uncertainty. what the fed is going to do, when the government shutdown is going to end, so people are not sure which way things are going. you write for the column heard on the street. is there a single emotion that is coming out of those in the know on this? i think people are really uncertain about the fed. the single biggest factor. it is tricking its balance shee sheet. quantitative tightening, and at the same time, officially, they are still saying that they may raise rates as much as two times. so is the fed going to back off of that? or are they going to keep going, effectively double tightening? no one knows. that is why i think we can t really make up our minds. we are in a kind of limbo right now. leland: it is interesting that these kind of wild swings that we are seeing, up about 600 points today, happening with no
the fact that he went, i can tell you that trips like this are planned well before they actually occur. there is a close hold on them, very few people know. it was executed perfectly. their morale has been boosted by not only the president, but i think this is one of the first times that the first lady has accompanied him to a war zone. so this was a twofold mission to boost morale, to show the troops that the president cares for them. also to explain the mission. why it is important that they are there. leland: he talked about why he had pulled them out, essentially saying that they launch missions and attacks on isis. here he is sort of speaking also from a domestic political perspective, talking to the troops. take a listen. we will get your guys reaction. we are no longer the suckers. people aren t looking at us as suckers. and i love you because most of
real news coming out. no significant news. the wall street journal had a nugget coming out that jay powell, the fed chairman, may sit down and try to put their feud on ice. it seems to be going with mr. powell raising rates and mr. trump firing back on twitter. it certainly would be positive if there could be a cease-fire in terms of the words between them. i think the fed is not going to give up. i don t think that powell is going to make any promises to president trump about policy. he shouldn t. i think he wouldn t. he has some understanding that it is not helpful to have trump every other day tweeting about the fed into the markets. and that would be helpful. leland: do any of the experts have a consensus? as they look at this, the traders on the floor, are they having sort of a generic feeling about how this is going? does it vary in terms of
her daughter on thanksgiving at a supermarket outside of colorado springs. police say her fiance exchanged custody of their daughter that day. last week, police arrested him on murder charges. they say that he likely killed her in her home. investigators still have not found her body. for that, we bring in alec little, former assistant. alex, good to see you here. which side of this case, looking out the pattern, would you rather have? the prosecutor appears to have a strong case. they have also charged for murder, suggest that he was working in concert with someone else. if they know enough to charge those two things, i think it is going to be a case that they will eventually be able to win. it is a very difficult case without the body. leland: you point out the solicitation of murder charge,
to a deeper family story. order your kit at ancestry.com. leland: and now to the political implications of the breaking news yesterday. the unannounced trip of president trump to visit the troops. he planned to that presidents trip to iraq, and a democratic strategist who worked on that president obama s campaign. you braved atlanta traffic to make it here for us. you get the first question. big picture, the president, the commander in chief, shows up at the base the day after christmas. guys are a long way from home. that is one thing that does bring democrats and republicans together. yes, it absolutely does. as a veteran myself, i was very glad to see him make that trip. it s been a long time coming, but i m just glad that he was