Involved with that this bedeviled with two administrations in 2014 with president barack obama who, waded into a great deal of controversy, swapping five taliban, what they call terrorists at time, but taliban lieutenants as they were known at the time for bergdahls release. Bowe bergdahl, the former hostage who pleaded guilt toy to desertion will not be going to prison. Connell mcshane with much more on this and the implications of this. Connell . Reporter jaws dropping to your point. Military judge find that bobo bergdahl should no, no prison time at all for walking off the base. He gave him disHonorable Discharge. Reduced rank to private. He must forfeit pay, 1000 a month for 10 months. It was a guilty plea here. Guilty plea to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He faced, could have, went to prison for life. He faced up to life in prison as a possibility. But, you know the thing is, there was a lot of leeway for this judge. There was no deal with the prosecutors to limit th
Wrestling this down to the ground and theyre outraged. Does this block his agenda. Republicans are raising taxes or want to know illinois. Theres a push for the budget to make the deal. Theres a threat after veto still on the table. Check out market futures. Were going to have an amazing start to the day. Its a half a session, i can tell you right now, were looking back toward the record numbers, by the time the market closes at 1 p. M. You might be happier, you certainly will be in a moment because Varney Company starts right now. Since the signing of the declaration of independence 241 years ago, america always affirmed that liberty comes from our creator. Our rights are given to us by god and no earthly force can ever take those rights away. That is why my administration is transferring power out of washington and returning that power back to where it belongs, to the people. That was a very patriotic message from President Trump over the Holiday Weekend but then, tweeted out this vi
The dow is up 188 points. Most of the sectors are higher. Energy, financials, technology. Stock market is looking pretty good. Not necessarily some tech stocks which have gone to pull back. The dow hitting alltime record high, intraday. Will it close at a record . You better watch for that key number. That would be 21,528 and change. Energy is helped to power the dow as oil has been gaining, 46. 47 the barrel. Chevron, and exxon have been winners. Were seeing those lead the Dow Jones Industrial average. Losses financials which did so well last week on the ideas of bond yields on the rise, look at them again. Leadership has really been the financials for whole month of june. Financials were the best performing group. Theyre kicking off july in the same fashion. Goldman sachs 3 higher. Jpmorgan up 2 1 2 . Looking at the dow jones transportation average, looking at the intraday there, as that too, neil has hit a record high as well. So, some records to note. Netflix moved into the correct
We have a new approach in afghanistan. Neighboring pakistanis on notice, donald trump not happy about terrorist sanctuaries in pakistan. He said we are not leaving, we are going to win. He stayed on script, his tone was measured, he was president ial. After a difficult summer his supporters hope this is a new start. He heads to arizona for an oldstyle rally. The markets, your money, we will open higher with 400 points from the dow record, we had a dip, Morgan Stanley says buy it and evidently some people are. Politics a come back for trump, money, cut back to stocks, maybe, varney and company is about to begin. We are a partner and a friend but we will not dictate to the Afghan People how to live or how to govern their own complex society. We are not nationbuilding again. We are killing terrorists. Stuart you heard it and saw it, the president laid out his new strategy for afghanistan. As a candidate he said he wanted out. As president after sitting in the oval office he concluded we h
Percent yesterday. It has been dragging on indications that the president cited them as being kind of phony. You say youre with us with the war on terror but youve done more than enough to complicate our venture there. President trump is going to phoenix thursday night. The mayor of phoenix said president not to make the trip. A number of protest groups are expected. Those attending and protesting, that the temperature is expected to be north of 100 degrees. Might be a dry heat but it is still hot we have former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich, bestselling author on the side. You were complimentary of the speech, reaganlike, complimentary terms. I wonder after a speech the president can step on headlines or at a Campaign Rally or tweeting something that might take away. So far so good. What do you think . So far, so good because he hasnt done it. It will be fascinating to watch him tonight in yuma, and then in phoenix because he had a great speech last night. I thought it was an his