Author. Would you go to the moon . You wouldnt . No, no. I write about brave people. Im not one of them. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im aeelaine quijano. Hours before the rooster crowed sunday, President Trump was ruffling feathers on twitter. He railed about the russia investigation, defended his firing of National Security adviser Michael Flynn and unloaded on former fbi director james comey. The president also took aim at an fbi agent removed from the russia investigation for sending antitrump texts. But another weekend tweet is being intensely analyzed. There are even question as but who wrote it. Here is errol barnett. Mr. President , why did you fire general flynn . Ignoring questions as he returned to the white house yesterday. President trump just implied via twitter he knew general mike flynn lied to the fbi before making the decision to fire him. But that tweet sources tell cbs news was drafted by the president s lawyer, john dowd
Lets get a check of the first word news with mark crumpton. Ark a brooklyn man wearing pipe bomb attachment velcro and zip ties set off an explosion, injuring himself and three others. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called the bomb lowtech and was adamant that the city remain vigilant after the Port Authority and several subway lines were shut down temporarily. All the service will reserve. Ume. Lets go back to work. We will not allow them to disrupt us. Thats exactly what they want and thats exactly what they are not going to get. Mark officials are calling this an attempted terrorist attack. Identified has been as a 27yearold. He suffered serious burns while the other victims had minor injuries. The largest of those wildfires in Southern California is moving north. Hundreds have fled their homes in Santa Barbara county. So far, the blaze has burned more than 270 square miles and forced the evacuation of 30,000 residents. Israeli Prime Minister benjamin that yahoo was in brussels toda
13 points. The nikkei was down. Closed down by a half percentage point. You did see that stocks were higher in china. Hang seng up by 1. 5 then this morning in early trading in europe, take a look things are mixed stocks are slightly low ner germager lower in germany and france. Stocks in italy down by 0. 6 then you have crude oil. Crude Oil Yesterday ended up down back below 58. This morning its up, but still below 58, trading at 57. 57 to the story of the morning the closely watched senate race in alabama, Democrat Doug Jones is the apparent winner there, though republican roy moore is not conceding just yet john harwood joins us from birmingham he has that story. Good morning good morning. This was a very big victory for the Democratic Party first time they won a United States senate race in alabama in 25 years a big defeat for President Trump and his party. Look at the numbers. Twopoint lead for doug jones. Roy moore has not yet conceded he said gods in control were still waiting f
Laventhal, josh brown. Jamoof has views on a whole number of Popular Companies and ones you might not have heard of yet but soon will. Its good to have you here did this go as you expected . It went way better than i thought it could go, quite honestly our whole goal was to fix a liquidity problem we see in Silicon Valley, which is employees are churning out of companies at faster and faster rates because they dont see a path on being compensated on what they believe is a fair mechanism. Its a bunch of issues with the traditional ipo process creating this log jam when we see that, as entrepreneurs tend to do, they try to unpack and fix it being able to reverse merge a lot of these companies fixes a lot of whats wrong in the ipo process. So it was oversubscribed by a lot, right from what we were told from Credit Suisse, it was the most oversubscribed spac in history. And there have been 20 to go public this year and thats the highest number since 07 why are these back in vogue and so po
I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. [david reading onscreen text] appreciate it. Welcome to the Financial Capital of the world. All right, well. Man just to work, yeah. Right. All right. We are at your favorite restaurant in omaha, gorats. Why do you like it so much . Is it the food, or the price, or the combination of both . Warren its the food, and the price, and the heritage. I four generations of the gorat family were involved here. Pal gorat and i went to Grammar School together, and so ive known the people over the years. The steaks are great, you know, the prices are right, so. I had lunch here earlier today, it was very good, and it wasnt that expensive, and i quite enjoyed it. Lot cheaper than new york, washington. A lot. Thats why i buy people lunch here, then they can buy me the lunch in new york. Thats a good deal, a good arbitrage. You grew up in omaha, but then you moved to washington when you