Her meeting with bill tainted that investigation with conflict of interest. Damage control time this friday morning. Big problem for tesla. The feds launch an investigation of a fatality of an accident involving a tesla car being driven on autopilot. That stock will be down today. Lady and gentlemen, my message to america, get out there and drive july the 4th, gas prices the lowest in a decade. Varney company is about to begin. All right, everybody, this is where the dow closed yesterday. 17,929, one week after brexit. Armageddon, you know, the big selloff, it lasted precisely two trading sessions. Were now only 70 points from 18,000 and the dow is actually positive for the year. Thats how we start this friday morning. How about the s p . Yesterday, it closed right there at 2098, it, too, is now positive for the the year despite brexit. The price of oil down a bit. 47. 99. The individual stock story, the culprit story of the day is tesla. And theres a report of a fatal crash for model
Satisfaction in me welcome to squawk alley. Im here with jon fortt, mike san tolli, and scale ventures cofound, and ed, welcome to post 9. To our top story, the major averaging coming off a record day of record highs, the nasdaq its third positive close in a row, the dow is down about 50 points or so on the heels of another bullish by Warren Buffetts berkshire hathaway. Hey there, carl, berkshire has made news again by an apple position. To a total of 9. 8 million shares at this point. Its a vote of confidence, but also a reflection of the new generation of managing money at berkshire, where Warren Buffett for the most part has avoided tech stocks. Now some appear to be wading into that territory. At the same time, and ill make a caveat that these are dated june 30th, and things may have changed, other big investors appear to be more bearish. George soros dissolving a fund, and moore sold out of the name entirely as well. Changing the position by about 75 , while greenlight shaved its
Temporarily. The fire is out under control but we have one lane opened on the bridge which is causing a growing backup for those of you coming out of san rafael trying to get over to the richmondsides side just about two bellham boulevard. Expect a 20 to 25 minute delay for the westbound ride the commute direction yes theres backup here at the toll plaza coming out of richland but its normal not related to the eastbound accident at midspan so this slow down starts at richmond parkway and it will be jammed through the toll plaza and then it picks up. Its crowded on the bay bridge san san mateo bridge james. Thanks. Lets get outside and look at what we are seeing and for that we will jump over to the bay bridge camera. Look at the sunshine coming in and things are brightening. I am viewer photos of the sunrise we will share those at 7 15. And they look pretty good. Heres look at what we expect going forward. Its the clouds and wind that will be with us a little bit throughout the morning
For the national staff. I started in january 1998 one week before the monica story broke. Peter was a White House Reporter covering president clinton. That is how we met. Brian we have some video from 1998. Actually, right after you started. February 6. This is your husband, peter baker, when he worked at the post. The president gets home from his deposition on january 17, having just spent six hours with lawyers from paula jones and going through all this reported sexual encounters with lawyers repeating questions. The one that stuck in his mind was monica lewinsky. He gets home at night and because of betty currie and asks her to come into the office the next day. So they can talk about it. That sunday in the privacy of the white house and they went through his testimony and he tried to see if his memory matched her memory. Prosecutors are very interested in that because her version was somewhat different in that he says i was never out of earshot. He and lewinsky were never essentia
Particularly what the war had been fought for. Remember the war from the , unions point of view Abraham Lincolns point of view was a war of reunion. A war to stamp out recession. Over time, it becomes a war to stamp out slavery. The victory of union armies on the battlefield doesnt, in itself, resolve either one of those issues. That is what we are going to talk about we talk about talk about when we talk about reconstruction. Giving practical meaning to reunion. Think of this as the Humpty Dumpty question. How do you put the union back together after a civil war that lasted four years . The cost may be 750,000 lives in total. How do you put the union back together . That is what we will talk about next time. What i want to talk about today is the second of those two issues that the war raises. The second aim of union policy. In the civil war, their goal of destroying slavery. What is that going to mean . Practically what is freedom , going to mean for 4 million now former slaves in th