We welcome you on the simulcast. Bloomberg radio and Bloomberg Television across this nation and worldwide. This due of news is just extraordinary. An important moment will be Lawrence Kudlow after the jobs report. But jon, i want to talk for a moment about the markets. Affected. Oeing come up 5 . Igit 13 on the s p 500 yeartodate, and the nasdaq 100, lisa has loaded the boat on the nasdaq, up 38 . This is a boom and great bull market. Jonathan record on the nasdaq, just off that on the s p 500. The market has ignored all of the bad stuff over the last month and held onto all of the good stuff. Does that change in 29 minutes . The payrolls report, the estimate for hunted 60,000 the estimate 460,000. Tom Kevin Cirilli talking about the enthusiasm to get something done. We will talk about that in the moment. I love what greg peters of pgim said in the opening credits, the idea that everybody is looking for every bit of yield. To me that has been undersold story this week about how other
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
Me, it was a real pandemic overlay. This is serious stuff. You can bring it right over to the urgency in washington on the stimulus, where yesterday, just as everyone pretty, there was a panic, and maybe they jumpstarted those talks. Francine yes. Just so you know, the subscription model is actually that you buy for disney , and you dont have to buy each time. We will have the experts on that. Lebanon was, already on its knees. This will just push it further into difficult territory. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city. Heres ritika gupta. Ritika the pictures are incredibly intense. That explosion at a warehouse in beirut was felt miles away, and field hospitals with casualties. Reports are at least 100 were killed and some 4000 injured. Almosts government says 3000 tons of Ammonium Nitrate was stored in the building, but they are not saying whether the blast was caused by an accident or an attack. The white house and democrats are trying to strike a dea
If we can find an accommodation to get everybody on board. If not, we will vote next week. Mr. Wilson will be held over the circuit judge for the fifth circuit. Weve got to matters on the agenda, mr. Walker. The u. S. District judge for the District Of Columbia subpoena authorization. I dont know ifug we have enough but i thought yet i would make an Opening Statement here. Heres where im going when im trying to accomplish. I thought it was important to give mr. Mueller the space to complete his job. I thought National Council needed to be appointed after comey was fired, not that i doubted comey was lawfully terminatedwa but Jeff Sessions s a member of the Trump Campaign and the accusations worked at the Trump Campaign was polluting colluding with the russians, for lack of a better word and mr. Rosenstein and conducted by operation. I supported that, i was going in my comments about mr. Mueller. He is a good man. The report has been completed and he was able to do his job and the resul
Span. Enough to we have hold over the act and the judge for the fifth circuit. My colleagues, we will take up the access act next week. Horwood call from mr. And the Justice Department trying to find out if we can find an accommodation to on board. Will be heldon over, the circuit judge for the fifth circuit. Tell you what, we have two matters on the agenda, mr. Districtnited states judge for the district of columbia and the subpoena authorization, i do not know if we have enough to do business yet, but i thought i would make a bit of an Opening Statement here. Here is where i am going and what i am trying to accomplish. I thought it was important to get mr. Mueller the space to complete his job, i thought a special counsel needed to be comey was fired, not that i doubted that tell me waslaw that comey lawfully terminated, and Jeff Sessions was a member of the Trump Campaign, and the accusations were that the Trump Campaign was colluding with the russians, for lack of a better word, an