mostly on party lines. article i, senator mitt romney, abuse of power voted guilty on president trump saying he had to do that because the president denied his oath of office, went against his oath of office. the senator knows this may put him on an island with other republicans. other republicans calling this is a show. this is not protecting the presidency. this is about hatred for the president. senator lindsey graham says the exoneration will come during the next election when trump is reelected. listen. if you think you ve done the country a good service by legitimatizing this impeachment process what you have done is unleash the partisan forces of hell. this is sour gripes. this is not about protecting the country. this is about destroying the president. reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says this is now in the rear view mirror. democrats not letting it go. representative jerry nadler hinting today he may subpoena john bolton in front of his hoist commi
Were going to tell you about the new drug trial results weighing on that company today. Guess how it went. Well, it went well for someone else yeah. Exactly. Box office blues Movie Theater stocks are getting crushed again today. Six superheroes cant even save those shares being very opaque here but well explain coming up in a little bit. First, breaking news, just this afternoon on fed chair janet yellen, our dom chu has more on the story. All right, so guys, Federal Reserve chairman janet yellen will be leaving the fed completely in february and this is what some fed observers say is no real surprise. Fed chair yellens term as chairman expires in february we know this and President Trump has already made his pick to be the next fed head thats current fed governor Jerome Powell, of course, pending confirmation by the senate there had been some speculation around the notion, perhaps, yellen would maintain a presence on the fed board of governors since her term adds a governor of the cen
Counties and places like northeastern ohio, who were switching their Party Registration from democratic to republican. And one reason they were doing that was they watched the first couple of president ial debates and they realized that trump was speaking about issues that many of these rust belt democratic voters cared about, trade and immigration. Bernie sanders was talking about the issues as well and did so well in the Democratic Party primary, but for many over the voters in the rust belt and other swing counties across america, trump is where the action was and my coauthor said that is where it will be on election day american year from now. Was more skeptical if saw something what happening. You can trace the date that trump seized control to jowl 10, to 2015, three and a half weeks after the launched his campaign and the first three and a half weeks he was bumping along the bottom in the polls. On july 10th he met with families who lost loafs one to illegal ill yeps whether cru
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Charge power lunch starts right now well, it might be a new week but its the same old good news story for your stocks. Modest gains and enough earlier for all three major averages to make more new highs. The nasdaq, if it finishes up, will be up for a fifth straight session. Crude oil down 2 . Wow, bitcoin, it continues its record run its above 9500. Its inching closer to 10,000. Check this out it took just seven days for bitcoin to go from 8,000 to 9,000. Its up 900 this year were going to drill down more later in the show. Thank you very much welcome, everybody im Tyler Mathisen we begin with washingtons big week now its the senates turn senator rand paul today says he will vote for it five influential republican senators meet with the president right now. Eamon javers is outside of the white house. Reporter tyler, we believe that meeting is a lunch and we believe the lunch is going on right now at the white house take a look at the senators scheduled to be here for the lunch. Some k