With the dividend although it will be far lower than last years. Hong kong media tycoon released on bail. His broken National Security laws beijing has branded him guilty. Breaking news out of south korea. We are getting Unemployment Rate numbers, and again, surprising to the upside. They fell to 4. 2 in the month of july, this after surprising to the upside the previous month, falling to 4. 3 in june. Of course, we have seen more job creation efforts. In fact, we just heard from south koreas Ruling Party Leader saying south korea will actively consider a fourth extra budget if needed. South korea has already pledged more than 225 billion in stimulus measures or roughly 14 of gdp to help put a floor on the jobs market, and right now, the july Unemployment Rate falling to 4. 2 . Lets turn to the markets and bring in Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. What are you watching . Korean alongside the jobless numbers, we are waiting on Australian Consumer confidence, due out later this morning, a
Host among the speakers and activities you can see as part of this coverage tonight is former president bill clinton and there will be a roll call of america among the states as part of the nomination process for joe biden represented Alexander Ocasio cortez the democrat from newve york and rounding up this former second lady jill biden. Our coverage will start on the platforms where you can follow along as well. S when it comes to last nights coverage in the speakers the Washington Post highlights photographs of some of the highlights of the speakers heard senator sanders, Bernie Sanders of vermont and a former Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich but it was Michelle Obama getting a lot of the attention last night to the Washington Post story saying its a centerpiece speech of the night a searing indictment of her husband Barack Obamas Michelle Obama declared the president has mishandled the pandemic in this failed, to respond over the death of black americans she warned that they may
One of the best parts of the Holiday Season is spending time with the special people in your life. And for me, that means getting some help from my best friend for our annual christmas weekly address. Mrs. Obama given how our first christmas weekly address went, i realized that barack needed all the help he could get. [pause] this is our first christmas in the white house. [laughter] you have got to pull it together. [laughter] mrs. Obama celebrating the holidays in the white house over these past eight years has been a true privilege. Weve been able to welcome over half a million guests. Our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies. And barack has treated the American People to countless dad jokes. President obama although a few got a frosty reception. Mrs. Obama this years white House Holiday theme is the gift of the holidays, and our decorations reflect some of our greatest gifts as a nation from our incredible military families, to the lifechanging impact of a gr
Big thanks, fred, for your shirt inspection sort introduction. I think you did a good job without getting too carried away. Thank you to the city club for the opportunity to be with all of you today. Did has been a longtime friend, supporter, and i did not know this was your luncheon. Thank you for having me here. , rightere six years ago before i became speaker. I came to your indication, to an economic speech where i called on the president s to fire his economic team. They did not like that. They savaged me after the. I think i was right. Here is six years later, no longer the speaker of the house after spending some 25 years. As i told the students at notre dame, notre dame gave Vice President biden and i an award. And you know that is a let word. In english, it means rejoice. Exactly what i have done every day since i left. [laughter] people stop me and think im going to go back into the government. I had a cab driver wondering if i was running for the senate last year. Oh, no, no
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