Thanks for joining us. Thank you for joining us. Lets look at the market picture it comes off a day of fractional gains. Essentially markets were flat. For the week, the dow is up 1 the s p and nasdaq 0. 6 p , 0. 7 were set to open 11. 3 points higher for the dow yields above 2. 3 for the tenyear, that nice rise in yields we saw over the course of last week, up to highs of 2. 34, 2. 35, just down a bit. 2. 32 the yield on the tenyear. Another quiet session in asia with markets in main lan china, hong kong and south korea closed today the nikkei up just a hair. 0. 01 . I guess it counts as a gain. Hardly at all. Lets look at europe a marginally mixed day on wednesday. If we look where we are now, we are mixed here we see markets totally flat in france the xetra dax down 0. 2 . Spain rallying again here, 0. 6 . Spain closed down 2. 8 yesterday. That was after the king made a speech the prior evening, did not go particularly well sort of elevated fears of more clashes or catalonia calling
Schools were placed on lockdown and parents showed up to make sure their children was safe. My stepdaughter texted her and said he is safe and fine but dont let no student out of the classroom or nothing like that. The mom is in the car and worried and everything and he saying to her everything is fine. He said it is okay. And that is more important. And waiting for him to get out of school and take him home. The standoff lasted briefly. Haan exited his truck and was taken into custody and was wunted for the shooting of a husband and wife along long acre drive. The husband, joseph molder died and his wave was taken to the hospital for gunshot injuries. As we learn more about is this shooting investigation, that press conference wrapped up not too long ago and the coroner says the victim was shot five times by two separate weapons. The victims wife her condition is not known but the suspect locked up in jail facing one counts of homicide and an attempted homicide charge. That is the las
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Democrats, right now, your governments not functioning and with this cloud over the administration and over the republican party, as they have not partnered with us to get to the truth, its very hard for them or for us collectively to govern. So the sooner we get to the truth, the better for the american public. Thank you for joining us today and giving us a limb insight. Lets tonight our coverage with nbc news anchor kristen . Naming former fbi director mueller as special counsel and right away President Trump has responded. President donald trump released a statement tonight reading as i have stated many times a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know, there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. The white house had only a 30minute heads up about this announcement. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle had been pressuring acting attorney general Rob Rosenstein to get the appointmentep i after back to b allegations first that President Trump gave
Russian interference in the election. The white house didnt have much notice that the Justice Department had appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel. Lawmakers are scrambling now to react to the third bombshell in as many days. Jo congressman, do you think the appointment of mr. Mueller goes far enough here . No, but its a very significant step and we need to get to the truth and this is the way to get to it. Robert mueller is very well respected here in the bay area and nationwide, can you tell us how this investigation will work . From what i have read about director mueller is respected by his peers. What does this do to President Trumps agenda. Hes been taking one body blow after another. Does this grind all that to a halt . I dont think it grinds it to a halt, but it givens a process where we can govern collectively, congress and the administration, republicans and democrats, right now, your governments not functioning and with this cloud over the administration and over the r