They will really slow down amazons drone delivery plans. New rules on fracking. Getting the power to hold it up, drag it out and maybe kill it stone dead. Stocks are way up and so is the price of oil. Varney and company is about to begin. Stuart that is a rally. Up 172 points. The nasdaq, by the way, a new 15 year high. The russell 2000, that is another new alltime high. It is friday and the stock market has gone straight up thus far. I have two big names and they are hitting record highs. We have the price of oil back at 45 a barrel today. I believe that they changed the contract months. 45 a barrel as of now. The price of gasoline has gone up again. Three straight days. Not by much. It really ruins my prediction of an imminent plunge in gas prices. I linked google to crony capitalism. The wall street journal reports that in 2012, charging google with practices. Ftc commissioners overruled their own staff and went with a settlement that was very easy on google. This is not mentioned i
60 of the time, they do not even pick up the phone. Varney company is about to begin. I guess that this is the good news. We were down about 150. We have warned evidence, by the way. Not good news on jobs or manufacturing. The big jobs report comes out on friday. Priced at 20. The ipo is now 2647. Apple down 3 . A good time to buy it. Down 0. 56. The half walmart. The religious freedom bill. A governor on the program. We will see what happens. The price of gas keeps on coming down ever so slightly. The top story today they have extended past the midnight deadline. You said iran was making us look like april fools. Another good line for us today. Stuart. [laughter] he asked if it was appropriate. The iranians are making fools out of us since the initiation of these negotiations. I think that we can agree that we are begging the iranians. Baking them for something you can put on a piece of paper and wave around. They gang is not a good strategy. You are dealing with a hostile treacherous
Just think of that. 12 democrats, 11 republicans, Something Like that. Today we have over 60 House Democratic women. [applause] not enough. We want more. But all of us who were there, that dozen of us for the time, we took responsibility to try to put more women in congress across the country. I am proud that in california our delegation of democrats is a majority of women, not even counting our two senators. Women are empowered in california. I also want to acknowledge that although our members are great here, two of our colleagues have gone on to the senate. Senator elect Tammy Baldwin [applause] senator elect mazie hirono. Only the second woman of color to serve in the senate. That is very exciting. Unfortunately we do not have kathy hochul this next congress, but the future is soon coming upon we know they will be making a great public contribution. So here we are. We are still finishing up some of our campaigns. We are very proud of the success as you see here today. Why is it imp
Bill clinton will be speaking in a few moments. Lauraingle has the latest, quite a Memorial Service already. It certainly has been. This has been, as they say, a tribute fit for a queen. Aretha franklin, earning that moniker, queen of soul, when she was just in her 20s. That name bestowed kwon her from a d. J. In chicago once he heard her voice, he said thats it, she is the queen of soul. We have been listening to celebration of her life all day long. We can take you back inside with the cameras live there, anticipating former president bill clinton on the roster and on the list expected to speak at any moment. Amazing musical tributes so far. 19 performers in all will be taking part in todays celebration of her life. Celebrating her legacy. We heard from faith hill, arianna grande, we will hear from shaka kahn. Deep words of respect, not just for the song she made famous but for the wisdom that she gave to so many of her fans. The words that she gave through those lyrics, not just in
on retirement security. something deirdre covers closely, we ll get to that and monitor his remarks coming up. also a very touching story, a former marine speaking out on the dangers of opiod addiction to our servicemen and women. he has a remarkable story. we will share it next. plus, mourners paying their respects to john mccain as he lies in state at the u.s. capitol. one former nhl star joins me live to talk about his friendship with the senator. people ask, you know, for your life, i m sure that s something we ll talk about. i got to be friends with one of the greatest men of our generation. ahoy! gotcha!