committees into all things donald trump. an investigation in search of a crime, any crime, 24/7 abuse of power. try to bloodied, bludgeon the president politically, impeach him. if they can t impeach him, death by a thousand cuts. it is a very scary picture inside this new radical democratic party. as the 2020 primary season kicks into high gear it has willme very clear that it be a contest to see who can present the single most radical, most extreme, mostnt socialist vision for america s future. do you want america to be a socialist country?oc bernie sanders appears to have some early momentum. on the fence candidates like crazy uncle joe biden, he may be losing before he even starts. look at what happened during fake news cnn s democratic focus group earlier today. i hope uncle joe is watching. take a look. how many of you would like to see joe biden get in, show of hands.
impeachment, unprecedented 24/7, 365 investigations, eight committees into all things donald trump. an investigation in search of a crime, any crime, 24/7 abuse of power. try to bloodied, bludgeon the president politically, impeach him. if they can t impeach him, death by a thousand cuts. it is a very scary picture inside this new radical democratic party. as the 2020 primary season kicks into high gear it has become very clear that it will be a contest to see who can present the single most radical, most extreme, most socialist vision for america s future. do you want america to be a socialist country? bernie sanders appears to have some early momentum. on the fence candidates like crazy uncle joe biden, he may be losing before he even starts. look at what happened during fake news cnn s democratic focus group earlier today. i hope uncle joe is watching. take a look. how many of you would like to
vince, thanks for being here. sure. dana: on wall street, the dow, s&p500 and nasdaq all opening higher this morning before pulling back a bit as earnings season kicks into high gear. nicole, we keep talking about records. give us some perspective here. i don t think anybody is tired of hearing about records. their 401k s and ira s are doing better. we ve it this 23,000 mark now. just to give you sperbgive over what we ve seen just recently, we ve had sick weakness a row of gains. that accounts for a 7% gain, 1500 dow points, 53 record closes in the year 2017. that s the most since 1995. we re up about 28% in this one year. we ve seen the financials doing very well. talking so much about tax reform. financials are at the highest level in ten years since the financial crisis. but big picture, there s more apartment pheufpl and earnings. earnings season is under way.
with the attorney general on monday to talk about executive action he could try to take to keep guns out of the wrong hands. some political pundits says he wants to address it before the primary season kicks into full swing. police say two people were killed and at least three more in critical condition after a gunman opened fire at a bar in tel aviv. a massive manhunt under way for the shooter. officials say if the motive is terrorism related or a gangland shooting. i m gregg jarrett. we ll see you at the top of the hour. now back to this year in news. over the past year, events outside our country influenced many of the decisions made inside. a look now at some of the biggest international stories of 2015, a year which saw the
a former pakistani defense minister appearing to confirm yesterday that his country knew that al qaeda leader osama bin laden was in pakistan at the time of his death in 2011. while it s widely assumed that parts of pakistan s military and civilian leadership were aware of bin laden s location, pakistani officials have always maintained that they didn t know until the u.s. raid. when asked if the pakistani president, the army and others in both the civilian and military chain of command had prior information about osama s location in pakistan, the defense minister s answer was, quote, yeah. now, let s turn to some business. and wall street where u.s. stocks dropped, snapping a seven-day winning streak for the dow as earnings season kicks into high gear. cnbc s nancy hugrave joins us live from london. first up for the wall street banks with jpmorgan. how did they fare?