She gave interviews, speeches, and met with foreign leaders while the president was on vacation this past week it the question this morning is about Vice President harris. What are your views and how would you rate her job performance. You can share your thoughts on our phone lines. The numbers are on your screen. You can send a text to the number on your screen. Be sure to include your first name and city state, and we are on social media at facebook and twitter. Welcome to washington journal. We are taking your calls. I want to show you an article from the Washington Post read, harris seems to be stepping up her 2024 role, and the article says Vice President harris is campaigning with the audiences she seeks an that word she uses bid they are not the words of a politician being sidelined for supporting even if that is hurt job as 20 between 40 subperiod the pace and tone of her involvement do seem to be escalating, but they may largely reflect the fact that the race is well and truly
1200 israelis are killed. At last count. At least 20 americans are missing. Israelis, israels former ambassador to the United Nations danny danon will join us a little later. Talk about the markets. Hedge funds loading up on the short positions. Theyre betting on doom and gloom. Theyre short on stocks at record levels. I will ask alli mccartney whether this is a you dont want to miss unbreakable investor. All about my new book. I will tell you all about it at 2 15. Well dive into the latest Nobel Prize Winner of economics. She worked on gender gap things that will surprise a whole lot of people. Amazing insight. Cant wait to share that with you and more all on making money. Charles so the smartest people in the room, those hedge fund types, theyre betting big on doom, folks, i mean really big. Take a look at this. This is their short positions. The blue line is the 10year short. 75 billion. Two year short, 275 billion. These are mindboggling numbers. Theyre betting on the bond market t
All right. Lets get started. Obviously today were going to talk act the 1960s. Do you guys know about that song with by the way . Buffalo springfield for what its worth . Steve stills wrote it when he was with buffalo springfield. He wrote the song after a protest. They put a law on how long people could be outside of bars in los angeles. And all of the young people protested, i dont want to go to bed at 10 00. I want to party at the whiskey agogo, right . The cops came, they beat some heads and there was a protest. Stephen stills writes this song all about the contentious nature of the 1960s, right . And the thing about that song, its a ski protest song, you guys know it all and it was written 50 years ago. The thing about that song is its not so much a protest song im right and youre wrong. But it is about look at what is happening to our society, right . Field day for the heat. Right . A thousand people on the street. All of them carrying signs mostly saying hooray for our side, my
Poverty, immigration, and Climate Change. Today he heads to capitol hill, but the popes visit to washington has not been without controversy. Seven people were arrested wednesday after staging a diein calling for the ordination of women. We will speak with one of the women priests who were arrested, as well as the granddaughter of dorothy day, founder of the catholic worker movement. Then when exxon knew about Climate Change. Newly uncovered documents show the companys own scientists confirmed Global Warming was occurring over three decades ago due to rising carbon emissions. Then the Company Covered it up, spending millions campaigning to stop the world from taking any action. We found a trail of documents that go back to 1977. Exxon new Carbon Dioxide was ,ncreasing in the atmosphere that the combustion of also feels was driving at, and this post a threat to exxon. Amy we will speak to a former exxon scientist and a reporter from inside climate news. All that and more coming up. Welc