Has ordered china to close one of its most important consulates in the United States you see it there in the video the fires burning are apparently the folks there in the embassy burning some of their personal papers the chinese consulate in Houston Texas is shut down and china is responding with an apparent ultimatum already wow this shutdown of the consulate is only the latest sign in a growing trend of countries being punished by the u. S. State department in fact its not just china. As of this writing the United States has a whopping 7967. 00 sanctions in place 7967. 00 sanctions its a somewhat bizarre and almost astonishing list that includes not just countries but even individuals. People stores Small Companies and tire corporations governments types of governments even branches of governments the usual suspects of course on the sanctions list are countries like iran and north korea russia venezuela turkey on and off and now the biggest target of all china but then there are the
Election interference case. Stand by for new details on what meadows reportedly told the Special Counsel and a grand jury about Donald Trumps 2020 election claims. Also breaking, intense talks aimed at freeing more hostages abducted by hamas. While a newly released captive opens up about the, quote, hell she went through as the israel hamas war rages. The idf now says its naval foforce s clashed with hamas divers at sea. The House Speaker crisis deepens with the latest gop nominee for the job dropping out only hours after being chosen. Is there any republican who can pass muster in that very divided caucus . As farright lawmakers and donald trump are flexing their muscle. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn Breaking News. Lets get straight to the Breaking News tonight. The former Trump White House Chief Of Staff, mark meadows, reportedly offering damning testimony against the former president t
Agriculture industry and rural economy. Well bring you his speech that will begin in just moments. We have full coverage and analysis from our panel this whole hour. Dan henninger. Liz peek from fiscal times. Gop strategist, ned ryun, town halls guy benson. David we used all our brown any points to get a guests like that. Dow is showing just shy of a record but longer term moves are looking good. Nicole petallides on floor of the new york stock exchange. It is sad, nicole, so go january pose the year of first five days are not bad, right. We had one record after another. Only the Dow Jones Industrial average pulled back ever so slightly at 14 points. Dow, nasdaq, s p, russell, transportation average hit record highs today. As you noted so goes january. Dow and s p up 2 . Nasdaq is up 3. 7 right now. Great start for a few days in. Of course dow 25,000 was a lot of fun. Optimism from the tax overhaul. You can see technology, a group that did so well in 2017 continues to flourish here. In
Better than 5 . Europe this morning declines across the board. Things are off of the lowest bft 100 hitting the lowest level in a year earlier down almost 2 right now. The cac down 1. 8 in the dax in germany down 120 as well. Collective futures because this is where we see a little bit of a bounce. The dow was down 200. Dow industrials 1057 points. S p and nasdaq is positive. And the nasdaq up right now with 31 points up one half of 1 . We been on the market turmoil yesterday. We couldnt be more proud of the fact. The market is increased by thousands of points since election day of 2016. But todays selloff represents the oven flow of our stock markets. We recognize that. The most important numbers to focus on are the fundamentals. Maria the latest as the white house is resident travis focused on fundamentals which remain exceptionally strong. Turmoil comes as investors are eyeing fundamentals. Fourthquarter earnings before the bell this morning. Well bring you those numbers are the sto
He is now in Critical Condition. The president calling this a brutal assault. What we know about the suspect and his motive behind the attack among our guest this hour, they were on the field during the impact. We have dan and tom the leg. The dow is closing a new record high for the second straight day. It wasnt a given. After Janet Yellens remark it sent stock to session lows. Oil tumbled to a seven month low we are watching that action but first to nicole on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole, what did janet yellen say that spooked the market. She basically is saying look, there could be further rate hikes. I think some people started to run wonder about the hikes after they got tepid Economic News and recently, overall with the retail sales numbers, just showing a consumer that is a little more conservative. Inflation is not going the way people think. People started wondering about further rate hikes. They are unchecked but whats interesting is the market did raise d