Generous benefits. How about this . Blue skies and water on pluto and colonies on mars 20 years from now . Excitement in the space business. And its friday, look at your 401 k , crack a smile, the dow hit 17,000 and will open up some more this morning. Varney company is about to begin. Prepacedent obama is about to overhaul part of his strategy in syria. Officials say the pentagon has stopped training sy the news is just in, an offiom al announcement is cominopen thank goodness. Stuart lets get to the markets, friday morning, a terrific week. Longest winning streak in a year. Chk your 4ay, 40. The dow closed yesterday at 17,050. And were looking for a gain, 20, 30 points. Its not a loss, not bad. A slight gain. Disappointing earnings for alcoa, they kick off the earnings season. And cut the production for china for cars and truck. Alcoa is going to open slightly lower. How about oil . Its been on a teare weust like stock this week. 50 a barrel this morning, 50. 20 to be precise, yought
Last night the big moment was Hillary Clinton being the first woman ever nominated for the presidency. Thats a history moment to be sure. But the evening know all did have its moments of controversy. So we were down on the floor during all that. You could feel the tension rippling across that room. Bernie sanders there was a discussion during the day, would he or would he not be the person to put her name into nomination. He came into the stadium over shouts of protests. Some staged a protest. They said lets get out of here, lets leave. But he put his former rivals name into nomination. I move the convention suspends the procedural rules. I move all votes cast by delegates be reflected in the official record, and i move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States. Bill wow they will be talking about that for a long time. Local tape, here is your headlines. Hillary clintons historic moments. Well talk a lot about that today.
Are appropriate in this case. But the trouble may just be beginning. Clinton accused of living above the law while many ask did comey change the law to let her off the hook . Patricia stark following the latest on the campaign trail as donald trump slams the quote rigged system. We begin with Kristin Fisher live for us with washington, d. C. With new backlash the fbi is facing. Good morning, kristin. Even though the director of the fbi did not recommend any criminal charges, he did offer a blistering critique of clintons handling of classified information. First he announced over 100 of her emails did contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Some were even marked classified. That directly contradicts what clinton and the state department stated from day one. The fbi director said it is possible people hostile to the u. S. Were able to hack into her private account. They said her actions were extremely careless. They want clinton to be blocked from accessin
A lot expected to happen in this hour. We begin with Donald Trumps prize meeting with mexicos leader. Expected later this hour, mister trumps first foreign trip as the republican president ial nominee. This comes out of what his campaign is calling a historic speech tonight in arizona after a week of speculation that he may be softening his hardline position on immigration. Running mate mike pence in a preview of what we can expect tonight tells fox news the candidate is not backing down. You should get ready for more of the same. The same principles that donald trump put the issue of illegal immigration at the center of national debate, now more than a year are going to be articulated again today. Hes going to lay out a Firm Commitment to border security, to internal enforcement, ending sanctuary cities. The meantime this reaction from Hillary Clintons campaign. Quote, from the first days of his Campaign Donald trump has painted mexicans as racists and criminals and has promised to de
Unnerve he tried to blend in with curtains in the blue room want to welcome in my analysts. Lets talk about the reporting in the New York Times about a phone call between President Trump and james comey and says in part so schmidt says it was after a series of encounters with fi officials that james comey felt jeopardized by those calls how inappropriate is this . It is wholly inappropriate of theres question whether donald trump knows or understands the job to the point does he really care. Even if you believe he is still trying to understand the job 9 the bottom line is he doesnt care and doesnt seem to want to understand the job or know the job or to be careful or to show any respect for any part of the institution at all. You dont think he cares now that theres a special prosecutor. I think he cares that theres a special prosecutor looking in to him. Dont think i cares how to conduct government. David, everyone has seen the video of comey at the white house in january. A friend say