Your book we are going to cover a lot of ground beef eating inside of communist china is thrived for global supremacy. First of all, why did you decide to write a book . Guest this is my eighth book ended 2000, i wrote a book called the china threat and it was amazing in that it predicted the emergence of a major threat posed by communist china. Ever since i wrote the book i tried to do another book and every publisher that i approached sadly well not write a single topic that you can have chapters. But we wont have a single topic. Host why was that . Guest i really dont know. It was their interest or concern about whether they would sell. Finally i dug into it and i said its time to do another book on the threat from china as it is becoming greater than it was way back when it was published. Host your book is very timely. Let me ask you about this title. Its defeating the sky then you go into the global supremacy. The second half is very clear and understandable. What is this and wher
Balloons increasing 26 to just a little less than 1 trillion. Joining us for the hour is chris verona, Strategas Research partners here we are, we can see it, we can taste it, a new record high and everyone is really calm around hiere. The lack of euphoria is telling. Theres this great divide between perception and reality what are the headlines impeachment, recession, china, pmi under 50 but the reality is, signs of cylicality are starting to show up in every corner of the globe. You see it with semis and with trucking stocks, german dax is at a 52week high, the banks are acting better. I think the tone of the market is so different than what the tone of the front page of the paper says every day and i think thats bullish great to have chris with us for the whole first hour of the show, particularly given that we might have that record alltime closing high for the s p 500 the key level to keep an eye on, by the way, 3025. 9. We are at 3022 at the moment lets focus in on the big storie
The hong kong drama turns the page as u. S. Lawmakers vote to support the protesters and review the citys relation with china. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures under a little bit of pressure after we saw u. S. Stocks really rally throughout the session and major indices gaining about 1 . The s p 500 at one point topping 3000. Health care in financial stocks leading the gains. Johnson johnson, unitedhealth and jp morgan reporting solid results. We also have the nasdaq closed 1. 25 higher. All of this as 10 year yields gaining for the fifth consecutive session despite the fact the imf came out and cut the Global Growth forecast for this year for a fifth time. Let see how things are shaping up in asia. Sophie it is the bank of koreas turn in the hot seat today with a 25 basis point cut expected and the politically key jobless rate due as moon jaein attempts to create employment. Futures adding about 6 10 of a percent. Cindy futures
From syria. He will sanction he says if erdogan breaks his agreement with mr. Trump. The president slamming the radical dimms, and the leftwing media for their lies and acts of subversion. The ukrainian president said there was absolutely no pressure or blackmail. We go to washington to john roberts. Reporter . With his former ambassador to ukraine set to testify tomorrow. He didnt say he would block her appearance. You cant have all these people testifying about every conversation you have had. In this case we have a transcript. And i have given it almost immediately. Reporter the president responded to subpoena requests. And this one from rick perry. The whistleblower who seems to be a democrat thats involved with a lot of people gave a false interpretation of the conversation. So i dont know why they would be calling rick perry. Reporter the president referred to the press availability president zelensky gave in kiev today. Impeachment wants the only thing on the president s mind. A
Because of his antiestablishment campaign. Well analyze some of those unnamed sources and contrast them with our unnamed sources. They are amom plus officials with our anonymous highly placed officials. Well report, you decide whose unnamed Anonymous Sources you choose to believe. They give pull user prizes they give Pulitzer Prizes to people who got it wrong. Lou well be talking tonight with general jack keane. Well be talking about whats required to make sense of americas role in the middle east. Well be talking with dr. Michael pillsbury on the china trade talks and what is needed to rational aize a trade talks. We begin with breaking news out of the middle east. The taliban to hold a new round of intraafghan peace talks for two days next week. Those talks will be held in china. The talks monday and tuesday will be the first meeting between the taliban and the afghans since an earlier round of peace talks in july. After those peace talks failed with the United States in september, t