guy on the screen. president biden set to sign the inflation reduction act as it s called into law in just about 30 minutes from now. a huge $750 bill on taxes, climate, health care, we ll take you live to the white house. we ll also take you live out west and to the northwest. the very northwest with the final hours of voting in key primaries happening now in wyoming and alaska. our team out with voters and candidates including one in the fight for her political life. i m hallie jackson in washington. we begin this afternoon with nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. washington post investigations reporter jacqueline aalamani and chuck rosenberg. good to see all of you. let me do something a little different. there s new reporting out from the new york times here in the last few minutes that two of of the top trump white house lawyers have been interviewed by the fbi in relation to handling the documents that may have been taken from the white
The Semiconductor Index is catching my eye. Up 6 10 of 1 . The story is told much better when we look at the individual movers. Intel is down more than 2 , based on a story that researchers have found vulnerabilities in their chips. That vulnerability has not necessarily been found. Advanced micro devices and macron, they are some of the smaller rivals getting a boost. The best performer today is based on a Goldman Sachs report that financials will continue to outperform in 2018, based on tax reform. Some of their favorites are bank of america, a big outperform are here at 2 . Lets go to the chart. Continuing. 2017 is highs, inof record the s p 500 index, coupled with record lows in the volatility index. Has a nine print. Volatility nowhere. Julia lets go to the bloomberg first word news with Mark Crumpton. Says chainrump migration provides a gateway for terrorists. Today as hecomment sat down with republican senators, to discuss future immigration policies. Hundreds of thousands broug
Afghanistan, in bringing almost all of our troops home, to strengthening our security through tough and principled diplomacy. But i consider no challenge poses a greater threat to our future, to future generations, than a changing climate. Joining he is Gina Mccarthy, the head of the Environmental Protection agency, which proposed this regulation. I am very pleased to have you at the table. Ms. Mccarthy good to be here. Charlie tell me what this means to this president , because you what he hoped to achieve becoming president , and as it winds down in the last quarter, there were certain things that he wanted to make sure he got done. This is not complete yet. Ms. Mccarthy we did finalize it. Not completeit is in terms of the opposition. Ms. Mccarthy that is for sure. Charlie talk about how he feels, because he talks about unimaginability. Ms. Mccarthy we have had conversations about it, and, in fact, the day he asked the if i would become the next administration of the da, i asked if
Conversation that he had with russias ambassador would likely be heard by u. S. Intelligence agencies. We will talk about the Senate Hearing taking place tomorrow. Crime has dropped on muni trains. Robberies have increased on the bart trains. Christian kafton will have more. First, rosemary is front and center with the big weekend forecast. We complained that it was cold yesterday but this morning it was chilly. It was chilly. A nice turn around. Today will be a pretty day. Yesterday turned out to be nice. The winds werent as strong as anticipated and the National Weather Service Canceled the wind advisory. A look into areas over san jose, we are starting out with partly sunny skies. Partly cloudy, mostly clear for the afternoon and these clouds associated with the system that we were talking about yesterday. Here is another look at another partly sunny start over mount diablo. 50 in San Francisco. Oakland 55. Livermore 49 san jose 51. Temperatures are about where we started yesterday,
Anna this is this is bloomberg. Bloomberg daybreak europe. Manus there is one market in the world that is not have a good friday fielding, and it is does not have a grid friday feeling, and it is the brazilian real. There is chaos in the markets. We thought we would try but put this in context for you. There was a close on dollarreal. If you want to understand volatility, it is down to the real. It has trumped the peso. This is the peso in yellow. It was a walk in the park, because what you have in the brazilian real, volatility is ratcheting up to 22 . Stocks are in a tailspin, country risk is in a tailspin, but that rise in the real. What happens next from tehran . That is the debate. Anna we have plenty of politics to talk about. Is earlyis downgrading in stocks. We have a great story on the bloomberg talking about those investors who feel brave enough that this is the time to buy some of those brazilian assets. We will talk about that during the program. On at the risk radar, lets