President and not their dictator who offers commentator on how its going, note of optimism, he note that they would retaliate if the United States wants to wage a trade war, i dont know, there was a bloomberg report that lee ho, reformer, trade negotiator expressing optimism, as you said, weve been hearing this a lot for what seems many, many months, years, but maria sure has, take the tariffs off the table or we will not buy the 50 billion in ag products. The warning comes with i want to do a phase 1 deal. I think what james alluded to, this is the longest soap opera now since general hospital. [laughter] thats positive, oh, but we have to do this, i actually see the ball having not moved forward at all. I think this is just more negotiations, i hope this gets resolved in 2020, if not, here is the great thing, the markets have seemed to have been inoculated, the markets are doing great in the absence of anything happening. Dagen in absence of escalation. Yes. Dagen again, President Tr
Maria joining the conversation, Dagen Mcdowell, former republican president ial candidate steve forbes. Im so happy that youre back, dagen. Dagen i was watching or trying to, i missed you immensely and i will leave it at that. Maria we will talk more about it. Maria steve, thank you so much for joining us, big day again. Consumer is still king. Maria we are wait on retail numbers, top story, markets hitting record high, futures on the way to another record at the start of trading, s p futures up 8 and nasdaq futures up 34 with a number of retailers to report quarterly earnings, home depot, kohls, tjmaxx among them. Lets get to home depot, Ashley Webster are the numbers. Ashley lets get right to it, home depot on the earnings per share coming at 2. 53 a share, that is one penny better than the estimate but revenue just a hair short, estimate for 27. 53 billion coming to 27. 2 billion, lets not forget home depot lowered guidance in last Earnings Report and reaffirming that, same store sa
What are you hearing . Reporter this may be moving the market. A roundtable with American Business leaders, current and former chinese fishessals and American Chamber of commerce. Out of the round table there is big differences with the trade relationship with china. One example from the u. S. Side. They say there was no real huge benefit to have this trade relationship with china, having china within the wto. Chinese officials during that roundtable saying no, that is not the case. In fact china, u. S. And world benefited from china being in the wto. Chinese made the case that china entering it benefited everybody. Roundtable officials according to the global times there may be big differences coming up with a trade deal in terms of tariffs you talked about. Global times says chinas precondition to the trade deal would like the trade tariffs rolled back simultaneously. But the negotiators from the u. S. Have not given a positive sons to that our chinese trade sources said china wants
600 milliondollar bet for coty. All this on making money. Charles were finally pulling back. Dow, s p from record territory. There are more reports out of china the negotiation, the u. S. Hasnt shown a positive response to pulling back all the tariffs. President trump continues with the same line he is holding firm. Take a listen. China will have to make a deal i like. If they dont thats it, okay . Im very happy with china. Theyre paying us billions and billions of well be over 100 billion in nottoodistant future. China never gave us 10 cents. With that being said, i have Good Relationship with china. Well see what happens. Im very happy now. If we dont make a deal with china, i will raise the tariffs higher. Neil big loser is home depot. Weighing on the dow. Missed on Comp Store Sales for the Fourth Quarter in a row. Then there is kohls. Tell you both of these companies, you listen to management see what they have done, seems to be more Company Specific than any kind of proxy on the e
Be open on sundays that will never happen on his watch. 2016 green president ial candidate, jill steyn, whether she makes the race and wants to jump into the race. President trump would like an impeachment trial in the senate, that he thinks he could state his case. And make case. Blake burman all over that. Hi, there, blake. Reporter is part of strategy we unfold in the white house. Now the president himself is saying democratic controlled house ends up Going Forward with articles of impeachment, then the president would like to have a trial in the senate. Part of the thinking here is, at that point, the president would be able to call witnesses. When he is called in to fox friends earlier this morning, the president explicitly mentioned three potential witnesses, saying he would like to call hunter biden, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, adam schiff and initial whistleblower. We couldnt have any witnesses. We want to call the whistleblower. You know who i want as first witn