Bblg of. Mr. Sanders mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , as everybody knows, the Republican Party now controls the u. S. House, the u. S. Senate, and the white house. We also know that unless a budget agreement is reached by december 22, the United States government will shut down, which will cause serious harm to our country, including the men and women in the armed forces and our veterans. Mr. President , i do not know why the Republican Party, which controls all the branches of government, wants to shut our government down. I think thats wrong. I think a shutdown will be very hurtful to people from coast to coast. Now, President Trump said earlier this year, he tweeted, quote, our country needs a good shutdown, end of quote. I strongly disagree. I dont think we need a good shutdown. I think we need to reach an agreement on a budget which works for the middle class of our country and not just the wealth
Welcome to power lunch. Stocks are lower at this hour and dow and the s p 500 slightly higher telecomes are the best financials fedex more than 300 and wild trading day for bitcoin plunged 10 earlier and sinking again now. A lot of news. Hackings, bankruptcies and selling from a major player. Well dive deeper into it. Blackberry the company topping expectations and 2018 revenue and stitchfix, however, tanking. The Apparel Company increasing its Customer Base but its bottom line was impacted by higher costs. And chipotle taking a drop the stock is lowered by more than 2. 5 . Brian . Michelle, thank you. We begin today with the latest out of washington, d. C. The tax bill passing, again. All the angles of that bill covered. Abram at the president where the president is expected to hold a tax bill event at 3 00 p. M and kayla is on the next big story. Thats a funding bill to keep the government open. Lets start with elan. Brian, it is Done Congress has now passed the most sweeping rewrite
This morning. Starting with the bay bridge. will live look now at the richmond bridge. will time to check the san mateo bridge. Heres a live look at highway 24 in lafayette darya our top story this morning. A somber week for chp officers. Who are mourning the death of one of their own. 33yearold Andrew Camilleri lost his life while trying to protect others on Christmas Eve. His body was returned back to his hometown of tracy yesterday. Officer camilleri leaves behind a wife and three young kids. He was killed by a suspected drunk driver while on patrol on interstate 880 in hayward. The 22yearold suspect remains hospitalized and has not yet been publicly identified. Kron 4s Spencer Blake was in tracy talked to people who knew the fallen officer. reporter tuesday afternoon that procession of chp and other Law Enforcement vehicles had sirens blaring as they accompanied the body of fallen chp officer Andrew Camilleri. nats of sirens despite the loud wailing, this somber line of cars had a
will will live look now at the richmond bridge. will time to check the san mateo bridge. In our top story this morning. Its been a somber week for chp officers. Who are mourning the death of one of their own. 33yearold Andrew Camilleri lost his life while trying to protect others on Christmas Eve. Yesterday his body was returned back to his hometown of tracy. Officer camilleri leaves behind a wife and three young kids. He was killed by a suspected drunk driver while on patrol on interstate 880 in hayward. The 22yearold suspect remains hospitalized and has not yet been publicly identified. Today kron4s Spencer Blake was in tracy talked to people who knew the fallen officer. reporter tuesday afternoon that procession of chp and other Law Enforcement vehicles had sirens blaring as they accompanied the body of fallen chp officer Andrew Camilleri. nats of sirens despite the loud wailing, this somber line of cars had a reverence about it. People in tracy came to join officers, firefighters,
Coming up. We do have quite a rally with the dow in particular. The transports continue higher all the major averages are in record territory. We also have big calls on the Airline Sectors today and the banks as financials get set to report. Were heading into earnings season well have you up to date on those. Lets start on the floor of the new york stock exchange, mr. Robert pisani joining us with a recap of whats going on as we get ready for earnings, right . Yeah, a lot at stake here, but sixday winning streak, just six days in a row since december 17th p nasdaq has the best sixday winning streak since the end of january 2016. Were starting earnings on friday, there are very High Expectations thats my theme. A shortterm risk. The markets. Just on earnings, analysts are much more optimistic we hardly got any last quarter here were expecting bigger beats, not by a penny or two pennies but more than that if youre disappointed youre going to get hit more. Also, we have guidance here. Now