Washington with more, hi, garrett. Hey, oh good afternoon, lawmakers tell us there hasnt been any Real Progress to end shutdown and some are expect to go drag on for at least another week or two. Capitol hill has essentially been a ghost town the last couple of days with both sides digging in and new congress on wednesday, most lawmakers headed home and leaving it up to leadership to work out a deal but so far Democratic Leaders refusing to negotiate with white house and white house blaming squarely on nancy pelosi. Not enough time spent securing our border and while she may have the votes, its a thin majority if she does and shes not going to cut any deal with republicans until she has that speakership secured. Democrats are expected to attempt to move a bill to fund the government next week after they elect a new speaker on wednesday. That bill is not expected to include funding for the president s wall, though, which is why a number of Top Republicans expect shutdown to last for a w
Outside baghdad. The president spending three hours on the ground meeting with some of the 5,200 troops that are currently serving in iraq. He also met with the u. S. Ambassador to iraq as well as commanders on the ground. Asked if he was concerned about flying into a war zone, the president said, absolutely. I had concerns for the institution of the presidency, not for myself personally. I have concerns for the first lady, i will tell you. But if you would have seen what we had to go through with the darkened plane with windows closed, no lights on whatsoever anywhere, pitch black, ive never seen italy. Ive been in many airplanes, all types and shapes and sizes. Ive never seen anything like it. Were coming in and i know all the things that were surrounding us for safety. Defense secretary james mattis ordered to leave his post by january 1st two months earlier than planned after clashing with the president over his announcement last week to pull all u. S. Troops out of syria. His resi
Claims travel 20 times faster than the speed of sound, and the u. S. Military cant stop it. The new pentagon chief weighs in. Welcome to the lead. Im dana bash in for jake tapper. We begin this afternoon with breaking news in hour money lead. Wall streets wild ride. The dow prung plunging more than 600 points at one point today before closing in positive territory. This comes just 24 hours after the index posted its biggest sing le gain in history. It was up about 260 when it closed 90 seconds going. Drastic swings. Once again what are you hearing on the floor there . Reporter what a big comeback stocks are making. You saw stocks literally erase a 611point decline and then close up, talking about the dow, up 258 points. Thats an 800point swing, so clearly this is a session thats been marked by heavy volatility. At first the beginning of the day, we saw a big pullback after that historic jump in the dow and then we saw stocks come back. As this turnaround is happening as investors are t
And snow set to impact millions of people. A system moving east could slow a Record Number of holiday travelers. Stay home. Yeah. Absolutely. If you can. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im joe johns. Nice to see you. Merry christmas. Im christine romans. It is wednesday, december 26th. Boxing day. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Wall street is set to reopen this morning after suffering the worst Christmas Eve declines ever. And its been just a terrible december. Markets fell after the Trump Administration sent out confusing signals about markets and the economy and liquidity in the financial system. No one was worried about that until this administration brought it up. Futures are higher right now, but lets watch all of this volatility. Wall streets christmas route also spilled into markets around the world. A terrible day yesterday in asia. And then a bounce back for the nikkei. Hang seng and shanghai all right right now. The paris and ftse down, in paris, the average up a bit. A lo
because in the middle of a campaign speech he thought he would say build a wall. homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen is visiting arizona today on day two of her border tour. she was in el paso, texas yesterday. that s where felipe alonzo-gomez, an 8-year-old migrant guatemalan boy, crossed the border with his father. he died in the hospital. he s the second child to die in cpb custody in under a month. kelly o donnell joins us with more. the president is casting out the appearance of being ready to make a deal. we reported on the fact that he has cut in half his demand for border wall funding according to our sources. that deal presented to democrats. chuck schumer leading the way as the top negotiator for them as the highest ranking democrat in the senate. but no response from democrats so far. the president sort of killing