ni tonight, lets declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth, no one who works full time should have to live in poverty. Rose welcome to the program. We are thrive evening from new york, boston and boynton beach, florida, tonight president obama delivered his fifth state of the union address, the speech comes at a critical moment for the president , he voter approval is among the lowerest it has, congress is opposed to much of his agenda and public attention is beginning to wander to midterm elections and beyond this was the president s opportunity to seize back the initiative, to do so he hit on themes that he hoped would resonate with the american people. Rn what i offer tonight is concrete practical promise pals to speed up growth, and new ladders of opportunity into the middle class. Some require congressional action. And i am eager to work with all of you. But america does not stand still and neither will i, so wherever and whenever i can take stems without legislation to expan
ni tonight, lets declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth, no one who works full time should have to live in poverty. Rose welcome to the program. We are thrive evening from new york, boston and boynton beach, florida, tonight president obama delivered his fifth state of the union address, the speech comes at a critical moment for the president , he voter approval is among the lowerest it has, congress is opposed to much of his agenda and public attention is beginning to wander to midterm elections and beyond this was the president s pportunity to seize back the initiative, to do so he hit on themes that he hoped would resonate with the american people. Rn what i offer tonight is concrete practical promise pals to speed up growth, and new ladders of opportunity into the middle class. Some require congressional action. And i am eager to work with all of you. But america does not stand still and neither will i, so wherever and whenever i can take stems without legislation to expan
Blackwell of policylink and Michael Tanner of the cato institute. Ifill here with us now, as they will be throughout the evening, our own shields and brooks. Syndicated columnist mark shields and New York Times columnist david brooks. 7 so, gentlemen, put on your prognostication hats. What do you expect tonight . It wont be f. D. R. s new deal. Were not looking at the 100 days here. Were looking at modesty, theme of opportunity, discussion of the executive order. Immigration will be bigger, probably a few threats on the debt ceiling somake sure congress doesnt put us in default, but not look at a gigantic agenda. Im most interested in the tone. I think the president a nation that is severely pessimistic, has been now in the wrong direction rather than on the right track for 10 years now. The sense of pesmism is pervasive, and i want to see if the president can connect with people beyond the room tonight. Woodruff is there a defensiveness already setting in with this state of the union
The power ball but i never play it, you usually do. Dagen put it in the calendar. Connell lets go to Nicole Petallides at Stock Exchange to get started on markets now. Nicole good morning. We are watching the markets as you noted ahead of the fed and we are up 66 points at the moment, 1 2 mixed bag of winners and losers. The s and p is higher just like the dow down 1 4 and the nasdaq pulling back, coming off of two story weeks of gains for the dow but traders think the momentum remains to the upside and continues to note the fact we stomachs some tough Economic News like jobless claims and others that havent been so great and the market still managed to rise higher so there is good news that could propel us to the upside. That being said we had a couple pieces of news from abroad including u. K. Unemployment rate, and expected the edged higher and we have a big merger deal today in the jewelry business. A lot of pieces of news on wall street today. Connell Congressional Budget Office o
Other hand his other strategy is herd immunity. We are breaking records that we dont want to break. Theres going to be a dark winter ahead unless we change our ways. Were rounding the corner. In fact, weve rounded some corners that weve gone all the way around the block and were back to where we started from in march. Come on, man. Im christi paul. So grateful to have you with us. Im Boris Sanchez in for victor blackwell. Good to see you, christi. Thanks for getting up again. Theres that National Outbreak again that is hitting new heights with coronavirus and now there is also there are some new cases outbreaking in the white house, three this time. In the inner circle of Vice President mike pence who leads the Coronavirus Task force. And, remember, theres just nine days to go before with the election, and now the New York Times is reporting that the white house tried to keep news of this outbreak from becoming public. Cnns Sara Westwood now joining us from the white house. So, you kno