You or hurt you . I think the trump tax plan probably helps me more than it needs to, and im missing that part where nobody on the high end was going to benefit and this was going to benefit middleclass folks. So thats fake news. That would be that would not fall into the fact checkable news. Great. Lets get down to the serious things youve been investigating. Some of the platforms that many in the audience and even myself love, facebook, twitter, using Search Engines like google, are all now wrapped up into your committee, intelligence committee, coming in. Do you feel that these platforms are undermining our democracy . First of all, i know this feels like its a story that never ends, but lets look at what we do know. What 99. 9 of everyone in washington believes democrat or republican with the exception of maybe one individual at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. One, we know that russia using its services massively intervened in our election by hacking into both Political Parties and relea
So is the trump tax plan help or hurt you . It probably helps me more than it needs to. Im missing that part where nobody on the high end was going to benefit and this was going to benefit middle class folks. So thats fake news. That would not fall into the fact checkable news. Lets get down to the serious things that you have been investigating. Some of the platforms that many in the audience and even myself love, facebook, twitter, using Search Engines like google are now all wrapped up into your committee, Intelligence Committee coming in. Do you feel that these platforms are undermining our democracy . First of all, i know this feels like its a story that never ends. Lets look at what we do know. What 99. 9 of everyone in washington believes, democrat or republican, with the exception of one individual. We know that russia using its services massively intervened in our election by hacking into both Political Parties and releasing information that helped one candidate at the detrime
Its comments by mario draghi, which have sent the youeuro lo. All over the map today so far. The point is, its our fourth consecutive down day. Thats right. Were going to keep a close eye on markets. Were seeing the s p 500 selling off by about 22 points. We mentioned the dow off 220 to 161138. The nasdaq losing ground as well, off 68 points in the session today. Lets talk about it in our closing bell exchange. We have heather hughes, greg ip, amy wu, ron weiner, and our own rick santelli. Were going to bring a trader from the floor. You want to bring him over . Come here, warren myers. Come on over. Well get you in place as well. Im going to start with rick santelli. Because of the lack of consensus, mr. Market, on whats causing this selloff today, you know, what do you make of that when nobody can agree on why people are selling equities today . Oh, i dont agree with that at all. Just because you have six different aisles at a supermarket being crowded, its no reason to say you dont
And we begin tonight with the news that Foreign Ministers from syrias neighbors are warning the refugee crisis will get worse if the world doesnt offer more help soon. The ministers met in geneva to ask for international aid, if there is an attack thousands more will follow over the border. All actions are creating refugee flows need to cease. A political solution to end the cycle of horror is urgently needed. There is no humanitarian solution to the syrian crisis, rather there needs to be a political solution to end the humanitarian crisis. Here are the numbers. The u. N. Agency as we said says theres 2 million refugees, fieched,000 in jordan, more than 400,000 in turkey, 170,000 in iraq and more than 700,000 have fled to neighboring lebanon, zina corder reports from beirut. One in every five people in lebanon is a syrian. Many have settled in poor overcrowded neighborhoods like this one. They live in the local population but cant escape the feeling of not being welcome. The lebanese