good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning. we are grateful you are starting your sunday, march 19th with us. i m boris sanchez. i m amara walker. is there a good morning? it is a very good morning for me. it is a great one. because boris is going to getting a lot more sleep on the weekends. look, there is really no bad news. there is some breaking news. i guess the bad news is that you won t be able to see boris bright and early in the morning saying buenos dias, but, for all the boris fans you will be getting a lot more of boris during the week. we don t want to disclose all the details. look, i think you and i channelled each other because we are kind of in mourning with all of our black. sadly, because we won t be together. that s the bad news. the good news, you will get so much more of boris. you are too kind. more of that in a sec. here is what we are watching today. russian president vladimir putin makes a surprise visit to the russian-o
away and amara, we can see the finish line now. yes, we can. it feels like it s been a long last several weeks. we are finally here. this is the last weekend of campaigning before tuesday s elections as the candidates and their surrogates make their final push for votes. in the battle for control of the senate it comes down to a handful of key states, including pennsylvania. president biden, barack obama and donald trump all campaigning in the state today. the president keeping his focus on democracy and the economy. he says he is optimistic about the midterms, but polling has indicated that the momentum is on republicans side. another race that could decide who controls the senate is in georgia between senator raphael warnock and former football star herschel walker. millions of voters have already cast their ballots. in fact, early voting is up compared to the 2018 midterms. almost 35 million people in 47 states have voted early. and our reporters and correspondents
After the bell, here we go again. Earnings its game on salesforce hp hewlettpackard enterprises. Guess. And gamestop all reporting tonight. Well tell you what to expect. A debate on whether gamestop can capitalize on the video Game Movement that stock has suffered mightily. A yield of 9. 25 right now unbelievable. Lets start with todays market rally all four major averages are in record territory the s p crossed 2,600 for the first time today joining our closing bell exchange, david kelly from Jp Morgan Funds peter costa from empire executions is at post 9. Rick santelli is at the cme in chicago. Peter, the engine keeps chugging along here. Oh, my god. Its almost unbelievable to today, this was a little unexpected i think we did have positive data this morning. To see the market open up 150 points without batting an eye and continuing to stay strong, you know, its theres a confluence of really good things good earnings, low interest rates, even with the rate hike next week, next month,
His Comms Director and he told me hes putting me in charge of this and i want to make sure im linked to him and syncopated and ill meet with him but i dont want to waste his time and sit in the oval office unnecessarily. Thank you thank you, anthony. Hanks, guys. Thank you obviously i would have been happy to stay up here all day and continue to exhaust all of your questions, but, one, i figure i probably should answer a couple today and also the president has an event here shortly so i want to try to work through as many as i can with that im actually going to start with jeff mason since i believe it is maybe your last day and my first, so with that, jeff, take it away thanks. Can you talk to us a little bit about how this was how this will a this change will affect the press office, and can you speak a little bit for sean how hes feeling and how he took this news and how he made the decision to resign. You know, im not geronioing speak for sean in detail i can say that he understood
Make their statement before trump gets under way there. Absolutely, bill, heres what happened. They started to gather north of the Silicon Valley region. For those of you unfamiliar with that part of california. The police were put on high alert earlier this morning. Specifically because of what happened in southern california. Costa mesa last night. There was a trump rally, it turned violent. A number of cars that were damaged. Riot police were brought in. Given the fact that mr. Trump is scheduled to speak shortly at that location in burlingame, specifically the Hyatt Regency, the police were put out early at that particular location. They have barricades up. You can see them just past those people we saw walking. A large contingent there are hundreds and hundreds of people at that particular hotel. They pushed against the barricades and then they tore them down and rushed the hotel. At that point, the riot police which were standing to the side moved in and pushed the protesters bac