Earnings, earnings, more earnings. Starbucks perks up after sticking by its forecast. On the longest winning streak since 04. Hello everyone im cheryl casone. The last hour of trading and the countdown to the closing bell begins right now. Liz claman is on assignment at the World Economic forum in davos switzerland where shes been talking to Business Leaders around the globe. Today no different, shes got a big couple of interviews, big interviews coming up. First up, shes got the ceo of dow chemical, Andrew Liveris. He has some bold ideas on creating more jobs in this country. We need those. Then shes going to go oneonone with bill gates, you know the guy who helped create that Little Company known as microsoft. Liz touches all the bases with him. You cannot afford to miss these interviews. But first to the day on wall street, on this friday, stocks are trading at their best level in more than five years. Here we are again, this week appears to be ending on a high note. Take a look at
Lived for these extraordinarily significant times and knew people like richard nixon, who she had an absolutely bistro response to a did not like at all, which are interesting. Her perspective is a perceptive i dont never think ive seen a madhouse. Its very much a womans date because she was responding to the way she treated his wife. And i think that is what is valuable, that is what it what it would contribute to the historical record, but also wider story is important because people have a slightly different take on experience. Another question . If not, i have more. [inaudible] adding imac i like to tell stories in a way. And i really wanted a boat to try to understand, you know, [inaudible] people had to understand culture and he felt so upset when he would reach people on the hill and they didnt know what he was talking about. He really chilled it into me and everything i said he would say qualified bad. How do you know that . Prove that to me . He would never stand some vague. I
Welcome to the lead im jake tapper. It is the messy result of President Trump governing by gut, picking someone he likes, with insufficient experience and nonexistent vetting to head the second largest burock rasry and opening the door for Ronny Jackson to step aside asserting he doesnt need the job or the aggravation that trump himself would not go through with it were it him. This comes after the news this morning that his confirmation hearing has been put on hold indefinitely by the u. S. Senators, led by Johnny Isaacson of georgia, chair of the vetera Veterans Affairs committee expressing concerns about allegations unproven allegations that one senator called devastating if true. After two whistleblowers detailed alleged behavior involving what they called a toxic Work Environment on capitol hill and jackson saying he was eager to answer any questions about this. We start off with more from the white house. I dont want to put a man through a process like this. It is too ugly and di
Work environment, all being investigated by the Republican Controlled Senate committee handling his nomination, which suspended hearings on it. And thats on top of long standing bipartisan concerns that rear admiral jackson has no experience running Large Organizations which the va certainly is. More than 300,000 employees working there. With all that, sources tell us hes not bowing out, not tonight at least, and the white house is defending him, releasing testimonials from president obama and george w. Bush. Well ask an administrator from the veterans affair, how does a president who champions extreme vetting on foreigners not even do basic vetting of people responsible for multibillion dollar agencies or the countrys national security. How does what weve seen again and again over the last year and a half square with the prom the president made again and again during the campaign. Were going to make America Great again. Were going to use our best people. Im going to get the best peopl
President left for a speech scheduled for next hour, in New Hampshire. The subject opioids. We will have more on that later. Over the weekend and early today, a much more pug nacious president. He fired off eight tweets. In them, he attacked the Mueller Probe and for the very first time, he mentioned the special counsel by name. He also trashed two former cop fbi officials. One of woman Andrew Mccabe was fired late friday night. The most provocative were those on his team, suggesting the president may no longer be working with handoff playbook when it comes to bob mueller. We have Halle Jackson and gary haig and Pete Williams our justice correspondent. Lots to break down this hour. Halle, lets begin with you. Is this going to be a few strategy by the president . Is this trump blowing off steam . What more can you tell us about why we saw this exclamation from the president . Reporter yeah, its a new strategy. Not one we seen previously. The president in the last 45 minutes or so he was