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Alternates are kept from the six gymnasts who will be competing, those competitions happening sunday. all of this covid news contributing to the attitude here in japan among a majority of japanese that they don t want these games to go forward. you see that also affecting is some of the sponsors behavior. the largest beer company in japan says it won t be sending executives to the opening ceremony. toyota is pulling all domestic advertising from the games. joining us is msnbc medical contributor dr. gupta. these breakthrough cases have caused a stir in japan and abroad. how serious a risk is a positive covid test for somebody who s both double vaccinated and presumably healthy as an olympian? good afternoon, jeff. in that particular case, somebody who is otherwise healthy, young in the case of an ....
We are just past the bottom of the hour. i m brooke baldwin. a cnn.com columnist says president obama may be turning into the president he never wanted to be. the commander in chief is pushing for u.s. military action in the middle east region. and he waited to the very last minute to seek congressional approval. just last year the president campaigned hard on his work in ending the wars in both iraq and afghanistan. and when barack obama was a u.s. senator, he was a strong supporter of congressional involvement in authorizing military action. with syria, congress was not the president s first move. joining me, former presidential speech writer for jimmy carter and yahoo! news contributing columnist walter shapiro joins me. nice to see you, sir. i know your resume is quite impressive. you ve written a lot of things. let me quote you from your most recent column here. you say this. you call obama s history defying ....
Economic reporter for slate, annie lowry. let s talk about what wall street will do monday morning. give me your prediction. reporter: right now futures are looking down. we ll have a better sense when tokyo opens tonight. futures are broadly down. that suggests that perhaps we ll see a continuation of the now two-week sell-off. okay. with further losses in the markets, does that force congress and the president to do something more? well, think the decline in stocks we have seen is yus one piece of news contributing to a lot of bad news. there aren t a lot of bright spots in the economy. the united states is obviously borrowing for cheap. the bonds are doing well, but stocks are down. unemployment isn t moving. the economy is growing at a slow pace. in the first six months of the year we saw the u.s. economy grow at a pace of less than 1% per year. there isn t good news anywhere. ....