We start with an Epic Battle Raging On Wall Street that has seen small time Amateur Investors take on the titans of the hedge fund industry. Its all centred around this company the struggling us computer Game Retailer gamestop. It shares have soared at much as 1700 after a group of private investors used online forums to drive up their price. And that has raised serious questions about how Financial Markets operate in the era of social media, as paul hawkins reports. This is a story of david versus goliath, of the amateur online investor beating the Big Traditional Wall Street traders. At the centre of it, gamestop, a struggling American Retailer Selling dvds and video games. A number of the Wall Street Traders picked up on its problems and bet money that its share price would fall, known in the business as shorting a stock. Only for this particular stock, Amateur Investors swapping tips on the social media site reddit saw it as an opportunity. They bought shares, which actually drove
Okay. America, its biden versus trump again, but will 2024 look anything like 2020 . The lead starts right now the time has now come to suspend my campaign nikki haley exits and clears the way for a biden trump rematch. The president is making a play for her voters while donald trump is racking up some new gop endorsements, including a big one from Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell who hasnt even talked to trump in more than a year. And the chances of a thirdparty candidate jumping into this race. This hour, ill speak with the chiefs for no labels plus facing the hard truths about the Fentanyl Crisis when states Change Of Heart after becoming the first in the nation to decriminalize possession of certain alleles this of drugs and welcome to the lead. Im abby phillip in for jake tapper today, we start with our 2020 24 lead. The rematch is officially set. Joe biden and donald trump are almost guaranteed to be their partys nominees for president. After nikki haley officially dropped
migrant shelter shows and how it plays into the case against the men charged in it. good evening, thank you for joining us, we begin tonight with the white house doing damage control on the damage from last night s damage control. donald trump tentatively, for now, capitalizing on it. physically on president biden s response to special counsel robert hers clearing him of mishandling classified documents, but describing him in his report as well-meaning, elderly man with poor memory. a press conference during which the president called egyptian president the leader of mexico, speaking tonight to members of the national rifle association, the former president mentioned it but did not harp on it. they re trying desperately to spin the biden document as disaster into, but, wasn t trump worse? trump was peanuts by comparison. 50 years, and he did a lot of it when he was at a very young age, he was mentally a little better than he is right now. to be there, as we ll show you, t
is donald trump unstoppable? it s all about who comes second, because it appears donald trump can t be beaten by any of the other candidates. we re live in de moines, where in two and a half hours the first votes of this presidential cycle will be cast. and we ve been taking the political temperature. donald trump is a felon. he brings chaos with him, he brings division. i agree with some of his policies, but as a person, i think he s a despicable human being and i d like to be proud of my president again. we need a big change right now and i m behind we need a big change right now and i m behind the we need a big change right now and i m behind the front we ll hear from a republican strategist and a spokesman for the trump campaign. also tonight failed by both police and the council. girls groomd and raped by gangs of pakistani and afghan heritage men in rochdale were so badly let down by the authorities that 96 people are still deemed a potential risk to children in
- rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york city s race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along, riding the wave of, you know, he was gonna be the first black mayor. and that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. - it was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. - quiet! quiet! - rudy very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. - white power! - i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that people do when they have known true pain for his sins i don t know who to blame what choice was he given?