First Vice President ial debate. What to expect, coming up. Markets are higher, take a look at futures, a gain in the triple digits this morning, the dow industrials up 129 points, nasdaq up 43, s p 500 higher by 13. This after markets fell yesterday after President Trump walked away from the stimulus talks with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The president tweeting no more stimulus talks until after the election. Causing an afternoon reversal. The dow industrials down 376 points at the close, the nasdaq lower by 177 and the s p 500 down 47. Briefing bracing for impact, hurricane delta churning toward the gulf coast now, some Southern States declaring a state of emergency. Raining reining in big tech, lawmakers weighing whether or not top tech firms should be broken up. Getting away from it all during election week, the 5 underground adventure to get away from it all making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning look like this on the heels of ga
Virtual intelligence with francine as we drive to the worlds challenges coming out of the imf. What is amazing to me today, just one observation, it is incredible in the major media on a monday morning, 22 days into the election, how joe bidens schedule, how his policies are buried. It is 100 trump, top to bottom, in the zeitgeist. You wonder how Vice President biden manages that in ohio over the next 24 hours. Francine i remember at the all hasg, telling us it to do with a referendum on President Trump. Tom never seen it. Francine turnout on november 3. Plenty more on that. Lets get to first word news with Corinna Mitchell. Corinna President Trump and nancy pelosi are blaming each other. Republicans are having a hard time with pelosi. Pelosi called the offer grossly inadequate. The two sides are about 400 billion apart. Even if there is an agreement, is not certain republicans would approve. Neel kashkari warns it needs stimulus. The economic recovery has flattened out. He says we wil
Jon ferro has been calling it. Guy we are monitoring the stimulus story beat by beat. Nancy pelosi will be talking around 14 minutes. We are going to get a sense at that point whether or not we are making progress. That could certainly be market moving. We will bring you those headlines as soon as we get them. Lisa the white house has been pushing for a largescale deal again, off again, on again. Wants alosi says she more comprehensive fiscal bailout as a result of the pandemic. Emily wilkins joins us now with the latest. Emily if anyone is confused about where things are with the stimulus deal, you are not alone area Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said yesterday he was feeling some with lash some whiplash with all of the backandforth we have seen this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is Still Holding out after months for a larger stimulus package. She and the white house negotiator, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, spoke by phone yesterday. It seems like there still could be
Support to get as Many Americans vaccinated as fast as possible. The pentagon says theyre going to be deploying 1,100 troops to five vaccination megasites all over the country. Three of those sites are still tbd. The first in california. The pentagon says that those first troops should be arriving there in a little over a week. What we know is that 1,100, an initial group, one team of 222, will be deploying to california to a site in california in the coming days. We expect they will get on site, on or about the 15th of this month. Martha this is part of President Bidens push to get 100 Mass Vaccination Centers in a month. The pentagon has asked fema to provide 10,000 Service Members to staff the centers. Todays announcement marks the beginning of fulfilling that request. Vaccinating teachers, its been a big topic in the White House Briefing room all week after the director of the cdc said it was safe to reopen schools without Vaccinating Teachers first. But the White House Press secre
Former Vice President mike pence will join the organization as a distinguished Visiting Fellow Pt what exactly is that job . What exactly is he going to do there . Its kind of beside the point. But heritage is very excited to have him. Working together with the former Vice President , heritage will continue to support and defend our Policy Accomplishments while also fighting back against a socialist agenda pushed by those on the left. Thats what mike pence is going to be doing. Hes going to be fighting socialists. Full timish. On a visiting basis. Congratulations, mr. Pence. Heres an unexpectedly awkward thing, though. The Heritage Foundation in this announcement today repeatedly describes their new hire as the former Vice President and, indeed, mr. Pence yesterday unveiled new letterhead proclaiming that he has opened an office now which he is calling the office of the former Vice President. The reason that is surprisingly awkward right now is that no matter what he does with his post