including the treasury department. we ll have the latest on who may be behind the hack. and then overseas, negotiators working on a brexit deal to get another deadline extension as the uk and eu remain divided on key components. and new york city restaurants already struggling to survive facing yet another hurdle as a new indoor dining ban takes hold. it is monday, december 14, 2020, you are watching worldwide exchange right here on cnbc. good morning i am dominic shue in for brian sullivan today. futures right now pointing to pretty decent gains, the dow higher by nearly 200 points, the nasdaq up about 42. the nasdaq has been the outperformer as of late. this after stocks snapped their multiweek winning streak on friday. all three finishing lower with the s&p 500 closing down nearly 1% as you can see here. it s shaping up to be another big week for investors this week. in addition to the pfizer vaccine rollout, the federal reserve will kick off its final two day policy mee
the construction of a wall along the border with mexico. he said the us was facing an invasion of drugs, people traffickers and criminals from its southern neighbour. his opponents have accused him of a huge overreaction. this graph is from our website, with data from the us border protection agency. it shows that the number of people caught on the us mexico border has fallen. in fact, in 2017 president trump s first year in office the number dropped to its lowest level since 1971. our north america editorjon sopel reports from washington. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. donald trump had an unpalatable choice. having not got a deal with congress, he was either going to have to admit failure on funding his wall with mexico, his signature campaign pledge, or he was going to have to go nuclear. he chose nuclear. this was now a national emergency on the southern border. we re going to be signing, today, and registering, national emergency. and it s
but worried about infrastructure, clean energy, or lack thereof. we will take a short break. when we come back, we will turn our attention to politics and breitbart news network. svart will join us to talk about bernie sanders, who says he is a democratic socialist. our guestr brooks is program.ewsmakers he talks presidential politics. here is a portion from newsmakers which airs after the washington journal. [video clip] is it possible to get anything done that advances the cause of the obama administration? if so, what? to begin with, let s take the case of trade. it is a good example. i have had zero debate i have heard zero debate about whether or not the president is right on this. the president is right on this. free trade is a good thing. 2 billion has pulled people out of poverty since i was a child. it is an analyte good for the poor around the world. it has problems, which is to say it changes the structure of the american economy, and people and left behind.
have covered it on their own. you look at the cast of characters, and certainly the troubling relationships that they have had. what we are trying to do is get more information about that stuff out to the american people. there are friends over at the government accountability and stew, which is our partner organization, run by peter schweitzer, as well as through breitbart. anyway we can get more information out to more people about what is happening and the relationships that the clinton foundation has with various troubling characters throughout the world by the way, you look at some of these different donors and world leaders that they are associated with, jeffrey epstein he is a convicted sex offender. these are serious questions. she is a presidential candidate, she has to answer for this stuff. host: you mention peter schweitzer, the author of cling cash. there is a close relationship between him and the ceo of your company. thet: we are proud of relationship. pe
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