Affairs from all Different Directions into some of the worst tragedies on the planet, but you chose to focus on a small town in oregon. Why lex guest we were running around covering humanitarian crises and we would go back to my beloved hometown and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my Old School Bus were gone from drugs, alcohol and suicide. I tried to process back. The kids that got on the bus right after me [inaudible] and then nathan and their sister virginia, smart talented kids. One died of drug and alcohol abuse, one in a house fire when he was passed out drunk and one blew himself up cooking meth and died of hepatitis from drug use. Hunter biden the Oregon State Penitentiary for 13 years. So, for a while, we wondered is it something that this is a National Problem that we have depths of despair and Life Expectancy is falling for three years in a row in america and god my old loves this kind of a microcosm to see that opinion across
Talk from washington. Listen. Its time for the president and democrats to get serious about the spending problem that our country has. But im optimistic that we can continue to Work Together to avert this crisis and sooner rather than later. I believe that both parties can agree on a framework that does that in the coming weeks. In fact, my hope is to get this done before christmas. Wow. Thats optimism. There you go. Right now the Dow Jones Industrial average is higher by 72 points. 12,950. The nasdaq is also in positive territory by about 11 points. The s p 500, and you can see the same intraday pattern all three sessions, moving higher into the close. Higher by 5. 5 points. Should investors believe in a rally solely based on encouraging comments . In todays closing bell exchan exchange, we discuss that. Michael, ill begin with you. The gyrations in this market are extrord their. One guy speaks in d. C. , the market goes down. Somebody else speaks, the market goes up. How do you play