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
Cheryl veronica . I hosted so im ready to be done. We have a lot of news coming up this morning. Our top story this hour was, well, it was christmas, americans spending more money online for the Holiday Season, ecommerce sales jumped more than 18 compared to last year overall. Holiday retail sales excluding cars rising more than 3 . Thanksgiving did fall later this year which pushed a lot of retailers to start sales earlier. President trump touted the news, heres what he tweeted. 2019 Holiday Retail sales were up 3. 4 from last year. Biggest number in u. S. History, congratulations, america. Veronica, your reaction in the middle of all this political abusinesabyss thats happening , you have an economy and consumer thats on fire and we have numbers to prove it. It sounds like youre trying to get away from washington but this is great for the party of washington, for republicans, for the president. This is a great economy for him to be going into 2020 with. Theres a ton of devi divisiven
Be no strike for several months hospitals and Emergency Services. Nothing has been the problem. Also ahead on the Program Media nations. U. K. Government documents reveal the intelligence services. British news spreading. Propaganda during the cold war. May be tuning in from right across the world this hour a welcome to our 2 international my names you know in the in. The u. S. Secretary of state painted the assassination of irans top general. As part of a Bigger Campaign of the terence is word he says it will also be applied to russia china picking up the story for us. Mike pompei oh the u. S. Secretary of state seems to be highlighting the term deterrence as the new buzz word defining u. S. Foreign policy reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to lose now the killing of a top foreign general by the United States in a different country is considered now to be an act of deterrence intended to deter behavior on the part of t
Creating a brand james celebrate. Style the l. A. Lakers star reaches and not a milestone in there when against the map like. Iran has condemned u. S. Attacks on a shia group in iraq and syria calling it a terrorist act 5 camps belonging to hizbollah were hit 3 in iraq and 2 more in syria at least 27 people were killed iraqs Prime Minister has called the attacks on the group a breach of sovereignty but the u. S. Calls it a decisive response to aggression against its troops in iraq by iranian backed forces and is warning of further action. What we did was take a decisive response that makes clear what President Trump has said for months and months and months which is that we will not stand for this law of the republic of iran to take actions that put american men and women in jeopardy. We will always honor that commitment to take decisive req action when that takes place and we continue to demand that the Islamic Republic iran act in a way that is consistent with what i laid back out ba
Foreign occupation water 25. 00 call to libyans as turkish troops prepare to join the war. Hello there good to have your company we begin in baghdad where thousands of people are attending the funeral procession for those killed in the u. S. Airstrikes targeting Major General custom so money on friday the former funeral for the top it wane in command as well as. This the Deputy Commander of the iran backed. Forces as you can see is underway will want to swell later be buried in not just in iraq so the manis body will be flown to iran. Well salamis assassination has inflamed already tense relations between the United States and iran President Donald Trump said the order was made to stay off a war with a tirana not to start one he added the u. S. Is prepared for any reprisals solemn 80 has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilize the middle east for the last 20 years what the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago a lot of lives would have been saved just recen