Phase one trade deal, there will still be challenges between the United States and china, even after that trade deal is complete. Maria mr. Secretary, we thank you for your time today. Of course, we are always giving you best wishes on your trip. Thank you so much. So long. Maria secretary of state mike pompeo. Over to stuart varney. Stuart good morning, mr. Secretary. Good morning, maria. Good morning, everyone. The debate. All right. My opinion. No clearcut winner, but senator warren emerged as the clearcut leader. She was attacked from all sides. They went after her because shes out front. Joe biden asked about his sons Business Activities said only that neither he nor hunter had done anything wrong. Bernie sanders came on strong after his heart attack. Yes, he did. Mayor pete and Amy Klobuchar asked warren pointed questions on paying for medicare for all, but did not get a straight answer. Tulsi gabbard was the lone voice suggesting democrats be careful with their impeachment drive
Recovered, were going to show you this a moment where they might go next. Blake burman just with asked press Secretary Sean Spicer to clarify and, boy, did he ever. The president s Economic Team is really on a mission. Treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchin and director gary cohn determined to push hard to get congress signature on their generous tax plan. If it works, its looking a lot like christmas in may for apple and, hopefully, taxpayers. The chatter ratcheting up on President Trumps proposed onetime tax holiday for big corporations to bring back billions theyve got parked overseas. Apples share of that pie is the highest, some 232 billion. Could come back here and be spent here. And despite online pirates circling netflixs ship, shares are fishing for the 16th record close. Plus, elon musks tesla and spacex thrusting to new highs. After the bells Melissa Francis on the money lessons she learned at a young age on a classic tv show set that will work for you, and charlie breaks it in
Gop, its time to start uttering the word rarely spoken in dc. Bipartisan. Will the democrats sing along . Congressman joe is the chairman of the House Democratic caucus. He will tell us whats the democrats will do if and when they get a seat at the bargaining table. Political strategist brad blake man are here to make bets on whether the health care fight derails or allows other to taxes to budget on infrastructure. The iran deal is now two years old. Today, lieutenant highs and theyre on their way to weekly gains and their highest closes in history. Were less than an hour to the closing bell on this friday. Lets start the countdown. Liz so yesterday, it was a confetti canon, today we are cueing up the video. Both the dow and the s p are on to record close. With the dow up 76, any gain at all would be a record. But the s p must finish above this level. 24. 53. Right now were at 24. 59. Could be by a whisker here. Today on the page for weekly gains. That would be the second week in a ro
The Health Care Bill though seems to be at this point happening on by a thread with growing number of holdouts ahead of the vote next week. We have live update from capitol hill where things stand right now. It has been exactly two years, meantime, since the Iran Nuclear Deal went into effect. What changed between now and then . Well hear from the state department on that. Jpmorgan Ceo Jamie Dimon is fed up with the government gridlock. He is not going to take it anymore says jamie dimon a heated Conference Call this morning and reaction to it, from forbes media chairman, steve forbes. Melissa back to record new highs. Dow with a the third record in a row. Nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. What is fueling these new records . Everyone is loving it, 401 k s, iras, new records go for it. Up 86 points. What fueled reports on retail sales and inflation. It said the fed may or may not raise those rates at end of the year. It may hold, not raise them. That ultimately
Ceiling or tax reform in the next days and months. Plus, President Trump remarks come after the president huddle with National Security team in the final days of working vacation, speaking of vacation, the countdown is on, folks, we have weeks before congress is expected back in washington following their august recess, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and Steven Mnuchin answering questions earlier today as Louisville Chamber of commerce but the focus of the discussion, it was supposed to be on tax reform, the big headline, mcconnells outlook on the debt ceiling. Blake berman outside with the very latest. Mcconnell somewhat optimistic, blake. Zero percent chance that they will default on the credit, the United States debt, mcconnell saying, look, this is going to happen, dont worry about it. He was sitting along Steven Mnuchin and mnuchin said he wants a clean debt ceiling. We will see if that happens politically but sort giving off the image today that this is going to happen. W