Will the president respond . Varney and company is about to begin. Stuart this is a very big day on wall street, 257 points, straight up, plenty of earnings reports, more of the coming out after the bell. We will see about that later. Lets get this, 256 points hi, the dow is at 16,700. Here are the names fuelling the dow rallied. Caterpillar made a lot of money last quarter, caterpillars up 5. 3 ms sales were up almost 4 . That is not huge but its business will keep growing through the next year. Is up 8. Transportation sector of very big winner. Two Railroad Stocks hitting alltime highs, Union Pacific and csx. Check more transportation stocks, alaska air, jetblue, writer all with big gains, 19 of the 20 stocks in the index are up. Big rally. Look at the price of oil, dropped to 80 a barrel yesterday backing up to 81. 79 today. The real story for energy is the price of gasoline, 3. 07 a gallon. That is your national average. 15 states in the 2 club. The price of regular is less than 3
Hoping well keep the world at bay, hoping we will sustain ourselves with a reduced presence in the world and a radically reduced capacity for defending ourselves, defending our allies and projecting our power. So that would be sort of an an litic way to present why we are in decline. Its not a conscious choice. I dont want to play the amateur psychiatrist or even a professional one in this. I dont want to look in obamas soul but if you look at where modern liberalism is taking us, it is to recreate the choice the europeans made in the late 1940s after the second world war. The problem for us, and i think the problem for the west is if we decline and use our resources internally, who will protect us, who will protect the free world, who will keep open the sea lanes and who will prevent the rise of a hegamon like china or the chaos that will ensue if theres no leader or dominant power in the world. Its a very long answer to a short question. And the reason i did that is because on televi
Neil. He was one of our most esteemed members, passed away unexpectedly this summer. You were at the memorial service. I was at the Funeral Service in cincinnati. I missed the memorial service. Tell us what that was like at that service and what was Neil Armstrong like as a man and as an astronaut . The Funeral Service was in cincinnati, outside under a covered tent. Mostly family and astronauts and close family were there. We got to see a lot of the apollo era astronauts. Bob jacobs, the pr that represented nasa. It was more of a member is of neil from his sons and a couple close friends. The eulogies were mostly about his humility. That is what i remember most about neil. One of the most humble guys i ever met, most selfeffacing, never bragged. Never thought about looked at me, i am first on the moon. And it probably the most talented guy i knew as far as pilot skills go. You were if prior you were a Fighter Pilot. Right, and so was he, in korea. Then he got out of the navy. So he wa
Mostly family and astronauts and close family were there. We got to see a lot of the apollo era astronauts. Bob jacobs, the pr that represented nasa. It was more of a member is of and a from his sons couple close friends. The eulogies were mostly about his humility. That is what i remember most about neil. One of the most humble guys i ever met, most selfeffacing, never bragged. Never thought about looked at me, i am first on the moon. And it probably the most talented guy i knew as far as pilot skills go. You were if prior you were a Fighter Pilot. Right, and so was he, in korea. Then he got out of the navy. So he was an accomplished pilot when he came to nasa. I think if anybody should have been first on the moon, it was Neil Armstrong because he had the skill and the humility to carry that load. We talked last night at dinner. When you were flying at the lunar module down, commander is on one side and the other guy is on the other side. It makes it easier for one person to get out f
Joe Burgess, who will likely be one of the youngest county commissioners in Nebraska history, talks about how he plans to balance work with life as a UNL student.