Democrats call in the strongest ed yet of an improper quid pro quo by the president while the republicans said there was nothing new in taylors testimony. The president blasted the diplomat claiming he was a never trumper and saying neither he taylor nor any other witnesses provided testimony that the ukrainians were aware of any military aid being withheld. The day after taylors appearance, a few dozen house members stormed into the planned closed door deposition by laura cooper. They said they were protesting the credittive aspect of the impeachment probe. Secretive aspect. On thursday we learned that the justice departments investigation into the origins of the russia inquiry that consumed the first two years of the Trump Presidency has now become a criminal probe. That gives prosecutor john durham the ability to convene a grand jury. In the meantime, reports surfaced about increasing anxiety inside the Democratic Party establishment over the durant crop of candidates hoping to take
We turn to chief White House Correspondent john rob ergts at the white house. Reporter more than two weeks ago fox news was told prosecutor john durham was expanding his investigation based on what he found expanding into the spring of 2017 and the firing of james comey. Now that its become a criminal probe, durham can impanel a grand jury, seek testimony from witnesses. Hes interested in interviewing James Clapper and john brennan. President trump a lot of think that and they know they have problems because they were very dishonest. Reporter sources tell fox news the nature of durhams investigation changed because of new evidence in a trip bill barr made to rome and the information in the Inspector Generals report. Michael horowitz wrote that his draft report is lengthy and he anticipates the final report will be released publicly with few corrections. Despite the fact that durham has worked for both the democratic and republican administrations. The democrats ripped him by calling th
Fbn a. M. Starts right now. Hey, hey, hey, its a Beautiful Day. And i cant stop myself from smiling. And i know theres no denying. Its a Beautiful Day the sun is up. The musics playing. Cheryl it is a Beautiful Day. Welcome to fbn a. M. Im cheryl casone. Ashley good morning, everybody p. Everybody. Im as ashley webster. Cheryl ahead of the jobs report and more importantly a broad gauge of Manufacturing Activity before the bell, futures are higher, slightly, dow up 41, s p up 5 and a quarter, nasdaq up 19 andahalf. Ashley take a look at whats been going on in asia. Generally positive. The nikkei in japan is up a third of a percent. The cough kospi is up 8 10 of a percent. Cheryl a busy brexit week for the folks in london. The ftse is higher this friday. And the cac and dax are in the green as well. All right, President Trump taking the stage in mississippi tonight, just a day after claiming that that vote to move forward with his impeachment inquiry was causing damage to the stock marke
Its back to 32 a share. Down 6. 58. Overall, the markets holding pretty steady as the profit reports roll in. In fact, id say stock prices are real solid and some of the profit reports, thats keeping the market at very high levels. No big pullback at this point. The dow industrials will open up about 40 this morning, s p up 6. By the way, the s p is only 22 points away from the alltime high. Whats that, just one big rally . The nasdaq, look at it go, up a half percentage point premarket. Big deal. Now let me lay out what we have for you. An important speech from Vice President pence on china. He may take a hard line. That could affect the market. And here comes amazon, perhaps the most important Earnings Report of them all. How strong is Consumer Online buying . Very important and we are going to find out today. Of course, we are going to watch apple hit new highs and unless something dramatic happens, we are hardly even going to mention impeachment. Here we go. Varney company is about
Growth in the apriljune quarter. The growth trend is only down very, very slightly. This was a positive gdp report. And here is the market reaction, fairly muted. Around 2 00 even this afternoon, well find out what the Federal Reserve is doing with Interest Rates. A quarterpoint cut widely expected, but its what comes after that, that has invest terse on edge. The dows up a couple of points, same with the nasdaq. Look at these stocks premarket, facebook and apple. They report at four eastern today. Well be watching to see how apple forecasts upcoming holiday sales. As for facebook, we want to know how many people droppedded off the platform with all that negative publicity. We also want to know if their ad revenue continues to surge. Facebook and apple up premarket. Youve got to look at this, california faces a real crisis today. The fires are raging, and today the wind picks up bigtime. Our heart goes out to the millions without power and the hundreds of thousands evacuated. Californi