Listen to what ted cruz said about getting to yes. If premiums continue to rise after we hold a press conference claiming to have repealed obamacare, that is a disaster. It is a disaster politically. Its a disaster substantiallily. It would be a failure of the mandate weve been given by the voters. Reporter take a look at three senators who are not a no, but theyre not yeses, theyre somewhat unclear. That obviously would be Susan Collins of maine, Lisa Murkowski from alaska, and rob portman from ohio. Neil as you do the math, it is simple, 48 democrats will vote no. Mitch mcconnell needs at least 50 republicans to say yes. Then he can get this through with the Vice President voting in favor as well. If he loses just one more, because if he loses more than the two, if it is three, this thing doesnt go forward. Negotiations are underway. Everybody has different concerns. Some like portman are concerned about funding for opioid at diction. Collins from maine is concerned about impacts fro
With south korean counterpart. Were told there will be outside pressure on china as well, includingc a certain chinese bk that does business with north korea. For more on this session that included no questions from the press, lets go to blake burman in the rose garden at the white house. Hey there, blake. Reporter neil, we knew boeing this there would be no questions. This is second time in a roy with indian Prime Minister this has been the case. Just statements, no questions from the press. Two big topics here as you just heard from President Trump and south korean president moon. First the issue of north korea, newly elected leaders, both took strong stances saying that issue needs to be dealt with. Pressure needs to be applied, both saying they will confront the issue in some form or another. The president talking about exerting pressure as it relates to economic means and diplomatic means and the era of strategic patience is over. The other issue deals with trade. The United Stat
The dow is up 188 points. Most of the sectors are higher. Energy, financials, technology. Stock market is looking pretty good. Not necessarily some tech stocks which have gone to pull back. The dow hitting alltime record high, intraday. Will it close at a record . You better watch for that key number. That would be 21,528 and change. Energy is helped to power the dow as oil has been gaining, 46. 47 the barrel. Chevron, and exxon have been winners. Were seeing those lead the Dow Jones Industrial average. Losses financials which did so well last week on the ideas of bond yields on the rise, look at them again. Leadership has really been the financials for whole month of june. Financials were the best performing group. Theyre kicking off july in the same fashion. Goldman sachs 3 higher. Jpmorgan up 2 1 2 . Looking at the dow jones transportation average, looking at the intraday there, as that too, neil has hit a record high as well. So, some records to note. Netflix moved into the correct
Of a chance to get off the ground. The were going to be exploring that with senator roger wicker, of course one of the key players not only on the health care front but getting tax cuts launched and done. That is looking shall we say dicey. Blake burman at the white house with the latest. Reporter neil, keeping that in mind just yesterday at White House Press briefing the white house put forward mark short, legislative affairs head at the white house, in part talking about health care, in part talking about tax reform. Now fast forward 20 hours or so, email dump by donald trump, jr. , himself, poeted to his very own twitter account. Weve gone through the few emails that he posted. Let me ticket through from the beginning. Donald trump, jr. , has an acquaintance he known by rob gold steen. In this email in the early parts of june 2016 goldstein emailed donald trump, jr. , saying influential russians he had heard, top prosecutor had told these russians that had dirt potentially damaging
will go but i ve advised through potus and others via counsels that we remain. when asked by a follower what he would do if president does withdraw, he said we ll have no choice but to depart councils in that case. so elon musk, the person the president likes to have around to advise him, suggesting that if the president, neil were to pull out, he would pull out of his association with the white house as well. neil? neil: there s a lot of conscious ceos, whatever you want to call them, who might similarly bolt. we hear others on that council because of this will rethink their efforts. on the flip side of that coin, a lot of people think the climate accord is business for business.