The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcecement re should only be last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the insurrection act. Esper m made the remark aftf trump said d he would use troop if needed to maintain security. 1,600 troops have been moved to the capital area and stand ready to be deployed. Protests continued across the United States for the ninth straight day since george floyd, an unarmed black man was killed in police custody. The Associated Press says at least nine people have died and 9,300 others have been arrested since the start of the demonstrations. The movement has spread to europe. Thousands of people joined protests in london and stockholm. But the now fired Police Officer who pressed his knee in floyds neck for over eight minutes was charged on wednesday with Second Degree murder. After repeated calls for the other three officers on the scene to face charges
York is coming to a close the final touches are going on in place for when he touches down in philadelphia tomorrow. And we have Team Coverage tonight. Dave schratwieser is looking at the last Minute Security preps but we begin with our bruce gordon whose live in new york city tonight. Bruce reporter lucy,. Every leg of his trip. Sorry, bruce, go ahead. Reporter . No i was going to say ive been with the pope and you were about to say ive been witness pope right from the start on this journey. Its been a fascinating experience. On this his only full day in new york city. Pope francis used the full weight of his papacy the full weight of his moral authority to you were the World Community to live in peace. Then spent time ministering to families torn apart by an act of war. The pontiff began his day at the United Nations posing dutifully for photos with secretary general ban kimoon. Smile crossing the pontiffs face only when children were brought into the picture. His speech before repre
Issues of mutual concern. And, well take you behind the scenes of an opera production at one of kyotos most prestigious venues. Japans foreign minister and his chinese counterpart spoke on the sidelines of the u. N. General assembly. Couple yo kishida and wang yi moat has relations are strained between the two countries. The tension is strained over japans nationalization over a group of islands in the East China Sea and perception of history. Details of the talks have not been released. The ministers are believed to have discussed japans proposal to hold a summit in november. The leaders of both countries will attend an apec meeting in beijing. The Foreign Ministers are also expected to have discussed a plan to set up security hotline for emergencies at sea and in the air. Translator we were able to take enough time to exchange our views in a sincere and frank atmosphere. Kishida said nothing has been decided regarding the proposed summit. Chinas Foreign Ministry said wang had an info
When mario draghi was hinting at quantitative easing, saying he will revive inflation as fast as possible. He was saying he was not about to make a hasty decision to add more stimulus that the ecb. Yet theyre also saying the expanding bond purchases to Government Debt would face legal hurdles. Once again the voice of concern coming from germany. Bank headthe central in austria saying a steady hand ecbhat you need in terms of policy. That is why we are likely to see it a sickly flat across the board when you are looking at europe. So much data. We get gdp figures. Manufacturing as well. Also the second estimate in terms of the thirdquarter gdp is coming. Bit of a downward revision on the trade deficit likely to happen . Morningata later this with the views on what the biggest economies are set to do. We could see new revisions. Lets dig into some stocks. I want to get into the big movers and shakers. Ing just climbing higher by 7 10 of a percent. A fascinating trend. We heard it from la
Tonight on nightly Business Report on wednesday, december 4th. Good evening, everyone, and happy eve. Yes, im bill griffith. Wishing you a happy holiday. Tyler mathison is off today. We did have a record breaking session on wall street. But just barely this time as the dow did edge to a fresh closing high. With the markets closing early ahead of the holiday, stocks faded into the close ending mixed and little change. Heres how the major averages ended. This quiet dayen on the street. You see that the dow was up six points, was much stronger than that earlier. Any positive close, though, good enough for a record high. Its the sixth strai weve seen for the dow. The nasdaq was up eight points when all said and done, but the s p snapped a fiveday winning stre, losing a fraction of a point on the close. In the widely followed energy markets, a rising u. S. Dollar and a sizable jump in u. S. Crude inventories sent Oil Prices Lower today. Unused u. S. Stockpiles rose by 5 1 2 Million Barrels