of hamilton. so what is it about stormy daniels that has drawing silence from someone so prone to punching back? let s bring in republican strategist lauren zell managing director of fp 1 strategies and msnbc political analyst jonathan alter, columnist for the daily beast. with a good morning to you. lauren i ll reach out to you first here. how do you make sense of the president s silence on stormy daniels? is it possible there are more details that he s a i frayed may come out? it certainly possible that there are more details to come out. but i think something that s important to look at here is we often talk about president trump as someone who doesn t always listen to the people around him. whether it s john kelly, or any of the other aides that he s surrounded himself with. it s clear in this case that he is listening to someone. i don t know whether that s his cliff of staff, whether it s his legal advisers, but i think that the behavior we re seeing out of the president
guess what. you don t have to be a i frayed to check out your 401(k) statement. september has been a pretty good month t. dow has risen and it s on track to gain again today. alison is joining us with the good news from the new york stock exchange. this is a new twist. it is a nice twist. we expect to see modest gains at the open and more reason to look at the 401(k), so far this month the s&p 500 is up more than 7% on track for its best september in 56 years. this week on wall street it s going to be all about housing. we re going to get new numbers on housing affordability. later this week some data on home construction and sales. housing is really a major concern for wall street because it makes up a huge part of the economy. and as we learned three years ago when the recession began,