S p indicated up fractionally. The nasdaq up fractionally as well overnight in asia, the nikkei ended higher it was up by 11 points thats still a win hang seng was up by a quarter percent. So was the shanghai composite. This morning and in some of the early trading weve seen take place in europe, modest advances actually things are relatively flat the cac is up by 0. 1 . The ftse is flat the dax is flat. Well see how things react as we get deeper into the trading day. Lets look at crude oil prices crude was down yesterday this morning its back above 50. 50. 7 5 50. 70 Hurricane Maria is lashing the islands, and puerto rico is preparing for a strike Steve Mclaughlin joins us now. From 7 00 p. M. To 1 00 a. M. , this storm had winds of 175, were down to 155 this is a strong category 4. The eyewall a bit bigger, now on land, mainland puerto rico we dont get an official landfall until the center of that eye crosses land. Here are the implications. 150mileperhour sustained winds, gusts to 1
Charlie. Charlie where is all of this going . Is this the beginning of something . Robert it is the continuation of the unraveling of the trump presidency. He is an outsider, has always been an outsider, but there are people around him whether it was Mitch Mcconnell or paul ryan or general kelly, who believe they can build a project around the president , get him to enact key gop priorities. They keep learning again and again, based on my reporting, the president changed this system. He wants to govern by instinct. He does not want to request in a certain direction. To be pushed in a certain direction. Charlie can it continue . Are you suggesting most people while amazed by this at the same time dont see it going to some logical conclusion . It is simply a continuation of what we will see for the first ofm, if it is only one term donald trump . Robert the republicans are aghast. When i talk to congress people, they think the entire presidency is on the brink. In the white house there i
For healthcare policy. A great day to look at next steps for the nations Healthcare System. Thank you all for coming out so early. Thank you for joining us. Thank you cspan for welcoming the audience here to axios. We want to thank delta dental and jason don for sponsoring the event. Thank you all following online. Please use the axios 360 and we will get the conversation going online. Axios events are like all of the manifestations of axios. We bring information you can trust, information to help you make better decisions using smart gravity so that you can get smarter faster. We see that also with these events. We are honored to have three is at the center of this conversation were going to be here with us one on one. We hope that together we will have a tour of the landscape and also make some news and make you smarter. We can count on how many of those we do im going to welcome to the stage a axios healthcare reporter that has been in the capital at the center of this, all through
Perspective. We will will talk about two things in the next little while. Where we go from here but also want to start with how this collaboration came to be. The posts in 60 minutes have worked together on Something Like this. In nearly a decade. So lets start with where the reporting story starts. How did you get the idea. We sit in result 18 months later. When did this start . The beginning of 2016 that a project launched on the National Desk post and the idea was to try to 20 people why so many people were dying w of opiate overdoses, taken in middle america, particularly middle class whites, and i had an editor who saidte to me i want u to explain how all these hundreds of millions of opioid pills get on the street. It doesnt make t sense to me wy we cant just keep them in the supply chain. And so i started reading up on it at the start calling around and, indeed, there been a lot of coverage of the manufacturers and the doctors and pharmacies but nothing on these wholesale distri
And more. The nasdaq rally rolls on buoyed by apple which reports tonight and united ceo set to testify on capitol hill this morning. What is at stake for the carrier and the industry . First up the president s comments about considering breaking up the big banks, created a lot of buzz yesterday on wall street. Jim, the point was made he doesnt often talk about the big banks, talks a lot about community lending, but that did give the markets a bit of a scare. Was it deserved . I think that the president when hes in front of particular audiences likes to say the things that the audiences want to hear. This audience does not like the big banks, feel like what happened during the Great Recession was far too much concentration in the hands of wells fargo in the hands of jpmorgan and bank of america, but remember, those were really at the behest of the government. They were trying to make sure that everybody was able to have a bank that worked and we didnt have a collapse. So to undo it whi