To war. The nightmare stage of trumps rule is here, says michelle gold berg in the New York Times and paul krugman simply calls our president a bully. Democrats lining up to attack the president , Bernie Sanders says hes like putin. Assassinating dissonance. Meanwhile, theres real chaos, where hundreds of thousands on the streets for the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani and then a stampede. Iranian state news media says more than 30 are dead. Overall this is a morning of confrontation, war talk threats and military preparations and as for the market, a shrug. Monday the dow made a 200point uturn and actually closed higher. This morning were looking at futures, minor loss for the dow and the s p, a 10point gain maybe for the nasdac at the opening bell but look at oil, another shrug on that market after the Soleimani Killing the price of oil moved to 63 64 a barrel today its back to 62 and the price of gas, Holding Steady the National Average still right there at 2. 58 per gallon.
Mr. Cotton madam president. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Cotton in the next few days Senate Democrats will move to discharge a war powers resolution to tie the president s hands in defending this nation against iran and terrorist masterminds like Qasam Soleimani. Lets think about how we got here and the implications of this reckless action. Qasam soleimani has the blood of thousands of americans on his hands and hundreds of thousands of innocent souls across the middle east. For more than 20 years he was the Supreme Leaders most trusted lieutenant, irans terror mastermind, the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan by supplying the most deadly kind of roadside bombs soldiers ever faced. He and his proxies and iranian leaders like him are responsible for bombings of our embassies in places like lebanon and kuwait. Theyre in no small part responsible for the ongoing horror of the Syrian Civil War or the civil war in
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Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from hong kong to london, to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. In asia, hundreds of thousands joined hong kongs biggest demonstration in months in signs that demonstrations will continue into the new year. Joining me is stephen engle. Give us the update. You know, this has been a protest movement that is now into its sixmonth, and i have to say, there is a bit of protest fatigue. People are tired of the violence. People are tired of the vandalism. They are tired of the disruptions to their morning commute. They are tired of the damage to the economy. But they are also tired of what they perceived to be an intransigent government here, unwilling to make any concessions to the protesters. That left this weekends big mark. A big question will there still be momentum for the protest movement, which has dwindled in size, but increased in violence . That an