Jack Hunter, editor at Rare Politics, weighs in on President Trump's letter, which essentially announced the end of his relationship with former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.
We discuss Trump's claim that Bannon had little to do with his presidential win. Hunter notes how hard that is to believe, given how close the President and Bannon reportedly were during his time in the White House.
We discuss the statements made in Michael Wolff's latest book and some of the rhetoric circulating which questions the president's mental state. Hunter notes that the one thing most can agree on his how "unpresidential" the president is.
Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, admitted Wednesday that a poll showing a statistical dead heat between Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, was an outlier among polls.
The British pound sterling fell sharply after British PM Boris Johnson announced he was asking for Parliament to be suspended from mid-September until mid-October ー a highly controversial move that critics say is intended to keep MPs from avoiding a no-deal Brexit and plunged the British government into crisis once again, two months before a looming deadline.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019.
The inventor of the nasal spray that can reverse an opioid overdose believes the $570 million judgment against Johnson & Johnson shows that states are taking the crisis "seriously."
On the back of a groundbreaking partnership with data heavyweights Deloitte and Nielsen, cannabis industry intelligence company Headset on Monday announced the launch of its real time analytics tool in the province of Alberta, marking its official debut in the Canadian market. Stakeholders anticipate the data Headset Insights generates ー first in Alberta, and eventually across all of Canada ー will serve as a road map for companies outside of cannabis looking to penetrate the industry, and for Canadian cannabis companies as the market grows more diverse and competitive.
An Oklahoma judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson pay over $570 million in damages — a far cry from the $17 billion requested — for causing the opioid crisis in the Sooner state.
The U.S. president reiterated his position that Russia should be invited back into the coalition of the world's largest economies despite the lingering issue of Russia's occupation of Ukrainian territory.
Speaking from the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, Trump said that Chinese negotiators had called U.S. officials and requested a new round of talks.
Gravy Analytics, a location-based marketing technology company, analyzed the smartphone data of people who attended the 111 solo Democratic presidential candidate events held in June and July.
The trade war between the U.S. and China escalated throughout the day Friday, culminating with President Trump announcing that the U.S. will significantly hike tariffs on nearly all Chinese imports. The decision came in response to China proclaiming earlier in the day that it would hit $75 billion worth of U.S. goods with new retaliatory tariffs.
