Council. The book contains boltons treacherous lies, in the view of the plaintiff, halftruths and falsehoods facilitated by good friends in the leftwing National Media. Reaganappointed judge Royce Lambert has yet to make a decision. He did begin todays hearing by noting that the, quote, horse seems to be out of the barn, end quote, suggesting he may already see the governments case as being somewhat late or perhaps not. He has, however, also said bolton has no written authorization with which to publish the book from the National Security council. A basic requirement. The department of justice adds in their argument that bolton should not be rewarded for the brazenness of his actions. Excerpts of boltons book are already being considered as fact, of course, by the leftwing National Media, radical dems and the rino, some of them in congress, no matter how absurd or patently false the claims be. They have all decided that the man they so hated and distrusted is now a respected, honest vo
Way to the indian border. Theres tangible issues. No question they are flexing their muscle right now. What i would notice in this market on a quiet wednesday, i know you will do the data check here. Publishing moments ago this bullish consumer view, and that was a game changer yesterday with the retail sales report. Jonathan we will catch up on the geopolitics a little later in the hour. Equity futures up 19 on the s p 500, focusing a move higher over the last several weeks, up by 0. 6 . Just surprise after positive surprise. The economic surprise index in the United States is absolutely flying. And it is at a record high searching higher after yesterdays retail sales beat. It was just an absolute trout. Today absolute trounce. Today i am going to be watching the u. S. May building and housing permits starts to get a taste of what we may expect. U. S. Loan purchase applications hit an 11 year high last week, so that should be some sort of indicator. 12 00 p. M. , fed chair jay powellc
His response and what that did for markets. You are going to do a data check in the appropriate crowd noise behind the data, but what is important to me is youve still got a bid to the market even within the quiet. Jonathan spare us the crowd noise when i do the market check. Peter navarro saying that the trade agreement was over. The president , his boss, correcting him pretty quickly. Ae socalled fiscal cliff, different kind of fiscal cliff going into july. What will happen with the fiscal stimulus we got months ago, and what will this administration do in the next 30 days . Lisa President Trump coming out in a Washington Post article, saying he perhaps does support the 1200 additional stimulus check to be sent out. The white house has yet to take an additional position take an official position. In election season, President Trump heading down to arizona in his latest bid to try to rejuvenate his campaign. They are going to be talking about the border wall. He is departing the white
Edward tom good morning. Wfh, as the jargon now, you work from home. When do we all get back to the office . We thank you for watching. A really interesting wednesday. There are a lot of political moments, theres international relations. In the market, im sorry. I started out this morning with on, and all much going now a bid to equities once more. Jonathan you the word crosscurrents. I think that is the right word this week. We have betterthanexpected data in the United States. I think the data right now is absolutely critical. The Federal Reserve has played a huge role in this market, and clearly that is exacerbating this, but the veracity comes from the betterthanexpected data. You have to say that this rally tracks that pretty well so far. Tom lisa abramowicz, what have you learned about the efficacious nature of fed policy . Is it helping right now . Lisa it is helping to push down yields and push up prices of assets across the board, and certainly hoping to encourage companies to
Test test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 st. Petersburg is a hardship outpost. Its cold. There arent a lot of other women there. Most of the diplomat wives dont travel with their husbands when they get sent to st. Petersburg. They have a baby girl, louisa Kathryn Adams and the child dice after about a year and thatle really devastates her mother louisa. Its painful. And for john quincy. He is also very much torn apart by this. The war of 1812 here has broken out. John quincy is sent to negotiate a treaty and he leaves louisa with her youngest son charles in st. Petersburg and when peace is resolved and he is sure he will be returning home or sent to london, he asks her to join him. She makes this arduous journey from st. Petersburg in the winter to paris with her son and who is only about 7 at the time and a couple servants she basically just met that day and doesnt know if she can trust them. As shes crossing europe she encounters dangerous travel conditio