Points. If they come the big open in all three indexes. Lauren stocks are trading in europe. A downmarket acrosstheboard at the cac in paris on the quarter 1 . Gerri in asia to stocks in japan managing nowhere. Higher commissar repeat the nikkei higher, but all other lower. China hang seng in kospi. Lauren tax incentives at the big boost to profits that the stock is jumping. Fbn am is starting right now. Gerri 5 01 a. M. In new york. Wednesday from december 20th. Century wilson first Cheryl Casone. Lauren good to see you. Christmas is creeping closer. Are you prepared . Let us begin with breaking news overnight. The senate has passed a tax bill. The vote 5148 from all republicans voting in favor. Senator john mccain battling brain cancer was absent from the vote. Senate Republican Leaders celebrating their victory. The stock market is up, optimism is high, coupled with the tax reform, america is ready to Start Performing as it should have for a number of years. This is an historic mome
Working in his office. Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that the woman is accusing him of sexually harassing her. Did you sexually harass this former female staffer. No, i did not sexually harass this former female staffer. Reporter he does admit to paying her, using your taxpayer money. Congressman gave thus handwritten letter he sent to the unnamed woman congratulat ing her on a new relationship with a man. He met with the woman over ice cream last spring, a few weeks later, he learned she was accusing him of sexually harassing her and new up to the House Committee that he used to sit on until recently to decide if the congressman should pay back taxpayer fu you were on this ethics committee. You called for this ethics investigation. Did you feel hipocrittal in the since you were on this committee and denounced behavior of second youll harassment and Sexual Assault and now are are being investigated for this. But if i believe i sexually harassed somebody you might say im
Breaking. Im pretty lucky guy to be married to the woman im married to and that was why when i had the conversation with this woman i expressed right from the outset that i am happily married man. That i have no interest in a relationship. Reporter the married father of three says hes speaking because the other side broke a confidentiality agreement they both signed. Asked if hell quit and asked about the demand by House Speaker ryan that he pay back taxpayers, meehan says if they believe that somehow i have committed some sexual harassment, then im prepared to pay that money back. Reporter why cant you just pay it back any way . Why should taxpayers pay pay for any of this. Taxpayers pay for the work of employees and they pay severances to employees each and every day. Reporter now meehan is being investigated by the Ethics Committee that is a panel that he sat on hes now on it any more. He says that he removed himself from it. Now, the attorney for the former aid who i spoke to today
In nashville. Its heart break and a wound that will take a long time to heal. Mitch mcconnell, a congressman from kentucky opened his remarks by paying respects to the victims. I sent comfort and healing to everyone affected by this violence. Now, Authorities Say that children were taken to safe rooms when this was going down and there is an active investigation by the Kentucky State Police and channel 6 action news. Thank you. Well, the government shut down is over but the debate rages tonight. Igned a shortterm fix to fund the government for less than three weeks it stopped the 69 hour shut down and reauthorized childrens held care for another six years. And they did not do anything for daca. Former fbi director, james comey, is questioned by Robert Muellers office. And the New York Times is reporting that comey was asking about memos he wrote about his interactions with President Trump and the news comes hours after it was learn that attorney general, jeff sessions, was interests vi
The next block up heading west had a major cave in about a year and a half ago where she had replace a lot of i hope you guys got there. We got the collapse in progress. As Water Department inspectors and neighbors watched it sing and grow and collapse some more. The water came up the street actually lived up and then collapsed down. Reporter Water Department Officials Say the main below did break. But theyre not sure if something went wrong before that like a defective sewer pipe from somebodys house. Hold logue out the ground below causing the street to collapse and break the main. Thats why they flushed die through to see where it goes. No answer on that yet. They say the rain hasnt helped. Everything is going to cave in. Im not a happy camper. Im not a happy camper. I got 40 years in this neighborhood. Reporter and there are a lot of neighbors here who have 40 years, 50 years in this neighborhood. We could not find any record of any multiple locations of collapse or compromise thro