And the vote is set for 11 eastern advancing nomnation for the u. S. Court of International Trade. Live Senate Coverage is here on cspan2. Thpresiding officer the senate will come to orde the chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray holy god, continue to be our strength and shield. Extend your powerful hands to aid and deliver us. Lord, inspireur senators to bieve that you continue to work for the good of those who love you. Let your favor shine upon our lawmakers, and sustain them with your unfailing love. Lord, release to them the pleasings you have stored for those who honor you. You are our god, and our future is in yourands. Remind us al to seek first to understand before we stri to be understood. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and
Good day to all of you from msnbc World Headquarters here in new york. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. We begin with President Biden saying donald trump should not receive Intelligence Briefings. In a new interview with cbs, biden breaking with tradition, saying trump has no need for those intel briefings now that hes out of office. Should former President Trump still receive Intelligence Briefings . I think not. Why not . Because of his erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection. I just think that theres no need for him to have that Intelligence Briefing. What value is giving him an Intelligence Briefing . What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and Say Something . Also in that interview, the president says he will not budge on the 1,400 stimulus checks but maybe taking a more targeted approach on exactly who will receive those checks. I will talk with Congressman Ro about covid relief in just a moment. Today marks one month since the attack of capit
3000 jobs will be cut under bains new ownership. Bain capital ownership, which in addition to these details relating to jobs, we are also expecting to hear about aircraft fleet and the future as well, this after bain bought Virgin Australia in what is a pretty bold that on an industry that has been shattered by the travel restrictions and the coronavirus pandemic. Virgin australia committed to regional and charter flying. Of targetsindication and priorities when they are restructured in addition to 3000 jobs being cut. Also getting data out of australia. Manufacturing pmi, services as well as composite index coming through. Dropping from that preliminary number for july. The composite number of 67. 8 also a little bit weaker. The performance of Construction Index coming in at 42. 7, higher than 39. 5. Lets take a look at the aussie dollar. Largely to do with the situation in victoria. We have that renewed lockdown, stricter stage four restrictions. At this time, later on today and tomo
It is the 32nd time this year the nasdaq has set a record close again. This morning, we are looking at a negative picture this morning, you are looking at red ar owes. S p indicated down by about 16 points everybody is waiting to see. At least right now, 10year looks like it is narrowing to 2. 5 jobs friday today. Forecasters will expect payroll to climb 1. 48 million after june gains shattered expectations a huge number this time around unemployment is expected to drop 10. 6 from 11. 1 from june well take you through 8 30 a. M. When those numbers actually hit. News breaking this morning for those of us in new york city who woke up and thought what just happened. Con edison investigating widespread outages. As an upper westsider, no power there. You lost power . A true black out. We are in 2020, what could go wrong . I looked around and thought, it is so dark what is going on is the nasdaq going to have power. What am i going to do . Here we are middown. You left connecticut to come to
Forth with portnoy on what you say are amazing insane moves that can continue. Yeah, i mean, understand there is florida has been so much comparison in 1999, 1999 was never like this. You had a lot of crumby companies that would go up a lot but nothing like this. I mean, we have major trillion Dollar Companies that are going up at a pace that weve obviously never seen because we didnt have trillion Dollar Companies before but i do think that my friend David Portnoy hes got a big cohort saying that stocks only go up and im just giving this is frightening im giving a little bit of homage here because, yes, if you got in when davie trade got in, i mean, all youve seen is up. So its not wrong for him to look at that i mean, the guy got in i think march 23rd when he decided to take the suits on directly i got up this morning, i said, geez, maybe i should wear jeans. I dont want to be like wrong. I want to be i dont want to be on the other side of the trade of this guy. His timing is excepti