ballots, the allegations that they are taking one ballot and scanning it through three, four, five times to rack up votes for vice president biden. i told him the video did not support that. then he went off on double voting, he said that dead people are voting, indians are getting paid to vote, and he meant people in native american reservations. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. i told him flat out that much of the information he s getting is false and therefore is not supported by the evidence. we looked at the allegations, but they don t pan out. mr. barr and his advisors were not the only ones to determine that the president s allegations regarding dominion voting machines were false. i asked unanimous consent, reports issued by the department of homeland security, cybersecurity, and infrastructure security agency otherwise known, that reject the claims of manipulation of voting machines in the 2020 election. without objection, so ordered. thank you, mr.
Welcome to the journal editorial report, im Edward Lawrence in for paul. Donald trumps New York Criminal Trial Ajuniored for the week on thursday with the prosecutions star witness, mike cohen, undergoing a bruising crossexamination if by the defense. Trump attorney todd blanche trying to paint cohen as a serial liar with a grudge with against the former president. Here with a look at all of this Courtroom Drama and where the case is likely to go is Wall Street Journal columnists kim strassel and bill mcgurn as well as Editorial Board member kyle peterson. So, kim, i want to talk to you first. From what weve been seeing here, there are questions over whether the t. A. Actually provea crime. But you have a favorable judge, you have a favorable new york pool there. There may be a case for an appeal, but the damage if theres a conviction is already done politically, right . Excuse me, yes. No, i think you make a really good point, and this is what they have been aiming at doing ever since
Than a half mile. Were improving. Just like yesterday once the fog burns off well see a combination of sun and clouds throughout the day. One or two showers popping up thats about it. Showers to the west stay out here, these are the northern fringes or the northern bands of Tropical Storm ana off the carolinas. Morning fog giving way to sun and clouds, 83 sticky degrees out there. One or two of you could see a popup shower, maybe a rumble ever thunder, most of us will stay dry. Ana has come onshore near myrtle beach. Ill have more in just a few minutes, and cool down. Thank you,. Philadelphia police are looking for the gunman who shot two teenagers in south philadelphia overnight. When Police Arrived after 1 20 they found a typically large weekend crowd of young people in the area. Two teenagers 16 and 17 yorldz were shot in the years old they were shot in the legs. They have no leads. We dont believe this was a robbery preliminary information were getting this could possibly be issues
Whatsapp. This puts them in greater competition with skype here at i was on the app this morning. It was interesting. I missed all the fun last week. It is minor but it looks bad. What is interesting is the disruptive factor. I do not know if it is good business. Causing is as really big deal. The mobile war Congress Health push it along. Zuckerberg wants to get up there and say to the rest of the world, this thing will disrupt your business. Class we have a great group of guests to talk about what will happen today. In barcelona, our bloomberg contributing editor is with us as well as the coo of message me. I want to get straight to barcelona and two caroline hyde, joining us there live. With the on save whatsapp ceo. What does he have to tell you about why facebook . I was so fortunate. The rockstar of the mobile world, he joined me for a panel and digging to the root of what whatsapp is. Nothing will change. That is his key message. We are remaining 50 people. They might expand 150
One stock soaring is Vertex Pharmaceuticals after trials for the Cystic Fibrosis drug. Coming up, well talk to the ceo about the Study Results and what it can mean for vertexs bottom line and people suffering from Cystic Fibrosis. About 70,000 people worldwide are afflicted with that. A lot of hope with that drug. Yahoo Ceo Marissa Mayer reportedly caught sleeping on the job, sort of. She missed a key ad executive meeting because she overslept. Could that mean big trouble for yahoo a firm that relies so heavily on ad spending . We have that rather crazy story, coming up here. Now, heres where we stand in markets. Pretty broadbased selloff with the Dow Jones Industrial average off 80 points this hour, retreating from that 17,000 mark. Its currently at 16,856. The s p giving up about six points and the nasdaq the outperformer today. Its just slightly positive, up about four. All right, lets talk about all of this in our Closing Bell Exchange today. With us, joe bell from shavers investme