Cleveland, the debate received a second highest rating for a president ial debate on television in history. The president made it clear today, he is happy with the ratings and how the night played out. I thought the debate last night was great, weve gotten tremendous reviews on it, were hitting what people want, law and order which biden was unable to talk about because the radical left followers, i dont think theres too many of them left. But i thought it was a great evening in an exciting evening and i see the ratings were very high and it was good to be there, its all very comfortable. I appreciate all the good words. Lou tonight we will be taking a President Trump debate performance with Trump Campaign Senior Advisor jason miller and President Trump last night taking out the Obama Biden Administration plot to undermine his presidency. Today fired fbi director james comey testified before the house Judiciary Committee, comey seemed hellbent on dodging any responsibility for his role
Thank you for joining us. I appreciate it. Last nights debate President Trump slammed the Obama Administration and the deep state for their years of trying to subvert and overthrow his presidency, this is tonight lou dobbs quote of the day. When i listen to joe talking about a transition, there has been no transition, i won the election and if you look at crooked Hillary Clinton and all the different people, there was no transition because they came after me trying to do a who in trying to spy on my campaign, they started from the day i went and even before i went in the day came down the escalator with our first lady. They were a disaster and a disgrace to our country, we have caught them and we caught them all. Lou caught them all. We would like to hear from you with all of this, share your comments and follow me on twitter at lou dobbs and follow me on instagram at lou dobbs tonight. Tomorrow we will be joined by devin nunes and davis hansen, we hope you will be with us as well. Up
All right, america, youre so money and dont even know it, maybe you do because your Stock Investments hitting record highs yet again. Look behind me, all three major indexes higher for a fourth straight day you see, mr. President , somebody is talking asht ining about it. Surprise one of the big winners this week, ge, up 6 in the last five kays were going to chat with an analyst sthat says the beaten u ge could go 50 higher from here check out other movers this hour, cvs health, xilinx, underarmour, up, leading the s p 500. Welcome, everybody, im Tyler Mathisen we kick off the day with the jobs report, first of the new year payrolls for december missing the mark the jobless rate hitting a 17year low. Wages rising not blowout pace, but nice Steve Liesman in philadelphia breaking down the numbers and looking at what it all means for rate hikes this year steve reporter hey, tyler, thanks. Yeah, it was a weaker than expected jobs report, but economists said it didnt really change their vie
Lost and stuck on a steep cliff near baker beach. Sky fox was over the scene about 15 minutes ago. You can see there that fire crews are performing a high angle rope rescue, hoisting each one of those three adults up that cliff. Sanfrancisco fire says the hikers called 911 around 2 40 this afternoon when they realized they were stuck. Authorities say thankfully the three people are not hurt. And in mexico, a major earthquake hit less than a half hour ago shaking south and central mexico and a preliminary magnitude of u 7. 5. Its in the south mexico city at around 4 30 or 3 30 rather. It was felt in mexico city. As soon as we get more information we will bring that to you. To the startling new revelations that the pike mrs. Handled a tip involving the shooter that came to them in early january. This comes as President Trump made an unannounced visit to the hospital where survivors are being treated now. Reporter hi, actually President Trump is inside the hospital be mind me right now. H
Thank you again. On the next washington journal, margot sangerkatz joins us, looking at Health Care Insurance and costs. Then Sharon Epperson on the 80th anniversary of Social Security and what the future holds for the program. Later, a conversation on the u. S. Foster care system, with the director of policy reform and advocacy. Well also take your phone calls, Facebook Comments and tweets. Washington journal, live each morning at 7 00 eastern on cspan. With the senate in its august break, well feature brook tv programming week nights, starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. For the weekends, here are a few special programs. Saturday, august 22nd, live from jackson, mississippi, for the mississippi book festival, beginning at 11 30 a. M. With discussions on harper lee, civil rights and the civil war. September 5th, were live from our nations capital. Followed on sunday with our live in depth program, with former second lady and senior fellow at the American Enterprise institute, lynn cheney.