Ashley stocks have turned on a dime. Breadth is improving rapidly. What an interesting day. At one point all dow 30 components are in the red. Buyers stepped in the last 20 minutes or so. 26 of the 30 still in the red. Good afternoon, everybody. Im ashley webster. It is the last hour of trading and the countdown to the closing bell beginning right now. Stocks are down in a fourth day in a row but well off the lows. The dow off 62 points of the trying to make a comeback. We got word members of the house are reconvening sunday night at 6 30 p. M. , boostings opt that deal gets done by yearend the dow up, well, down half a percent but certainly up from the lows. S p down half a percent. Same story on nasdaq. Russell 2000 down. 8 of a percent. Harry reids comments setting the tone early. When he spoke the markets tanked. The Senate Majority leader said nothing is happening in budget talks and looks like the u. S. Is heading for the socalled fiscal cliff. He compared it to the ball dropping
Karen . Benefit ofave the observing this administration from the outside and more recently from the inside and you also have the experience of sevenning in the clinton administration. Includingcs lately some democrats have accused this white house of political tone lately on the rose garden appearance on bergdahl and perhaps the president s in some people view slowness to take action on the v. A. Scandal. Just wondering what you think about those criticisms. The president ,k you know, thats sort of having it both ways. I think the president knew thises with a controversial decision. Was a decision that, and he hespoken to this, that taken ownership of, that he went out in the rose garden because to theimportant to plain American People that this was whot an actual human being was under great distress, being taliban. He and that while controversial, needed to explain that to the American People. He makes no apolicies for that, as he said yesterday in think it was the right decision and
Bureaucracy. The interchange with mr. Denim and dr. Lynch was interesting. Mr. Denim was talking about the audit that was beg done and he deputy underistant secretary if we were going to get that list and theres with a and a cautiousness. I know your hearts are in the right place. Rob race is holding you back. I cant imagine a world, dr. Lynch, where you would let someone in a bureaucracy not get thatenim or myself information, why you wouldnt have again out on a limb and theyill get it and if dont like it, too bad. And that mentality gets us to today, because what were all trying to do is solve this problem to provide timely quality care for our veterans. And everyone gets that, the you, us. Ind me, but the problem is no competent leader is going to formulate a course of action with all perfect tin en data and i was that the naive impression our oversight response is when spp i for a very narrow was under the impression this is what this would look like. Say from go back and this date
And revoked, time running out for the Washington Redskins. The world cup competition the reigning champs are going home. Tonight, the latest battle in iraq is over oil. Its a fight for the countrys Biggest Oil Refinery and iraqs future. Sunni rebels attacked the complex at bigi north of baghdad. Iraqs government says its forces beat the rebels back but witnesses say the rebels control the refinery. A reaction from washington tonight. The pentagon says its increased surveillance flights over iraq but how should the u. S. Respond . Randall pinkston is there. Saying president obama had given congressional leaders an update on its efforts to help iraq. Emphasizing that confronting the are threat from i. S. I. L. Will require iraqs political leaders to come together. For more than an hour, president obama held a closed door meeting with congressional leaders. In a statement the whois said the president the white house said the president responded by urging iraqi leaders to set aside sectari
U. S. Secretary of state john kerry has given a deadline of july 1st to reform government to make it more inclusive. Two People Killed in a deadly shooting in miami. Police say as many as six were shot at an apartment complex. A tornado touched down south of cleveland. At least ten homes were damaged. Funnel clouds outside the denver area, an airport seeks shelter immediately. Thankfully, no injuries. After mexicos victory, things got a little crazy on the streets of l. A. Several arrests were made. Getting out of control. A talking point. Were upset with the white house. Latenight hearing, investigating lois lerners vanishing emails. I did not say i would provide you emails that had disappeared. If you have a magical way of doing that let me know. That is a nono. A woman off the Railroad Tracks seconds before a train speeds by. All that governor christie taking part in the celebrity softball game at yankee stadium. Fills out the uniform nice. Queen elizabeth stepping out in northern i