public might respond. democrats know they need broad public support to make the case for removing donald trump from the presidency. and as they prepare for that, they re using new language, more directly, to more directly describe what they say the president did. no more quid pro quo and instead they re calling it extortion. the first witnesses they re call rg the top diplomat to ukraine, bill taylor and senior state department official george kent. they testify on wednesday. ousted ukraine ambassador marie yovanovich will follow on friday. they all already testified behind closed doors. each has detailed how career diplomats were sidelined so the president s personal attorney could pursue a shadow agenda against mr. trump s political rivals. there will be new information. i suspect most of the public has not read the released transcripts. and what they re going to hear is they are going to hear immensely patriotic, beautifully
street. stocks retreating after yesterday s more than 100-point rise. surprise drop in new home sales is dragging down sentiment. sales fell to a record low in february. the dow off 29 points. that s off the earlier lows though. nasdaq composite is off half of 1%. felicia, appreciate it. thank you. time for your top of the hour reset. i m tony harris in the cnn newsroom. it is noon in washington where african-american leaders are saying it s time for obama to focus attention on jobs. in saudi arabia, dozens of people are arrested in plots targeting oil installations and police. and it is 9:00 in the vegas burb where we wondered does health care reform look different now now that it s law? unemployment and jobs, jobs are a major focus of the national urban league s annual report. the group is call rg to action to put african-americans and the rest of america back to work. what s important now is for the nation to embrace the idea