Another one coming in half an hour from now. Lets go through the techs because they are obviously doing well. Apple, you have to share with apple, tens of millions of shareholders, up again 3 bucks higher, 137. Amazon, now well above the 3,500dollar mark, the company is worth over 1. 7 trillion. Microsoft, also worth 1. 7 trillion with another record high. Up another buck today at 228. We will bring you the rest of the tech titans in a moment, just wait till you see zoom and how much its worth. Politics, you are going to see a sharp contrast in Campaign Styles today. The president continues to fly all over the place answering reporters questions whenever possible. Hes off to North Carolina today. Joe biden will not be getting on a plane when he travels to wilmington, delaware. He never goes far and shies away from reporters questions. This is becoming a political issue, favoring President Trump, hes out and about almost every day. Joe seems unwilling to abandon his basement strategy an
Attorney in new york last month as well as the handling of the mueller report. In his prepared opening remarks, barr accuses House Democrats of trying to discredit him and calls the russia investigation bogus. Here to set up our live coverage of todays marathon testimony, msnbc capitol hill correspondent garrett haake, nbc justice news correspondent Pete Williams and the legal analyst who served in the Southern District of new york, maya wily and Daniel Goldman, former u. S. Attorney who most recently served as the House Majority council during the trump impeachment inquiry. We have a lot to cover. Plenty of time to do so before this gets under way. Let me begin with garrett on capitol hill. Bring us up to speed as to what happened. We know this was supposed to start at around 10 00 a. M. , there has been a delay. What can you tell us . Reporter yeah, thats right. The Committee Chairman jerry nadler was in an accident on his way down from new york to start this hearing. Im told that no
But these days, i think we need bidenologist given 90 of the time biden and his campaign are closed off to real questions or scrutiny but every once in a while, biden emerges and immediately starts to reveal his real agenda. Someone said trumps stance has a good one to counternc chinas influence. Would you keep the terrorists . No, hey, look. Who said trumps idea is a good one . We are going after china and a wrong way. Laura well, the entire 24hour at period that followed that exchange, his campaign and the media allies tried a to clen it all up claiming biden didnt really mean what he said on terrorists, get rid of them. A biden aid telling bloombergg yesterday his position is unchanged. He would reevaluate the tariff upon takingy office. He was obviously responding to the notion that trumps stanceets a good one to counter china. Nice try, kids as if we didnt hear the word no in response to the question whetherin he would keep the tariff spirit now, this is where bidenology comes in.
About federal forces in his ci city. Joanne hardisty and i are calling for an immediate meeting with the department of Homeland Security leadership on the ground in portland, and with acting secretary dhs wolf to discuss a ceasefire and the removal of heightened federal forces from portland. Sandra fox team coverage, william la jeunesse has an exclusive look at what federal agents are facing on the ground in portland. John roberts has more on his highly anticipated appearance and to select or ted cruz will be joining us and just moments with a plan to bring back u. S. Cities under siege. But we begin with william la jeunesse was on the ground in portland for us. Hey, william. We just spent the last 12 hours inside of that court house and we want to bring that perspective. Whats it like to be a federal agent on lock down inside of this pitch black courthouse with an overwhelming crowd outside trying to burn it down, shooting these massive fireworks that hit the plywood doors and explode
Reporters is covering every angle of this story. I want to bring in Shaquille Brewster in kenosha, wisconsin, Peter Alexander at the white house, Erin Mclaughlin in portland, oregon and mike memoli in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Shaq, how are folks youre talking to feeling about the president s visit tomorrow . Well, geoff, as with everything, the reaction is mixed. You have the leading democrats in the staircte, the mayor of kenosha to the governor of wisconsin, even the attorney general who is leading the investigation into the jacob blake shooting. They are in opposition to the president s trip saying and expressing concern that his trip could bring an end to the relative peace you saw at least through the weekend here in kenosha. Then you have Republican Leaders in the state, including a letter from the county board of supervisors and republicans on that board saying that they want the president to continue his trip and they want the president to come out here and survey the damage a