us. we are out of time for that segment. i want to quickly get to breaking news on wall street where stocks are trying to bounce back after another gut wrenching plunge in the market basically. check out the big board there. the dow up 174 points. cnbc s seema moody has been following this. as we ve been having the conversation politically about donald trump, his presidency, his administration, obviously the white house says this is market turbulence, believe long-term fundamentals of the economy are strong. what are you seeing from your vantage point on wall street? well, hallie, i can tell you that there is a heated debate taking place here on the floor of the new york stock exchange on the concerns over a growing def s deficit following the passage of that deal. some traders expressing concern on the economy, overheating and inflation running up way too fast. keep in mind consumer prices are still relatively low, but a lot of economists are looking three to six months out and sayi
renamed the big board there. let s go to the first question, this is a really good question from bobby jones on facebook earlier today. he asked if the elt, the emergency locater transmitter activated by submersion in water, has not been located, why are they searching? that is a really good question. the tracks, one to the north and south, the thought process is a lot of the governments say they have pretty strong radar and there is a pretty good chance they would have seen the return from the triple 7. ergo, let s look on the southern corridor. and that is why i think the search has been and remember, the elts don t transmit from the water, so if they re submerged, they re not going to get us signals at all. and where would you get the signal? from the black orange box? those days are running out, they have a 30-day max.
renamed the big board there. let s go to the first question, this is a really good question from bobby jones on facebook earlier today. he asked if the elt, the emergency locater transmitter activated by submersion in water, has not been located, why are they searching? that is a really good question. the tracks, one to the north and south, the thought process is a lot of the governments say they have pretty strong radar and there is a pretty good chance they would have seen the return from the triple 7. ergo, let s look on the southern corridor. and that is why i think the search has been and remember, the elts don t transmit from the water, so if they re submerged, they re not going to get us signals at all. and where would you get the signal? from the black orange box? those days are running out, they have a 30-day max.
those governments is on the positive side of the ledger for him and for his role as president of the united states. mitt romney, you know, where will he come down on this as opposed to what we re hearing now from president bush do you think? well as president bush bush said, we don t get to start these movements and we don t get to stop them. if you look at president obama s record in the case of egypt in particular during the 30 to 35 days between when the demonstrations started and mubarak stepped aside the administration had four different positions what they wanted mubarak to do. that kind of inconsistency hurts the united states worse than anything at all. then nobody knows where we stand and our ability to influence events is really reduced. martha: ambassador bolton, interesting. good to have you here today. thanks very much. thank you. bill: markets trading eight minutes down on wall street. check out the big board there. better numbers for the housing sector came out a bit
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