plan for slates of fake electors was how should we put it fake. the new york times reported on emails from trump lawyers that say this, quote, we would just be sending in fake electoral votes to pence so someone in congress can make an objection when they start counting votes and start arguing that the they need to be counted. he wrote that on december 8, 2020 in an email to boris epshteyn, an advisor for the trump campaign. in a followup email, the same guy, mr. will len chick wrote that alternative votes is probably a better term, a better word than fake votes. he added a smiley face emoji. the plan quickly g
he s lost all credibility. after the supreme court 6-3 decision striking down the use of racial preferences in college admissions biden was sent out by whoever winds him up to lie. affirmative action is so misunderstood. many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows unqualified students, unqualified students to be admitted ahead of qualified students. this is not, this is not how college admissions work. laura: the white house people aren t that ignorant. they know the truth, that the entire point of racial preferences is to give minority candidates an edge. regardless of their test scores or their transcripts or their resume, it s classic discrimination and it s based on race. colleges set out standards for admission and every student, every student has to meet those standards. then and only then, after first meeting the qualifications required by the school, do colleges look at other factors in addition to their grades such as race. laura: okay. what s
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evidence emerging today in the guardian that in the crucial time between doj s subpoena and may of last year and the meeting between investigators and trump s legal team the following month, trump or his aides might have hidden classified documents from donald trump s own defense attorney from that stunning new reporting. quote, donald trump s lawyer told associates he was waved off from searching the former president s office where the fbi later found the most sensitive materials anywhere on the property. that lawyer, evan corcoran, recounted that several trump aides told him to search the storage room because that was where all the materials that had been brought from the white house at the end of trump s presidency ended up being deposited. corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room. he then asked whether he should search anywhere else but was steered away, he told associates. according to an inventory unsealed by a federal judge last year, the fbi found 27