Overnight in asia. The nikkei higher by 1. 1 . Hang seasoning up 2. 3 and shanghai up. 8 . Youll also see green arrows in europe the dax up 1. 9 . Cac is up. Gains for italian stocks too in the treasury market, at this point, 10year yielding 1. 67 . Twoyear at 1. 551 30year up at 1. 61 . Iranian Officials Say two missiles trunk an iranian tanker in the red sea crude prices, as a result of this, they are jumping up close to 2 wti crude now 54. 47. They are saying that damaged two store rooms aboard the tanker and caused an oil leak that attack happened about 60 miles north of the city jeda six months after the attack of the oil tanker in hermuz and the saudi attack never good to conjecture anything they have been the attacker and you wonder was there Something Else going on because they didnt point fingers, you wonder. Was it a screw up but we have no idea. No idea they were attacked by someone. Who knows. Two missiles hit a tanker that much we know. Lets talk about the trade headlines.
Hinkman and fartman are here tonight on the show. First the king of social media, our tangerine twitter man donald jemimah trump. The whistles are blowing, the witches are hunting but the president keeps going. You can look up his schedule every day. This is it. At 3 15, he signed executive orders on transparency and federal guidance and enforcement. And that was it. [ laughter ] otherwise it was just yelling and tweeting. And touching himself to sean hannity, i guess. [ laughter ] trump is handling this impeachment crisis about as well as you would expect. Which is badly, very, very badly. Definitely woke up on the wrong side of the tanning bed this morning. [ laughter ] he started with the donothing democrats are con artists only looking to hurt the Republican Party and president , the socalled whistleblower, before knowing i was going to release this exact transcript, stated my call with the president was crazy, frightening, completely unrelated to substance, this is a very big lie,
Prison, fines and more as the the College Admissions scandal buildup to Lori Loughlins trial grows moree joker. Families of the colorado Movie Theater shooting victims are outraged this morning. And 21 new York Firefighters children of men who died as a result of the 9 11 attack, honoring their dads and inspiring america. Early today starts right now good to be with you on a busy wednesday morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. The stage is set for a historic clash between congress and President Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is launching a formal impeachment inquiry into the president , calling his burgeoning ukraine scandal a breach of his constitutional responsibility. So what comes next mr. Trump says the white house will release a transcript today of his call with the ukrainian president where he pushed for his counterpart to investigate his potential 2020 rival, joe biden. Some reports allege mr. Trump may have linked nearly 400 million in aid to pressure ukraine. And
Transcripts, these are notes, not an official transcript, but as close as is available. It is the best record of this call. Made july 25th, from the white house residence by President Trump to president zelensky ukrai ukraine, the call lasted about 30 minutes. And let me walk you through the call after having read the notes of the call. Trump begins by congratulating zelensky for his election victory and midway through the call says, quote, id like you to do us a favor those because our untry has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it, id like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine. They say crowd strike. I guess you have one of your wealthy people, the server, they say ukraine has it. Now, frankly, it is hard to tell exactly what the president means. Jchlt doj officials werent able to shed light on it. But perhaps he is thinking that somebody in ukraine has one of the missing clinton email servers. Frankly, it is impossible to tell. And then
He admits it wasnt the only time, his electi campaign thrown into chaos as a rival says hes not fit to lead. White house whistleblower, a formal complaint filed by a u. S. Intelligence officer against President Trump. This morning the mystery surrounding what the president may have promised a foreign leader during a phone call. Those stories, plus ties to isis the case of a Florida Airline mechanic charged with sabotaging a plane moments before takeoff. Nbc news investigates. Well take you inside ground zero for americas vaping epidemic, the factories in china where nearly all of the products are made. And city of flights, the flying taxis giving tourists a brand new way to see paris today, september 19th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody, welcome to today. Were so happy you joined us on this thursday morning, weather all week shes got a bug that wont let go. Cant shake it. We do w