The churchgoer who stopped the gunman who opened fire had we not had the Security Team in place, it would have been a much more severe outcome. How he trained for a moment just like this those stories plus ultimatum, a new front in the war over vaccines as one city says to students get your shots or dont come back to school in the new years. Where did my friends go, the streaming wars of the 2020 start with a bang as the central perk gang leaves netflix for a new home. And midnight mystery, drones have been filling the sky over colorado for weeks, but no one knows where they came from, so could it all be leading up to some kind of new years eve stunt . Today, tuesday, december 31st, 2019 from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, welcome to today, and thank you for joining us on this Tuesday Morning, the last day of 2019, last day of the decade im Sheinelle Jones alongside peter alexander. Savannah and hoda a
The nasdaq is the leading indices and oil hitting a threemonth highly after military strikes in the middle east energy is the bestperforming sector today joining us for the hour is josh brown, ceo of Ritholtz Wealth Management josh, obviously seeing a little profit taking here is this a tax situation scenario or is there more to read into about losing steam and sentiment . If you see profit taking on the what penultimate the penultimate is that not an american word as well . It is, we just dont use it as much. And it doesnt sound as good when i say it. It doesnt, sorry when youre seeing profit taking on the second to last day of the year, thats not tax related, but it could be front running what others suspect might be fax related, meaning look at a typical investment portfolio this year, if they own sector etfs, for example, they have a ton of Technology Large cap tech has done unbelievably well this year. Or if they own individual names. If you own apple, youre up almost double. Now
Troops. How many more sparks can this powder keg take. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the politics lead. It is official, secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with the president of ukraine this week in kiev. Arriving after the top diplomat there, bill taylor who testified in the impeachment inquiry was encouraged to leave his post. And as we learn new details about the white house efforts to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to ukraine to at least in part push ukraine to commence an investigation that might help President Trump political has admitted in emails obtained by the New York Times mulvaney asked about with holding the aid nearly a month before that now Infamous Trump ukraine conversation and only to be cautioned by one to say expect congress to become unhinged and a known meeting with top Security Officials trying to convince him to release the aid arguing it was in the best interest of the United States, ome only to be rebuffed b
Militia. Tonight russia is pushing back American Contractor last week. Calling the vikes unacceptable. Today what we did was take a and Deadly Church shooting. Decisive response that makes chilling new details of an clear what President Trump has attack inside of a texas church said for months and months and that killed two people as we months, which is that we will learn the identity of the not stand for the Islamic Security volunteer who took out the gunman in a matter of republic of iran to take actions to put american men and women in seconds. Wolf blitzer is off today. Jeopardy. Reporter pompeo andes per im brianna keilar. Youre in the situation room. Joins by mark millie stopping in palm beach for roughly three hours on sunday briefing trump and reporters on the attacks and vowing to continue exerting tonight the man accused of using a machete to attack five people at a hanukkah celebration maximum pressure on ukrainian, in new york city in a suburb of reviving concerns about whe
The suspect in the stabbing attack appeared before a judge a short time ago and ordered to stay behind bars. Mike pompeo is traveled to travel this week as the impeachment continues to grip washington. Nee details about President Trumps decision to freeze ukraine aid and how his top policy officials pleaded with him to release the money. I will talk with jaime raskin and new york mayor, bill de blasio and our analysts and correspondents are standing by. First, our reporter is at the scene of the stabbing steen in new york. Reporter we talked to several here and they are telling us they are terrified what is happening in their community and across the country and including new york. Lots more details coming out about the suspect and a lot of people concerned about what theyre hearing from authorities where he is linked to certain groups, and talked with antisemitic words and now he is facing five federal hate crimes. Tonight, the man accused of going on a stabbing rampage during a hanuk