When the white house. Some say he and his daughter rebekah outkoched the koch brothers. Mercerses of the controlled the white house. We will speak with Investigative Reporter jane mayer about her new piece in the new yorker anad herere are excerpts, when a robt mercers only public appearances. Im wondering, what am i going to say . I Left Research 20 years ago. I have not really paid any attention to the world of dms sinces or i then. I cannot talk really about what i do now. [laughter] amy we will also look at dark moneys role in the confirmation process as the Supreme Court am the neil gorsuch. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The house of representatives is set to vote today on a republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act, a plan the Congressional Budget Office says would add 24 Million People to the ranks of the uninsured. President donald trump and Vice President mike pence s
Trading, youre already going to see that things are fixed there as well. The dax is higher as well as the cac. Ftse relatively flat. The tenyear note. Yesterday the yield was settled in, back above 2. 4 . This morning still sitting at 2. 416. If you check out crude oil prices, which were slightly higher yesterday, this morning wti is up 28 cents to 4. 65. Couple big stories to watch this morning. British Prime Minister theresa may triggering a brexit. Signing a letter to invoke article 50. The letter with be land delivered to the European Council president in one hour from now. Todays actions mark the start of official divorce talks between the eu and the uk. Wilfred frost will join us at the bottom of the hour to talk to us more about brexit. Fed impending home sales come out at 10 00 a. M. Charlie evans, Eric Rosengren and John Williams will start to speak later today. Well watch for that. In an interview on cnbc yesterday, which hopefully you did not miss, because we told you not to
There you have it again, green arrows pretty much everywhere. The whole world is happy. Except for short sellers. And were watching crude prices this morning. Yesterday iraqs oil minister said the country should be exempt from joining opecs Production Cut embroiled in a war with islamic militants. Opec is planning to reduce production targets at the november meeting. Wti is lower by 5 cents but still at 50. 80. And scottrade is being acquired for 4 billion from ameritrade. Some competitor of scottrade said, why deal with us . We have a helicopter. No one really understood what was the because its successful. It trades more quickly to where they need to go by helicopter. It happens over the internet. So its confidence . A little bit of confidence. Interest rates are zero. Im confident, ill borrow money, too. A little confidence. People think the economy is a little better than we think. I dont think thats it. Well talk to the ceos at 7 00. For the media mega merger monday. I would argue
We can see the s p looking some muted reaction this morning. Perhaps today will be a quiet day. How did europe do . Lets show you and see how it is doing. The markets wont close for a few more hours. There is a look at the uk. And germany and france. All of which are in the green. One week ago, a very different story, wasnt it, as you look, that still takes your breath away sometimes. 1. 419 on the 10year. Its 2016. Halfway through. Those people who get older, those ones, those guys who get in their like 50s and 60s have no place to invest. No kidding. No kidding. What do you do . Municipal bonds. Its a problem. Whats this we, you stuff . Ill be there soon enough. All right. Our road map this morning, starts with the first trading day of the second half where the market is heading as we turn the corner, oh, man, second half already. Hershey rejects a 23 billion takeover bid from mondelez. First we told you about that yesterday. The question now is, well what is next . What does the tru
That was senator Lindsey Graham this week asking the Big Questions that we all want to know about regarding donald trump. Number one, is the fbi investigating the relationship between trump and russia . And if so, did that investigation lead to a fisa warrant to monitor Donald Trumps phone calls or those of any of his campaign team. And could that be whats behind trumps unfounded claim that president obama tapped his phones in trump tower . The fbi told senator graham that they would respond to his questions in a classified letter sometime next week. But he just might get beaten to the punch by his Congressional Colleagues in the house, because on monday fbi director jim comey will be testifying at a House Intelligence Committee on russian interference in the 2016 elections. Leaders of the House Committee have been making plenty of their own demands on the fbi for answers about trumps wiretapping claims. So mondays hearing will be the first time that we all hear publicly what jim comey