And only talk about the virus, the vaccine developments, when there is not much thats new. Why do this at all on a friday evening . I cant answer that. Its good to get out of the house, i guess. Been announcement about pfizer come a couple of weeks earlier, which to be clear, doesnt appear the science would have allowed, im sure we would be talking about a different political landscape. Even with that bad timing. It is certainly an achievement for this administration to have been able to help accelerate some of these vaccines, like the vaccineng moderna into the final stages, and hopefully the level of emergency approval and access to the American Public by the end of the year. That remains a very big deal if it does go that way. Emily can you clarify for the record what pfizers involvement was in operation warp speed . They did not get money from the government, saying they misrepresented the involvement. What do we know to be the truth about that . Question, andeat its important we c
Economists expect a bond buying to exceed 3 trillion euros this year and the next. Twitter shares fall after hours on when unprecedented hack of the accounts of prominent u. S. Figures, including elon musk and bill gates. Ceo jack dorsey calls it a tough day. Welcome to the program. A tough day for jack dorsey. We will get into that story a little bit later on. Just under an hour to go until the start of cash equity trading on this thursday morning. Lets look at European Equity market futures, u. S. Futures. All of that pointing a little bit negatively. It seems some of the optimism around vaccines that dominated trading yesterday, some of that has waned just a little. Replaced by a mixed picture signals on geopolitics and the chinese data. Lets get to some breaking news. We have european Passenger Car sales dropping by 24 in june. European car sales, the slump slowly eases, believe it or not with a 24 jump. The recovery has been taking place now for a second straight month, leaving ma
That work this out has less and less his station about pointing the finger of blame at north korea as the source of the devastating hack of sony pictures. The forced entry, the threat, the embarrassing Public Disclosure of private material. The president has United States has expressed his concern. The hack has been described as a security problem for the u. S. There is even talk of putting north korea on the list of state sponsor of terrorists. In what way is the north korean computer attack different . Worrying, threatening . Thats our focus this time on the program. I dont think it was an act of war. I think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly and we take it seriously. Should the government have done more when it appeared as blackmail from an attorney state . Thats the question. Confirmed that north korea was behind the most emgear racing corporate hacks of the year. This is not a sony security problem. This is a National Security problem. And the government has go
Then see what comes next. But democrats say that just is not realistic, because it loses the incentive to pass overall reform. The senate has passed Immigration Reform, the white house has supported it, the house has not gone forward. What were seeing right now with department of Homeland Security secretary jay johnson is a very measured dialogue, frankly, even though we see some very different opinions from republicans and the secretary, so far a civil dialogue, and what were hearing is democrats defend what the white house has done, and try to get to the legality of this issue. We see them such as Sheila Jackson lee say, look, the president has said he is not an emperor, he couldnt go it alone on Immigration Reform by just granting people citizenship across the board, and he hasnt done that. He hasnt granted citizenship. He has not given them even a pathway to citizenship. What he has done is deal with deportations and enforcement. And democrats say he does have per view over that. R
Less his station about pointing the finger of blame at north korea as the source of the devastating hack of sony pictures. The forced entry, the threat, the embarrassing Public Disclosure of private material. The president has United States has expressed his concern. The hack has been described as a security problem for the u. S. There is even talk of putting north korea on the list of state sponsor of terrorists. In what way is the north korean computer attack different . Worrying, threatening . Thats our focus this time on the program. I dont think it was an act of war. I think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly and we take it seriously. Should the government have done more when it appeared as blackmail from an attorney state . Thats the question. Confirmed that north korea was behind the most emgear racing corporate hacks of the year. This is not a sony security problem. This is a National Security problem. And the government has got to lead it. On meet the press