Contest the election in the Supreme Court biden meanwhile addressing supporters in his home state of delaware said that it wasnt up to republicans or democrats to call victory but for the American People he urged patience. Look at the results my colleague michael is standing by. A look again at how its going and some of the nights a key battleground states is america waits with bated breath a. P. Has called arizona with its 11 Electoral College votes for joe biden lets take a look at the rest of the map here we see in the middle again most of those states taken by the president Montana North Dakota south dakota all the way down to texas and of course key states like california with its 55 electoral votes new york with its 29 electoral votes for joe biden but of course picking up the key states of South Carolina and florida with 29 electoral votes lets go to the next graphic here for you and you can see that North Carolina with its 15 electoral votes a key state in this fight for both c
Is about the two different candidates, two different approaches, stark yesterday with the president fired up in lansing, michigan. And the emotion of mr. Biden georgia, warm springs, which resonates with Franklin Delano roosevelt. I would suggest markets on the move, different than yesterday, yesterday less correlated and today a dramatic correlation. Notice the vix at a strong 36. Francine i think the focus is on these lockdowns, especially in europe, how harsh they could be and what that means for job losses. A lot of the european stocks are at the lowest in five months. We will have extra market checks today. Thats get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump appears resigned to waiting until after the election to get a coronavirus stimulus bill. The president told reporters he will get the best stimulus package you have ever seen. The white house claims nancy pelosi blames nancy pelosi for the delay. Nancy pelosi blames mitch mcconnell. Reluctant tore embrace a
The funds reinstate the evictions to prevent even bigger housing crisis . Mr. Speaker. The senate is grappling back into session and we continue to watch for ministers just need time at cspan. Org. Now live to the senate floor here on cspan2. Mr. Lankford mr. President. I have three requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Lankford mr. President , we are once again in a conversation about freedom of religion and the free exercise of religion and what that means. There is simply i would argue that it means the ability to have any faith, to have no faith at all, change your faith, and to be able to live it out. The ability to have a faith as a part of who we are. Its our most precious possession within us. Its not that. If its something less than that, the free exercise of religion has limitations on it, then its simply the freedom to worship or to have a name fa
Hand to break it all down with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And u. S. Equities rebounded thursday after big drops early in the day at open the 3 major indices in the dow the s. And p. 500 and tech heavy nasdaq all fell by at least 1. 5 percent but turn positive hitting session highs in the final hour of trading markets were initially pushed down by more bad news in the u. S. Job market as the Labor Department reported nearly 3000000 new jobless claims for the week ending the 8th of march now this brings the total number of unemployment claims in the u. S. To more than 36. 00 a 1000000 over the last 2 months due to the coronavirus pandemic now the Unemployment Rate in the country is now over 14 percent now it has been a rough week for u. S. Markets on wednesday alone the dow dropped 2. 2 percent the s. And p. Lost 1. 8 percent and the nasdaq which had been having a really nice run fell by 1. 6 percent of the. Market turmoil is also comes as the u. S. Federal reserve ward o
Coming up with the plan that the president will recommend . I think that what we need to do, we need a nuanced approach. I think in pennsylvania weve got too far. The governor shut down construction, even online car sales. That is too much. We need to make sure were not hurting the economy unnecessarily while were still protecting Public Health. So for example, we should let local counties make the decision, even local muse municipalities where population is most dense, most rural, combat this with nuanced, balanced approach rather than painting with a very broad brush stroke. Elizabeth here is what the president is saying. Governors, you will call your own shots. You can start reopening before may 1st. Well give you county by county basis when it comes to outbreak of covid19 on a county by county basis. He will say the onus is on you, the buck stops with you governors to reopen. Half of u. S. Cities are facing lay offs of their own city workers, that means cops and firemen. No federal