Today. Certainly peppered with questions about the president s meeting tomorrow with students from parkland high school, and, of course, his thoughts on strengthening gun laws in america, something the gop and the president are seemingly open to changing gun laws in this country. Also, the issue of russian meddling in the 2016 election. The mueller investigation. Those issues are likely to come up with the press corps. Were going to take you there as soon as sanders takes to that microphone. Were going to leave both of the shots up on the screen. I would like to say hello to you. Im Cheryl Casone in for liz claman today. You know, the long Holiday Weekend not enough to erase investor fears over the issue of the month. The rising Interest Rates, the yield at 2. 9 this morning. Stocks mixed right now. The dow at lows of the session, barely off of them now, 228. 241 was the low a couple of seconds ago. We are on track for the dow to snap the sixday winning streak at the close. Another vol
Three men and a woman believed to be members of the puerto rican nationalist gang in november 1950 its up to the assassination of president truman opened fire from the visitors gallery of the house of representatives. Five congressmen were hit. Clifford davis of tennessee, Kenneth Roberts of alabama on it george allen of maryland, Robert Bentley at michigan who was seriously injured. The gun wielders of the able to station of having perpetrated a criminal outrage almost unique in americas history. It was one of the most violent acts that happened in there were debates right after that that you cannot let this happen again. We need to wall off the visitors gallery with bulletproof glass so this could never happen again. The more the members talked about that and thought about it, they said it was a bad idea. This is the peoples house, and the people cannot be walled off from what is going on there. The Capital Building is a symbol. That makes it a target. Dimension the british building
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[laughter] john, do you think you could do it slightly less than 50 million . I think would take 49 off right now, and he would have plenty of profit, right john . Its crazy. Its crazy. [applause] never understand it but, were working on it. John says that a tax cut like were proposing will make his business more competitive, allowing him to expand, hire more workers and raise wages for his current employees. Right, john . Also with us is aaron williams, a father of two, who works in the field of information technology. Where is aaron . Hello, aaron. Hi. [applause] its a good field. Aaron is seen disasterous effects of high, just literally high Corporate Tax rates, right up close and personal as more and more hightech jobs are shipped overseas. Youve been watching it, aaron, right . All over. Like millions of other americans, aaron wants to bring those jobs back to the United States. Were going to reduce the tax rate on american businesses so they can keep the jobs in america, aaron. C
Far enough offering incentives for growth. Some republicans are arguing over one key proposal. The very latest from washington. The president just speaking on the white house lawn about a lot of issues, in particular the future of his health and hewlettpackard Services Secretary dr. Tom price who has been under fire for taking private planes. The president saying, he will make a decision this very night. Among our guests this hour, steve forbes, Grover Norquist, mike huckabee, former ambassador john bolton. Cheryl get back to these markets. Look you got to take it with the dow ending higher for 8th straight quarter, longest win being streak in 20 years, folks. Another record for s p 500 and nasdaq. Nicole petallides watching action trot floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole, to you first. Nice to see wins for major average. Absolutely. It has been happening since november, since the election. As you noted the run were seeing for the dow, for example, with the eight quarters, we