The president has created an uncertainty for outside the norm. Sleptons have been on my North Koreans and foreign entities including a stateowned Foreign Trade bank in addition to the ones only sanctions list. Recent travel they have an asset freezes were added to the north bring itctions list to in line with the Security Council resolution. The resolution was announced last week in response to response toe yongyangs ongoing threats. The gulf coast was hit last night. The argument has downgraded the storm to a tropical depression. Franklin became the first hurricane of the atlantic season on wednesday and hidden are north hit north of the city. There were no reports of deaths. Mexican Authorities Say there was less damage than feared. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Julia live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, i am julia chatterley. Scarlet and im scarlet fu. We are 30 minute
The 30year treasury yield, a sixweek low gold, two month high so the safety trade is still very evident in all of this as well thank you. Well pick it up from here ill Bill Griffeth along with kelly evans here at the New York Stock Exchange as we watch the selloff continue in equities, and we want to address one of the other side bar issues thats been getting the markets attention. President trump, not just on north korea but hes also been raising eyebrows on those comments about Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and the widening rift that continues to grow ylan mui joins us with more from washington and more comments he just said. Reporter the president signaling he does not have confidence in Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell saying you can ask the question of whether mcconnell should step aside if he cant deliver on the gop agenda, but it is worth remembering that mcconnell actually delivered this administrations biggest win so far, and that is the confirmation of Supreme
We discussed venezuela. We discussed afghanistan and the middle east generally. We had some very good meetings, ideas, thoughts, and a lot of decisions were made. This is a very important day, actually. We made a lot of decisions. With that, do you have any questions . Yes . You make any decision on onistan back of afghanistan . Additional troops . Mr. Trump were getting close. That is a mess. I took over a mess. Frankly it is a decision that will be made very soon. Do you have full confidence in the National Security adviser . Mr. Trump mr. Mcmaster . Yes, he is our friend, i like him, and respect him. Why did you decide to announce the transgender ban reversal and are you betraying a community . Mr. Trump i have Great Respect for that community. I got a lot of votes. They are working on it now. It has been a difficult situation. I think i am doing a lot of people a favor by coming out and just saying, as you know, it has been a complicated issue for the military. It has been a confus
Well play the personal challenge he made to mcconnell as we await more comments. Theyre coming this hour from the president as tensions continue to escalate with north korea, making new threats against the u. S. Territory of guam. Well be speaking with the governor of guam. That is coming up. A federal judge ordering the state department to turn over its copies of Hillary Clinton benghazi emails. Well tell you about this breaking story, also coming up. Melissa the dow seeing the biggest drop in three months. Lets go straight to Nicole Petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. Nicole, why are we seeing such big moves in the market today versus what weve seen the past couple days . We had the concern and tension. It has been around. It has. It moved one day to the next. I heard the term panic selling and i get that and i will say traders are taking it in stride. No one want to see the 200 point loss. They say, what happens next i want i want to bring you reassurance i spoke withed
We discussed venezuela. We discussed afghanistan and the middle east generally. We had some very good meetings, ideas, thoughts, and a lot of decisions were made. This is a very important day, actually. We made a lot of decisions. With that, do you have any questions . Yes . You make any decision on onistan back of afghanistan . Additional troops . Mr. Trump were getting close. That is a mess. I took over a mess. Frankly it is a decision that will be made very soon. Do you have full confidence in the National Security adviser . Mr. Trump mr. Mcmaster . Yes, he is our friend, i like him, and respect him. Why did you decide to announce the transgender ban reversal and are you betraying a community . Mr. Trump i have Great Respect for that community. I got a lot of votes. They are working on it now. It has been a difficult situation. I think i am doing a lot of people a favor by coming out and just saying, as you know, it has been a complicated issue for the military. It has been a confus