Ferro, alongside david westin. Joining us for the hour is megan greene, the chief economist. Coming up, we will break new highlights of that conversation vladimirian president putin and get to the commodity market as well. We want to get you up to speed on what is happening in Financial Markets worldwide. Byures are softer, negative 1 10 of 1 on the s p 500, down two points after a sixday winning streak on the benchmark in the United States, and in other record high close or tuesday. 25 ,ollar up more than and we are down to 2. 3 one on the 10 year, david. David lets get a look at what is happening outside the business world. Emma the girlfriend of the shooter in the Las Vegas Massacre has returned to the u. S. She arrived in los angeles last night and was met by federal agents. She had been in the philippines. Authorities have called her a person of interest. There are pictures showing the inside of stephen Paddocks Hotel room, rifles clearly visible. He meticulously planned the attac
Congress should protect medicare for seniors and people with disabilities, not undermine it. The republican budget will eliminate guaranteed longestablished Health Insurance benefits for seniors and the elderly as well as people with disabilities under the Medicare Program. The republican budget will increase costs for the elderly and disabled by establishing a medicare Voucher Scheme that provides insufficient payments to Medicare Beneficiaries in order to purchase needed health care. And the republican budget will destroy the traditional Medicare Program by diverting the healthiest enrollees into private plans, which would undermine traditional medicares ability to control cost. Once again, this budget omits the policy details that would allow us to engage in a full analysis of the plan. But one thing is clear, the budget utterly fails to address the root causes of growing Health Care Costs, which is price gouging by pharmaceutical companies. Instead, it aims to cut taxes for million
Looking at the hang seng and nikkei up. Shanghai composite took a dip overnight. European equities, pretty much a green picture across the board. Mostly marginal with the italian ftse down a bit. Wti crude, where were now hovering at 51. 17. Todays the day donald trump will give his first News Conference as president elect. It is scheduled for 11 00 a. M. At trump tower. You can watch the conference on cnbc at 11 00. The mexican peso tumbled to historic lows since the election because of concerns that the president elect could take measures that would weigh on mexicos currency. Former exxonmobil ceo riler son facing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in his confirmation hearing. First trump responding to new unsubstance yated claims that russian intelligence operatives have compromising information about him. Eamon javers has the latest. As this election season goes on, the bar continually gets raised for what can be shocking. As we hear more and more. Yesterday completely filled t
Stage. Mark as another colleague said, the trump they are emphasizing policy tonight. John they are going about it in a strange, not conventional way. Mark it is not an exaggeration to say that going into the debate before the video was released, the talk was he must win or his campaign and chance of winning are zero. Even his supporters. We now have the prospect of trump needing a big performance under extraordinary, unusual, peculiar conditions. To this moment previously, this thing that happened on friday with the videotape put him in a position where he already had to win the debate. The odds got longer against him, and in the context of what he has done today, many people are going to be looking at him, many republicans, saying, what are you doing . Mark if you cant get excited for this, if youre not interested in president ial politics but in humanity or in how people perform under pressure, i dont know what you are waiting for. Tonight will be an epic battle between who are clin
As darkness seeks the upper hand with the orlando massacre. Shine your light of hope upon our land. Despite the pain and horror of this tragedy. Empower us to continue to trust in your infinite mercy. Hear our prayers for those who died and for those who mourn. Bring healing to those who were injured. Lord, give our lawmakers the wisdom to understand better the causes of violence, which exist in our nation and world. Use them to bring comfort, hope, and peace in the midst of insanity. Help us to remember the warning of dr. Martin luther king jr. When he said we must learn to Learn Together as brothers and sisters or we will die together as fools. We pray in your sovereign name. Amen. [silence] please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Melissa all right. That was the senate floor as they remembethey were re