Dagen a big show this morning everybody. Of course well be covering the weekend shootings in el paso, texas and dayton, ohio. And the political call even the nationwide call for something to change. Joining the conversation this morning, barons associate editor, jack howell, lee carter and mitch rochell. Welcome, all. So much to cover. So much to cover. I dont even know where to begin today. Dagen a somber morning for this nation, most certainly. Lets start with trade and whats going on in the market. So our top story, trade tensions, Global Futures and markets around the world, u. S. China trade talks at a standstill and possibly taking a step back. The chinese yuan taking a step back, many see it as a response to President Trumps planned tariffs and a sign that any trade agreement is on hold. China hitting American Farmers, asking china asked state owned companies in that nation to stop importing american agricultural products. This is according to bloomberg news. China denying the a
And corruption. Just two gop senators broke with their party to vote for conviction. Texas senator a democrat, called out his republican colleagues lack of courage today on msnbc. What happened here was and a tossup. This was an easy bank shot. Every one of these republicans saw this evidence that they should have all voted for conviction, but they made the Political Choice rather than the expedient choice rather than the hard decisions. Sometimes you have to risk the consequences when its about integrity when its about justice. Clearly, there was no justice indexes today. Donald trump, ken paxton ally, wasted no time in congratulating paxton. Trump posted on social media the texas House Speaker republican should resign for pushing this disgraceful sham. Paxton is back to worth. He reports the verdict reached saturday after a twoweek trial in the senate chamber, clears the way for paxton, a three term republican, to return to a position he has used to advance and conservative agenda th
Are in the forecast wednesday as the front slips closer. Showers will increase in the morning and then both showers and storms will be likely wednesday afternoon. 12 rain totals are possible. Scattered showers will linger through tomorrow night and thursday morning before a sunny finish to the week. Caucuses last night. Iowa has sent notice, that the republican nominee and the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media texas senator ted cruz won the outpacing billionaire Businessman Donald Trump and florida senator marco rubio. And now cruz is holding a rally in greenville ahead of the New Hampshire primary. Over the last 24 hours, the turnout expected for cruzs event in greenville has been growing. Cruz supporters say this doesnt surprise them. Its gotten bigger from the time we started from back in early october started here in south carolina, we went all the way through tulsa oklahoma, every place we went to got larger and larger and larger. Well check back
Moore. He died this afternoon after being taken off life support. Two days after being shot in the head while sitting in an unmarked patrol car in queens. His alleged killer was locked up 90 minutes a of the shooting on saturday. Nbc news is reporting that a gun just found in a yard in the suspects neighborhood. Investigators are checking to see if thats the murder weapon. He was 25 and came from a family of Police Officers. First at 4 00 today, a Prince Georges County Police Officer found guilty of assaulting a student inside a high school. News 4 bureau chief Tracey Morgan is live where the verdict was read today. Reporter the chief says nobody is above the law including Police Officers and if they do something wrong, hell contact the States Attorneys Office and seek prosecution. This case has been prosecuted and found guilty. The states attorney said it was the video that made all the difference in this case. Lets show you that video. In the video, the High School Resource officer t
Preparing to take those immediately to the operating room because they have some very, very severe injuries. So thats kind of where we are with this. [ inaudible ] conditions at this point . The conditions range everywhere from quite stable to critically injured. Critically injured, he said. Multiple fatalities at the same time and other casualties. Were expecting to hear shortly from the base commander. Well have live coverage. President obama spoke about the incident tonight. Hello, everybody. I just got off the phone with vicechairman of the joint chiefs of staff to get the latest report on the situation in ft. Hood. Obviously were following it closely. The situation is fluid right now. But my National Security team is in close contact with not just the Defense Department but the f fbi. They are working with folks on the ground to determine exactly what happened to make sure that everybody is secure. And i want to just assure all of us that we are going to get to the bottom of exact