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drag draghi s press conference begins. stocks set to open in the green this morning after jobless claims fell by 15,000 ahead of tomorrow s big job number. plus, macy s says it will layoff 2,500 workers and close 5 stores in a move that could save the company up to $100 million a year. shares are up this morning on that news. while macy s in the green, it s been a rough morning for some of the other retail names, family dollar, bed bath & beyond expected to open well to the downside after third quarter earnings miss. while t-mobile is still only the fourth largest carrier in the u.s., its ceo making a splash at this year s consumer electronic show and we ll tell you what he had to say about t-mobile s fourth quarter and an incident at a party for at&t. a lot for wall street to digest with new labor on the data front setting the stage for tomorrow s big job numbers. jobless claims by 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 330,000. and the bank of england and the europea ....
humanitarian, economic, and military assistance to the rebels, how to engage the international community on a path toward political transition to eventually a post assad regime. i think we need to reassess our policy in syria. host: we thank you very much for being with us on this sunday and giving us your perspective on the situation in syria. appreciate your time. guest: thank you very much. host: and by the way, we ll continue the conversation tomorrow morning. c-span s washington journal, congress is back both the house and the senate. a busy week here in washington d.c. we hope you tyne in at 7:00 am tune in. newsmakers is next. i hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend. have a great week ahead. captioning performed by the national captioning institute. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] coming up today on c-span, newsmakers with mel watt. after that, va secretary eric shinseki testifying before the senate veterans affairs committee ....
of their inalennable aalienable right to get 30-rate mortgage. think feelings like that are zapping some of the current momentum. anymore.o crisis wondering about the begin is the major constituencies agency,ederal finance wall street, the banking industry, fair housing advocates are there others that i accompliced? homeowners. basically, the federal housing finance agency is a very agency. mel watt is very powerful because he doesn t answer to a board or commission or the president. he s an independent regulator. the policies that he sets governing the mortgages that and freddie mac affect about 2/3 of american mortgages. that s how many mortgages are freddieby fannie and now in the market. so if he puts in place a policy that might change mortgage rates or might mean you can t get a bigger or smaller loan, that s going to affect people who are to buy a house. it s difficult for the public to react to his speech. other constituencies have voices. how good they ....
kim brunhuber, this is cnn newsroom. we are now just hours away from the start of the republican national convention. ahead of that, u.s. president donald trump is touting what he calls a powerful therapy to treat covid-19 patients. he s talking about convalescent plasma. it s been given as an emergency use authorization by the fda though many question whether there s enough data to support its use. the fda has issued an emergency use authorization. that s such a powerful term, emergency use authorization for a treatment known as convalescent plasma. this is a powerful therapy that transfusions very, very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection. several medical experts believe the fda s decision was made under pressure from the white house. the head of that agency denies it and defends the move saying all decisions are based solely on data. we know we re going to continue to collect data. we do ....
we titled the event for the simple reason that lasted little tolerance for and patients with impractical ideas that did not add up. much of the evening will be given over to hearing from jake sullivan. someone known for his commonsense sense and strategic thinking alike. he was a member for 46 years. less passed away. we planned to do something in his honor much sooner. covid got in the way of this and so many other things. but we are glad to be able to come together now with so many of you here in the room in person including judy and other members of the family along with literally hundreds of his friends and colleagues. the ultimate test of anybody running an institution is leave it in better shape than he or she found it. that is not meant as a criticism of those who came before, but the nature and measure of the task. he did just that and as the successor, i was the beneficiary. he arrived at the council after having had several careers. most of us are happy to suc ....