Lawn. Im Melissa Francis in new york. This is after the bell. Hey, connell. Connell im connell mcshane, reporting live at this hour the state of pennsylvania. Start of after the bell series on swing state economies. We have three states in three days. Heading to michigan tomorrow, wisconsin on wednesday. These states helped put President Trump in the white house. Their economies may very well decide if he stays there, when America Votes this week, next year. Our host is from a company in chesser county. They specialize in automation. You will hear about later on in the hour. We begin with the records melissa talking about in the markets. Jackie deangelis on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Jackie. Reporter connell, records across the board. Market locked in gains with the dow up 115 point like at the settle. Three things traders are talking about. Positive earnings adding to the momentum. Optimism on trade, certainly a factor out there. Also some residual excitement about the
alliance among them. at one point, a fight almost broke out on the house floor, but perhaps the most telling moment came at the very end. on his way out of the capital, at around two a.m. after finally taking his oath of office as speaker, mccarthy stopped to talk to reporters to give special thanks to a special someone. i do especially think president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning, somebody wrote that out of what he was there, and he was all in. he was all in. kevin mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump s house. built on the backs of trump s republican acolytes whose jobs depend on the support of donald trump s own base. but dynamics that were on display during a four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in the six months since. the chaos caucus republicans, many of whom are trump loyalists and some of whom participated in the attempt to deny mccarthy the speakership, brought the cou
that mortality rates in his second aren t that high if you exclude black women. i want to know, what s the hell. plus, new pentagon policy allows service members to request a transfer if they feel discriminated by gop state laws. i will talk to an army sergeant who transition it while in the service, about what this means for fighting forces. all that and much more is coming up. and a good sunday morning to you. i am katie fang. we begin this morning by going down to georgia, where this re-week will get a look at how republican in that state feel about donald trump s big lie. over the last four years we will see don terms fixation with the peach state. especially after refused to go along with trump s lie about the 2020 election results. of, course some say the trumps of frustrations played into the state electing two democratic senators. there is a razor thin majority in the u.s. senate. now, trump is going full throttle to replace the two men who stood up to. him endors
Suspects nabbed in varsity blues include other parents standardized test administrators and high paid test cheaters. Reporter operation varsity blues, bust of this International College admission scheme involving bribery, fake tests and fake athletic prowess, dozens of people, from College Coaches to hollywood actresses, parents, exam administrators have been arrested facing various charges for their involvement in this conspiracy aimed to help students gain admission to elite institutions, yale, georgetown, wake forest, university of southern california. The institutions did not know about this scam. Stanford announced termination of their head sailing coach today. University of texas placed a coach on administrative leave. There are some 50 defendants named including ten current or former ceos, a fashion designer, a wine maker, perhaps the most recognizable faces, two actresses, lori louglin and Felicity Huffman. At the center of this scam was william rick singer, 58 of newport beach
republicans are praising the decisions to send these cluster munitions. several democrats have come out against it, including air force veteran representative christie houlihan, who says that while quote, a victory for ukraine is essential for democracies across the globe, that shouldn t come at the expense of our american values and thus, democracy itself, and it is a quote. we should not quote, employ the same tactics russia is using, blurring the lines of moral high ground, end quote. president biden says while the discussion was difficult, sending cluster bombs to ukraine is needed to prevent ukraine from running out of ammunition, which, as we saw in the last segment before the break, it s a very real fear of the war grinds on. today is the 500th day of russia s full-fledged invasion, which putin plant would take about three days before he could capture kyiv, the capital. overnight, eight civilians were killed and scores more wounded in the russian strike on the city of lyman, whi