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
We did not. Take action to start a war. Donald Trump Defends the assassination of irans top military leader but critics say the u. S. President has made the world a more dangerous place how will the killing of thousands of the money affect american troops abroad and the trigger another endless war this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im how in the u. S. President s has long said hed pull american troops out of what he called the endless wars in the middle east but Donald Trumps critics say he may just have laid the groundwork for a new conflict funerals have been held for irans military commander qassam salami who died in a u. S. Airstrike in iraq on friday armed groups in the middle east supported by to her on a promise and revenge the u. S. Is urging americans to leave iraq immediately and the sending extra troops to the region in case of reprisal attacks and while Trumps Republican Party has praised the targeted killing of solo mommy it democrats are not happy as h
Session all in favor. Aye motion to disclose. A motion not to disclose anything in closed session. Second. All in favor. Aye items 6 pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Clerk item 7 is announcements. Please silence your electronic devices. Any ringing, you might be asked to leave the Port Commission hearing room. Public comments is available for members of the public to speak on items not on the agenda or on the agenda and members will have three minutes to make their remarks. Item 8 is click comment on items not listed on tonights agenda is there any Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All right. Item 9 executive directors report. Good afternoon. President brandon Vice President adams. Members of the commission, public and port staff. I am elaine ford support executive director. Id li
Take action to start a war. Donald Trump Defends the assassination of irans top military leader but critics say the u. S. President has made the world a more dangerous place how will the killing of thousands of the money affect american troops abroad and the trigger another endless war this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im how am i here in the u. S. President s has long said hed pull american troops out of what he called the endless wars in the middle east but Donald Trumps critics say he may just have laid the groundwork for a new conflict funerals have been held for irans military commander qassam salami who died in a u. S. Airstrike in iraq on friday armed groups in the middle east supported by to her on a promise and revenge the u. S. Is urging americans to leave iraq immediately and ascending extra troops to the region in case of reprisal attacks and while trumps the Republican Party has praised the targeted killing of solomon e its democrats are not happy as h
Retaliation. If they retaliate, talk sanctions against iraq. Gold, still in and out of a sevenyear high. A lot lower than it had been. Oil barely positive. For a while, brent, that was well over 70 a barrel. But it is not translating to big gains here. Then we have treasury yield actually backing up a little bit after it was, getting lower and lower on sort of a flight to quality, that doesnt seem necessary. The dow as i indicated down about 63 points. We had been down close to 300 points. What is remarkable about all of this, folks, sometimes we see things in the prism of the financial community. I like what it shows people who bet with their own money think of what this is going. Theyre not always prescient and right. Theyre far from accurate period. In the middle of this moment, what some are calling potential world war 3 00, sort of a muted, sort of a shrugged shoulder reaction. Why is that . Latest from blake burman at the white house. Hay. Hey, blake. Reporter over here at the wh