I think the president again, as commanderinchief, i think he felt it necessary to issue a very strong statement directly to north korea, but i think what what is the president was reaffirming the United States is full kay capable of defending ourselves from any attack and our allies and will do so so americans should sleep well at night. Connell sleep well at night. We have a show of force of u. S. Bombers flying over the Korean Peninsula. Group of south dakota airmen are ready to fight in guam if needed to. With that as the backdrop, lets turn to our expert. Former advisor to Vice President dick cheney, john hannah, and Hudson Institute fellow, Rebecca Heinrichs is here. The secretary of states choice of words we all should sleep well at night. What do you make of that . I think clearly the secretary is trying to tone down heated rhetoric from yesterday to reassure allies and reassure the American People but ive got to say we cant avoid the fact that this crisis is escalating. That no
Intensifies, the u. S. Confirms a plan of attack using b1 bombers, north korea has detailed a plan to lob missiles within guam. A load of nonsense say the North Koreans. At this point its a war of words, nobody backing down. Time is running out for divided Republican Party to get anything done and who knows what happens with north korea. This is prime time for vacations and they just teed off to start the pga championship. That guy Jordan Spieth, if he wins, he joins exclusive golfers who won all four majors. Stay right there, Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart did i say the market is a little edgy . I think i can say that seriously. We are going to be down 60odd points when the markets open this morning. All the leading indicators are down. Problems with the republicans, the president and north koreament down we go at the korea, down at the opening bell. Lets get to north korea. I want to bring in former cia Operations Officer brian dean, welcome to the program. Maybe im naive b
Of course spain and italy, we always like to have them when im doing this part of the show. But we dont this morning. Italy a couple percent. Thank you, sara. As for the tenyear note yield still hovering around that 2. 5 yeah, there we are, 2. 54 we call it this morning and crude down about 1 . Lets get to the roadmap on this friday before christmas, and it starts with the Trump Twitter bomb. Defense stocks on the move after the president elect pits boeing super hornet jet against lockheeds f35. Investors are taking notice. Going nuclear, russian president Vladimir Putin responding to president elect Donald Trumps call for a nuclear arms race. And wheres the santa claus rally . Come on, its that time of year. Futures are plunging to a lower open as we see from dow 20,000. But the dow does remain on track to match its longest weekly win streak in two years. Well, Lockheed Martin shares are falling as you see right there in the premarket. This after president elect trumps latest tweet on
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Structure projects, including road repairs, port repairs, and Drinking Water systems. It was joined by several other Democratic Senators during this 25 minute briefing. Thank you everybody. We have many more my colleagues coming. As you know we have a lot of hearings so theyre going to come in as they come. We myself, senator senators and others all speaking. Will each speak briefly on this a very important issue. When President Trump was candidate trump, at almost every stop at the campaign trail he talked about a big, big bold, 1,000,000,000,000 dollar trillion dollar infrastructure bill that would put millions of americans back to work. Rebuilding our roads and bridges. That is something that Congressional Democrats have sought for years by Congressional Republicans have stymied a set of return. Today, we, Senate Democrats are unveiling a blueprint to rebuild americas infrastructure and create 15 million jobs. We are challenging President Trump to support our plan. He campaigned on