Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good wednesday morning, you can start calling now. A note to begin on the president s travel schedule, the president going to dayton, ohio, and el paso, texas. Daytond to arrive in around 10 30 and he will be joined by melania trump. He will head to el paso, texas around 1 45 local time and expected to depart about 2. 5 hours later. Here is one of the headlines about the president s trip. Shaken cities await trump. Conway,e from kellyanne he goes trying to heal communities. Meeting with those injured and loved ones who survived. One person the president will not be meeting with today is veronica escobar. Her series of tweets from last night explaining why. The white house invited me to join the president and my response was clear. I requested a phone call with him to share what i have heard from many constituents including some who are victims
the quality s from the virus mount. we have one other major story. the u.s. election gets real. democrats face voters for the first time in des moines. taylor: paul, in the meantime i want to take a look at where the u.s. markets closed on friday. take a look at the s&p 500, off about 1.8%. 1%are now down to tenths of year to date. .ake a look at that 10 year we are down to 161. we are below the key psychological level of 150. and look again at the dollar yen here dollar-yen here. earlier we were seeing the strength in the yen, which is trends.sic safe haven take a look at crude. it is down 1%. we were off 5% week before. a fourthlling off for straight week. we have gone from 53 to 63 in a matter of 60 days. yes, opec looking to perhaps bring forward at the next meeting and that impact is expected to be fairly profound with the nikkei futures off more and soul of more than 1%. zealand already trading off more than 2%. we are seeing the impact on currency markets as well.
The built before us does before usgs bill does three things that every republican and democrat should be able to support. First, it ends the shutdown and restores full funding for the federal government through february 8. Second, it extends Health Insurance for 9 million vulnerable children. It will enable congress to resume series bipartisan talks on the important issues facing our nation. What do that, the federal government is beginning to reopen after a weekend shutdown. Washington today on cspan radio. 17 days until the government funding runs out. Todays agreement is a shortterm continuing resolution. In exchange for ending the stalemate, republicans have promised to take up the daca immigration issue. Here are some of your other monday headlines. Steve scalise of a louisiana returning to the capital after undergoing another round of surgery. Part of his recovery after a shooting that took place last year. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issuing a ruling on the states congression
The Consumer Devices battle heats up. Apple and google are due to refresh their product soon. Some breaking news crossing Inflation Numbers for south korea in the mouth month of september. Inflation up. Ve coming down a bit to 2. 1 , that is below went economists had estimated and a big drop from what we saw, a gain of 2. 6 in august. Also taking a look at core cpi, 1. 6 . Below wently economists had estimated for a gain of 1. 7 , month on month, your continuing to see the rises although very barely. Inflation numbers in south korea coming in a little bit below what economists had forecast and is on Consumer Sentiment and how the markets are reacting, how the economy is reacting to the continued tensions in north korea. Stray too far from them be oks target, the economy is going not full speed ahead but still quite rampant , exports quiten strong in the Third Quarter but you mentioned north korea u. K. T a wildcard for the betty lets talk about the u. S. Markets. A little bit of a diff
Just to set the scene, this is normally an oversight hearing. It is a routine hearing. What do they normally talk about and how will this be different . Normally, in an oversight hearing like this, you have a lot of questions about the routine business of the Justice Department. In this case, it would be antitrust questions, questions about civil rights, questions about criminal prosecutions. Democrats are going in with a lot of questions about Jeff Sessions in particular. Some of the events in the campaign. Some things that have come up as part of Robert Muellers investigation into broader russian mesylate medling. Publicans have developed their own set of questions. Some around the conduct of the now fired fbi director, james comey, as well as questions about a deal from several years ago involving a purchase of a uranium company. Sort of a tangled tale. Hits it jumps around and different things, but there will be some lines of questioning i think will keep recurring through the whol