A. M. At google headquarters in california 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live good tugs morniesday morninm Carl Quintanilla very busy morning in the markets today. We try to get back to 3440 or so q3 earnings a part of the big news stimulus watch, well learn more in the coming hour or two. But were going to begin in washington justice files this landmark antitrust suit against google and we have more on that im still working many i way through this 64page lawsuit that the Justice Department has filed against google in which the department allege thats googlesant w anticompev behave wror is going on for years and still going on and it may be getting worse in the complaint, the Justice Department writes that google entered into exclusionariy agreements including tying arrangements and engaged in anticompetitive lockup and block rivals the Department Says google has taken a page from microsofts playbook to sustain the monopolies and even instructed blows not to use words
Biden. Last ditch support efforts for both candidates moving at breakneck speeds. And digital gold. Cryptocurrency on demand with rising prices for bitcoin. You can crypto a lot of things, but dont call it currency yet. Rising aftertocks resuscitated hopes for a spending package. The nasdaq had a modest game game. Abigail doolittle is in new york. Abigail another choppy day. We have not had one day this week when we have not had stocks up and down throughout the day. There has not been when they were that has been the case. We have seen a lot of intraday whipsaw. Investors are pretty nervous. Some uncertainty. The s p 500 is up after spending most of the day down. Up about 0. 3 . Two down Sectors Energy and tech. Not surprisingly, tech being weighed on by intel. The stock one of the only indexes on the date of fall. Day to fall. Data center sales missing down 10 year over year. The guidance tepid as well. At the end of the day, it was a choppy week. Investors dealing with lots of uncer
Hunter biden emails. Democrats are outraged saying this is a partisan hit job. Joe biden for the first time breaks his silence. Speaking out, calling this a desperate sneer. That is not the full story. The fbi agree. This is not russian disinformation. The laptop is allegedly loaded with emails showing the biden family leveraging its greatest asset as it has for years. Selling access to joe biden of washington and around the world. Why critics say this is a National Security problem and why the media narratives are demonstrably wrong and why the claim that joe bidens tax returns dont show any of this wrongdoing, well, they are likely wrong, too, those claims as well. More details from a batch of emails separate from this laptop and why this story keeps getting bigger and bigger as a countrys most powerful people in tech and media wont talk about it. To the president strategy. Will he go after the bidens influence peddling, talk and not interrupt so voters can hear about bidens plans li
Conocopillps acquiring contra resources. The largest deal this year and well have conoco ceo join us this hour. The 737 max or comeback european r regulators saying it is safe to fly and planning a december return to service. Carl jim, heard you just talking to becky about stimulus as we continue to kick this around it does not sound like this new sense of urgency, quote unquote, will do much to push the package forward. We are too close to the election and either side gives then the other side. I think has them so, lets say the president gives a little bit more than i think that Speaker Pelosi will make it even tougher because the president wants to get that check to you to the least amount of money donald j. Trump wanted. I know that is something that a lot of people, wow, the president gave it to me. I think what we should be owning and trading and buying are companies that are about to go through an Earnings Period that i think is going to be rocky but overall positive and i think
Later, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer talks about the Trump Presidency and his new book leading america. Host u. S. Seventh Circuit Court of appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett yesterday completed her two days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee in consideration of her nomination to serve on the u. S. Supreme court. Is thursday, it october 15, 2020. This is washington journal. Outside Witnesses Today with a full Committee Vote a week from today. The full Senate Voting the week of october 26. We will spend this first hour asking you a simple question, should Amy Coney Barrett be confirmed to the Supreme Court . If you support judge barrett the 202 7488000, if you , ifse, it is 202 7488001 you are undecided 202 74880 2 2. Wj. Twitter cspan facebook. Com cspan. We will play some of the highlighted questions from some members of the Judiciary Committee in this first hour. The reporting this morning in the wall street journal on the hearing and what is ahead in th