Lunch begins right now. Im melissa lee coming to you from miami it is the tech event of the americas with us on the show today forget walking into a bank, this company is completely disrupting the way consumers now get loans, instant loans. The ceo of green sky is with us. Plus our exclusive with the ceo of sprint. Well weigh in on merger speculation with tmobile. And personal final guru suze orman will be along as well. Lets take a look at the markets this hour. The nasdaq continues to be the story today. Right now the techheavy index is down about a full percent doing the worst of all three major averages apple is a big reason why. The biggest, down more than a percent more than the next weakest sfok, united health. The stock getting another downgrade today, the second in a week for unh netflix, microsoft among the big tech laggards on the day ge investors making more than 3. 5 today this, of course, after Ceo Jeff Immelt announced he will be stepping down after 16 years at the helm
Work. I have been dragged down in the where we met with the oecd and wto both and the message was similar to wilburs. Deficits do matter and are they coming down . I know they are. Mr. President , thank you for the opportunity to serve in sb a. I can tell you i have not been traveling internationally. What i continue to hear optimism for Small Businesses higher than it has been in 16 years. People returning to the workforce, a lot of them are because Small Businesses are creating new jobs. Portfolios are up. Machine toring and our outreach with score and other programs are so successful. Were on a good trajectory, and still a lot of work to do. Thank you. On behalf of the entire senior staff around you, mr. President , we thank you for the opportunity and blessing you have given us to serve your agenda and the American People. Well continue to work very hard every day to accomplish those goals. Honor to serve the cia director. Incredible to lead and men and women to lead the National S
His defense team. Lets start with that breaking news about another high profile, high stakes congressional hearing. Tomorrow afternoon, 2 30 eastern time, jeff session also appear before the Senate Intelligence committee. Hes expected to respond to the gripping testimony of former fbi director james comey last thursday before that same committee. Sessions will have to field questions about his contacts with the Russian Ambassador and what he might know about the events that led up to President Trump firing director comey. Garrick, tell us a little more about the sort of questions sessions can expect tomorrow. Reporter i think thats questions for Jeff Sessions are going to fall into three broad categories. The hardest will come from the democrats who have been very much waiting for this opportunity ever since Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing and the aftermath and we learned about these two meetings that they have confirmed hes had with russias ambassador. Well hear questions about tho
This is another important decision. People have to understand that the ninth circuit really is where the battle began with respect to the travel ban. And the president issued this ban which is now the second travel ban in an attempt to come up with something that was constitutionally sound and that would have a better chance of being upheld ultimately by the u. S. Supreme court. So this will now be the ninth circuits look at the second travel ban and ruling on its constitutionality. The initial problems that they criticize criticized in the first travel ban been resolved and fixed by the changes in the second executive order. And so laura, this is an important decision. The assumption a lot of people assume the ninth circuit are more liberal jurisdiction out there, probably a going to do what the Fourth Circuit did but we dont know yet. We dont know yet. Its already before the court supreme. Jeff sessions and the department of justice did not wait for the ruling as is customary before