Just coming in right now. The Federal Reserve has announced a half a point. That was not the most expected. Most of what i read was a Quarter Point expected. It was a toss up, and really heres the thing, the Federal Reserve raised Interest Rates to get inflation down. The more recent readings we have gotten on the economy the last six weeks since the last time they announced decision is pointing to a weakness in the labor department. To cut into unemployment and make more people get out of jobs or increase unemployment further, well, thats the reason why they wanted to dramatically cut Interest Rates. They decided to do so by half a Percentage Point. Economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. Job gains have slowed. Well have to see what Fed Chair Jerome powell says to explain cutting Interest Rates by a Half Point. Im going to ask the Control Room if we can get a ticker and keep an eye on whats going on with the stock market. Its going wild . There we go. Ran insana, th
Qualcomm for supporting thee session 250 years out of its founding americas more diverse than ever before stereotypes are beginning to fade significant barriers still exist justice equal opportunity and inclusion continue to be out of reach for many black hispanics and lb gt q and other minority populations. This is a real problem with initiatives put into placenu and with that bigotry and the institution across the board and across thehe institution and we will be joined by my colleagues rafael as a staff writer keeping me company a great guy i look forward to him intervening. The first housekeeping. The hill diversity. We will be broadcasting live just refresh the page is a quick fix i believe it but i hope it works for you. Veronica escobar representing texas 16 Congressional District the first woman elected for her district so congratulations the next round of elections you will nd they keep coming way too often. But let me just ask you beuse i know you have been working very hard
Live, today from noon until 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Be sure to watch indepth with author lee edwards next month. Watch book tv every weekend on cspan2. Our guest on newsmakers this week, we are joined by stephanie schriock, of emilys list. Working to elect prochoice Democratic Women to state and local elections. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. We should tell our audience that you had a big announcement that you are committing 20 million to 20 races to flip state legislatures in 2020. We will talk about that and lots of other electoral politics questions. Let me introduce the two reporters asking questions. Dave is the National Political correspondent for the washington post. Thanks to both of you for being back again this week. Dave, you are up first. Dave starting higher up the ballot, im sure youve interacted with a lot of donors that worried that the woman cannot win the presidency after 2016. Have you detected any shifts and that over the past couple weeks or sinc
Let me introduce the two reporters asking questions. Dave is the National Political correspondent for the washington post. Thanks to both of you for being back again this week. Dave, you are up first. Dave starting higher up the ballot, im sure youve interacted with a lot of donors that worried that the woman cannot win the presidency after 2016. Have you detected any shifts and that over the past couple weeks or since the debate . We cant walk away from the president ial race. I always tell folks that is part of our culture. Its a part of pop culture and everybodys focus. And i will say that, particularly since the debate, i think that debate on both nights, Elizabeth Warren in her strong showing on the first night and Kamala Harris did a phenomenal job on the second night, put aside a lot of the fears of whether or not a woman could beat donald trump. There were president ial, strong, they had good ideas. They were able to talk about the things. I will fully admit there have been ple
Reporters asking questions. Dave is the National Political correspondent for the washington post. Thanks to both of you for being back again this week. Dave, you are up first. Dave starting higher up the sure youve interacted with a lot of donors that worried that the woman cannot win the presidency. Heavy detected any shifts and that over the past couple weeks or since the debate . We cant walk away from the president ial race. I always tell folks that is part of our culture. Everybodys focus. Has, will say that there particular since the debates, i think that debate on both herts, Elizabeth Warren in strong showing on the first night in, let harris did a phenomenal did jock on the second night, put aside a lot of the fears of whether or not a woman would be President Trump. There were president ial, strong, they had good ideas. They were able to talk about the things. I will fully admit there have been plenty of conversations about whether or not a woman electable and that whole conc