Talking. Forget mueller, what about making moolah . Voter rates on the economy for this president the highest level weve seen since 2001. That is leading to an uptick in president ial approval. A lot of this, the source of this is improving economy but his overall numbers picked up a little bit. They are lower than where a president should be at this point going into reelection. Not all that much lower. Again the catalyst for that seems to be the economy, by extension what is happening in the markets of late. Not necessarily today for the dow. Well get into that in a second. Real clear Politics White House reporter phil wegmann, the connection between the economy and maybe inching up poll numbers. We always draw the comparisons. It is the economy stupid but this president has not, up until now, up until lately benefited from that. Maybe it is just beginning to hit now, what do you think . Because trump is trump there are always voters uncomfortable with him, but if you look at the poll
Term. He talked about a weakening economy, headwinds developing enough to trigger optimism in the Financial Community that he is going to cut rates at the end of this month. Maybe not by a halfpoint a lot of people saw happening, maybe a quarter point, just in the course of his testimony, one of the fascinating things i discovered there was about 60 probability we would see we could see a cut in rates by end of this month. When it came to halfpoint cut down to 16 . But again the expectation is that a cut is coming. He is he is making the case for such a move. He is not telegraphing additional moves. We want to say on this, give you a flavor what is happening here. Democrats on this committee have been pouncing whether he feels pressure from the president of the United States, that he should essentially do his bidding to cut rates. He has said no, he doesnt think the president can fire him. By the way the president cant fire him or demote him. Leaving that aside he stood very strong on
Intervene in a state matter and say stop the state plea because it is insufficient. Reporter i want to ask you a question about the office of professional responsibility. Earlier this year, it was disclosed that they are doing a review into how you and other prosecutors in your office handled this matter. What is the status of that, what exactly are they looking at, will you submit to an interview even though youre no longer with the Justice Department and if they find any misconduct, will you resign . First, i dont know what the status of that is. I would refer that to the office of professional responsibility. I dont speak for them. I will clearly submit for an interview even though i dont have to. I think what they do is important. The office of professional responsibility will have access to the full record. They will have access to all the facts. They will have access to the fbi reports. Theyll have access to the victim interviews. They can look at this matter in its totality. And
Now boeing is the most expensive stock in the dow, when it cascades, close to 10 bucks a share, disproportionately has a weight on the dow. Accounting for half the loss were seeing in the dow about 135 points. Roughly half of that is just boeing. Meanwhile the Justice Department is ramping up a probe into big tech. Here is what is amazing, the nasdaq is in record territory, it is doing that without the likes of amazon, apple or google. You dont see that very often. Were awaiting a new statement from the the new Prime Minister of britain, Boris Johnson, indicating he will go full speed ahead with the plans to break away from the European Union by hook or crook within the next 60 days. Well see what happens on that front. Deal or no deal he wants out. First to the bob mueller hearing, how lawmakers are looking at a situation is not living up to how it was billed. Hillary vaughn with the latest. Hey, hillary. Reporter neil, the house Judiciary Committee, lawmakers sitting on the Committee
Blake burman, president will meet shortly with the Prime Minister of pakistan amid talk out of pakistan. They took to twitter pushing back on iranian claims that they have detained 17, spies that were recruited by cia. This announcement came via Iranian State television, that some of those 17 had already received death sentences. President went to twitter to say not so. He called the iranian claims quote, totally false. He also said there was quote, zero truth to it. Now the secretary of state mike pompeo as you know was once cia director before he moved over to foggy bottom. He was interviewed on fox friends earlier this morning. He pushed back as well against those iranian claims. Watch. Cant add much to it specifically, having had a chance to lead that Great Organization the Central Intelligence agency. I would urge everyone reading that story waking up that the Iranian Regime has a long history of lying. That is part of the nature of the ayatollah to lie to the world. I would take