Lying to the fbi, prepared to testify against President Trump, nbc something nice has yet to verify at any rate, down sharply. Now weve come back. There was a lot of talk about tax reform, stocks recovering the early losses, tax reform appears to gain no men tucmomenm the latest from washington on where this bill stands coming up in fact, lets get straight to the big news in d. C. Hitting the markets today. It is the fall yout from the guilty plea of former National Security adviser Michael Flynn eamon javers joins us with the latest at this hour. Reporter kelly, we got news in the past couple minutes here reported by nbc news that two officials tell them that Jared Kushner is the official who is listed in the criminal information surrounding Michael Flynn guilty plea today as being a very senior transition official who advised mike flynn to get on the phone with officials from various countries around the world to talk about a u. N. Sanctions problem that they had back during the pres
Its on spotify right now. We aim to please. It seems like we have done this morning. Lets get into the market picture. A very rosie market picture this morning. Futures were as much as 200 points higher moments ago just shy at the moment on the dow 192. 4 to be precise. The s p higher by 14 the nasdaq up 22 markets did pull back on friday albeit only slightly closing down. 2 and the s p a little bit more that for the nasdaq for a week performance was fairly divergent. The dow was up 3 . Dow up 1. 5 the tax reform bill well discuss that passed the market late friday night. Ten year treasury note has responded as well in a risk on fashion somewhat weve seen the yield move up a little bit, 2. 39 closing on friday at 2. 36 over the weekend ticked up a bit. Crossed 2. 4 but is just below that level. More on the markets, but first to our top corporate story, cvs is buying aetna for 69 billion. Our Bertha Coombs is joining us on the cnbc news line with all of the news. Good morning, bertha. R
Explain. I think we see this in the indictments. The four indictments and please that have just taken place. I see sit most of importantly in what happened with the firing of director comey. And it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the russia investigation. Thats obstruction of justice. Kennedy so if attitude determined your latitude, difi must be high. What you have are a series of actions that are questionable, tacky and annoying. If that were the threshold for obstruction dianes wardrobe would have been in trouble a long time ago. When you tie them together with the ribbon of white house gaffes, thats what the dems have been shopping for. One of the president s lawyers says the president cant obstruct justice at all. Legally it seems we are in uncharted territory. Issue is not settled. But both sides will claim and use loose logic to sink the others battleship. If you are talking about threshold and precedent and if the entire white hou
Indictments. The four indictments and please that have just taken place. I see sit most of importantly in what happened with the firing of director comey. And it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the russia investigation. Thats obstruction of justice. Kennedy so if attitude determined your latitude, difi must be high. What you have are a series of actions that are questionable, tacky and annoying. If that were the threshold for obstruction dianes wardrobe would have been in trouble a long time ago. When you tie them together with the ribbon of white house gaffes, thats what the dems have been shopping for. One of the president s lawyers says the president cant obstruct justice at all. Legally it seems we are in uncharted territory. Issue is not settled. But both sides will claim and use loose logic to sink the others battleship. If you are talking about threshold and precedent and if the entire white house staff acted with extreme careless
Convention. And time is money, a lot of money. Details on the historic auction of an oscar winners watch that shattered all records. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This news is big. A federal grand jury approving the first charges in the investigation led by special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller makes his move. Theres going go a lot of people sweating in the next day or so. If youre Paul Manafort or you are michael flynn, i would not to be either one of those guys. Are we concerned or terrified about some of President Trumps tweet this morning. If they put somebody in handcuffs monday morning, thats going to blow somebody out of the water. The Montana Power Company got the bid. It doesnt look like the headquarters for an energy company. Its been a night of both celebration and protests in barcelona after the Catalonian Parliament voted independence from spain. High fly ball to right. He gets there, and the astros take in three. A