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President ial and congressional campaigns in North Carolina. More on North Carolina with tim directorDavid Mclennan of the Meredith Paul at Meredith College. With four days to go before the election, we ask you this morning, which candidate do you trust on the economy . If you are supporting the trumppence ticket, there is a line. If you are supporting the bidenharris ticket, another line. If you are supporting another candidate or you are undecided, a third line. You can also text us with your first name, city and state. Or, go to twitter and facebook. Com cspan to post your comments there. We will. Get your thoughts in just a minute lets begin with the president yesterday in florida making his pitch to voter ....
Now there is a smaller lead heading into the final weekend. Live coverage is scheduled to begin in a few minutes. Until then, here is some of todays washington journal. David mclennan is a professor of Political Science at Meredith College and the director of the colleges meredith poll. Tells about the pole. Who do you talk to . How do you do your polling . Guest it started six years ago as a learning opportunity for students. So we have students involved in the process. But what we do is we Contact People from North Carolina only. We are a statewide poll. We started doing live collar only six years ago with students , being the callers. Now we have moved to mixed mode sampling. Now we do online and live caller. Because ofd, restrictions that we have on campus, ....
Fugitives into the hole with all the sports which all over the world continues to be called off all played behind closed doors including this football match at brazils american or stadium once famous for holding muti 200000 fans in the World Cup Final. Welcome to the news our governments around the world have stepped up restrictions on the movements of their citizens to reduce the spread of the coronavirus the number of deaths recorded in italy has risen 25 percent in the past day to just over 800 overall its only has the highest number of cases outside of china that almost 25000 spade became the 2nd european country to impose a nationwide lockdown its confirmed 2000 new cases and the number of reported deaths as doubles and then in the middle east. Iran has announced 113 people died in the past 24 hours the number of confirmed cases is nearing 14000 in the United States incr ....
Beautiful day outside. I think we have some great things to talk about. I will start by discussing the Federal Reserve. As you know it just happened minutes ago but it makes me very happy. I want to congratulate the Federal Reserve for starters they have lowered the fed rate from what it was, which was one to 1. 25. It has been lowered down to zero 0. 25. Zero to 0. 25. The Federal Reserve will be purchasing 500 billion dollars of treasuries and 200 billion of mortgagebacked securities. That number can increase but they will start with that. That is really good news. That is great for our country. That is something we are very happy. I am very happy. They did it in one step. They did not do it in four steps over a long time. I think that people and the markets will be thrilled. That brings us we are the strongest coun ....
Sharks eat them. It is a horrible story. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on q and a. Host at our table this morning, randy woods, economics editor for bloomberg, to talk about the future of nafta. Washington,re in renegotiations began between the United States, canada, and mexico. Show our viewers what robert light hazard Robert Lighthizer had to say at the opening. Robert use of the president about nafta, which i completely share, are well known. I want to be clear that he is not interested in a mere tweaking of the provisions and a couple of updated chapters. We feel that nafta has fundamentally failed many, many americans. Here are some of the examples of what i believe needs to change. Need to assure that the huge trade deficits do not continue, and we have balance and reciprocity. This should be periodically reviewed. On autos andularly auto parts, must require higher naf ....