Seth meyers. [ cheers and applause seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . [ cheers and applause thats fantastic in that case, lets get to the news following President Trumps inauguration, the white house website no longer has an option for translation into spanish so, sorry, mexican immigrants, but if you want to live here, youll just have to learn to speak russian. [ light laughter ] [ cheers and applause President Trump today met with the leaders of fiat, chrysler, ford, and General Motors and he asked them one question how many people do you think were at my inauguration . [ laughter ] President Trump said today that he is, to a large extent, an environmentalist well he certainly made sure that the grass in the National Mall wasnt trampled. [ laughter and applause stay back stay back. According to sources, Hillary Clinton is seriously considering running for mayor of new york city. And just to be a dick, so is trump. [ laughter ] [ audi
To war. The nightmare stage of trumps rule is here, says michelle gold berg in the New York Times and paul krugman simply calls our president a bully. Democrats lining up to attack the president , Bernie Sanders says hes like putin. Assassinating dissonance. Meanwhile, theres real chaos, where hundreds of thousands on the streets for the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani and then a stampede. Iranian state news media says more than 30 are dead. Overall this is a morning of confrontation, war talk threats and military preparations and as for the market, a shrug. Monday the dow made a 200point uturn and actually closed higher. This morning were looking at futures, minor loss for the dow and the s p, a 10point gain maybe for the nasdac at the opening bell but look at oil, another shrug on that market after the Soleimani Killing the price of oil moved to 63 64 a barrel today its back to 62 and the price of gas, Holding Steady the National Average still right there at 2. 58 per gallon.
Discussing that announcement yesterday and getting your reactions here on washington journal. Democrats can call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media come on twitter them on facebook social media, on twitter and facebook. Papers around the country leading with this story. From the New York Times this morning. Front page of the Washington Times. To the front page of the wall street journal this morning. Here is a bit more from fbi director james comey yesterday announcing why he decided not to recommend to bring charges. [video clip] there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors weigh a number of factors before deciding whether to bring charges. There are obvious considerations like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding the context of a persons actions and how
One made the senate, live like ted kennedy. It was one of the great pleasures of my life to hear ted kennedy deliver one of his stemwinders on the floor. Rarely was the more animated than when he went leading the Living Museum that were his offices. He could, and he would tell you everything that there was to know about all of it. [laughter] and then there were more somber moments. I still remember the first time i pulled open the drawer of my guess. Each senator is assigned a desk, and there is a tradition of carving the names of those who had used it before, and those names in my death included taft and baker simon gallstone, and robert f kennedy. The senate was a place where you instinctively pulled yourself up a little bit straighter, where he tried to act a little bit better. Being a senator changes a person, ted wrote in his memoirs. As vicki said, it may take a year or two years or three years, it always happens. It fills you with a heightened sense of purpose. That is the magic
Walmart beaten. Walmart loses to chicago, illinois. Walmart zoned off from flagstaff, arizona. Arlington, texas, rejects walmart. Victory in colchester, connecticut. Success. Centerville, utah. Victory. Harrison, new jersey. An antiwalmart slate was elected to city council in deptford, new jersey. Voters rejected walmart in lebanon, pennsylvania. The walmart man . Defeated. In glendora, california. Walmart beaten in medford oregon. [ theme music ] michael coming up tonight twoyearold screech. College students have the harlem shake, and republicans have the cpac speech. Tonight we find out which of these attentiongrabbing stunts is the most annoying. Im michael shure, and you are in the war room. [ theme music ] michael attention is like oxygen in d. C. Politicians seem to need it to survive. Nowhere was that more evident than cpac, the far right logical la paloozalow,lowlollapalooza. Ted cruz tried to get attention any way he could and the best he could do was give a lecture on guns. G