Scream at the very this morning i was the majority of americans are disapproving of the republican tax cut plan. Futures are higher this morning come expecting a higher opening to the broader averages. Dow industrials that dow industrial set to open 60 points the nasdaq up 26. The s p 500 up a third of a percent. In europe, similar story had a better talent than yesterday. Dax up two thirds of a percent as is the cac and the ft 100 higher by a fraction. Asias dots close mostly higher with the exception of china. Best performer japan. Nikkei average up 1. 5 . Ban hunters under way in baltimore. A Police Officer in Great Condition after being shot in the head. The details as investigators search for a suspect. Consumer rage both at t and google with massive outages. What you need to do to get back up and running this morning. Retail earnings still the focus on wall street. The biggest of the mall, walmart expecting earnings of 97 cents a share. The numbers analysis as soon as they had wa
We begin in washington where the white house Just Announced that president obama will make a statement on iraq at 12 30 p. M. Eastern time. And well bring you that event live when it happens. The statement coming as the white house waits for military intervention in iraq, there the battle goes on with the largest oil refinery. The sunni rebels say that they hold the surrounding areas. Most of the fuel used in iraq. Reporter Government Forces are in full control of the countrys biggest refinery in the town of beigy in baghdad. In the town, also the fighters withdrew from the refinery. The refinery remains shut and theres a severe shortage of fuel and cooking oil. Further north in the town, the government says they are in areas, however, the rebel sources there deny those reports. And they say they are in full control of the town, which lies in the northwestern part of iraq. In another development, Prime Minister maliki has offered to pay over 500 a month for volunteers to join the iraqi
Host and that was the new g. O. P. Conference secretary voicing her thoughts on the fiscal cliff negotiations yesterday. And we want you to address the issue of what the g. O. P. Is raising, which is address the spending problem. 202 is the area code for our numbers. Thats our question this morning in this first segment of the washington journal. You can also contact us via social media and email. You can make a comment on our facebook page, and finally send us a tweet. Here is the hill newspaper from this morning. G. O. P. Forget tax rates in talks on the deficit, lets look at the spending. The speakers swift rejection of an idea floated by representative tom cole of oklahoma, a respected Party Strategist and former chair of the house g. O. P. Campaign committee came as the republicans voiced increasing concerns over the debate of the socalled fiscal cliff. Boehner said its time for them to get serious about the spending problem that our country has. Republicans complain that for all
Access to military equipment and who have indicated a willingness to die for their cause. This is a manage who appeared in an isis propaganda video on friday. The administration estimates that of the 15,000 foreign fighters who have gone to syria to fight, 4,000 of them have gone to europe. President obama is slated to chair a u. N. Security council meeting. Its only the second time that a u. S. President has done so. The french became the first u. S. Ally to carry out air strikes in iraq, late today an isis Splinter Group in algeria announced the lease of a hostage. The president s entire National Security team advised him three years ago to arm the syrian rebels. I think the president s concern, and i understand it, was that he had a fear that if we started providing weapons, we wouldnt know where those weapons would wind up. My view was you have to begin somewhere. In retrospect now, was not arming the rebels at that time a mistake . I think that would have helped. And i think in pa
Theres been so much visible protests, there has been some wide scale civilian resistance and organizing against trump, i think its been easy to focus on that as the countervailing force against which the Trump Administration is pushing. But this legal fight in the 9th Circuit Court now is the first time that the judiciary has given this new administration a shove and pushed it way back. Again, the big hearing in this case is tomorrow. We just learned tonight that the hearing is going to be livestreamed when it happens, which is going to be fascinating. In just a moment on this show, well speak with the blue state attorney general who brought that case in the first place. Well hear from him directly as to what he expects from that hearing tomorrow and where he thinks this very big, very important case is going. So thats all ahead. While we await that interview tonit, while we await that hearing tomorrow, we have also just had one of the strangest pieces of reporting we have yet had on a