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Doing a fantastic job for the state of texas and he has from day one. And Lieutenant Governor dan patrick, another friend of mine, inc. You, dan. Thank you, dan. State attorney general ken paxton. A very aggressive attorney general, thats what we like. Youve got some very big ones, including mailin ballots, right . Unsolicited, i call them, unsolicited mailin ballots where people are sitting at home and they get hit mailin ballots all over the place. I hope you will be successful. I think it is a very important case not only here for the but the entire country. I think there are 18 of those cases throughout the country. In pennsylvania and North Carolina we have a lot of them. Thank you very much. A man who has been there when we need him and has been incredible for texas and in my friend, ted cruz. Thank you. We have spent a lot of time before and we are working to get texas everything they need. And sman brian babb babbin, a warrior and terrific guy. And where is randy . Randy weber,
Delays. Pres. Trump know, we did not do that at all. I want the post office to run properly. They are going to need more money if they are going to take intensive billets of ellis tens of millions of ballots out of nowhere. It is a part of the bill that the democrats dont want to make, because they want a trillion dollars to go to states that are run by governors who happen to be democrats, who have not done a good job for many years. Those are states that oa lot of money and need a lot of money, and they are talking about 1 trillion. The post office and the 3. 5 billion for the boats themselves. The votes themselves. Think about that, 3. 5 billion for mailin ballots. Shery President Trump right now giving a press conference at the white house. He is addressing questions about usps funding. Together thoseut two issues of mailin ballots and giving that funding for the u. S. Postal services. A proposed 25 billion financial lifeline. But china, saying the u. S. Would call with china about
Now. Maria we want to check Global Markets this morning, european indices all over the place this morning following the u. S. Central Bank Stimulus package. London shut down, some of the mass transit lines in an effort to contain virus. Ftse 100 is down 12 points right now. Dax index in germany right now up 21. In asia overnight it was red across the board. Take a look. Korea getting hard hit down better than 8 overnight in korea hitting levels not seen since 2009 even as coronavirus cases are dropping in korea. As you see the other majors are also weaker. Lets check the oil markets now. Seeing a rebound this morning after 18year low. As you see oil prices bouncing 250 a barrel at 22. 87 a barrel. Yield on the 10year treasury hovering above 1 . Yields are bouncing once again 1. 92 on 10year. Investors certainly gearing up for another wild day this morning in terms of volatility. Lets check futures. We are expecting another tripledigit decline. The nasdaq is down 35 and s p 500 weaker b
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