Today, without question, on washington. Jonathan absolutely, and the response from washington both inefficient and insufficient with the president and a series of executive orders painting the democrats into a corner. They dont want to be seen challenging this legally. They need to find a way to get back to the negotiating table fast. Tom the executive order and the news out of hong kong as well. He didnt have time to get to it with kevin cirilli, but we may have a Vice President ial candidate today . Jonathan it has to happen at some point this week and the readthrough for this market will be interesting. Many people think this will be the next candidate for the presidency because the former Vice President will be a oneterm president if he even wins in november. Everybody will start reading into the vp pick. Itching to sayre this man is a trojan horse for the radical left. The cbs poll shows things tightening up a little bit off of democratic enthusiasm. Paper, theitmus system of Fore
Month amid tighter capital controls. Stronger chinese currency and resilient economic growth. Betty looks like were starting the second week in january on a pretty strong note after the jobs report on friday. Great story on the bloomberg talking about the early days in january, how that might indicate markets later in the year, about two thirds of the time the first few days in january are usually deposited pretty positive in the u. S. Market. In 1987, we had the strongest january start to the markets, and you know what happened in 1987. Dark days. I dont know if that is any indication. Yvonne and its a big week when it comes to data from the jobs report, which was a bit of a dud. Inflation seems to be the new jobs report that all of the bond markets and traders are looking at. If we do see this pickup in inflation, what is that going to mean for equity markets . Will we continue the goldilocks scenario as we have been talking about for 2017, that will be key. Betty that goldilocks sce
Cookbook. Stephanie what a way to start off with a great show and eriks haircut. Erik the top business stories of the day. General electric getting back to its roots. Sawing off the bulk of its finance unit to refocus on the industrial businesses. Ge will sell almost 27 billion dollars of real estate assets and most of it is going to blackstone. Some going to wells fargo. Ge announced the Share Buyback of about 50 billion which would tie apple for the largest of all time. The ceo spoke on a Conference Call earlier. This is an excellent time to sell financial assets. We think the performance in the Australian Consumer value demonstrated our platforms may be worth more outside the company. Erik ge shares up a. 7 five quarters a. 7 a. 75 . If you have not bought the computer for a while, you are not alone. According to Market Research more consumers are turning to smartphones and tablets when they went to go online. Corporate spending helped slow declines and the cycles will be over. Hill
Congress forces a russia sanctions bill to his desk. My guess is hell make a decision shortly. And a bill coming this week but what bill . Were going to vote to repeal and replace obamacare. The question is not a question of if, its when. Jared kushner, live pictures of him leaving his hole. In one hour from now p the president s soninlaw will be sitting down with staff of the Senate Intelligence committee. But first he is going public with his defense releasing a statement that insists he did not collude with the russians and he opportunity know anybody who did. I have the best team to break it down starting with Garrett Haake on the hill. Jared kushner put out an official statement before going into this closed door meeting. What are the key bullet points . Reporter the key point here is that kushner ends with the statement that he did not chud with russia in any way. He lays town a marker in bold print. We can read to you from end of the statement. Its kind of important. He says, i
Does it seem like chris hasnt started a little early this year . Dean martins daughter has some choice words for those who are messing with her dad classic, baby its cold outside, in the name of me to. Thats later in the show. Before we get to that, there is no doubt about it, folks. They are burning the midnight oil at the capital tonight read tomorrow is a big day for both sides in this impeachment battle and tonight, speaker pelosis railing her troops in the basement of the capital. Republicans on the committee are holding mock sessions where adam schiff is in preparation for the big moment in the spotlight. They are here tonight with our analysis and we began with fred. Thank you. Good to see you tonight. We have said you believe in all of this process, when you go back to the root of it, the whistleblower and his motivation andy lee spoke with are indeed relevant and that you must open lee testified. Is that correct . Thats correct. I think the American People expect a process tha