His way out the door, the donald may drawdown or outright end the u. S. Wars in afghanistan and iraq. That, that hit the washington d. C. Where it hurts the most right between its military Industrial Complex legs. In fact, the hill is now reporting that acting defense secretary, Christopher Miller announced on tuesday that President Trump has ordered the pentagon. The pole 2500 u. S. Troops from afghanistan, iraq by mid january. And that the Defense Department will cut the number of troops in that ghana stand from 452500. The number of forces in iraq from 322505 january 15th, just 5 days before joe biden would get sworn in. Naturally cries of National Security dominated the airwaves in response to this news. Yes, it was an all out political news media blitz to convince you that somehow removing us troops and bringing them home from war are now multigenerational wars. That somehow puts them in more danger than being in a never ending war. But that wasnt the only bad news for the pentago
Gdp to be negative this the First Quarter of 2021. It is friday before a holiday week 59 minutes left in the session down a quarter of a percent on the s p 500. No gobbledy gook coming up for the next two hours here either. Coming up on this show, instead we are going to dive into the latest on the coronavirus and pfizers push to get emergency use authorization for its vaccine with the fda commissioner and pfizer board member dr. Scott gottlieb. Plus, new york city shutting st. Louis down the head of the Teachers Union in new york will be here to weigh in. Lets check on futures mike santoli tracking the margaret as always meg tirrell with the latest on pfizers vaccine and bertha comes has the latest on what President Trump just announced. Mike santoli, lets start with you. Not disturbed so far by the news last night about the treasury pulling the funds from the fed. If you look at the pattern here, it is about a flat week as well. Trading just below the highs we hit on monday. Before t
Pentagon to pull 2500 u. S. Troops from afghanistan, iraq, by mid january. And that the Defense Department will cut the number of troops in afghanistan from 452500, the number of forces in iraq from 322505 january 15th, just 5 days before joe biden would get sworn in. Naturally cries of National Security dominated the airwaves in response to this news. Yes, it was an all out political news media blitz to convince you that somehow removing us troops and bringing them home from war are now multigenerational wars. That somehow puts them in more danger than being in a never ending war. But that wasnt the only bad news for the pentagon this week, as it appears once again. They just cant seem to get the old books right. Reuters is now reporting that the pentagon failed, failed its comprehensive audit in fiscal 2 the and fiscal year 2020. Thats the 3rd year. The pentagon has failed since the 1st audit was conducted back in 2018. But apparently my friends there misuse and disregard for keeping
Greeting since us President Donald Trump dast it could double stating laws to former Vice President joe biden, all the way back on what feels like ages ago. November 3rd, our brand name in chief has been running a sort of scorched earth transition policy from outright denying his defeat in a half brained attempt to muddy the upcoming Electoral College vote in the summer for team to his randomly on purpose. Firings of pentagon and Homeland Security officials who just happen to disagree with them about the election. Trumpets, how the news media isnt political punditry for outrage, machine running on full time minutes on a full tank of gas 27. 00 ratings, clicks and pearl clutching was galore. But it wasnt until recent reports that on his way out the door, the donald may drawdown or outright end the u. S. Wars in afghanistan and iraq. That, that hit the washington d. C. Where it hurts the most right between its military Industrial Complex legs. In fact, the hill is now reporting that acti
Democratic politicians, examples how theyre breaking their own lockdowns. Americans lockdowns forethee, parties and trips for me. You will not believe who else is on the game. People and now more sheriffs pushing back on states from coast to coast breaking up basically the cities and states are breaking up large gatherings to stop covid19 from spreading but now sheriffs in four states are refusing to enforce these rules, including breaking up thanksgiving dinner parties under extreme covid19 lockdown measures that number of sheriffs doing that, the number of states where that is happening, that could grow. Also this, there is new hope. Pfizer says its vaccine is now more effective than realized. Maybe raising hopes of a vaccine in december. One top democrat governor is tossing cold water on that, and tossing cold water on the Trump Administrations operation warp speed coming to market. The fbi is launching a new counterintelligence probe into china nearly every 10 hours for replicating