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Headquarters from washington. Im Leland Vittert. Get this, 60 days to the midterms, things this summer havent been exciting enough. Well, this week hasnt been exciting enough. Leland it was boring, what did we just talk about. Kristin the kavanaugh hearings, the anonymous oped. Kim kardashian was at the white house. Leland i missed that, happens. Kristin never a dull week and this was particularly wild. Hes Leland Vittert and im kristin fisher. President trump is talking about tariffs and impact on apple. Apple prices may increase, but there could be a solution where there would be zero tax and indeed a tax incentive. Make your products in the United States instead of china, build new plants now. Exciting. Hes tweeting about the growing economy and jobs. Weve got ellison barber live at the white house. Break it down for us. The Unemployment Rate is at a 18year low and on twitter President Trump says hes just getting started, but former president Barack Obama Says the president , Presid
Hey, everyone. Im dana bash in for brooke baldwin. Thanks for joining us this day before christmas, Christmas Eve, to be exact. An hour ago, the dow closed early and deep in the red. And as markets fall, republicans and democrats are stuck unable to end the partial Government Shutdown thats now in day three. Its likely to last through thursday. Well explain why in a minute. But first, to the dive in the dow, spurred in part by comments from treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin. Theyre baffling and apparently they backfired, instilling uncertainty when he was attempting to do just the opposite. Mnuchin on sunday called these six Big Bank Ceos and he talked about the idea that there are fears out there with liquidity. I want to get straight to alison kosik to give us more about that and whats going on in dow. Alison . Reporter hey, dana. It was an interesting day today, because the trading session was only four hours today. And during the session, there was a tweet from President Trump where