and reducing bureaucracy in the single market. it s all part of an eu push to strengthen the bloc s economy and help it catch the us and china. rainer riess, is the director general of the federation of european securities exchanges. how much closer are we getting to cmu? and what would that mean? i think not too close, i think we made some progress, but it is a project that is dating back from 2015, lord hill, the last british commissioner, actually, had the vision to bring european capital markets closer together and to catch up with the us to diversify funding sources for business,er specially for small and medium enterprises and the idea behind it is to foster growth innovation and resilience in the eu economy and obviously this would bring a lot of benefits, lowering barriers within the european union, for cross border investments, making funding more available for smes, strengthening the role of the markets to fund the green position. defence is now a big topic. a lot o
Anti-virals. not just two anti-virals from pfizer and merck, but we need a whole portfolio that can begin to put this pandemic back in its place. martha: the white house is ramping up orders for them now. what do you think? it s late in the game. we had an opportunity to handle this crisis at the beginning. remember, president biden promised us a unified country but look what he s doing with it volunteering. he s dividing it more. more deaths in 2021 than 2020 for covid. we re losing confidence in what he says because what he wants us to do is deny what we see and believe what he says. when you spend trillions of dollars fighting and combatting covid and you can t find tests,
Significantly, this disaster and need to get billions and potentially hundreds of billions eventually to texas and louisiana. it s worth noting that the house and senate are only in session together for 12 days during the month of september, so time is precious as there are a lot of big things on the agenda. bob, thank you very much. thank you. arthel: all right, mike, we will go to houston now where peter doocy is live there on the ground, what s the latest there from your perspective, peter? arthel, the president of the united states has covered a lot of ground today. he spent part of it volunteering at the mega shelter behind me. part of it comforting victims and part of it praising the heros of harvey. you have done so much for the services and the whole world is watching, the whole world is watching. i want to thank thank you, fellow, thank you, everybody. thank you. [applause] you have done so much prestige of the services and the