North carolina. For Bernie Sanders, vermont. And right now were looking at alabama with polls are just closing, and that looks like it will be for joe biden. So three of the first four contests that we can comfortably report tonight go to joe biden who little more than, what, 72 hours ago was given up for politically dead. That was then, this is now. Whatever he was able to cobble together even in states that had early voting that came before his stunning performance in South Carolina, well, one of that materialized to be a big worry for him. Were going to be digesting all these numbers besides alabama, just closing right now, the states of maine, massachusetts and oklahoma have also closed. Tennessee, which was to close at this hour because of the hurricane, a lot of folks having difficulty getting to the polls right now, they will, in fact, be allowed to continue looking for places to vote until at least 9 p. M. Eastern time, in some parts of the state up to 11 p. M. Were going to be
Stocks. Stuart has been pointing out, that is growing consensus view here, he is a lot more palatable, that is joe biden than Bernie Sanders. And that seems to be where the markets are focusing on. That and the fact a lot of Health Care Stocks that were getting bludgeoned under the prospect of potential nominee Bernie Sanders, a long way from down, are now jumping quite nicely. Look at the yield of the 10year note. Sometimes i think that is a typo. That is the yield right now,. 95 . Did i ever tell you what my wife and i got fine. Get read on this all moving very fast. Deirdre bolton, i guess it comes down to the delegates. Where do we stand . Michael bloomberg endorsed former vp joe biden suspending his campaign a few hours ago. Defeating donald trump, uniting behind the candidate with the best spot to do it. The person to do it, my friend, joe biden. Disappointing night for bloomberg. He spent the most money out of any candidate, President Trump included. Our internal calculations sh
Neil would take a little more than 2 to get to 30,000. It would take 9 to get to 32,000, Peter Navarro, among others saying that is in the equation. A lot depends on key developments. The president is en route to davos, switzerland, but the backdrop of the impeachment trial tomorrow. Blake burman is looking at Administration Legal response to all of this, how it will position itself in the senate. He joins us in the white house. Sir . Reporter neil, if they havent done so already the Trump Legal Team represents the president in the impeachment hearing will file a legal brief today, giving a more fulsome approach, fulsome take as it was described earlier today of the president s Legal Defense heading into the impeachment trial. As you know, the legal team laid out the sixpage answer to the senate over the weekend. Were expecting a much bigger briefing from the president s team here shortly. According to sources that are working with the president s legal team, appears if they will focus
What are you hearing . Reporter this may be moving the market. A roundtable with American Business leaders, current and former chinese fishessals and American Chamber of commerce. Out of the round table there is big differences with the trade relationship with china. One example from the u. S. Side. They say there was no real huge benefit to have this trade relationship with china, having china within the wto. Chinese officials during that roundtable saying no, that is not the case. In fact china, u. S. And world benefited from china being in the wto. Chinese made the case that china entering it benefited everybody. Roundtable officials according to the global times there may be big differences coming up with a trade deal in terms of tariffs you talked about. Global times says chinas precondition to the trade deal would like the trade tariffs rolled back simultaneously. But the negotiators from the u. S. Have not given a positive sons to that our chinese trade sources said china wants
Tariffs rolling back in phases as we go forward. A spokesman for the Chinese Commerce Ministry Says if the deal gets made or gets finalized, this would happen. Here is exactly what he says. I want you to hear this. Listen. Translator if the two sides reach a first phase agreement, the already proposed tariffs will be canceled proportionally. This is important part of agreement. Reporter we heard if. We heard in the last minute that was accurate statement, coming out of u. S. Trade sources here, Senior Administration official saying that is an accurate statement. Chinese sources tell us they have been told about it u. S. That the december 15th tariffs will not be imposed. A trade source on the u. S. Side, says if there is deal finalized they do not expect the december 15th extra tariffs to be imposed Going Forward. Separately both sides say idea of a trade deal pushed into december is not part of discussions at this point. Theyre working with a time frame, apec time frame. To have final