Investigating allegations of russian interference in the president ial election. Its understood Jeff Sessions was also questioned about whether the trump team colluded with russia, and then tried to impede the russia inquiry. And the Washington Post is reporting that special Counsel Robert Mueller is seeking to interview the president , as well. The bbcs david willis is following events in washington. You are absolutely right that indeed Thejustice Department confirming today thatJeff Sessions, the attorney general, was interviewed by Robert Muellers team, investigating alleged collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. That interview taking place last week. The interview with the special counsel, Robert Muellers team, was conducted its been reported in the presence of Jeff Sessions lawyer. It makes Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, the first member of the trump cabinet to be interviewed by Robert Muellers team and that team as well as investigating allegations of collusion be
Been waiting for him to be questioned. The idea that they suddenlyjump questioned. The idea that they suddenly jump from him questioned. The idea that they suddenlyjump from him to donald trump is ridiculous. There are many other people who will be questioned andi other people who will be questioned and i do not think thatjeff sessions being questioned now takes it any more or less likely that in end donald trump will be questioned oi end donald trump will be questioned or indeed that they will find a smoking gun. And what certainly will not change as people taking sides on this issue because they have been split 50 50 across the democrat and republican divide from the start and they will continue to be and only history will tell. The reality is we will need to wait for the film to come out before we can make a judgement. You think a 20 year wait . Yes. I do think that. The reality is that those who are against donald trump, they want to know what the effect will be, whether he can be
Close of the equity trading day. This is the stoxx 600. It is fairly steady in todays session. We did see Global Equities moved to a record close. The stoxx 600 is steady. The lack of a utility or industrial or telecom, some of those are defensive. There is an element of risk on here. Health care is outperforming and energy is up performing. You see those commodities at some of the best performers. The spike is higher. We see a lot of industrious metals. Index, the stoxx 600 commodity reduce or index. If you look at the relative strength index, this did go above 70 earlier, suggesting miners of enter the overall range. They are trading at the highest level in four years. Low has dropped back down 70 now. Rsi is just over 69 on the are in rsi. Some have gone above 7000 the first time ins 2014. This has gone above 1000 for the first 2001. The euro is actually weakening against most of its g10 peers. Began is strengthening against its peers. It is weaker for the third day on this chart. Y
Julie hyman is with us. We keep hitting record after this fight obstacles in the minds of strategist. That each has touched an intraday record and is on track for a closing record in todays session. The s p 500 is above the average above strategist we surveyed for their year end forecast, 2500. Typical we see stocks rallying about that forecast. We tend to see bullishness on the average on forecasters, so in todays session the individual stocks contributing index pointan basis, apple, j. P. Morgan, bank of america. We are seeing rates rise in the wake of his reach by janet yellen over the week that seemed to indicate some hawkishness on her part. 1. 5 ,shares up participating in a bounce back that stock recently. Also on the downside, some analysts calls dragging down stocks. Al j behind downgraded today. Hunt being dragged down today. Finally, Adobe Systems as well, Deutsche Bank in a note today saying it faces lengthening sales cycles in its Club Marketing segment and is trimming its
The goal here is to win elections in november. 2012, we010 and nominated several candidates. Christine odonnell, cheryl murdoch, theyd are not in the senate. The reason for that is they were not able to appeal to a broader electorate in the general election. Michael as the leader of the Republican Party in the senate is to keep us in the majority. What you do that is not complicated. To nominate people actually went because winners make policy and losers go home. We changed the Business Model in 2014. We nominated people who could win everywhere and took the majority and took the majority in the senate. We had one skirmish in 2016. We kept of the majority. Our approach will be to support our incumbents and in open seats, to seek to help nominate people who can actually win in november. That is the way you keep a governing majority. Earlier today, you talked about drug and Insurance Companies. What specifically would you like to see from both of those companies . Pres. Trump the Insuran