even this morning we were down before we rallied. so yes, a good close. thank god we had a good close. remember monday? that was a couple of days ago. we were down huge. we have fallen hard from off the highs, which was about neil: early in the week wasn t there fears that they wouldn t get the short term funding through, the government would be pushed to the brink? now we got some breathing room. they wrote off on something that keeps the lights on through october 18 and all bets are off. there was a lot of worry about that. i guess the reason why i bring that up, melissa, could there be similar confidence here that even though this is perilous now, they will come up with at least a vote on the infrastructure package itself, putting aside this bigger package. i think the market would prefer the 1.5 trillion even though that is an astronomical
vaccine rollouts and rolling out a new COVID response partnership of his
own.
PETER DOOCY, FOX NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Charles, good afternoon.
The president s event today was closed to the press, so no opportunity for
anybody in the pool today to ask him any questions about anything. But the
White House did provide a link to a livestream, so we could see the
president there making an announcement about free rides to vaccination
sites.
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: To ensure that transportation
is less of a barrier, from May 24 through July 4, Uber and Lyft, Uber and
how do we put these things together? let s ask market watcher, melissa armo and teddy wiseberg. i ll never forget years ago when it was worse than this. i said what are you doing? he said i want another seat. so in the teeth of death, you faced it bravely. should we do the same thing again? s seen so many near death experiences, charles, that after a while, it gets boring. the fact is, it hurts every time. unfortunately you never learn from your mistakes. you know, i m not sure where we are here. but clearly this is in a big sense, the case of sell-out in a good news, buy in the bad news. the good news the economy is doing fine. what are we going to do for an encore? we re faced with rising interest rates. a lot of geo political and domestic unknowns. plus, the mid-term election.
so i don t know what happens in the next two weeks but until we get the mid-terms behind us, our position is we ve been taking money off the table and keeping our powder dry. very expensive and dangerous trying to catch a falling knife. charles: melissa, a lot of guessing out there and a variety of issues and problems. we learned the commit is a juggernaut right now. it s great but great and it s not inflationary. the fed should stay away. this should be allowed to go on some time and that would be the perfect backdrop for a market rebound. that s one of the things that was good. look at the bright side. first of all, it s friday, halloween weekend. second of all, the market held the uptrend. we rallied and held. google and amazon did not record well last night. but they didn t bomb. thank god they didn t bomb. could have been worse. look to the bright side, apple records. if apple good, the market could