Treatments it will be one of the jitters. Add them to many in the markets here. All in all taking it relative stride. I say relative stride. Again the Administration Front and center today, getting idea, talking to Economic Club members from around the country what the president thinks is going on to the economy. He is the best bet for the economy. Teasing a middle income tax cut as well if he were to get reelected. Fallout from the comments. The president s busy Campaign Schedule with blake burman from the white house. Hey, blake. Reporter i feel like there is a news burst leading up to the minutes of this show. That is certainly the case. Let me walk you through in and around washington the last half hour. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin speaking right now. He echoed a lot of comments, similar comments that Mitch Mcconnell and nancy pelosi made in the most recent days. The treasury secretary saying as it relates to a possible covid relief package it would be tough to get done before
The company indeed, is launching a virtual hiring tour. If anyone you know is having trouble finding a job, you stay tuned for this. Ceo chris hyams will sus that and much, much more. President trump is departing nevada to california. He is expecting to meet California Governor Gavin Newsom to survey the horrible damage taking place with some of the fires near sacramento. Fox busiest Edward Lawrence at the white house with the latest on all of this. Reporter david, the president leaves in the next hour. He will talk with fema to get an update as well as California Governor Gavin Newsom have been at odds. But the president steps when it relates to a Natural Disaster inside of california. Exactly what he will do today here. The white house says the president will receive briefings what is exactly happening with the fires, recognize the California National guard as well. Now this is part of a west coast swing that also had the president campaigning over the weekend out west. The president
Were monitoring very closely for you, what is an acceptable surge . They usually like to say three to 5 increase over existing cases and a three to 5 increase of positive cases from what were positive cases before. It is not a hard and fast rule. But were watching that very, very closely because were told right now senate cdc is going to start giving specifics to that. I have not seen that before coming to air to join you right now. That is really going to be the big one to follow today, because if that shows to be beyond that range, some of the states that had planned roll outs will delay those rollouts. Whether that applies to florida is anyones guess. Right now the cases there have been noteworthy in terms of the spike but so far on the part of the governor there no plans to change the continuing rollout of these sheltering and various phases that will essentially get the entire ocean state open by the end of next month. All right. Lets get the latest. Excuse me, from edward lawrenc
Prompted money guys to were in his camp. Neil the dow up 250 points. Edward lawrence what might be the fierce of all this an extended trade war. Reporter the president in almost a News Conference before he left, uploaded some very critical thoughts about a trade deal with china. Listen. Were talking with china. Were not ready to make a deal. Well see what happens. Weve been hurt by china for 25, 30 years, nobody has done anything about it. We have no choice but to do what were doing. Reporter the president upping the ante and pressure on the chinese economy. He says no u. S. Cop will do business with huawei. That will halt of process of 35 Companies Going through for a special license to sell to huawei. The u. S. Labeled china a currency manipulator. The yuan hovering seven to one with the dollar lessening impact on tariffs. The president doesnt want to artificially weaken the dollar but believes he needs more help from the Federal Reserve. We have virtually no inflation in our country
For. We have split our phone lines by age this morning. 835, 202 7488000. 650, 202 7488001 older and older, 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. Twitter and facebook. Good thursday morning to you. No generic information on voter numbers today. More days in florida to register to vote citing the destruction from hurricane matthew. Six day extension after a brief court hearing. Theyre interested in expanding the pool of voters. A party stretch the voter i one day from tuesday to wednesday in lawsuit fired against gov. Rick scott by democrats, who ordered floridians to exit homes but would not extend the date. Thats not to say that republicans are not taking advantage. At his rally on wednesday, toald trump urged the crowd register to vote. He said, who is not registered . He said, if you are not registered, get the hell out of here. Leave right now and go and register. Paul ryan posted a video yesterday with his outrage to younger voters, answering the question he