Agriculture industry and rural economy. Well bring you his speech that will begin in just moments. We have full coverage and analysis from our panel this whole hour. Dan henninger. Liz peek from fiscal times. Gop strategist, ned ryun, town halls guy benson. David we used all our brown any points to get a guests like that. Dow is showing just shy of a record but longer term moves are looking good. Nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. It is sad, nicole, so go january pose the year of first five days are not bad, right. We had one record after another. Only the Dow Jones Industrial average pulled back ever so slightly at 14 points. Dow, nasdaq, s p, russell, transportation average hit record highs today. As you noted so goes january. Dow and s p up 2 . Nasdaq is up 3. 7 right now. Great start for a few days in. Of course dow 25,000 was a lot of fun. Optimism from the tax overhaul. You can see technology, a group that did so well in 2017 continues to flourish here. In
A look at the days top news and headlines. The nation outline the Trump Interference in upcoming mid terms voicing concerns about threats and saying our democracy is in the crosshairs. Election infrastructure is not a destination. It requires aggressive and ongoing vigilance. Everyone must play their role to ensure that every vote is counted. Dana unprecedented briefing from all of those intelligence officials at the highest level coming to the briefing room, making a show of United Support and coordination at the highest levels of our government with Sarah Sanders explaining that the goal of this is to protect the 2018 elections, the 2020 elections and those in the future. They have their work cut out for them. We are less than 100 days away from the 2018 election. And joining me now is chief White House Correspondent john roberts live with more. Im just going to turn it over to you, john there was a lot there. I have a couple of questions that i want to talk about aside from the elec
Anymore. To their credit, they stepped up. We did some heavy negotiations. We got them there. Russia, i think they wanted to delay it initially. I dont think thats what they wanted but we got them there and as long as they were there, thats what matters. Harris as the hard facts come in, lets go to Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palkot with more. Greg . Gregg harris, it is an alarming report coming from the Washington Post and at least one of my valued sources on the subject of north korea thinks that it is true. Lets go through the report very quickly. The Washington Post quoting Defense Intelligence officials saying this north korea is now capable of producing Nuclear Weapons for Ballistic Missile delivery. That is a war head small enough to put on one of the many missiles that they have been testing. North korea, if you remember, has been claiming exactly that. Last year, in fact, they said they tested one such bomb and even showed a picture, which we werent sure was accu