negative for 2018 and at the nasdaq was worst of the bunch, losing 329, almost 4.5%. the largest one-day percentage decline since august 18, 2011. let s get some analysis of the market today. deirdre bolton of the fox news network joins us. wish there was better news toda today. indeed. you gave reasons as to why we saw this pressure so dell, s&p 500 and the red for the year as you alluded to, and the nasdaq, the steepest decline in that index is on pace for its worst month since the credit crisis, which is never a good comparison, in october 2008. facebook, amazon, netflix, alphabet google, each closing down by more than 5%. much of america is delivering solid earnings but investors are anxious about two key factors. rising interest rates which
assad leaves. or if assad leaves. it s a question of when. he will leigh power. not a question of if. i am confident that assad s days are numbers. i think he must go and i believe he will go. the last one was today. if you go to the first time that he made the caug august 18, 2011, 2200 people died at that point in syria. now we re in excess of 70,000. it s one of the reasons i believe this will be forever a black mark on the obama administration. basically done nothing. the question he got today at the press conference to suggest that the u.s. hasn t done anything. the president pushed back hard on that but he was unconvincing in the suggestion we have done much. if you look at the numbers, it suggests we haven t. on the question of the use of chemical weapons, i think the president has shifted the red line a little bit. the first time he talked about chemical weapons he said if