After her speech at the Golden Globes, America is abuzz with talk of Oprah running for president in 2020. Winfrey has said in the past that she has no plans to do so. However, in an interview with the LA Times, Winfrey's partner Stedman Graham said she would "absolutely do it."
Should Oprah throw her hat in the ring? Emma Vigeland, Politics Producer at The Young Turks, and Nick Givas, Media Reporter at The Daily Caller, discuss that and more on this week's edition of "Agree to Disagree."
Vigeland and Givas also discuss the fallout in Washington over Michael Wolff's "Fire And Fury." Officials in the Trump administration are fuming over claims made in the book about the inner-workings of the White House. Givas says that people should question the accuracy of the book. Vigeland argues, however, that people should be questioning President Trump's fitness for office aside from the details disclosed in Wolff's tell-all.
A resurgent Joe Biden scored sweeping victories across the country with the backing of a diverse coalition and progressive rival Bernie Sanders seized Super Tuesday’s biggest prize with a win in California as the Democratic Party’s once-crowded presidential field suddenly transformed into a two-man contest.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 785 points and bond prices surged after an emergency interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve failed to reassure markets racked by worries that a fast-spreading virus outbreak could lead to a recession.
HotelPlanner CEO Tim Hentschel told Cheddar that the travel industry is taking the worst hit it has seen in nearly two decades thanks to the coronavirus outbreak paralyzing multiple countries.
Stocks are whipping up and down after the Federal Reserve swooped into the market with an emergency rate cut in hopes of shielding the economy from the effects of the fast-spreading virus. Tuesday's surprise move gave stocks a strong, brief boost, but it took just 15 minutes for the gains to evaporate.
Chairman Jerome Powell said at a news conference that the virus “will surely weigh on economic activity both here and abroad for some time.” It was the Fed's first rate cut since last year, when it reduced its key short-term rate three times.
The Federal Reserve will cut interest rates by a half-percentage point in its first emergency rate cut since the Great Recession in response to the spreading coronavirus.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Tuesday, March 3, 2020.
Dow Jones skyrockets on hopes central banks protect the economy from the coronavirus outbreak.
Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of SkyBridge Capital and former White House communications director, has an optimistic view of the markets going forward despite the headwinds of the COVID-19 outbreak and President Trump's handling of the health crisis.
Amy Klobuchar is ending her Democratic presidential campaign, plans to endorse Joe Biden.
