Minute, people the state of new york versus donald j. Trump started The Main Event Opening Statement hey, miss, youre looking at my picture in downtown new york. The courthouse and you hadnt soon the judge will gavel in and cmt the jury for the first ever prosecution of a former United States president. Minutes ago, we watched trump walk into court after his motorcade arrived at 100 centre street. We expect him to stop for the cameras and talk before heading inside get up in the judge and the jury prosecutors will chart a roadmap of what they intend to prove, how they say the former president helm, the scheme to buried the details of a sexual encounter with adult film actress. In the final month, the 2016 campaign remainders cooper, new york, youre watching Cnn Special Live Coverage of donald trump Hush Money Trial. And im jake tapper in washington today, a Courtroom Collision Filled with history shattering precedent, and a Stock Possibility that one of the two major candidates for pre
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As we speak. First, we start off with breaking news on alphabet. The Parent Company of google lets get to josh lipton for all the details. Reporter melissa, big breaking news here on alphabet which is just now announcing that as of its next regular board meeting, eric schmidt will be transitioning hell be stepping down from his position as alphabets executive chairman, instead becoming what is described here as a technical adviser to the company importantly, he will continue to serve on the board schmidt saying here in a statement, melissa, in recent years ive been spending a lot of time my time on science and Technology Issues and philanthropy and i plan to expand that work. Of course back in 2001, googles founders brought in schmidt to help scale the business, a company that now does more than 75 billion a year in annual revenue. Schmidt himself worth an estimated 14 billion. Im told this transition has been talked about for about a year it will be interesting to see who now steps in
For the s p 500, it was its 13th record finish in just 17 trading days so far. Earnings helped drive the blue chip index as some of the worlds biggest Global Companies easily beat profit expectations. They also said things are looking fourp the rhett of the year. At one point today more than 30 of all of the 30 dow components from at alltime highs. Here are the closing numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial average advanced 140 points to 26,392. Nasdaq fell nearly four, though. But the s p 500 rose by about two. Once again, the dollar came into play, adding some volatility to the trading day. Now yesterday we told but the dollars impact on the stock market after the u. S. Treasury secretary said a weak Dollar Benefits u. S. Trade. Today, other officials chimed in, including president trump. Heres steve liesman. Reporter it was a wild ride for the dollar today sent falling and then flying by comments first from a european officials and then from the president of the united states. European C
News of more pipeline and refinery disruptions are all in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey now reports of more storms brewing. Well break down the impact on energy prices. And explosion and fire at a Chemical Plant in texas. Were live on the scene with the impact. Scary stuff trying to figure out if its toxic or not we bring with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin picking up President Trumps baton who spoke to our Steve Liesman earlier with hoy lights of that conversation. Thank you very much u. S. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin sitting down exclusively with cnbc saying the detailed plan cometh despite criticism that President Trump was promoting a plan without detail. Mnuchin says there is a plan, and it will be released within the next few weeks. Originally our goal had been august unfortunately, things got delayed a bit, but were on a track to get this done by the end of the year, so youre going to see the details come out later this month its going to go through a committee proces