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This is one hour. Vivian my name is schiller, and i am the executive director of a program of the aspen institute. Welcome to those of you joining us on zoom and also welcome to viewers watching us on cspan. This is, to say the least, no ordinary election year. Beober is already proving to an Advent Calendar of surprises. As a reminder as we countdown to election day, we are facing record levels of mailin voting. Concerns about the United States also service, confusion about drop boxes, holding ...

And stolen. As of last night, questions about what happens if one candidate is incapacitated. Its important to remember only three days ago, though many of us, it seems like to go, the president alleged to a National Audience and with no evidence that mailin voting to fraud and he refused to say he will accept the results of the election. We say we are bracing ourselves for what happens when the polls close november 3. It is important to say that that does not indicate the results are illegitima...

That this morning. There are people that have gloom, there are people in in the middle, and there is a sizable group saying forget about it, there is sizable momentum in the economy. We will have to see. Francine lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika President Donald Trump is moving to ban tiktok and we chat in the u. S. He signed executive order residents barring people from doing business with them. It does not amount to a broader ban of dealing with i...

And the markets say by gold. Global google searches for the phrase hit levels not seen in nine years as the yellow metal barrels passed 2000 an ounce. The cash trade is less than an hour away. Here are your headlines. The white house and democrats aim for a virus relief deal by the end of the week and bill gates tells bloomberg exclusively the u. S. Should help poorer nations get vaccines. Rocked by a massive explosion at its main port, killing dozens and injuring thousands. Authorities are yet ...

August 15 but also continuing down. 7 the nikkei and the futures in the u. S. Are looking lower as well. Data expected out of the u. S. Later today. And in terms of looking at some of the currencies in the region, we talked about the bloomberg dollar index. Down about. 10 . Dollar weakness is essentially beneficial to equities in this part of the world and currencies as well. Aussie, thats what youre looking like, essentially flat and new zealand had jobless numbers that came in less bad than ex...

And Melinda Gates foundation, bill gates, for a wideranging interview about the pandemic. The Foundation Contributed almost 350 million to fight covid19 around the world. We also talked about the possibility of microsoft buying tictoc. We are standing by for a news briefing with the president , after secretary of state mike pompeo signaled the u. S. Will try to ban other Chinese Technology beyond tictoc in the name of National Security. I want to get to nick, who ,overs the state Department Secr...

Middle east highlighting the conflict between israel and paul stein palestine. This is from the annual Aspen Security Forum in colorado. The region. This is from aspens security forum. We have a wonderful panel and today we are going to discuss the middle east in 38 minutes and 55 seconds. We will take your questions. I want to start with the former foreign minister. At the dinner last night. Jane hartman hosted a dinner and there was a disturbingly excellent magic show put on by the former acti...

Growing influence in the region. This is from aspens security forum. We have a wonderful panel and today we are going to discuss the middle east in 38 minutes and 55 seconds. We will take your questions. I want to start with the former foreign minister. At the dinner last night. Jane hartman hosted a dinner and there was a disturbingly excellent magic show put on by the former acting director of the cia, john mclachlan. And jane got good at saying tagger abracadabra. I think the bitter thing joh...

Chinas growing influence in the region. This is from aspens security forum. We have a wonderful panel and today we are going to discuss the middle east in 38 minutes and 55 seconds. We will take your questions. I want to start with the former foreign minister. At the dinner last night. Jane hartman hosted a dinner and there was a disturbingly excellent magic show put on by the former acting director of the cia, john mclachlan. And jane got good at saying tagger abracadabra. I think the bitter th...

The role of young people in challenging the iranian government, and china chinas growing influence in the region. This is from aspens security forum. We have a wonderful panel and today we are going to discuss the middle east in 38 minutes and 55 seconds. We will take your questions. I want to start with the former foreign minister. At the dinner last night. Jane hartman hosted a dinner and there was a disturbingly excellent magic show put on by the former acting director of the cia, john mclach...