He hit everything and anybody, go ahead. Maria quite the scene inside and outside the rally, of course, breaking news this morning, oil prices, markets are moving this morning after missiles hit and Iranian Oil Tanker, saudi port city of jetta overnight, iran state media, leaking crude into red sea, iran says the situation is under control now, the ship crew is safe, key shipping route for global oil industry, lets talk about that, here oil prices up and 3 quarters percent, reaction here. Look, this is just an isolation of tensions, we dont neglect that, its unconfirmed. Theyll be a marginal strike in prices. Thats right, we saw that attack on saudi oil field, we got spike up in prices but it didnt sustain, so i dont see this being i think this continues, but i dont see it as being sustainable higher earning. Maria in terms of resilience of the u. S. Given the supply thats coming out of america right now. Dagen as long as ive been wearing a microphone and makeup sitting in front of a c
Origins of the impeachment inquiry. Let us go back to 2014, 2015, 2016, the Obama Administration. What is u. S. Policy toward ukraine at this time . Consistenteen fairly antiukraine on reform. That is been fairly consistent under both president obama and president trump. Under the Obama Administration, it was carried i his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in ukraine working with politicians there to clean up corruption. What was then Vice President joe bidens role . Obamas point person in ukraine and carried that message for the president. He also oversaw the u. S. U. S. Messaging when it came to the conflict on ukraine and the russian annexation of crimea. And then the war began in Eastern Ukraine in the spring of that year. The first hot war in the region in an extremely long time. And biden really carried the messaging from obama. The United States that was worried about corruption in the ukraine at this time . For thes been an issue u. S. Allies in europe a
Barbara doran from b88 Capital Partners good to see you, barbara less than two weeks until the official u. S. China trade talks kick off and a new wrinkle as to what will actually happen when both parties meet. It is definitely a new wri wrinkle today. For me the bigger concern emerging is what happens to the consumer all of the consumer data this week was pretty terrific, except for Consumer Confidence numbers. Housing, et cetera, we continue to have strong wages, growth, that sort of thing but for the first time, were seeing Consumer Confidence down a little bit, consumers and surveys are saying, hey, trade issues have crept into their head and, you know, my real concern is the margins of companies, if they start to do layoffs, that hurts Consumer Confidence, and stops spending and that is the underpinning, which by all accounts, we all agree. By the way, the china has got markets spooked. Nasdaqs down 1. 6, the laggard of those indices. Bob is with us for the full first hour, which
This is the kaiser report where were you september 3rd 2009 thats a question well be asking kids grandkids for years to come down was the 1st episode of the kaiser report yes 10 years ago today because a report began broadcasting all over the world under the countrys billions of people. 10 years ago this month indeed we started here in paris so while were here in paris i wanted to record this special there are some controversies about when the 1st episode actually aired of course because of a you tube and how they upload and date things but nevertheless i want to you know look back a little bit at a what we experience here in paris at the beginning of our journey of kaiser report 10 years ago and what i realized looking back and anybody could do that because its all on you tube go report episode one episode to episode 3 episode 4 just watch those 1st episodes im going to look at episode one and 3 at the moment because it napa said one we interviewed Danny Schechter the news the sector
Cut wall streets Immediate Reaction was pure suspicion. Oh, he doesnt have the heart in the rate cut hes not as worried as he should be hes being dragged kicking and screaming to this rate cut because things are weaker overseas, not here thats why the averages initially got hammered before the market peoplely came to its senses later in the afternoon. Dow only closing up 36 s p advancing 0. 03 and nasdaq declining 0. 11 . The u. S. Economy does have a lot of strength. It does. The rest of the world does have a lot of weakness so we got what pundits were calling a hawkish cut. Theyre so clever, meaning its the last rate cut or maybe the penultimate rate cut apparently that wasnt enough for some money managers. What do they want they were so disappointed they wanted to be surprised and wanted powell to tell us hes enthusiastic about easing and it will find a way to strongarm the others the bulls wanted Bill Belichick fed chief, okay. Lets get this done. Do your job chairman who wont let