This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel. The Financial Times, a headline that is rocking the

financial markets now, unexpected news about U.S. employment. The headline, U.S. adds just

12,000 jobs as hurricanes and strikes produced worst report of Biden's term. Subhead, October figure far below average

forecast of 100,000 job gains and comes just four days before the U.S. election.

I welcome my colleague and friend Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, teaches law at NYU

and the University of Chicago, and we're

looking just four days to the election at both candidates, weaknesses and strengths, what to

watch for in the event that the candidate becomes the president-elect.

We begin with the vice president. Vice President Harris has run a

spirited campaign. A puzzling closing days, because I'm used to the textbook closing day, say

1940, FDR running for his unprecedented third term. His closing days had to do with, first, the recovery from the

Depression, which he was taking full credit for in 1940, and second, the threat of foreign affairs,

especially because there was a war in Europe. And he was very clear, your boys will not die

in foreign wars, as he said, our economy will revive, our

industries will revive because of demand by our customers in Europe. That was a closing

message the American people embraced, and he was uniformly elected again the third time.

However, I'm hard pressed to find a democratic closing message from Ms. Harris.

Richard, a very good evening to you. Weaknesses and strains. Can we say there was no closing

message? That would be a weakness, or did you hear one? Good evening to you.

No, I did not hear one. What I did hear were the kinds of remarks that actually seemed to me

counterproductive. You're surely playing to your base when you call your opponent a fascist

and Nazi, a totalitarian of some sort or another. But what you're doing there is trying to define

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