Radical dimms. House republicans voting as a cohesive block to censure adam schiff and dozens of them protesting the schiffled star chamber, storming the dimms secretive hearing room. Not so view discuss in the senate. But a handful of gop senators standing with the president against impeachment. Senator Lindsey Graham today stepping up his support of the president and railing against the leaders of the Kangaroo Court proceedings against president trump. Whats going on is a runaround the impeachment process creating a secret proceeding behind closed doors that is in my view denies due process. When you are talking about removing the president of the united states, it seems to me you would want a process that is consistent with who we are as americans. If you can drive down a president s poll numbers by having proceedings where you selective live leak information where the president who is the subject of all this is pretty much shut out. God help future president s. Lou as this presiden
Democrats call in the strongest ed yet of an improper quid pro quo by the president while the republicans said there was nothing new in taylors testimony. The president blasted the diplomat claiming he was a never trumper and saying neither he taylor nor any other witnesses provided testimony that the ukrainians were aware of any military aid being withheld. The day after taylors appearance, a few dozen house members stormed into the planned closed door deposition by laura cooper. They said they were protesting the credittive aspect of the impeachment probe. Secretive aspect. On thursday we learned that the justice departments investigation into the origins of the russia inquiry that consumed the first two years of the Trump Presidency has now become a criminal probe. That gives prosecutor john durham the ability to convene a grand jury. In the meantime, reports surfaced about increasing anxiety inside the Democratic Party establishment over the durant crop of candidates hoping to take
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Today. Our road map begins with Global Growth concerns. China posting the weakest gdp in 27 years aed my fallout from the trade war. Well wrap up the first week of earnings season, two names in focus, coke and American Express, both rallyi ining aheaf the bell. Rick perry set to leave trumps cabinet. He will join us live this hour going to start with that slowdown, china saying the economy grew 6 in q3 from a year ago, believed to be chinas slowest gain in nearly three decades. Markets here largely shrugging it off Industrial Production was up from the prior five to 58. Retail sales up from 75 back to 78 so kind of mixed. This one we can say, look, there is something for everybody. Fed can still cut. But im doing a lot of work on American Express this morning. Consumer is still strong consumer strong, business, corporate spend, as barry said, still a lot of negativity among ceos, extends to the election, negativity extends to china, european woes. Go back to the ibm call, we didnt talk
Investment committee is ready to go. Halftime report starts right now. Welcome. Glad to have you with us. Our Investment Committee at the table. We deal with the markets, stocks are higher. Pretty good Earnings Reports. Are we right theyre good enough, is that fair no. Theyre good. Much better than good. Jp morgan was kbrat. Cost in line and lowering cost guidance going forward. Valuation attractive. United Health Care Beat and raise and medical loss ratio which everybody was freaked about, in line. J j raising organic growth to five percent. I actually bought more j j. I dont think its up enough. You bought more j j. Joe, you bought more jp morgan. Absolutely. Lets talk financials for a second. Lets talk about jp morgan. Alltime high in this stock. Youre talking about a sector that is going to have flat Revenue Growth. We talked before. We want to see expansion in lending. You got that in auto lending, home lending. This is a phenomenal quarter. Citi group reversed its earlier losses.