On Economic Optimism around tax reform. This is an appropriate week for that last one. Basically inline, isn manufacturing index, month of november. Major averages, not much of an influence. We are looking at a small decline. In recordt putting highs. We have had several record highs in a row for the dow, but this is the first down day in six for the dow, at least right now. The tech heavy nasdaq down nearly half a percent. This week has been about a lot of volatility. As you look at the fiveday chart of the nasdaq 100, monday and tuesday flat, and a big on wednesday, a tech selloff. A bit of a rebound yesterday. Now, we are looking at a drop again. The nasdaq down about 1 . The dow one pays for its best week of the year. A do in terms of volatility. About 15, closer to 16. The s p 500 vix closer to 11. Interesting to see how all of this plays out. Volatility tends to breed volatility. There may be more intraday and closing day moves ahead. We do have november auto sales out. A bit of
White house defending the president s account after phone call to a soldiers widow, despite a democratic congresswoman sticking to the claim that he was disrespectful. New documents show former fbi director comey exonerating Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was complete. We have jason chaffetz, third highest Ranking Senate republican john thune, former New Hampshire governor judd gregg and john stossel. Lets go straight to nicole petallides. What was the scene like. No hats. They would be happy to print 24,000, or 25,000. The truth we had four milestones. The 20,000, 21, 22, 23 this year. For 1000 milestones there year. We were 18,300 during the election. The dow is up 26 , whether you believe its a big number, psychologically a number, but it shows a jump. We had majority of winners. Saying thank you to ibm. Which came out with numbers on your show yesterday after the bell, which beat on top and bottom line. The move nearly 9 . That added about 90 dow points going into th
Are there any concerns they made that type of conference . No. Charlie. How important was it for the fbi director failure to come out of the fbi i think that was prob one of the many factors. I mean, you cant deny somebody that that wasnt a probm. I think thats just another one of the many reasons that he no longer had the confidence that the president or the rest of the fbi. Can we expect more firings from the Justice Department . Not that im aware of today. Going forward, does the president want the department of justice to shut down what he call the taxpayer funded charade . He wants them to continue what he sees appropriate and continue any on going investigations. Look, the bottom line is any investigation that was happening on monday is still happening today. That hasnt changed and, in fact, we encouraged them to complete this investigation, so we can put it behind us, and we can continue to see exactly what weve been saying for nearly a year. Theres no evidence of collusion betw
To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. On wednesday, president obama announced major changes in american policy toward cuba, including restoration of full diplomatic relations and easing of inking restrictions. Coming up next, lars scholes is in the history of u. S. Policy toward cuba and what he deems are the failures of 10 administrations. This program was recorded in 2009. I think there is a little truth in advertising, to begin. Im not a cuba specialist. I study the u. S. Cuba relationship. What i would like to spend about 30 minutes doing now is focusing on what intrigues me most about washingtons policy toward cuba. Thats the mental software we policy andrgird our that is what the book is about. Ist it attempts to explain what everyone agrees is a dysfunctional policy. First, as wolf blitzer says on the situation room, we have some breaking news will stop i want to talk a little bit about what president obama did yesterday. He announced a relaxation of th
Tonight, an extremely blunt message on masks. Today he was asked what do you say to people, including the president who are have made wearing a mask a political discussion, a its my body, my right kind of thing. Heres dr. Fauci. Theres no secret formula for that except to say get past it. It should not be a political issue. It is purely a Public Health issue. Forget the politics. Look at the data. Get past it, he says. Well, the president will not. He absolutely categorically has not and will not do that. He did not wear a mask today when he welcomed the president of poland to the white house. And he has consistently refused to wear one, right . Never. Visits coronavirus hotspots. He was in arizona where theyve got the surge in cases and hospitalizations. He held several events yesterday, no mask. Trump has claimed, in fact, that people who are Wearing Masks are doing so to spite him, that mask wearing is about hum for people that wear them. He mocked joe biden for wearing a mask in pu