francine: up next, stephanie kelly. we will talk about u.s. and china.ll also talk about brexit. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: "bloomberg surveillance." francine in london, i'm tom keene in new york. right now on the politics of the world centered on the stimulus in america, stephanie kelly joins us with aberdeen standard. there senior political economist. we could go to europe, china, but to me the lose nest night -- last night -- to me the news last night, the republicans struggling particularly against the calendar. i find the calendar here extraordinary. however urgent is it for the republicans to coalesce today? think it is pretty important. when we look at the end of this week at what is going to take place, particularly with unemployment benefits, we know that it is the republicans fight against the republicans. these are deep republican issues, although we know white house relations are sometimes strained with the gop, but it is a republican party that leaves in the benefit of work. how do they find that balance between encouraging people to work but

stephanie? >> boldly, or cowardly? kelly o'donnell thank you very much.hare another blistering op-ed, one that's drawing a lot of attention this morning from actual medical experts. four former cdc directors joining forces to blast the administration for its handling of the coronavirus. they say no other president has politicized science the way president trump has. and by doing so, the administration is undermining public health. joining us is one of the authors of that piece, dr. richard vesser, served as acting director of the cdc in 2009 during the h1n pandemic. i want to get to your op-ed in a second. first, your reaction to a trade adviser to the president attacking dr. anthony fauci, recipient of the presidential medal of freedom. >> yeah, steph, you know, what strikes me is that this is such an incredible distraction from what we need to beicealth is la that we can get this under control? the idea that we are discussing and debating what a trade adviser has to say, as opposed to what dr. fauci, you know, a brilliant scientist, a committed public s

. >> stephanie elam, thank you very much for that reporting this morning from los angeles. with me now is kellys, georgia, the home of the university of georgia. he issued a mask mandate two weeks ago. now the state's governor says local leaders are banned from this you know because of what's going on with atlanta. good to have you, mayor, thanks for the time. >> good to be here, poppy, thanks for having me. >> you issued this mask mandate july 10th. the governor kemp is suing mayor bottoms in atlanta for doing the same thing you did. have you been sued yet? >> i've not been sued yet. we are maintaining our mask mandate. the courts have not issued a cease and desist. we believe we're well within our rights and the health ngaire guidance we received nationally and internationally, the 40,000 university of georgia students seeing about 130,000 totally, and so it's not just the university students who we have to be concerned about. it's the 30% of our population living in poverty who are clerks at grocery stores, who are cleaning homes, who are maintaining facilities so we're all in this together

stephanie link, thank you very much. see you on "closing bell." "the exchange" starts right now. >>> we will certainly see you on "closing bell," sara, looking forward to that. right now i'm robert frost in for kellyns. ramping up its china rhetoric and blaming several u.s. companies for being part of the

stephanie link, thank you very much. see you on "closing bell." "the exchange" starts right now. >>> we will certainly see you on "closing bell," sara, looking forward to that. right now i'm robert frost in for kelly evans. ramping up its china rhetoric and blaming several u.s. companies for being part of the problem. just saber rattling or is it a big worry? we'll debate >>> netflix elevating one of hollywood's most powerful people to co-ceo. is the streaming company making the right move >>> we're looking at some kitchen stocks for big gains we're looking at data markets and bob pisani has an update for it hey, bob >> s&p is only moving at a 20-point range here. that's not particularly wide by and large, banks and energy a little bit of weakness there against the trend here, but tech is very flat megacaps down, amazon is down 8% for the week i know everybody is focused on netflix down 7%, but keep an eye on amazon, it's been on a down trend all throughout the week. we're knocking on the door of 3230 we've had a lot of problems getting over those june highs and start of the year right around 3032. you saw that resistance there. that's a chart of s&p week to date here. the main themes here, rotati