Thanks for taking my question, you added a sentence into the statement about the course of the economy depends on the path of the virus is this do you feel this idea or view is not widely enough understood do you feel you had warned back in may that too early reopening or cautious reopening might harm the economy do you feel that message is not heard and some of these reopenings took place perhaps sooner than they should have i think we feel that it might be the most central fact or the most central driver of the economy is the virus were seeing that again. You saw that during the lockdown when we got cases way down you saw the economy reopening. You saw spending go up and hiring go up now that the cases have spiked again. Again, the early data, highfrequency data suggests that theres a slower pace of growth at least for now. We dont know how deep or how long that will be. Its such an important sentence, we just decided that it needed to be in our post meeting statement. Its so fundame
The story that barr has tried to spin is that he just found another candidate to take that job. So they wanted to get Jeffrey Berman out of that job. But of course thats a process that takes several months. There is no reason that berman couldnt be left in that job until clayton was confirmed. The answer the attorney general tells basically it doesnt make any sense. I think its always looked like he was trying to get berman out of that office and put an acting official in. We dont know what the underlying reason was. We dont know if it was a specific case he wanted to impact or if it was general unhappiness with the way berman was managing that office in relation to a larger number of cases. But i would like to hear more delving into the attorney generals explanations for that firing, including why he lied in his initial statement saying that Jeffrey Berman had agreed to step down when that, in fact, was not the case. Joining me now is the host of meet the press, chuck todd, who will p
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hello and welcome to worldwide exchange. i m kelly evans. resources are underperforming amid concerns. shares of apple suppliers tumbled. and voting on the next italian president gets under way in rome with berlusconi and bersani apparently backing the same candidate. rifts in the upper left could jeopardize the process. and we re live in moscow amid rumors of division in the kremlin. we ll speak with the former president of the czech republic in the next 15 minutes. welcome to worldwide exchange this morning. plenty going on in the program. we also want to draw your attention first and foremost to the continuing issues across the commodity complex, one where gold has gotten the lion s share of attention. but others, whether it s industrial metales and crude are participating today. a rebound shaping up, but not the case for copper, dr. copper down better than 1%, 1.2%, in fact. and that is spurring a sell-off in the shares of a lot of the minors. new crest among th