Indicating it. We are a few days in december, and clearly we get no respite for the holidays. There is no question about that. An extraordinary 46 minute video from the president last night, hugely commented on in washington. Attorney general barr, you wonder how he gets through the weekend with the president. I agree with you, this french issue is not a small matter. Memory of if in the that macron decided to rip a page out of the textbook from 30 years ago. Francine we will have a lot more on the dynamics of europe and france, but lets get straight to bloomberg first written with with rickets with or take a group with ritika gupta. Nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer are backing a bipartisan stimulus plan. They see the proposal from house and Senate Lawmakers with a new round of negotiations. The plan calls for 908 billion dollars in spending, less than what democrats want, increased from the number being floated by Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. The u. S. Has had its deadliest d
College we need to focus on. Tom not only be Electoral College but the outcome. Divya weston gets to Election Results on the west coast tonight. There are any number of ways to slice it. My opening comment for the next 30 hours is simple. We have seen this force. This is part of america, it deeply divided america. There is nothing new about that. What is new is the social media, the cable tv concentration, the emotion in your face. It used to not be that way. Maybe we can all get comfortable by milford, New Hampshire, where they voted early, probably without tiktok or twitter. The last when its time we talked about a not so peaceful transition of power in the u. S. . We talk about possible social unrest in the u. S. I was speaking to a senior banker yesterday at one of the largest swiss banks, and he said the Trading Floor is fully prepared overnight to see whatever happens, they are prepared. It could become if there is a big surprise, it could be see extra so we will market checks to
That 18 out. To see fascinating is the two different debates find, but then have it coalesce into a Running Stream on different websites and different media, including bloomberg. It was amazing. It was something completely modern and completely different. Like a european debate, tom, is how i would maybe describe it. You got a lot more policy than in the last debate. And possible shifting in some minds. Get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and joe biden were on tv last night at the same time but on different channels. They held competing televised town halls. Instead of debating as the schedule had originally called for. At nbc, the president said he knew the coronavirus was a huge danger. Pres. Trump i knew it was a big threat. At the same time, i dont want to panic this country. I dont want to come out and say everybodys going to die. Ritika in a town hall monitor rated moderated by george stephanopoulos, biden was asked if he would take a vaccine once it
Message because it will have an application on markets. Tom not a usual summer friday, folks. The news flow is absolutely extraordinary. We are going to get ourselves around what we are going to be doing with the democrats now moving to the republicans and the president , the usual convention cadence of august in an election year. But that is not the headline item today. The headline item is 13 consecutive hours in our thon. Llance francine will be with us through the morning and through our simulcast as well. I really look forward to it. This news with the slowdown in france and Emmanuel Macron is not a small item, francine. Francine im also looking forward to our tv and radio marathon. Surveillancethon. Francine i dont know if we will have to file for atv divorce after that. Tom we have already done that. I would not know anything about that. Francine which is why we get along, right, tom . Here is ritika gupta. Ritika joe biden slimes president as a National Embarrassment and vowed
Pattern meeting globally at the jackson hole symposium shares in wpp jump as the worlds biggest advertising slump. Tiktoks ceo quits quiting a changing political environment after actions to ban the video app. We are tracking the hurricane laura after the storm made land fall in louisiana with a 20foot storm surge. Crude was cut ahead of the storm. Just incredible when you talk about 20 feet and the language thats been mentioned. That most of the parish could be under water and the word unsurvivable has been used some of the houses are built on stilts particularly on the texas coastline. The oil industry has been interesting. 90 shut down similar to katrina. Mostly brent that is picking up the action matched against these concerns has been the covid19 impact that has tracked the reaction in the range so you wont see the impact close to 46 on brent prices and just above 43 this morning. Not getting any traction in the read Nbcs Jay Gray from the gulf coast. The most powerful storm on th