We are going to bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Joining us from hong kong is yvonne man, from london, emma chandra, from washington, Kevin Cirilli, and Michael Mckee joins us in new york. In hong kong, chief executive carrie lam will hold her first public dialogue in response. To the protests yvonne man is response to in the protests. Yvonne man is outside the venue. What can we expect . About several hundred ,eople are out here, chanting not one less, referring to the five demands protesters have. Could bring some pictures of what it is looking like right now, about 150 people chosen from 20,000 applicants in the public to take part in this dialogue, the first is the public and with the government, a town hall style with the governing in the middle alongside carrie lam. They will be randomly picking people from the audience. They have three minutes to ask a question. We will not hear typical q a. They will ask a couple of questions first, and they government
Altamont. Some slowing through Construction Zone for sunnyvale. No Major Concerns there. This is the crash were talking about eastbound at 780 off i80. Not presenting a problem. Back to you. Thanks, mike. On capitol hill today its expected to be another explosive day as President Trump denies accusations of impeachable acts. A key hearing will happen in one hour from now. The acting director of National Intelligence is set to testify about the phone call with the president of ukraine. Live with what we should expect on this very momentous day. Good morning, chris. Reporter yes, good morning, kris and marcus. According to the latest nbc news count there is a majority in the house of representatives for the first time of people who believe some sort of impeachment action should take place with President Trump. He is coming back to washington today after spending the early part for the u. N. General assembly. He will arrive while his acting director of National Intelligence is answering q
Some of it is redacted as you can see the black marks here. We dont know what it is. There is a reference to military aid that was suspended, essentially, or put on hold to ukraine that is raised in the whistleblower complaint. That is at the heart of what some have described as potential quid pro quo, one the president has denied. Let me explain what that is. The United States had been set to deliver this military assistance to ukraine. The president did ask for that to be reviewed. That was not because of anything nefarious, per se, the president wanted to get other allies onboard but it is notable it is raised in the complaint as we take a look inside the hearing room. This issue of Rudy Giuliani repeatedly being mentioned is of concern. The president , when i asked him about his personal attorney over the last 24 hours fiercely defended Rudy Giuliani. He did not try to distance himself from his lawyer who, as this complaint describes and as giuliani himself acknowledges, talked wit
States would result in an extraordinary threat to National Security and Foreign Policy. So, the Inspector General is saying, heres why you have to investigate this thoroughly, is because this potentially affects National Security and Foreign Policy. Also goes on to state that he wants this to be further investigated. We now know as of yesterdays reporting that he not only referred it to the Justice Department for a possible criminal investigation of the president of the United States, he also referred it to the fbi director. So the tension within the government, the Inspector General saying get this done, get this investigated, the Justice Department looking at it and saying, no, there is a direct conflict between those two points of view, george. That is likely to come up in this hearing. Were looking at the hearing where admiral joseph maguire, the retired general, now acting director of National Intelligence expected to testify on why he withheld it from congress and why he believes
While futures are off their highs following the release of that complaint but we will still be up about 50 points on the dow, up maybe 4 on the s p, 4. 5 on the nasdaq. We were higher than that before the whistleblower complaint was released. We have come down a little bit but not that much. Look, this is going to be a very big day for politics and of course, for your money. You are going to see Speaker Pelosis news conference. Thats in our 10 00 hour. The speaker owns the impeachment process. She favors quote, a quick, narrow impeachment probe focused on ukraine. Hold on. Theres a great deal happening on the corporate front as well. First off, peloton goes public at 29 a share. This is another big name ipo which is losing money and its facing lawsuits from music stars who want more money for appearing on the peloton workout screen. We will show you the first peloton trade. How about this. An aboutface for mcdonalds. Yes, they are planning a meatless burger. Watch beyond meats stock go