Lynch. Thats a mouthful, they are under the same umbrella. Talking about the money pouring into the market. Individual money in the latest week, a record 33. 2 billion in the stockbased funds. That is through wednesday. I guess they do it that way. To put that in perspective, stepping back, 278 billion for all of 2017. If you were to maintain that pace and it were to continue to go at that frenetic pace, the gist of the merrill report is things would be looking frothy. Now theyve been saying that for many years, you could go back to a few years into the bull market that celebrates its nineyear anniversary in march. But among some of the things out there, and a big disappointment for me was starbucks. They were very high at holiday sales and a lot of that had to do with dismissing the pumpkin latte. [ laughter ] moving the peppermint latte to the front of the line, and i warned the baristas here, locally, i said youre giving up the cash cow, they said what do you want . And that was it.
Ahead. The president s latest threat to use his power to get involved with the Justice Department. News is breaking now. Lets get to it. From washington. Rarely have we had so many to report on different fronts from the white house. First, President Trumps lawyer, rudy guliani giving details of what he thinks a facetoface meeting with the president and Robert Mueller would look like and sound like. The former new york city mayor told robert costa this afternoon and john roberts just confirmed, he would want the interview to be a maximum of two to three hour and around a narrow set of questions. Not as broad as the 49 question list that somebody floated two nights ago. He made those comments after fox news confirmed that the white house later that ty cobb is leaving. He will no longer deal with the russia investigation. Officially, hes retiring at the end of the month. Theres more reporting to be done on this. In his place, emmett flood, an attorney that represented president bill clint
Lets get you updated. Talked to rudy guliani at length on the telephone. Hes the president s lead outside counsel. They still have not decided whether the president will sit down for an interview with the special counsel, robert mueller. Guliani told me one thing, it wont be to sit there for hours and hours, maybe 10 or 12 hours answering 49 or 52 questions that mueller wants to ask. Listen to what guliani told me a short time ago. My position is not determined yet. I keep an open mind. Weve had a very good interchange with the special counsel. I did work there many years. I respect them. And what im concerned about, are they objective about the president s interview. Meaning do they have an open mind to the fact that he could be telling the truth and comey could be lying. If they have an open mind of that, then this is something we would consider. If they dont, given all of the irregularities in this investigation, we would be foolish to have him be interviewed. Guliani saying if the