President and not their dictator who offers commentator on how its going, note of optimism, he note that they would retaliate if the United States wants to wage a trade war, i dont know, there was a bloomberg report that lee ho, reformer, trade negotiator expressing optimism, as you said, weve been hearing this a lot for what seems many, many months, years, but maria sure has, take the tariffs off the table or we will not buy the 50 billion in ag products. The warning comes with i want to do a phase 1 deal. I think what james alluded to, this is the longest soap opera now since general hospital. [laughter] thats positive, oh, but we have to do this, i actually see the ball having not moved forward at all. I think this is just more negotiations, i hope this gets resolved in 2020, if not, here is the great thing, the markets have seemed to have been inoculated, the markets are doing great in the absence of anything happening. Dagen in absence of escalation. Yes. Dagen again, President Tr
Maria joining the conversation, Dagen Mcdowell, former republican president ial candidate steve forbes. Im so happy that youre back, dagen. Dagen i was watching or trying to, i missed you immensely and i will leave it at that. Maria we will talk more about it. Maria steve, thank you so much for joining us, big day again. Consumer is still king. Maria we are wait on retail numbers, top story, markets hitting record high, futures on the way to another record at the start of trading, s p futures up 8 and nasdaq futures up 34 with a number of retailers to report quarterly earnings, home depot, kohls, tjmaxx among them. Lets get to home depot, Ashley Webster are the numbers. Ashley lets get right to it, home depot on the earnings per share coming at 2. 53 a share, that is one penny better than the estimate but revenue just a hair short, estimate for 27. 53 billion coming to 27. 2 billion, lets not forget home depot lowered guidance in last Earnings Report and reaffirming that, same store sa
Program, the hong kong protest and the political situation in iraq. Good afternoon, everyone. I i have some statements i wanto make today, starting with a statement about the Islamic Republic of iran. The United States is monitoring the ongoing protests in iran closely. We condemn strongly in acts of violence committed by this regime against the iranian people and are deeply concerned by reports that several fatalities. Weve been at that since the beginning of this administration. The Islamic Republic must cease violence against its own people and should immediately restore the building of all arenas to access a free and open internet. The world is watching. The iranian people will enjoy aa Better Future win their government begins to respect basic human rights, abandons its revolutionary posture, and its destabilizing Foreign Policy in the region and behave simply like a normal nation. The choice is clear with the regime. Continue with iran. President rouhani announced they began uran
Im sumi so lets got to thank you for joining us we start with a meeting that could decide the fate of syrias kurds turkish president rajapaksa one is meeting with his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in sochi for talks on Northern Syria now turkey launched an offensive there 2 weeks ago to clear the area of Kurdish Militias and carve out a socalled safe south a u. S. Brokered cease fire to give the kurds time to withdraw is due to expire late today more now on the region in Northern Syria and the players who want a stake in it. Its a fight turkey has been spoiling for for a while. Conqueror is determined to expel Kurdish Forces from an area close to its southern border over the syrian. It is helping turkey on the ground told e. W. They will stop at nothing to make sure the operation succeeds. We will not stop no matter what International Decisions pressured nothing will stop us were moving forward we came for this mission so we have to finish it out of the. President added once a ser
Matt good morning from a very busy berlin. We have a office full of reporters who have been here all night long, like the Lionel Richie song, because the German Climate cabinet has been meeting since yesterday and has not been able to come to a decision on the possibility of a carbon tax or extension of the cap and trade system, and has not come to a conclusion about what environmental kinds of environmental package that could be in the tens of billions of euros ity wants to present. Nejra it will be interesting to see what that includes, and if Angela Merkel disappoints. She was criticized when she was environmental minister. It is the number one concern of german voters, and as far as what we could get, there are questions over some kind of extension of the emissions trading scheme, may be moving that to other sectors, and if there could be a carbon tax. All this could affect a number of companies, including airlines and also a lot of transport companies, matt. So what do you think m