department s office of legal policy in washington. as the times reports, prosecutors normally pursue criminal investigations across the country. they generally don t carry out tasks related to supreme court nominations and this request is an unusual insertion of politics into federal law enforcement according to the new york times. trump nominated kavanagh on monday to replace justice anthony kennedy who is retiring. take a look, $70.38. a possible spike in libyan oil exports and president trump s trade dispute with china have pushed oil prices down again to about $70.30 a barrel. this is a drop of almost $4 in one day. u.s. stocks are trading sharply lower today. the drop down now 9/10 of a point, more than 200 points lower. it s been down all day. this is all trade war talk. so we are going to follow this very closely. as we have noted the markets haven t fully turned on this, but there is reporting that the trump administration is getting