To war. The nightmare stage of trumps rule is here, says michelle gold berg in the New York Times and paul krugman simply calls our president a bully. Democrats lining up to attack the president , Bernie Sanders says hes like putin. Assassinating dissonance. Meanwhile, theres real chaos, where hundreds of thousands on the streets for the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani and then a stampede. Iranian state news media says more than 30 are dead. Overall this is a morning of confrontation, war talk threats and military preparations and as for the market, a shrug. Monday the dow made a 200point uturn and actually closed higher. This morning were looking at futures, minor loss for the dow and the s p, a 10point gain maybe for the nasdac at the opening bell but look at oil, another shrug on that market after the Soleimani Killing the price of oil moved to 63 64 a barrel today its back to 62 and the price of gas, Holding Steady the National Average still right there at 2. 58 per gallon.
Donald trump on the president ial ballot rejecting the state efforts to try to brand trump illegally and thus keep him off the ballots this year of its big news no matter how you slice it. Its big for a nation divided by trump, big for an election that is legally intertwined. Its between trumps efforts to overthrow the last election laws and efforts to run right now. There is no way around dealing with what trump has brought. This is also big news for the court itself. Big news longer for voting begins. As the time is reporting today, the decision is the most important ruling. Of handing the presidency to bush the most important such ruling in 25 years. Thats how it played out as the news broke. One of the unprecedented legal questions over the election has been resolved. And unanimous decision they keep donald trump on the ballot. Not just a colorado but across the entire nation. Monumental Supreme Court decision. Huge, inanimate decision today. Reversed colorados decision to ban dona
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Law. Yes please be seated. Okay. We are all here. I am going to start as rick asked us to do because of got a lot to cover. Rick beat me to the punch but i too was at this conference that rick hosted it really seems like a book and i was on a panel with neil just coming out hear from d. C. Where maybe there was something going on is little worrisome. I note the three days we were here and took the plane back it seemed like the beginning of covid issue continued and got a lot worse. But here we are following this where things are better on that front but we have had an electionin the meantime were sel elections especially one that really does raise a question of threats. Im not going to do a long introduction of the very shortest to give you a sense of who people are vincent is a secretary state of michigan elected in 2018 and again in 2022. And then we have two Election Officials from some of our largest jurisdictions local jurisdictions in america. Neil kelly has just retired from 17
Front row seat to democracy. Coming up, and a discussion about transparency and security in elections ahead of the 2024 president ial ballot. This was hosted by the ucla school of law. Seated. Okay. We are all here. I am going to start as rick asked us to do because of got a lot to cover. Rick beat me to the punch but i too was at this conference that rick hosted it really seems like a book and i was on a panel with neil just coming out hear from d. C. Where maybe there was something going on is little worrisome. I note the three days we were here and took the plane back it seemed like the beginning of covid issue continued and got a lot worse. But here we are following this where things are better on that front but we have had an electionin the meantime were sel elections especially one that really does raise a question of threats. Im not going to do a long introduction of the very shortest to give you a sense of who people are vincent is a secretary state of michigan elected in 2018