We just showed you, gas prices are low so everybodys feeling that no matter how much money you make, youre feeling the low gas prices. Job market is coming back. Higher income mostly higher income earners, theyre really feeling the stock market returns. Theyre more likely to be in the stock market. Great return to the stock market this year so for the first time in seven years, a majority of americans are feeling good, say the economy is doing well. So that gdp number, low gas prices, the stock market put it all together, theyre calling it the christmas rally. Even minimum wage were expecting to go up. There will be 20 states where minimum wage rises come january 1. So even though theres been consternation about how wages in general are not rising, wages are the part of this economic recovery that have the v not been there, the states are raising minimum wages in 20 states so people will have more money in their pockets. Christine, thank you for the good news, a Christmas Gift there. P
Being overly involved. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. It is tuesday, january 17th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. New trouble for the nominee. A cnn report has democrats calling for an ethics investigation of Congress Member tom price. The president elect pick for health and human services. Did he use influence for personal profit. Price bought as much as 15,000 of a stock in a hip and knee implantmaker. Days later, he introduced legislation that would benefitted the company. The hip act would have delayed the change in medicare and medicaid reimbursements to hurt the company and not long after price fired the bill, the Political Action committee for the company donated 1,000 to prices reelection fund. Follow the bouncing ball. After keeping silent, a price aide said the stock was purchased without the Congress Members knowledge. Any effort to connect the introduction of the Legislation Co sponsored to the democrats with the Campaign Contribution is false. Dr. Pr
Clock to retire with full benefits. Ought days to go in a tweet from the president. The president believes that the American People have a right to know what happened in that investigation. We put all our faith and confidence in the fbi and the department of justice. Hes making a point we need to make sure there is no bias. There are serious concerns whether there was or was not. Fox news learned acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe is even jim for retirement in march. There have been rumors of a possible retirement. President trump commented on twitter, white house director legislative affairs defended the tweets and he also said this. The white house is cooperating with that investigation. After millions of dollars no collusion has been proven. The president is saying we need to know our Civil Servants are doing the honorable thing. Reporter mccabe spent 14 hours 2e69r testifying behind capitol hill. Democrats say the it was meant to discredit the special counsels investigation. This is
This is the news line from daily star reporter exposed full fortunately adding dramatic details to cues west german journalism class of a lawsuit from a news magazine dish spiegel has admitted to falsifying information bringing down his own korea and tanisha the name of his entire Organization Also coming up how the shutdown is nothing we can do about that. Partial shutdown of the Us Government chips in as President Trump and congress disagree over funding. Wall along the mexican border. Im glad you could join us a prize winning journalist at one of germanys leading news magazines has handed back a number of awards after it was revealed he faked elements of his story class for a lot is has admitted inventing entire packages and making up quotes there spiegel fired him earlier this week and management says its looking into all of his work to establish the extent of his deception. Class reload sears has won many awards for his detail rich reporter large much of it about the United States
Down the investigation were within his authority as chief executive. And therefore it was too difficult to prove that the president had criminal intent. But the president has already claimed complete and total exoneration with the barr memo. The only thing the public has so far seen, democrats are worried that the narrative has already calcifie calcified. I said that barr is an agent of the president. He was put there for that purpose. So thats his job, to protect the president personally. And one could not, therefore, trust the accuracy of anything he produced. Congressman nadler is authorized to subpoena the support as early as today. And this new reporting certainly gives him cover to continue asking questions. But we should note that this is all coming second and thirdhand. Mueller and his team have not publicly voiced these concerns on the record and without access to the full report or even a more comprehensive summary, at the very least, it is difficult to draw substantial concl