Quite a morning for news thank you, eamon javers, thank you, art cashin and mike santoli. Thats it for squawk alley. Fast money half time starts right now. All right. Well pick it up with our continuing breaking news on these developments welcome to half time. We begin as i said with the breaking news this hour. Your market picture, that sudden selloff on stocks that former National Security adviser Michael Flynn charged today with ply r lying to the fbi is prepared to testify against the president , his campaign over russia this as republicans in the senate try to get to the finish line on their new tax plan all of that impacting your money and the markets. Our reporters are standing by in washington to cover all of those developments eamon javers is on the north lawn of the white house once again for us john harwood in d. C. And ylan mui at the capital we begin with eamon. Within the past few moments weve seen Michael Flynn departing the federal courthouse at 3rd and constitution str
Government bond is attractive compared to risk in stocks right now. 283 on the tenure. Three, another problem is the internal workings of the market exotic product, robot trading up a pushing stocks to rapgd sell ising . As of now the dow is down 6. 5 so poor this week. With will open higher. Do not know how we will close or where well close. But back drop this morning is another chaotic night in congress. But we now do have a budget for the next two years. Thats not necessarily great news for investors. But bottom line on this republican budget Government Spending goes way up and so does the deficit. Again, were hearing the words, debt bomb. Varney company is about to begin. It changes so rapgdly that were going to show you futures all over again. All right we were up 100 now were up 60 youve got to watch this. Literally moment to moment. Wall street is on course for its worst week in six years. It has been a really qield ride for stocks just this week. These are the swings in the dow
Gwen and republicans mount a fierce pushback. When, president obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience . Some people seem to have forgotten this already, but we just had an election gwen the white house sets the stage for two years of confrontation that could yet define the obama legacy. We examine that standoff tonight, with contributing correspondent john harwood chief washington correspondent for cnbc. Fawn johnson, correspondent for national journal. Jeff zeleny, senior washington correspondent for abc news. And John Dickerson of slate magazine and political director for cbs news. Award winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. Live from our nations capitol, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by how much money do you have in your pocket right now . 40. 21. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . If you start putting that money towards your retirement and l
Gwen and republicans mount a fierce pushback. When, president obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience . Some people seem to have forgotten this already, but we just had an election gwen the white house sets the stage for two years of confrontation that could yet define the obama legacy. We examine that standoff tonight, with contributing correspondent john harwood chief washington correspondent for cnbc. Fawn johnson, correspondent for national journal. Jeff zeleny, senior washington correspondent for abc news. And John Dickerson of slate magazine and political director for cbs news. Award winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. Live from our nations capitol, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by how much money do you have in your pocket right now . 40. 21. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . If you start putting that money towards your retirement and l
Gwen and republicans mount a fierce pushback. When, president obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience . Some people seem to have forgotten this already, but we just had an election gwen the white house sets the stage for two years of confrontation that could yet define the obama legacy. We examine that standoff tonight, with contributing correspondent john harwood chief washington correspondent for cnbc. Fawn johnson, correspondent for national journal. Jeff zeleny, senior washington correspondent for abc news. And John Dickerson of slate magazine and political director for cbs news. Award winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. Live from our nations capitol, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by how much money do you have in your pocket right now . 40. 21. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . If you start putting that money towards your retirement and l