To discuss them with a great group with us, jeh johon is the former secretary of Homeland Security answers as general counsel of the department of defense among other positions. He also represes new jersey in th seven state council the coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nation secondhighest intelligence post and sheerved in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in a variety of senior positions. Carrie corderode is the robert gates senior fellow at cns and organizations general counsel. When she was in, she served at the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence. Its a great group. We i have got to discuss today. Well start our conversation among us and then moved to some audience questions which, can enter in the q a box on your screen and we will also have a few questions as we done in our past couple sessions that we will we then throughout so we can get
Are made after winning the fda approval. Linda severe is the first to gain fdarst approval. President trump used it when he had the coronavirus. Lets see sydni joining the fray and this fridays session. Week ofto the last trading. We are seeing pretty modest gains at the start of trading. Under 1 10. The aussie dollar is showing strength. Broaderitting against a drop kiwi stocks are just moderately. Going out to stir up merck conversation as to when they would feel to take a break and negative territories. Markets are looking at that in the early part of next year. The kiwi dollar is holding firm. In terms of what else we are watching, and the japanese markets, we are seeing a pretty lackluster start to trading there. Singapore is expected to drop a little bit later as well. Story,to our top President Trump and joe biden are preparing to face offer a second and final time. Their last debate will be in nashville in a couple of hours. The biden camp is saying that they are repaired for p
To talk about this topic. Explored in a new book by 104 speakers today. James steyer. Hes the ceo of Common Sense Media. Advocacy organization for families and schools. This program is being held in association with Common Sense Media. Jim is the editor of the new book, which side of history, how technology is reshaping technology in our lives. It offers a collection of essays and how technology is affecting democracy and the society and our future. This available for books are sold. His jointed today but one of the contributors to the book, frank. Hes a writer of the atlantic and author of two books himself. Contributions will focus on the new era. We will discuss that and much more here today. Before we come to the conversation, one final note before we start. You have a question for either jim or frank, please post in the youtube chat box or the facebook Comment Section target and they will be to me during this program. So lets go ahead and get started. First of all, congrats to bot
The pandemic. Attacks and interruptions. That is what most of the audience remembers from the first president ial debate between President Trump and Vice President joe biden. Now the commission on president ial debates is calling for a new format. Senator blackburn will be my guest. Stocks finishing higher on hopes of a new stimulus bill, but it was a choppy day. Abigail doolittle joins us from new york. Walk us through the ups and downs. Abigail certainly fitting it was a choppy day because it was a choppy quarter. And following the pattern we have seen over the last few months. Redad the premarket in the after that debate, the chaos, investors not liking it. The s p 500, up more than 1. 5 . Afternoon news that a stimulus agreement had not been reached, stocks really nosedived, not into the red, but the s p 500 only up about 3 10 of 1 . Day, windowf the dressing to the third quarter, it was the mega cap stocks that did save the day. Apple and microsoft, both up about 1. 5 , again not
It was the big gainer. It closed at an alltime high. Tech has been leading the way. Sales force, facebook, taketwo and qualcomm at record highs you have to watch one stock in particular apple. After more than 10 gain on friday and thursday night, it closed up 2. 5 to an alltime high percentages away from hitting the 2 trillion market cap that 4 to 1 stock split is hit that price has to sit 477 not far off. Weve been talking about the pressure that has been put on yields in the treasury market. Right now, the 10year note at 0. 45 . Scott . Becky, im listening to you talk about tech and these companies. We have to get ready to talk nasdaq 11,000. As crazy as that would sound, we are on the doorstep. In spitting distance, basically. Unbelievable. Largy carri largely carried by these big five apple, amazon, facebook and alpha bes alphabet and microsoft looking back in march, would you have thought we would be talking nasdaq 11,000 by summer . No way. There is reason for it if you look at s