Eamon, its jon fortt by my account its been about a week since the last gasp of real partisan that i saw when mcconnell and mccarthy were talking about the house bill calling it an ideological wish list and what not. I think the lawmakers pretty quickly started getting on the same page and getting too a different posture, but from where you sit at this point, is it clear where there might be any types of divides around what types of measures congress is willing to take . I know that payroll tax cut was on the table for a bit and then off the table, but beyond that, are there areas where democrats and republicans clearly differ at this point . You know, its unclear right now. You saw Chuck Schumer out earlier today and yesterday saying that what democrats want is a real focus on the workers, if theres going to be bailouts we want to make sure the focus here is on labor and the workers, the people who might get hurt and not just bailouts that would benefit executives. I think theres a sp
Eamon javers joins us this morning with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carl. Its oddly quiet here at the white house today. We dont see Senior Administration officials out here defending the president or making arguments we dont see any events scheduled with the president publicly, other than his departure later on this afternoon. Nonetheless, the president has been venting some of his frustration that we saw boil over in that letter to nancy pelosi yesterday and continues in tweets this morning the president saying can you believe that ill be impeached today by the radical left do nothing democrats and i did nothing wrong. A terrible thing read the transcripts this should never happen to another president again. Say a prayer and, carl, having covered the last impeachment, so far today this day feels very different than the day on which the president president bill clinton was impeached back in the late 1990s on that day, there was a real sense of uncertainty about wh
Space, berkshire results and the letter tonight and tomorrow. Europe is pretty mixed in the tenyear below 289 begins with stock futurer pointing to a better open. Investors continue to digest the potential impact of higher inflations and rates on equities, three weeks since the selloff began. General mills bets on pets. The cereal maker agreeing to buy natural pelt food company blue for a billion dollars. And on the heels of historic tax reform, turbotax maker intuit delivering but weaker than expected guidance ceo joins us exclusively later this hour. Stocks are poised to open higher, three major indices on pace for third negative week in four First Time Since november of 2006 the nas ended in the red. S p and the dow about 6 below alltime high. After another session which couldnt hold the interday highs. It has happened four days in a row. I think theres scepticism of investors being willing to wade back the flow of shows as of the weekending february 21st still major outflows of dom
Our own tenyear back to 220 we begin with riding the record run on wall street futures point to moderately lower open plus, dinner and a deal or no deal conflicting reports on an immigration agreement after President Trump dines with Democratic Leaders schumer and pelosi. Equifax blaming vulnerable web data, down 30 in the past week after another recordsetting day for stocks, the dow is on track for best Weekly Performance as we have two more sessions together again. Were kind of running out of catalysts. I got up and said, lets check the research its like, wow, okay, i see theres a note out about Tenet Health Care and whether thats going to be able to get anybody to buy it. And then i see a couple of notes about a couple of obscure companies that are too small to talk about emerson having good orders im saying, wow, im going to have some of your granola. That, theres a little sell side maybe theres something on coors out of jeffries, a lot of microcorporate incremental news. What i wa
New iphones go on sale as the stock feels pressured this morning. Plus, geopolitics over the market, north korea leader is say hell test a Hydrogen Bomb over the pacific. First up, though, stocks are looking to regain momentum after the dow snapped a nineday winning streak and hit an interday high early in thursdays market. War of words between the president and kim jongun. We had the sanctions yesterday of the u. S. And china and now a threat over the pacific. The escalation is notable this week, michelle. Journalists know that the statement of kim jongun came from him directly. Usually north korean media, et cetera an escalation certainly but still not that much response i mean, considering what donald trump, the president said on the floor of the u. N. General assembly on tuesday, not a huge reaction yet over the concerns markets are putting it in that file that says, its been going on for decades maybe an incremental escalation and theres no clear path to handicapping where this go