this morning. markets are pointing to higher opening this morning. possibility of more stimulus of holiday shorten week, this after third quarter kicks off with mixed day yesterday, nasdaq with 12th record close of the year. 95 points at 4:00 o clock on wall street yesterday. meanwhile more stimulus ahead. president trump telling fox business he supports additional money going directly into americans pockets, he s looking to add incentives to get people to back to work. warning of market crash of former vice president joe biden gets elected. the house takes action over hon- hong kong s actions. all that coming up. officials finally taking action in seattle meanwhile clearing out the autonomous zone after 3 weeks of occupation, then this, tesla driving to new heights, charging past competition, largest automaker by market value surpassing disney and coca-cola. mornings with maria is live right now. maria: global markets this morning look like this, we are looking at gains a
procedural side. have any states treated miller as retroactive on state habeas? yes. the majority of states it s a close call. i think it s maybe 10 to 7 or 10 to 8, but the majority of states that have reviewed this have concluded that miller is retroactive. most have done it as a matter of substantive law. there are a couple of opinions that talk about the watershed exception which is not the way we think this case should be analyzed. not only the states have done that, but the united states has taken that position with respect to the juveniles that were sentenced before miller to life without parole as a mandatory sentence, and in the re-sentencings of those that have taken place so far it s only been about ten, but those defendants have almost uniformly received sentences that are terms of years significantly shorter than life. what is the population we re dealing with if most states do apply miller retroactively? i think there was a figure of 2,000 people with
people s ability to withstand financial shocks and one quarter of u.s. respondents were financially fragile in the sense they could not come up with $2,000 in 30 days. including respondents who reported probably being unable to come up with 2,000, half would be viewed as financially fragile. low saving was the reported. in addition, many americans report that adequate saving for retirement is a challenge. in a 2014 gallup poll, only half respondents reported being confident they will have enough money to live comfortable in retirement. research validates this concern and households in the lower distribution are most likely to be squeezed. so, for example, lower income households are much more likely to experience a material drop in their consumption at retirement than their higher income counterparts. okay. so this brings us to the crucial questions of why people don t save enough and how federal policy can encourage them to save more. so to start, it s not uncommon to hear p
might do us harm. this is consistent with the overall vision we have had and we anticipated, as we were drawing down troops there were times when we might need to slow things down or fill gaps in afghan capacity. this is a reflection of that. it is a dangerous area, so part of what we are trying to balance is making sure afghans are out a there doing what they need to do. but that we are giving them a chance to succeed and that we are making sure they can conduct that our force posture in the area in terms of conducting those narrow missions that we need to conduct, we can do so relatively safely. there are still risks involved. force protection, the ability of our embassies to operate effectively, those things all factor in. so we have to constantly reviewed these approaches. the important thing i want to emphasize is that the nature of the mission has not changed. the cessation of our combat role has not changed. now, the 25 military and civilians killed last year, that a
interest that there should be an independent kurdistan. , we have suffered repeated genocide by being part of iraq. we are still under threat of further genocide. oil industryur hijacked by previous regimes. the current government and the previous one have held our economy hostage. there are many benefits to the kurds, for us to become independent, as well as challenges, but what are the benefits to the united states? america, congress, the state department, friends of the united states may be need to hear more about why it is to their benefit to have a strategic partnership with an independent kurdistan. i ll address that briefly and then give the microphone to nancy. there s already good security theeration between multinational coalition. we believe security cooperation can be deepened and become more -kurdistanwhen iraqi is an independent state. nancy talked about the establishment of a u.s. base in kurdistan. establishing- that base. the primary goal of the u.s. in the r