Now. We have had three of them in iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina and one going on on in nevada. The election is well under way. So i believe the overwhelming view of the republican conference of the senate is that this nomination should not be filled, this vacancy should not be failed by this lame duck president. That was the view of joe biden when he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee in 1992. Chuck schumer who will be my counterpart next year had the view that you shouldnt fill a vacancy in the last 18 months going into a president ial Election Year and that was senator reids view as well in a different era. So i think this is where this will end up. I expect the president will make a nomination. Senator cornyn is on the Judiciary Committee and i would like him to address another aspect of this. Senator cornyn he was talking about his experience with Justice Scalia. He administered the oath of office to me on the texas Supreme Court. We have our own personal memories of
Democrats and republicans among the president s critics for promising to close gitmo. Note the timing on this too. The prison is in cuba, obviously. The president is pushing to normalize relations with that communist island nation. Now. The president is set to go to cuba in march. Correspondent rich edson with the latest at the white house now as we await. Rich, as soon as the president steps up well go right to him. Reporter good morning, marries. Part of had and now the president. Good morning, everybody. In our fight against terrorists like al qaeda and isil, we are using every element of our national power. Our military, intelligence, diplomacy, homeland security, how enforcement, federal, state and local, as well as the example of our ideals as a values including rule of law and human rights. In this fight, we learn and we work to constantly improve. When we find something that works, we keep on doing it. When it becomes clear that something is not working as intended, when it doe
Today withed that the trading innocently dow stocks about 15 20 lower than a 10 day average. Alix i am guessing that low volume has been a theme for this month. I dont think it will get better given that we are going into a holiday friday and also we have 600 and it declines there. Alix throughout the day clawing its way back to neutral. A very similar story here in the u. S. If you look at the minifutures, you can see the whole day. The decline here when the attacks happened, choppy trading throughout the early morning, but a slow grind higher, ending slower, but making up a huge amount from our losses earlier in the day. Scarlet there was that move to safety once again. Same story and bonds. We saw investors rallying in u. S. Treasuries, but that died down later in the afternoon, treasuries fell off, more central bank speak, fed speak, Charlie Evans talking about the strength of recent economic data, which may be sparked speculation about an Interest Rate rise, which would be bad for
And nigerias military says its making gains and has taken back control of another town from the armed group boko haram. Starting this program in saudi arabia where the countrys most senior religious scholar says thursdays stampede during the hajj in mecca was, quote, beyond human control. Saudi arabia says the death toll is now risen to 769, and another 934 muslims were injured during the annual pilgrimage. The king ordered a review of how the hajj is organized. Some pilgrims blame the stampede on road closures and poor management. Our correspondent omar has been covering this incident. He himself is on his pilgrimage, to saudi arabia, and this is what he told me a little earlier on. The ground mutaf representing the highest authority in the kingdom, but the ultimate power lies in the hands of king solom solomon. They ordered a review into all the hajj plans to go further. To me i read into this hes not quite happy with what happened. In terms of what the graund mufti said what trigger
And we are one hour away from the close of trade. As i mentioned, we sold off as much as 300 points on the dow, recovering just a bit. I want to head to the markets desk, where julie hyman has the breaking news on the markets. Julie just a bit. I mean, really, just a bit. The nasdaq and the s p are often very sharply as well. Ive been watching various groups that are on the move today. Utilities turned higher as we continue to see rates move lower. That is the relationship we can do to see, but energy is lower and financials, bloomberg industrials, tech, consumer discretionary. You have other earnings weighing on stocks today as well. Within energy can we just heard in the past few moments from the s p on a number of Different Energy companies that are being downgraded, the chevron Credit Rating being cut at standard minus from aa. Not seeing much of a reaction. The outlook for this company is stable. Southwestern energy was cut to junk by s p. Most of these stocks are not moving more