It was being called the christmas protest. Three big hours for you. Buckle in. Merry christmas. Varney company about to start right now. Charles huge gains for the markets this year. The calendar year, in fact, has wall street looking extraordinarily well. Want to bring in market watcher Rebecca Walser on these gains and of course, at this point in time, we always look ahead. What do you make overall of this market, considering all the negative headlines, all the negative speculation . First to have this kind of market is really remarkable. Charles, it is. Merry christmas. Im having such a great retail season high. I dont care what the retail experts, you know, were expecting. We got 3. 4 growth and Super Saturday, charles, the biggest shopping day ever. 3. 4 billion on Super Saturday. Thats what happens when you have a short Christmas Shopping season, right, from thanksgiving to christmas. Charles yeah, no doubt about it. And i got to tell you, its anecdotal but as i looked around at
Formula for success is simple. We invite extraordinarily bright speakers who offer bold perspectives, perspectives which rarely get a hearing in manhattan ballrooms or progressive cabins. Inivering the reston lecture 1995, that was a huge laugh line. [laughter] are we napping . Delivering the restaurant the reston lecture in 1995, the speaker asked why americans were unhappy with the country that was more powerful and prosperous than ever. He drew attention to signs of disorder, crime, failing schools a coarsening culture and deteriorating civic life. Wilson argued these problems had begun with the dissolution of the family. Then as now, a controversial view. Today disorder is rising again, and i am not just talking about mayor de blasios much lamented return from iowa. [laughter] you are getting there. [laughter] this disorder is the consequence of a nationwide effort to roll back many successful policies that mi scholars have spent careers advancing. President ial campaign may have g
President trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, and the 2020 u. S. President ial election, they solicited the government of ukraine to announce investigations that would among other things harm the election prospects of the proponent. Is that not exactly the sort of abuse of power that the founders had in mind when they drew up the impeachment clause of the cause edition . Atty. Gen. Barr you put so much work into that question. I feel bad that im going to give you the answer. [laughter] which is there is this political constitutional process underway on the hill, and the attorney general is not part of that process. And at this stage, i am just not going to comment on it. Jerry nothing at all . Atty. Gen. Barr i will say that on the other articles of impeachment, relating to obstruction, i dont believe it is the case that where somebody, including a branch of government, is asserting a legal privilege that they have under the law, that that constitutes obs
Jerry thank you for that introduction. Thank you, general barr, for being here. The headline for this conversation is antitrust and other matters. With your indulgence, there are quite a lot of news. Lets start with the other matters part of the program. It may have possibly captured your attention this morning that the house of representatives published two articles of impeachment against the president of the United States. Let me just read out an excerpt from the first article of impeachment which says that using the power of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, and the 2020 u. S. President ial election, they solicited the government of ukraine to announce investigations that would among other things harm the election prospects of the proponent. Is that not exactly the sort of abuse of power that the founders had in mind when they drew up the impeachment clause of the cause edition . Atty. Gen. Barr you put so much work into th
News, as john of said, at the moment. Lets start with the other matters part of the program. It may have possibly captured your attention this morning that the house of representatives published two articles of impeachment against the president of the United States. Let me just read out an excerpt from the first article of impeachment, which says that using the power of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, ukraine, and in the 2020 u. S. President ial election, they solicited the government of ukraine to announce investigations that would, among other things, harm the election prospects of the proponent. Is that not exactly the sort of abuse of power that the founders had in mind when they drew up the impeachment clause of the cause edition . Atty. Gen. Barr you put so much work into that question. I feel bad that im going to give you the answer. [laughter] jerry i had all morning, after all. [laughter] atty. Gen. Barr which is there is th