Unrest in America Portland rorked by violent protest overnight. President trump trying to bring safety and security back to america cities announcing surge in federal Law Enforcement. Coming up at 7 30 a. M. Eastern this morning, former new York City Police commissioner ray kelly is here live. Market this is morning pointing to higher opening this morning earnings driving story take look dow futures right now, up 123 points and nasdaq up 98 and s p up 14 and a half. This after hopes of a new stimulus plan and optimism over Coronavirus Vaccine, fuel market yesterday. Dow industrials were up 165 points at the close yesterday. Nasdaq up 25 and s p 500 up 18. Play ball baseball openingday today the game without fans in attendance on this openingday 2020. Plus it is day four of a week long look at instagram stars today an detective that is blowing up online. Gaining popularity with destructive art. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets taking a look at thed s p up 40 points
we bipartisanly passed the respect for marriage act. don t say we can t get along. years ago, i wrote with great consternation, but we ve reauthorized it again, the violence against women act. the electoral reform act. folks, we did that in a bipartisan way, democrats and republicans did it. i don t know why they don t acknowledge any part of what s making the country again, but in addition, we passed the american rescue plan. the inflation reduction act, and the people sent a clear message. fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere. there s things that we ve got to get things done. that s always been my vision for the country, and i think that s what the american people said in this off year election. yesterday i went to wisconsin, nice and warm like down here. [ laughter ] to talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle-down economy. not allowed to trick down at my dad s table when we re growing up. today
he was released from a county jail on bail last night. but i m sure his lawyers are going to have a lot of questions because clearly, he had a constitutional right to be there to report the story. of course, waiting for more details in terms of what happened here. i just wonder, at no point in this time line did no one say this seems excessive standing there reporting and i was watching newsnation at the time. he was in the middle of a report and said we ve just been asked to stop reporting and i m stopping and then this happens. again, from what we could hear he was just being told he was being too loud. yeah. jason, thank you. it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m bianna golodryga. aim victor blackwell. the chinese spy balloon recovered in the atlantic, these are new pictures handed over by the bureau. officials say understanding its components could be important pieces of evidence for future criminal charges that could be brought. moments ago the s
bret: but, first, breaking tonight. house republicans are taking a microscope to the hunter biden scandal. the oversight committee grilling former twitter executives today about their censorship of the story in the new york post which many in the g.o.p. contended could have directly affected the 2020 election. the most pointed questions though aimed at the u.s. government influence into the censorship decisions. correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. we don t know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. emotions running high. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is embarrassment. front and center this new york post cover from october
of the american people. but make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the american people, i will take it down. president joe biden addresses the chinese surveillance balloon and other objects shot down by the military in recent days. more of his comments and his message to beijing in just a moment. plus former president trump claims total exoneration following the partial release of a grand jury report on election interference in georgia. we ll explain why that s not even close to being true. and also ahead the latest update from the epa on the major ohio train derailment which is now a focus of many conspiracy theorists. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, folks. we made it. friday, february 17th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning in washington where president joe biden spoke extensively for the first time yesterday about his administration s decision to shoo