Classes for you. Futures in the United States, the s p 500 on a three day losing streak. Look at the euro. 1. 08. The politics, the risk diminishes a little bit. A confluence of different pressures taking us there. Alix part of that has to deal with the new pressures. The pound, look at that, 1. 24. That is up 0. 8 . Gold is going nowhere. It is treading water. Crude oil is up about 0. 6 . Jonathan we start with the French National debate last. Macron and le pen coming out on top. Our Deputy Europe chief covers french politics joining us now. Lets start with macron. Where did he strike his blows . I would caution you on saying this is an actual win for him. He went into this as a potential frontrunner, tied with le pen. What he needed to do was maintain that position. It is fair not to say that he maintained that position. Two polls since the debate last peoplehow that 29 of thought macron did best in the debate. That is better than anybody else. That is a good thing. He probably conso
He built this economy. Some people actually give him credit for it. Listen, america created 1. 5 million more jobs in the last year of the Obamabiden Administration than in the first three years of the trumppence administration. Their first three years fell short of our last three, and that was before he could blame the pandemic. Listen to that covid clap back with the horns. Joe biden also knocked donald trump on his handling of the covid crisis while stumping in pennsylvania. You know whats really sad about this . The president knew this back in february. He lied to us. He told us he hadnt read the intelligence reports that showed how bad this was, how deadly the virus was. They didnt tell us about the virus, the administration gave wall street investors, though, a heads up. He didnt tell us, he just told his wall street friends. Meanwhile, trump was in the spring state of wisconsin where he not only downplayed the virus, but, get this, he is now questioning the motives of frontline
As it becomes more and more inevitable trump will be the republican nominee, people have been wondering who Donald Trumps Foreign Policy advisors are going to be. He finally told where you say hes getting his information from yesterday. Take a look. Who are you consulting with consistently so youre ready on day one . Im speaking with myself, number one, because i have a very good brain and ive said a
lot of things. [ cheers and applause ] this is crazy, but we have the technology to look inside his brain. Its fascinating to see how it works. Look at this. He referred to my hands, if theyre small, Something Else must be small. I guarantee you theres no problem, i guarantee you. Why isnt it working . Let me try [ laughter and applause ] thats well done. Good morning, everyone, its friday, can you believe it . Right. Yeah, it means so much more these days. Its big. Weve had a long week. So joes in austin this morning performing at south by southwest. Playing his guitar . Its going to be a
Start wholesale Firing People in the white house and in his administration. She is predicting that right after the election there is about to be a purge. Sleep tight, everyone. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. You know, you do a factbased show. You are a presenter of fact, a finder of fact. And i rarely get to hear your opinion in your show. And so i listened. I was hanging on every word. And i heard you say to Hillary Clinton, early in your hour, that you believe that the kavanagh nomination is, quote, hurtling toward the sun. You want to expand on that . You are my little eagle eyed friend, lawrence odonnell. Yes, i did say that. That is my take on it. And i am a terrible predictor and nobody should bank on anything that i predict ever, in politics or in anything. But given the way Christine Blasey ford is approaching this, given the corroboration that has alr
Boycotted the Committee Proceedings because of their concerns that both mr. Price and mr. Mnuchin did not answer their questions correctly and in a straightforward manner in their sworn testimony last month. Now, what the republicans decided to do was, instead of there were two options. She could either see donald trump send these two nominees, install these two nominees on his own by a recess appointment, something he could do under his constitutional authority, or take this dramatic step of suspending the rules altogether and pushing these nominees through to the floor on their own accord. And that is the course they took. Now, democrats are outraged by this. They put out a letter just moments before this 9 30 hearing and said they wanted a bunch of answers to questions that they believe that price and mnuchin did not answer correctly in their hearing. But theyre not going to get answers to those questions as republicans take matters into their own hands, believing that democrats are