Attorney general Ron Rosenstein . We take up the deep state sorts web of corruption with congressman jim jordan, former federal prosecutor Andrew Mccarthy tonight, we get into that. Top story, Justice Department clear political corruption at highest levels, question is how far down does it go . American public is being asked to believe that its individual ignorance in Justice Department. Playing the plaguing the doj and the fbi. Reopen every investigation he has touched. Nations Deputy Attorney general, does not see it that way. For that matter, he does not see it at all. Rosen stein testified before House Judiciary Committee today, defending the department of justice. Fox news chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge with the report. I think that public trust is gone. Reporter republican say antitrump undermine confidence in russia investigation, pointing to august test from fb fbi agent to lisa page. He writes the path you threw out for considering. Andys Office Strong con
Your watch list. Power lunch starts right now. Let it go, let it go i am one with the wind and sky all right. Welcome to power lunch, everybody pap bit of a disney phied power lunch if i do say so im Tyler Mathisen stocks struggling for gains. The dow hit an interday record high, if it stays positive, ever so slightly negative now, dow up a sixth straight day i know you want to know about bitcoin. You want to know how its trading. Right . It is up on the bit stamp exchange, that could change, of course, before i finish speaking or we hit our first commercial break. Twitter on a tear, stock soaring to a oneyear high promise me, youll see it in a second in respect it is. Theres twitter going up up 93 or about 4. 5 . No major reason. Just twittering. Its twittering. Retail also rallying best buy, new alltime highs there. Michael kors highest record in two years and lululemon, oneyear high. Nike, tiffany also at new highs. Begin the hour, tyler, with a huge deal of the day, probably the ye
60 points after the dow closed at a record level yesterday. The s p closed lower yesterday all the major averages moved off the highs of the session this morning the s p is indicated up by 5 points the nasdaq up by 10. This came after the feds decision and after if looked clear that Republican Leaders reached an agreement, at least in principle, on where theyre headed with the tax bill well talk more about that green arrows across the board this morning in asia, the nikkei looked like it was down by a quarter percentage point similar declines for the hang seng and shanghai. This morning in europe, with some of the early trading, you will see that there are some declines across the board. The biggest loser is the dax down by a half percentage point. Cac in france is down by 0. 4 . We have the bank of england and the ecb going to be releasing some policy statements today check out crude oil prices which were lower yesterday crude oil at 56. 59 couple of big economic reports on the agenda
Disney, of course, as you heard by now, buying various assets of 21st century fox in a deal worth dl more than 66 billion when you include the debt david faber broke the story weeks ago that the two companies were in talks and lo and behold, its soup now. Congratulati congratulations. Thanks. We were reminiscing about the various deals youve broken over the years. Yes, you and i go back to my first big one, British Telecom and mci. 2 22 billion deal in inflation . Exactly that got to the finish line on this one, bill a lot of talking going on between disney and fox and also our Parent Company, comcast and fox. Thats sort of where we want to begin today as we head toward the later parts of the day comcast did compete vigorously for these assets people close to the company indicate, or people close to all the companies involved, that being the people who were advising and so forth, indicate that the bid from comcast, in fact, did have a higher value than what fox accepted from disney we
Even stronger evidence that the fbis Peter Strzoks edits were a clear effort to protect the former secretary of state from prosecution. We will add to the knowledge of that evidence here tonight. Well also discuss the shocking corruption at the highest levels of the Justice Department with former attorney general michael mcasy and alan dershowitz. Judicial watch obtained documents that Hillary Clinton and top aide huma abedin cut an unprecedented deal with the state department which permitted them to keep their call logs and their schedules private and hidden, of course, from all investigators. And President Trump remains tonight upbeat about the prospects for tax cuts even as the health of two gop senators and the contankrousness of two other senators have gop Senate Leaders more than a little anxious. Republican rhinos marco rubio and mike lee are now threatening to block the tax reform bill, unless the Child Tax Credit is expanded. We take up all of the important developments of the