Boeing fixings technical problems with the planes Flight Systems warning it mate have to shut down production entirely. Connell s p right around record territory. It needed to close up just under nine points to set a record t was able to do that. A 14 point gain for the s p where we settle in. That is a record closing high. Same thing for the nasdaq, with a 70 point advance today. We have all of that. Plus the president , of course a big day in washington. President trump is expected to leave the white house in the next few minutes, following the Robert Mueller testimony on capitol hill. This is a chance most likely to hear from the president. Well bring you any breaking headlines from President Trump if he stops to answer questions as he often does from reporters on the south lawn of the white house. Lauren think he will do that today but we will see. As we wait for facebook, their latest Quarterly Earnings imminent at this moment. Jackie deangelis in the newsroom with the very latest
smerconish starts right now. is it over before it begins? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. before a single primary vote has been cast, has donald trump already sewn up the gop nomination or is it still up for grabs? everybody has an opinion. but the data tells a pretty compelling story. peggy noonan writing that i refuse to see the story as over. voting begins now. after chris christie dropped out, nate kohn wrote the christie vote alone will probably not be enough, but haley has been steady gaining in the polls and historically there is a lot of precedent for urge is being candidates to keep gaining especially over a contest s final days. and new hampshire will be a wild card. independents can vote in the gop primary and according to data released yesterday, 43% of americans, look at that graph, 43% of americans consider themselves to be independent. rs and ds are tied at 27. it tie as record for an independent showing making them the largest political bloc in the c
it is 8:00 p.m. in new york, 7:00 in iowa for the caucuses where have just been called to order. the 2024 election is officially underway. after a prayer and the pledge of allegiance iowa caucus goers from all 99 counties will hear from representatives of each campaign. ones each representative is heard, you write your preferred candidates name on a piece of paper, put it in a basket and the whole basket is counted in front of everybody. this is about as basic as it gets and that s a good thing. no machines. no harvesting. no drop boxes. those results will come trickling in in any second. we will know the winner tonight. imagine that. early reports indicate that donald trump is performing incredibly well. so sit back and watch because this is actually fun. would you leave your house at night when his 20 below zero, drive across the frozen tundra to politic inside a high school gymnasium? thousands of americans in iowa are. these are the diehards. they ve got a final peptalk t
super durp jourduper journalism super durp duper journalism super duper journalism awards. greg: i don t know. so this is where we honor writers who impress us with their brave journalistic pursuits and tonight s winner, we get right to it, jeremy bailey a writer for the rap an entertainment web site. friday he broke a major story about a famous tv anchor saying something shockingly disgusting to a co-anchor. i believe we have tape of what actually caused the uproar. a lot of these homeless services that are getting a lot of money, more and more money, it s not working. the solution is, in listening to the homeless, like the woman who says we are spoiled, we need tough love or we re never going to get off the street. greg, what do you think about that approach? greg: i agree with everything the little lady says and i m sorry about the cart: now did you catch that, panelist greg gutfeld otherwise known as me referred to dana perino as a little lady. talk about a mi
it s the most they ve been in agreement since deciding stephe colbert was not funny. i m glad we are finally talking about black on black crime. of course it involves cops. you know the line if it bleeds if it bleeds it leads. it may be great white shark spirit it helps that they are white. but these five officers aren t. and they still be racist? it s hard to say because the victim is blackbeard it present a quandary to the left who hate cops and doesn t want to put black criminals in jail. so what do you do next, just this once. when weld their brutality finally lead to some form from the ground up because clearly i doesn t matter if it is a white policeman or a black policeman, it is a problem in the police the policing itself. greg: so no race doesn t matter. but if it didn t matter before. you just thought it did because that is all the media focused o it now perhaps all the city did wa that by eliminating race as a variable and you see the root causes that has g