Good morning, everyone. Its thursday, march 9th. Im alex witt and ayman mohyeldin. House worked through the night. After 12 hours of markup with plenty of interruption from democrats, they announced they keep going straight through. Weve gone 12 hours on the first amendment. Weve got at least 100 to go, maybe more, so buckle in because we will go until were done with the amendment. Meanwhile, the white house continues their offensive. Top advocacy groups like the aarp, the American Medical Association and the American Hospital association all now oppose the Health Care Plan citing its impact on vulnerable americans. House and Senate Republicans are also making sure their leadership understands they will not hit their numbers as of now. Earlier in the day leaders from top conservative groups like heritage, club for growth, americans for prosperity and Freedom Works and Tea Party Patriots all expressed their deep reservations with the president. Last night the president hosted his bitter
his lawyer back in january promised that there would be no further foreign deals, but now it s thought that he could be laying out the groundwork of potentially doing many more chinese deals after his presidency. so it is quite controversial. looking at the markets, a lot is happening in the fact that just within this last hour or so we re now hitting new lows in oil. crude falling below 50 for the first time since december. so the nymex trading around $49. now brent is around 52. it had its worst day yesterday in 13 months settling just above that $50 mark for nymex at a three-month low. this is all down to the eia data that s shown us this massive ballooning taking place in the inventory data. that had an impact on equities with the energy sector off the most. lisa boyson live from london. thanks so much. investigators are racing to figure out how thousands of alleged documents were stolen from the cia. senior intelligence official has