versus bill cosby. christine. thank you. more than 21,000 victims of bernie madoff s ponzi scheme will receive $504 million in payouts. the justice department says this is the second payment in the madoff victim fund. $4 billion has been recovered from authorities through asset forfe forfeits. madoff pleaded guilty and sentenced to 150 years in 2009 and ordered to forfeit over $170 billion. the upset winner in last month s special election in pennsylvania s 18th district was sworn in congress last night by paul ryan. conor lamb will serve out tim murphy s term. he defeated rick saccone. the victory was an upset in the district that president trump won in 2016. and colonel mullick has been
americans by raising all of our taxes to cover this $170 billion bill? that is an important question, isn t it? there is a big fight within the democratic party right now about what policies to pursue and how far to the left to go. and i think that s exactly what we re seeing that you received in that note from a democrat today. that s a dilemma they re facing. mike, you want do weigh in on that? yeah, that s right. democrats will think they have a seat they can target because they re going to divide along these lines. look, the president as i said, they re trying to negotiate and they ve laid out exactly what they want. they want border security and they want a deal on daca. that s sort of in the middle where both sides get something. which is what we always say we want to see government do. the polar sides of the party are going to pull that apart and that s what you re watching right now. charles, i ll give you the
used have obviously evolved. the library doesn t say how many tweets it has, but by 2013 it already amassed 170 billion at a rate of half a billion tweets per day. i wonder how many of those are the presidents. far too many this past year and far too many characters that it s doubled. do you like that? i can t stand the doubling of the characters. no, i like it. when we get on tv everyone gets to say nasty things even longer. i m kidding, of course. all right. a flight from l.a. to japan spends eight hours in the air only to return to california. what happened and the epic twitter takedown from one celebrity on board.
launch of the social media platform back in 2006. back in 2013, it announced it already saved 170 billion tweets. just think of what that is up to now. many years later from that. soon that practice is going to come to an end. the library announced starting in 2018 it will only archive tweets on a selective basis. it made the decision to cap at 12 years. while your tweet of the i can have cheeseburger or the meaning of covfefe, it may no longer the case one week from now. what president trump you might ask? i hear you screaming at your television. will the library of congress save donald trump s tweets? it will. 36,000 tweets and counting. the library will continue to archive tweets in the national interest. i imagine, yes, donald trump s
basis. the library says it began archiving tweets to reprerve a record of creativity. the volume of tweets increasing dramatically. by 2013 it had already amassed 170 billion at a rate of half a billion tweets per day. wonder how many were president trump s. let s get a check on moneystream this morning. u.s. stocks down since apple had their worst day since august. apple facing questions about slow iphone x sales. tech stocks fell with the s&p 500 technology sector falling 7/10ths of 1%. today is likely to be a slow trading day on wall street. trading volumes expected to be thin amid the holiday week. oil reaching its highest price in two and a half years. that s after a pipeline exploded