Supreme court nomination, stimulus talks, and last night, dueling banjos of town halls, one for President Donald Trump and the other for joe biden, the democratic president ial nominee. To get us started and talk about this is the Washington Post White House Reporter ashley parker. Ashley, thanks for being here. Ashley thanks for having me jonathan. Jonathan on the town hall, these dueling debates, did the Trump Campaign achieve its aim, scheduling the trump town hall at the same time as biden . Ashley if the aim in some ways was to compete with biden for airtime and overshadow biden, i think, yes, anecdotally, more people seem to be watching the trump town hall in real time then the joe biden town hall. If real question to me is, knowing in hindsight how the townhall went, his the Trump Campaign happy that potentially so many people watched that trump town hall in real time . [laughter] jonathan im glad you pointed that out, because earlier in the day, i sent out a tweet saying, lets
Meaning less demand for oil. Meanwhile similar story in bond market, yield on 10year treasury below 4 tenths of a percent overnight. Now we are staying right under and it is down 28 basis points. Again, another indication of a recession at hand. The 30year following 1 for the first time in history. The 30year bond, the yield there at. 883 . Thats down 40 basis points this morning. Global markets reacting to all of this this morning in the stock market. Deep selloff in europe. The cac quarante down 335 points. That is 6 and a half percent and dax index in germany lower by 672. Overnight in asia across the board. Chinese experts tumbled in the month of january, more signs of trouble in japan as well. First quarter gdp lower in japan showing the economy contracted 7. 1 from the previous quarter. Thats a sharp contraction in japan. This on top of the Coronavirus Crisis, cases in the United States and abroad are growing. The white house looking into emergency measures. Overseas italy report
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Right . And thats what were going to do. Were going to fill the seat. The people of this nation are choosing their future right now as they vote. To jam this nomination through the senate is just an exercise in raw political power. I dont believe the people of this nation will stand for it. Lets go straight to nbcs Peter Alexander live at the white house. And Shaquille Brewster following the Biden Campaign in eastern wisconsin. Peter, where do things stand in terms of strategy from this white house . Its a good question. We got a lot of this from the president just moments ago. He said that he wants that he expects to deliver his announcement for a Supreme Court nomination on friday or saturday. It was notable he said that because only moments earlier we heard from his press secretary saying it was coming by wednesday. Its not clear the white house has its strategy together on all of this. He wants the senate to confirm that pick before the election. He said, among other things, it wou