500 reaching uncharted highs once again. Friday a big day for financials, jpmorgan, wells fargo and blackrock reporting earnings. Blackrock had a solid report beating the street, raising its Quarterly Dividend by 50 . Oil at 70 a barrel for the first time in three years. Analysts pinning the rise on oil spries. Thats bad for drivers. The e. I. A. Announced gasoline prices will be on the rise with the average pump price reaching 2. 63 a gallon. Walmart announced this past week its raising the minimum wage to 11 nationwide. Its also spring every hourly employee with a onetime bonus up to 1,000. Visa announced its raising its 401k match to 10 of base pay. Bitcoin having a digital rollercoaster week. A south korean 0 officious announced his government is going to ban crypto coin currency. But its 1,000 percent increased since january of last year. Apples battery controversy not going away. Apple was asked why it wasnt more transparent about its deliberate slowing of batteries. Thune wants
Since the senate couldnt pass a fourweek resolution to fund the government, they are trying is set for threeweek resolution. Republicans are betting that among the ranks of their democratic colleagues, there is enough support for the six years worth of funding for the chip program. They could get some democratic votes in the house, and the senate if leader pelosi and schumer free them up to go. I spoke to greg walden, the republican from Washington State. He says if the democrats freed up they would vote but their leadership has been constrained. Nancy pelosi meanwhile, has signed off on this threeweek long continuing resolution only if if daca is attached. It is in right now. Paul we will go to the republican leaders. Okay. The shutdown of the government is completely unnecessary. Last night, the Senate Democrats chose not to join us in funding the government in providing support to our military and reauthorizing chip. They made the choice to shut the government down. To deny our troo
Since the senate couldnt pass a fourweek resolution to fund the government, they are trying is set for threeweek resolution. Republicans are betting that among the ranks of their democratic colleagues, there is enough support for the six years worth of funding for the chip program. They could get some democratic votes in the house, and the senate if leader pelosi and schumer free them up to go. I spoke to greg walden, the republican from Washington State. He says if the democrats freed up they would vote but their leadership has been constrained. Nancy pelosi meanwhile, has signed off on this threeweek long continuing resolution only if if daca is attached. It is in right now. Paul we will go to the republican leaders. Okay. The shutdown of the government is completely unnecessary. Last night, the Senate Democrats chose not to join us in funding the government in providing support to our military and reauthorizing chip. They made the choice to shut the government down. To deny our troo
Redacted whereupon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency, told them to redo and send back in proper form. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim strassel, dan, what do you make of the president s decision to say, send it back and not declassify and renegotiate . Well, we have not seen the democrats memo, we dont know what was redacted, we have to assume that since they talked to fbi director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein about the content of the memo theres something substantive at the center of it. Mr. Wray and rosenstein had their own letter that they sent simultaneously to the democrats raising the questions and i have to say, paul, god knows what the American People are making of this right now. I mean, they must feel like they they were sucked in novel. You have one set of memos dueling with another set of memos. Go back to the beginning of this, this is ultimately about whethe
General joins me now. President trump said this week he wants to speak to Robert Mueller, looking forward to it. As somebody who has represented private clients, would you recommend it . You have to consider the alternatives. On this basis, yes, i would recommend it. The alternative is if he doesnt speak to him, he can get a grand jury subpoena. If he speak to him, he gets to speak to him with his lawyer present, they get to talk about the topics, on so on and so forth. If he gets a grand jury subpoena, once hes there, he cant have anybody with him. He can do out and talk with his lawyer but it would look awkward. Paul even the president of the United States cant have his lawyer present . The only people in the grand jury room are the grand jurors, the lawyer for the government, the witness and the that nothing fer. Paul the president is known for somewhat inprecise statements on occasion and the fbi has been known to interpret statements as lying that may have been false memories. Tha