View on facebook, stick around for this story the social network announcing a new tool to see if they followed russian propaganda he had to have liked one of those pages. Youre nots on facebook anyway i didnt like anything are you sure you dont like anything well, i didnt capitalize like anything. Thats what i mean. Thats pretty, you know, thats hard core, bill. Were running out of facebook video. Record number of americans will be driving today, but gasoline prices are at the highest level in nearly three years. Were going to look at where those prices may be going from here as we look at the parking lot last night in los angeles. Although, you know, they showed that, but its like that every day in l. A i dont know why took a while to come up from d. C. To new york last night though what, five or six hours. Old 95, always busy lets begin with the breaking news this afternoon from the federal reserve. Steve leaseman, those exciting minutes. Fed officials continue to grapple with the pe
Ecommerce growth that even as they do sends some other packages out through u. P. S. , fedex, logistics and others the vast majority, Something Like twothirds of their packages go the last Mile Delivery to peoples doorsteps through the Postal Service back over to you. Sometimes Postal Service delivers on sunday specifically for amazon, several years ago. Thanks, morgan. Lets talk about this. Are the president s attacks on amazon a sign of bigger issues ahead for the company . Donald, and dave are both with us. Welcome to you both. Tom, you think a strong argument could be made that amazon is getting a sweetheart deal here right . I definitely think if you look at the research ive read, theyre getting as much as a 1. 46 subsidy on a perpackage basis. I do think in the case of the u. S. Postal Service Amazon is definitely getting a sweetheart deal, yes. Donald, what about you . Well, absolutely. You know, the bottom line is the post office is subsidized its Parcel Delivery through its fi
Schumer just arrived at the white house. Reporter i caught up with chuck rounds, a republican from north dakota, who last night was a no vote and this morning changed to yes after promises from Mitch Mcconnell i asked him what was going on. He said leadership has them in a Holding Pattern for the next couple of hours as they figure out what theyre going to vote on, whether it will be the bill the house passed last night, that 30day shortterm funding bill, whether it will be Something Like four to five days which democrats and some republicans have proposed to ramp up the pressure to get a deal done on immigration whether it will be something in between. He says republicans in the rank and file dont know yet. Senator schumer and Democratic Caucus are surely meeting this afternoon to figure out next steps from their approach after that 90minute meeting with the president. As i said, when he came back to the capitol, he had little to say about the meeting, but just that it was productive
Also indicted were three russian entities and separately an indictment followed an american who was allegedly involved in related credit card crime. The Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein briefing reporters this afternoon laid out a case called the Internet Research agency employed hundreds of people to the budget to the tune of millions of dollars in a longrunning effort to influence u. S. Politics. Ultimately, in the 2016 president ial election to benefit now President Donald Trump heres how Rod Rosenstein described the elaborate effort by the Internet Research agency. The defendants allegedly use that infrastructure to establish hundreds of accounts on social media networks, such as facebook, instagram and twitter. Making it appear those accounts were controlled by persons located in the United States they used stolen or fictitious identities, Fraudulent Bank accounts and false identification documents now the, bill, what im told here is that ultimately the special counsels offi
Critically helping sentiment, china stocks recording their biggest twoday gain in seven years. A number of stocks there are still halted. Weve got the Portfolio Manager for fidelitys 2 billion china fund coming up. He says there are a lot of opportunities in the china market right now. Well tell you where. The latest data show the pc market is just getting clobbered. Its dying yet again. Could microsoft have a plan to revitalize that sector . Thats coming up. Also a new bill that could help patients get their treatments faster but at what cost . Well break down the fight brewing between Pharma Companies and doctors coming up. Troubling reports out today. Lets begin with greeces bailout and reaction from germany. Our reporters are still on the scene. Chief International Correspondent michelle cruisae a carusocabrera live in athens and Steve Liesman in frankfurt. There is new controversy around greeces former finance minister. He cannot stay out of the headlines even though he is no long